Display device including touch panel and parallax barrier sharing single board

• US 8,884,922 B2
• Filed: 02/16/2011
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/01/2010
• 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: Hamada, Hiroshi, Takatani, Tomoo, Imai, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Snyder, Adam J
• Application Number:
  US13/583,082
• Publication Number:
  US 20120327005A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,364 Days
• Field of Search: 345/174, 178/18.06
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 13/315 the parallax barriers being time-variant

Abstract

A display device includes a touch panel and displays stereoscopic images with reducing its thickness and weight. The display device includes a liquid crystal display panel 20, a switching liquid crystal panel 30 and a touch panel 50. The switching liquid crystal panel 30 is provided on a display surface side of the display panel 20 and switches a display mode between two-dimensional display and three-dimensional display. The touch panel 50 is provided on the display surface side of the display panel 20. The touch panel 50 and the switching liquid crystal panel 30 commonly include one common board 32 and are configured as one component. A touch panel transparent electrode 51 and a switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrode 33 are provided on the common board 32. The switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrode 33 applies a voltage to liquid crystals of the switching liquid crystal panel 30.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel having a display surface;

a mutual capacitance sensing touch panel provided on a display surface side of the display panel; and

a parallax barrier configured to enable three-dimensional display, wherein;

the touch panel and the parallax barrier commonly share a single board as a common component;

the single board includes at least one pair of electrodes which are electrically separated from each other, wherein each of the at least one pair of electrodes is a comb-shaped electrode; and

the at least one pair of electrodes are configured to operate both of the touch panel and the parallax barrier.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein the display panel is a liquid crystal display panel using liquid crystals.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

a pulse signal configured to drive the touch panel is supplied to the at least one pair of electrodes,

a pulse signal configured to drive the parallax barrier is also supplied to the at least one pair of electrodes, and

a frequency of the pulse signal configured to drive the touch panel is higher than a frequency of the pulse signal configured to drive the parallax barrier.

4. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

a pulse signal configured to drive the touch panel is supplied to the at least one pair of electrodes,

a pulse signal configured to drive the parallax barrier is also supplied to the at least one pair of electrodes, and

a voltage of the pulse signal configured to drive the parallax barrier is higher than a voltage of the pulse signal configured to drive the touch panel.

5. A display device comprising:

a display panel having a display surface;

a switching liquid crystal panel provided on a display surface side of the display panel and configured to switch a display mode between a two-dimensional display and a three-dimensional display;

a capacitance sensing touch panel provided on the display surface side of the display panel;

a single board commonly included in both the touch panel and the switching liquid crystal panel and configured to be shared by the touch panel and the switching liquid crystal panel as a common component;

a touch panel transparent electrode arranged on the single board; and

a switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrode arranged on the single board and configured to apply a voltage to liquid crystals in the switching liquid crystal panel;

wherein

the switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrode includes a first pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes which are electrically separated from each other, wherein each of the first pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes is a comb-shaped electrode.

6. The display device according to claim 5, wherein the touch panel transparent electrode is provided on the single board at a side opposite to the display panel with respect to the first pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes.

7. The display device according to claim 5, wherein:

the touch panel transparent electrode is provided on a side of the single board opposite to the display panel; and

the first pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes are provided on a side of the single board facing the display panel.

8. The display device according to claim 5, wherein:

a pulse signal configured to drive the touch panel is supplied to the touch panel transparent electrode,

a pulse signal configured to drive the switching liquid crystal panel is supplied to the first pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes, and

a frequency of the pulse signal configured to drive the touch panel is higher than a frequency of the pulse signal configured to drive the switching liquid crystal panel.

9. The display device according to claim 5, wherein:

a pulse signal configured to drive the touch panel is supplied to the touch panel transparent electrode,

a pulse signal configured to drive the switching liquid crystal panel is supplied to the first pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes, and

a voltage of the pulse signal configured to drive the switching liquid crystal panel is higher than a frequency of the pulse signal configured to drive the touch panel.

10. The display device according to claim 5, further comprising:

a second pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes, wherein

the first pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes and the second pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes are positioned to sandwich the liquid crystals in the switching liquid crystal panel therebetween,

each of the first pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes includes a plurality of first parallel portions which extend in a first direction, and

each of the second pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes includes a plurality of second parallel portions which extend in a second direction which crosses the first direction.

11. The display device according to claim 10, wherein each of the second pair of switching liquid crystal panel transparent electrodes is a comb-shaped electrode.

12. The display device according to claim 5, wherein the touch panel is a mutual capacitance sensing touch panel.