Display-integrated type tablet device

• US 5,631,666 A
• Filed: 01/13/1995
• Issued: 05/20/1997
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/1992
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Okamura, Kazunari, Takahama, Kengo, Kako, Noritoshi, Tagawa, Takao
• Primary Examiner(s): Hjerpe, Richard
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fatahiyar, Mike
• Application Number:
  US08/372,660
• Time in Patent Office: 858 Days
• Field of Search: 345/104, 345/173, 345/174, 178/18, 178/19
• US Class Current: 345/104
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0441 using active external devices, e.g. active pens, for receiving changes in electrical potential transmitted by the digitiser, e.g. tablet driving signals
• 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

A detection and hold circuit outputs a reference signal having a level proportional to an x-coordinate detection pulse input from an X-coordinate signal amplifier. A delay element delays the reference signal. An adder adds the x-coordinate detection pulse from the X-coordinate signal amplifier and a delayed signal from the delay element. Comparators obtain a coordinate detection pulse making a detection signal from another detection and hold circuit for an LCD voltage inversion pulse serve as a reference signal. Thus noise following the x-coordinate detection pulse is removed to generate a coordinate detection pulse with a reference value corresponding to the level of the LCD voltage inversion pulse to allow a stable coordinate detection to be achieved. A correction signal generation circuit reads out correction data stored in an internal memory and transmits the data as a correction signal to a correction voltage generation circuit in an x-coordinate detection period when the segment electrode placed in the lower position is scanned. The correction voltage generation circuit generates a correction voltage for canceling a voltage induced at the common electrode placed in the upper position based on the input correction signal and a bias power source input from a DC power supply circuit.

Claims

1. A display-integrated type tablet device including a display panel which has a display material interposed between segment electrodes and common electrodes crossing each other at right angles and is driven by a duty ratio control type drive method, a detection pen having at a tip of the detection pen an electrode electrostatically coupled with the segment electrodes and the common electrodes of the display panel, a segment electrode drive circuit for driving the segment electrodes, a common electrode drive circuit for driving the common electrodes, a display control circuit for displaying an image on the display panel by controlling the segment electrode drive circuit and the common electrode drive circuit in a period of displaying the image, a detection control circuit for controlling the segment electrode drive circuit to sequentially scan the segment electrodes of the display panel by applying a scanning voltage successively to the segment electrodes and controlling the common electrode drive circuit to sequentially scan the common electrodes by applying a scanning voltage successively to the common electrodes in a coordinate detection period, an x-coordinate detection circuit for detecting an x-coordinate value designated on the display panel by the tip of the detection pen according to an output signal generating timing of the detection pen and a scanning timing of the segment electrodes, and a y-coordinate detection circuit for detecting a y-coordinate value designated on the display panel by the tip of the detection pen according to an output signal generating timing of the detection pen and a scanning timing of the common electrodes,

the display-integrated type tablet device comprising a correction voltage generation means for generating a correction voltage for canceling a voltage induced at an electrode closer to the detection pen and placed in an upper position attributed to a scanning voltage applied to an electrode farther to the detection pen and placed in a lower position, the electrodes being one and the other of the segment electrode and the common electrode,

thereby canceling the voltage induced at the electrode placed in the upper position by applying the correction voltage generated by the correction voltage generation means to the electrode placed in the upper position at least in a period when the electrode placed in the lower position is scanned.

2. A display-integrated type tablet device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the correction voltage generation means comprises:

a correction signal generation circuit which stores, in an internal memory, digital correction data representing an inverted waveform of a waveform of the signal induced at the upper electrode attributed to the scanning voltage applied to the lower electrode, and reads the correction data to output the correction data as a correction signal; and

a correction voltage generation circuit which receives the correction signal from the correction signal generation circuit and generates the correction voltage in an analog form based on the correction signal.

3. A display-integrated type tablet device as claimed in claim 1, wherein

each of the segment electrode drive circuit and the common electrode drive circuit comprises a shift register, and

the correction voltage generation means comprises:

a correction signal generation circuit which takes in a shift data signal for starting scanning when it is input to an input terminal of a first stage of the shift register of either one of the segment electrode drive circuit and the common electrode drive circuit for scanning the lower electrodes and takes in a pulse signal output from an output terminal of a final stage of the shift register at the time of ending the scanning to generate a binary correction signal having a pulse width substantially equal to the scanning period of the lower electrodes based on the shift data signal and the pulse signal; and

a correction voltage generation circuit which receives the correction signal from the correction signal generation circuit to generate the correction voltage in an analog form based on the correction signal.

4. A display-integrated type tablet device as claimed in claim 1 which comprises an auxiliary electrode facing the lower electrodes, wherein

the correction voltage generation means comprises:

a correction signal generation circuit which detects a voltage induced at the auxiliary electrode attributed the scanning voltage applied to the lower electrode and outputs the voltage as a correction signal; and

a correction voltage generation circuit which receives the correction signal from the correction signal generation circuit to generate the correction voltage based on an inversion signal of the correction signal.

5. A display-integrated type tablet device as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the correction voltage generation means comprises:

a correction signal generation circuit which detects a current flowing through the upper electrode at the time when the scanning voltage is applied to the lower electrode and outputs the current as a correction signal; and

a correction voltage generation circuit which receives the correction signal from the correction signal generation circuit to generate the correction voltage based on the correction signal.

6. A display-integrated type tablet device as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the correction voltage generation means comprises:

a correction signal generation circuit which detects a voltage at the upper electrode at the time when the scanning voltage is applied to the lower electrode and outputs the voltage as a correction signal; and

a correction voltage generation circuit which receives the correction signal from the correction signal generation circuit to generate the correction voltage based on the correction signal.