Display device with optical input function

• US 7,602,380 B2
• Filed: 08/03/2005
• Issued: 10/13/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/10/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display Central Incorporated (Japan Display Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology (Japan Display Incorporated)
• Inventors: Nagaoka, Kazutaka, Nakamura, Takashi, Yoshida, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Shalwala; Bipin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chowdhury; Afroza Y
• Application Number:
  US11/195,727
• Publication Number:
  US 20060033729A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,532 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/175
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means

Abstract

A display device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of pixel circuits and sensor circuits, a signal line drive circuit and scanning line drive circuit which drive the plurality of pixel circuits, and a precharge circuit and sensor control circuit which drive the sensor circuits. A filter subjects image data to an interpolation process to compensate for a gradation value of an output. In a signal processing section, the area of a light receiving area is calculated and it is determined that a light source is set in contact with a display screen.

Claims

1. A display device with an optical input function comprising:

a plurality of scanning lines arranged in parallel,

a plurality of signal lines arranged to intersect with the plurality of scanning lines,

a plurality of pixel portions arranged at intersecting portions between the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of signal lines,

photosensor portions provided at least one for each or every preset number of the plurality of pixel portions,

a pixel drive section which drives the plurality of pixel portions via the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of signal lines,

a sensor drive section which drives the photosensor portions,

an operation processing section which is supplied with outputs of the photosensor portions and derives information of an area of a light receiving area on a display screen by use of photosensing signals when light from a tip end of a light source is illuminated on the display screen, and

a determining section which determines that the light source is set in contact with the display screen when the following conditions (a), (b), and (c) are satisfied,

(a) a first operating section which compares the information of the area of the light receiving area with a specified area reference value and calculates a deviation amount from the reference value, wherein the deviation amount from the reference value is smaller than a first specified threshold value of the deviation amount,

(b) a second operating section which calculates a variation amount of the area of the light receiving area with time, wherein the variation amount with time is smaller than a second specified threshold value of the variation amount with time, and

(c) a third operating section which calculates a degree of roundness of the light receiving area based on the area and a peripheral length of the light receiving area, wherein the degree of roundness is larger than a third specified threshold value of the degree of roundness.

2. The display device with the optical input function according to claim 1, wherein the information of the area of the light receiving area comprises a plurality of information items which include first area information obtained by use of an output of a median filter and second area information obtained by use of an output of a compression filter and the parameters include a square value of the peripheral length derived based on a difference between the first and second area information items and a multiplication value obtained by multiplying the peripheral length by a variable coefficient.

3. The display device with the optical input function according to claim 1, wherein the area reference value is set based on an area of an opening portion at the tip end of the light source.

4. The display device with the optical input function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a first calibration section configured to previously calculate and store the area reference value.

5. The display device with the optical input function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a second calibration section configured to previously calculate and store the first specified threshold value of the deviation amount.

6. The display device with the optical input function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a third calibration section configured to previously calculate and store the second specified threshold value of the deviation amount with time.

7. The display device with the optical input function according to claim 1, further comprising:

a fourth calibration section configured to previously calculate and store the third specified threshold value of the degree of roundness.

8. The display device with the optical input function according to claim 1, further comprising:

an output processing section including an interpolation filter and an A/D convener which generates digital image data based on photosensing signals of the photosensor portions, the interpolation filter being supplied with an output of the A/D converter and performs a filtering process to

     1) rearrange gradation values of the digital image data corresponding to the preset one of the pixel portions and at least one pixel portion which lies near the preset one of the pixel portions in one of ascending and descending orders and

     2) set a gradation value having a specified order as a gradation value of the preset one of the pixel portions.