DISPLAY DEVICE
First Claim
1. A display device that is capable of detecting a touch position, comprising:
- a display panel including a plurality of image display sections that display an image at a brightness corresponding to image data, and a plurality of photo-detection sections that generate a signal corresponding to an amount of received light;
a display driver circuit that writes a signal corresponding to the image data in the image display sections; and
a sensor driver circuit that reads the signal corresponding to the amount of the received light from the photo-detection sections,wherein each of the photo-detection sections includes a photodiode that generates electric charges corresponding to an incident light amount, a capacitor that accumulates the electric charges generated in the photodiode and that retains a voltage corresponding to the accumulated electric charge amount, and a thin film transistor that outputs an output signal based on the voltage retained by the capacitor,wherein the photodiode is made of a semiconductor film having a higher photosensitivity than that of a semiconductor film included in the thin film transistor, andwherein the thin film transistor is made of a semiconductor film having a higher mobility than that of the semiconductor film included in the photodiode.
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Abstract
It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device equipped with a display panel that is provided with a photo-detection section with improved accuracy of detecting a touch position. A display panel (11) of an organic EL display device (10) includes a photo-detection section (40) that detects reflected light when a screen is touched by a finger or the like. The photo-detection section (40) includes a photodiode (41) that receives the reflected light, and an output amplifier (42) that outputs an output voltage corresponding to the amount of the received light. If an a-Si diode is used for such a photodiode (41), a sufficiently large signal difference in sensitivity between the bright state and the dark state can be achieved. Also, if a p-Si amplifier is used for the output amplifier (42), the output voltage becomes the saturation voltage at the time of read-out. This allows the p-Si amplifier to directly output the large sensitivity difference detected by the a-Si diode as a large difference in the output voltage.
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9 Claims
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1. A display device that is capable of detecting a touch position, comprising:
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a display panel including a plurality of image display sections that display an image at a brightness corresponding to image data, and a plurality of photo-detection sections that generate a signal corresponding to an amount of received light; a display driver circuit that writes a signal corresponding to the image data in the image display sections; and a sensor driver circuit that reads the signal corresponding to the amount of the received light from the photo-detection sections, wherein each of the photo-detection sections includes a photodiode that generates electric charges corresponding to an incident light amount, a capacitor that accumulates the electric charges generated in the photodiode and that retains a voltage corresponding to the accumulated electric charge amount, and a thin film transistor that outputs an output signal based on the voltage retained by the capacitor, wherein the photodiode is made of a semiconductor film having a higher photosensitivity than that of a semiconductor film included in the thin film transistor, and wherein the thin film transistor is made of a semiconductor film having a higher mobility than that of the semiconductor film included in the photodiode. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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