Display device and control method thereof

• US 8,860,668 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2008
• Issued: 10/14/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Choi, Nam-gon, Moon, Seung-hwan
• Primary Examiner(s): EURICE, MICHAEL
• Application Number:
  US12/270,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20090174650A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,161 Days
• Field of Search: 345/156, 345/173, 345/159, 345/163, 356/73.1, 715/702, 715/835, 715/863, 715/769, 178/18.06
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A display device including a display panel, a sensing electrode that is disposed in a matrix pattern and outputs a sensing signal with respect to an external stimulus, a calculator that divides the display panel into a plurality of detection regions based on a coordinate of a first stimuli group outputting a sensing signal with respect to a first stimulus, and a position determiner is presented. The position determiner determines a coordinate of a second stimuli group outputting a sensing signal with respect to a second stimulus and designates the coordinate as a stimulus position if the second stimulus is generated from a selection detection region within predetermined detection time after the first stimulus.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel;

a sensing electrode that is disposed in a matrix pattern and outputs a sensing signal upon receiving an external stimulus;

a calculator that divides the display panel into a plurality of detection regions based on a coordinate of a first stimuli group determined from a sensing signal output by the sensing electrode upon receiving a first stimulus; and

a position determiner for determining a single touch position from multiple stimuli detected at different times, by determining a coordinate of a second stimuli group determined from a sensing signal output by the sensing electrode upon receiving a second stimulus, and by designating the coordinate of a second stimuli group as a stimulus position instead of the coordinate of a first stimuli group, only if the second stimulus is located in a selection detection region within a predetermined detection time after the first stimulus, the selection detection region being a predetermined one of the plurality of detection regions,

wherein the multiple stimuli are not detected simultaneously,

wherein the calculator divides the display panel into;

a first detection region including the coordinate of the first stimuli group,

a second detection region having an inside boundary that coincides with a boundary of the first detection region and an outside boundary including a rectangle larger than the first detection region, and

a third detection region corresponding to the display panel except for the first and second detection regions,

wherein the selection detection region corresponds to the second detection region,

wherein each of the first and second stimuli groups comprise at least one sensing electrode, and the calculator calculates a coordinate of the first stimuli group or the second stimuli group by using an average coordinate of the plurality of sensing electrodes outputting a sensing signal if the plurality of sensing electrodes outputs the sensing signal by the first stimulus or the second stimulus,

wherein the first detection region has a minimum point including a coordinate X formed by deducting a first difference value from a coordinate X of the first stimuli group and a coordinate Y formed by deducting a second difference value from a coordinate Y of the first stimuli group, and a maximum point including a coordinate X formed by adding a third difference value to the coordinate X of the first stimuli group and a coordinate Y formed by adding a fourth difference value to the coordinate Y of the first stimuli group, as diagonally positioned corners of a rectangular region, and

wherein the external side of the second detection region has a minimum point including a coordinate X formed by deducting a fifth difference value larger than the first difference value from the coordinate X of the first stimuli group and a coordinate Y formed by deducting a sixth difference value larger than the second difference value from the coordinate Y of the first stimuli group, and a maximum point including a coordinate X formed by adding a seventh difference value larger than the third difference value to the coordinate X of the first stimuli group and a coordinate Y formed by adding an eighth difference value larger than the fourth difference value to the coordinate Y of the first stimuli group, as diagonally positioned corners of a rectangular region.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the position determiner outputs an error signal informing that a stimulus position is not detectable if a third stimulus is detected within the detection time after the first stimulus.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the position determiner determines the number of sensing electrodes included in the second stimuli group and the number of sensing electrodes included in a third stimuli group corresponding to a third stimulus and determines a coordinate of a stimuli group having a larger number of sensing electrodes as a stimulus position if the third stimulus is detected within the detection time after the first stimulus.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the position determiner determines an average coordinate between the second stimuli group and the third stimuli group corresponding to the third stimulus as a stimulus position if the third stimulus is detected within the detection time after the first stimulus.

5. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a setting unit to set at least one of the detection time and the selection detection region.

6. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display panel comprises a pixel substrate having a plurality of pixels, and

the sensing electrode is formed on the pixel substrate.

7. The display device according to claim 1, further comprising a sensing line that is connected to the sensing electrode, wherein the sensing line is scanned according to a predetermined scan period to detect a stimulus, and

wherein the detection time comprises from the generation of the first stimulus to a subsequent scan period consecutive to a scan period in which the first stimulus is detected.

8. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the position determiner determines an average coordinate between the first stimuli group and the second stimuli group, as a stimulus position, if the second stimulus is generated from the detection region instead of from the selection detection region.

9. The display device according to claim 8, wherein the position determiner outputs an error signal informing that the stimulus position is not detectable.

10. A method of controlling a display device that has a display panel including a sensing electrode outputting a sensing signal in response to an external stimulus, the method comprising:

determining a single touch position from multiple stimuli detected at different times, by;

calculating a coordinate of a first stimuli group determined from a sensing signal output by the sensing electrode in response to a first stimulus;

dividing the display panel into a plurality of detection regions based on the coordinate of a first stimuli group;

calculating a coordinate of a second stimuli group determined from a sensing signal output by the sensing electrode upon receiving a second stimulus;

designating the coordinate of the second stimuli group as a stimulus position instead of the coordinate of a first stimuli group, only if the second stimulus is located in a predetermined selection detection region selected from a plurality of the detection regions within a predetermined detection time after the first stimulus; and

determining an average coordinate between the second stimuli group and a third stimuli group corresponding to a third stimulus, as a stimulus position, if the third stimulus is further generated within the predetermined detection time after the first stimulus,

wherein the multiple stimuli are not detected simultaneously,

wherein the dividing the display panel into the plurality of detection regions further comprises setting a first detection region having the coordinate of the first stimuli group, and setting a second detection region that has an internal side along the first detection region and an external side of a rectangle larger than the first detection region,

wherein the selection detection region corresponds to the second detection region,

wherein the dividing the display panel into the plurality of detection regions comprises calculating a minimum point having a coordinate X formed by deducting a first difference value from a coordinate X of the first stimuli group and a coordinate Y formed by deducting a second difference value from a coordinate Y of the first stimuli group, and a maximum point having a coordinate X formed by adding a third difference value to the coordinate X of the first stimuli group and a coordinate Y formed by adding a fourth difference value to the coordinate Y of the first stimuli group to set the first detection region having the coordinate of the first stimuli group, and

wherein the external side of the second detection region has a minimum point including a coordinate X formed by deducting a fifth difference value larger than the first difference value from the coordinate X of the first stimuli group and a coordinate Y formed by deducting a sixth difference value larger than the second difference value from the coordinate Y of the first stimuli group and a maximum point including a coordinate X formed by adding a seventh difference value larger than the third difference value to the coordinate X of the first stimuli group and a coordinate Y formed by adding an eighth difference value larger than the fourth difference value to the coordinate Y of the first stimuli group, the minimum point and the maximum point forming diagonally positioned corners of a rectangular region.

11. The control method according to claim 10, further comprising outputting an error signal informing that a stimulus position is not detectable if a third stimulus is detected within the detection time after the first stimulus.

12. The control method according to claim 10, wherein a stimuli group comprises a plurality of sensing electrodes outputting a sensing signal, further comprising:

determining the number of sensing electrodes included in the second stimuli group and the number of sensing electrodes included in a third stimuli group corresponding to a third stimulus; and

determining a coordinate of a stimuli group having a larger number of sensing electrodes, as a stimulus position, if the third stimulus is further generated within the detection time after the first stimulus.

13. The control method according to claim 10, wherein the display panel further comprises a sensing line connected to the sensing electrodes, further comprising:

scanning the sensing line according to a predetermined scan period to detect a stimulus, and the detection time comprises from the generation of the first stimulus to a subsequent scan period consecutive to a scan period in which the first stimulus is detected.

14. The control method according to claim 10, further comprising determining an average coordinate between the first stimuli group and the second stimuli group, as a stimulus position, if the second stimulus is generated from the detection region instead of from the selection detection region.

15. The control method according to claim 14, further comprising outputting an error signal informing that the stimulus position is not detectable.