CONTROL CIRCUIT OF TOUCH SCREEN AND NOISE REMOVING METHOD

• US 20130300690A1
• Filed: 04/24/2013
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Silicon Works Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: OH, Hyung Seog, YANG, Jun Hyeok, CHOI, Jung Min, KIM, Yong Suk
• Application Number:
  US13/869,784
• Publication Number:
  US 20130300690A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04182 Filtering of noise external to the device and not generated by digitiser components
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04184 Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes

Abstract

The present invention discloses a control circuit of a touch screen and a noise removing method. The present invention provides a technique for performing differential sensing on two adjacent detection lines of a touch screen panel and integrating a differential sensing signal to filter noise. The control circuit and the noise removing method may remove display noise having an effect on two adjacent detection lines, three-wavelength lamp noise having a predetermined frequency, 60 Hz noise, and charger noise caused by battery charging.

Claims

1. A control circuit of a touch screen, comprising:

a differential sensing unit configured to generate a delta value corresponding to a difference between charges stored in two adjacent detection lines of a touch screen panel; and

an integration unit configured to integrate the delta value outputted from the differential sensing unit.

2. The control circuit of claim 1, wherein the differential sensing unit comprises:

a transmission circuit configured to transmit the charges stored in the two detection lines through periodic switching; and

a delta value generator configured to differentially sense the charges transmitted from the transmission circuit and output the delta value.

3. The control circuit of claim 2, wherein the transmission circuit switches transmission of the charges stored in the two detection lines in response to a driving voltage of the touch screen panel.

4. The control circuit of claim 1, wherein the differential sensing unit comprises:

a first filter configured to band-pass-filter and output any one of detection signals of the two detection lines;

a second filter configured to band-pass-filter and output the other one of the detection signals of the two detection lines; and

a differential sensor configured to output a delta value corresponding to a difference between the detection signals outputted from the first and second filters.

5. The control circuit of claim 4, further comprising a path exchanger between the differential sensor and the first and second filters,

wherein the path exchanger crosses the outputs of the first and second filters in response to the detection signals having a negative value and transmits the crossed outputs to the differential sensor.

6. The control circuit of claim 1, further comprising an odd number of path exchangers in the differential sensor and the integration unit,

wherein each of the path exchangers just transmits an input signal having a positive value among input signals, but changes the polarity of an input signal having a negative value such that the input signal has a positive value, and then transmits the changed signal.

7. The control circuit of claim 1, further comprising an odd number of path exchangers inside the integration unit and before the integration unit,

wherein the integration unit has a one-way output according to signal change of the path exchangers.

8. The control circuit of claim 1, wherein the integration unit repetitively integrates the delta value and filters periodic noise according to a moving average method.

9. The control circuit of claim 7, wherein the integration unit performs the integration in response to rising and falling edges of a driving voltage, in order to perform the moving average method.

10. A noise removing method for a touch screen, comprising:

generating a differential sensing signal corresponding to a difference between detection signals of two adjacent detection lines of a touch screen panel at a predetermined period;

storing the differential sensing signal at each period;

determining whether or not noise is applied to the two detection lines at each period; and

integrating the differential sensing signal stored at a previous period in response to a state in which the noise is not applied, and blocking transmission of the differential sensing signal stored at the previous period for integration in response to a state in which the noise is applied.

11. The noise removing method of claim 10, wherein in the storing of the differential sensing signal,

the differential sensing signal is stored by delay.

12. A control circuit of a touch screen, comprising:

a differential sensing unit configured to generate a differential sensing signal corresponding to a difference between detection signals of two adjacent detection lines of a touch screen panel;

a noise detection unit configured to generate a noise detection signal which is activated when noise is applied to at least one of the two detection lines;

a delay unit configured to store the differential sensing signal at each period and selectively output a differential sensing signal stored at a previous period in response to the noise detection signal; and

an integration unit configured to integrate the differential sensing signal transmitted from the delay unit.

13. The control unit of claim 12, wherein a comparison voltage for detecting charger noise is set in the noise detection unit.

14. The control circuit of claim 12, wherein the noise detection unit comprises a comparator configured with a multi-input window comparator to generate first and second comparison voltages for generating the noise detection signal, and the comparator generates the first and second comparison voltages having a level difference when the detection signals of the two detection lines are higher than the preset highest voltage and lower than the preset lowest voltage, and generates the first and second comparison signals having the same level when the detection signals of the two detection lines have a level between the highest voltage and the lowest voltage.

15. The control circuit of claim 14, wherein the comparator comprises:

a first comparison circuit configured to compare a first detection signal of the detection signals of the two detection lines to the highest voltage;

a second comparison circuit configured to compare a second detection signal of the detection signals of the two detection lines to the lowest voltage;

a NOR gate configured to perform an OR operation on outputs of the first and second comparison circuits and output the first comparison voltage;

a third comparison circuit configured to compare the lowest voltage and the first detection signal;

a fourth comparison circuit configured to compare the lowest voltage and the second detection signal; and

an AND gate configured to perform an AND operation on outputs of the third and fourth comparison circuits and output the second comparison voltage.

16. The control circuit of claim 14, wherein the comparator comprises:

a first comparison circuit configured to receive the highest voltage and first and second detection signals as detection signals of the two detection lines, and output a first intermediate comparison voltage obtained by comparing the highest voltage and the first detection signal and a second intermediate comparison voltage obtained by comparing the highest voltage and the second detection signal;

a NOR gate configured to perform an OR operation on the first and second intermediate comparison voltages and output the first comparison voltage;

a second comparison circuit configured to receive the lowest voltage and the first and second detection signals, and output a third intermediate comparison voltage obtained by comparing the lowest voltage and the first detection signal and a fourth intermediate comparison voltage obtained by comparing the lowest voltage and the second detection signal; and

an AND gate configured to perform an AND operation on the third and fourth intermediate comparison voltages and output the second comparison voltage.

17. The control circuit of claim 12, wherein the delay unit comprises:

two or more delay capacitors configured to store the differential sensing signals having different periods; and

a switch configured to selectively output the differential sensing signal outputted from any one of the two or more delay capacitors in response to the noise detection signal.