Display device with touch sensor, potential control method and program

• US 9,207,481 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2012
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Inventors: Takeuchi, Takeya, Mizuhashi, Hiroshi, Katsuta, Tadayoshi, Shima, Takehiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Giesy, Adam R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Heyi, Henok
• Application Number:
  US13/675,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20130127752A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,120 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• 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 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2300/0809 Several active elements per pixel in active matrix panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0291 Details of output amplifiers or buffers arranged for use in a driving circuit
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3614 Control of polarity reversal in general
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

A display device with a touch sensor includes: plural display pixel electrodes; a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes; a display function layer having an image display function; a display control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal; and a touch detection electrode provided opposite to the common electrode and forming capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode, wherein a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the display control circuit is used as a drive signal for the touch sensor, and a gate potential of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes is increased during a period when the drive signal for the touch sensor is applied.

Claims

1. A display device with a touch sensor comprising:

plural display pixel electrodes;

a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes;

a display function layer having an image display function;

a display control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal; and

a touch detection electrode provided opposite to the common electrode and forming capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode,

wherein a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the display control circuit is used as a drive signal for the touch sensor,

wherein a signal supplied to gates of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes is one of a pulse wave signal and a signal in which different three potentials are switched at given timings, and

wherein the three potentials include a first potential during the TFT circuits being off, a second potential for turning on the TFT circuits, and a third potential at the time of supplying the drive signal for the touch sensor.

2. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 1,

wherein a potential of the signal supplied to gates of the TFT circuits in a vertical blanking period and in a horizontal blanking period is the third potential, and

the third potential is higher than the first potential.

3. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 1,

wherein the signal supplied to gates of the TFT circuits is the pulse wave signal synchronized with the drive signal for the touch sensor, in which the first potential and the third potential are repeated.

4. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 1,

wherein the signal supplied to gates of the TFT circuits is a signal in which different three potentials are switched at given timings when writing in a positive polarity display voltage is performed, and is a signal in which two potentials of the different three potentials are switched at given timings when writing in a negative polarity display voltage is performed.

5. A potential control method of a display device with a touch sensor including

plural display pixel electrodes,

a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes,

a display function layer having an image display function,

a display control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal, and

a touch detection electrode provided opposite to the common electrode and forming capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode, the method comprising:

using a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the display control circuit as a drive signal for the touch sensor; and

allowing a signal supplied to gates of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes to be one of a pulse wave signal and a signal in which different three potentials are switched at given timings, and

wherein the three potentials include a first potential during the TFT circuits being off, a second potential for turning on the TFT circuits, and a third potential at the time of supplying the drive signal for the touch sensor.

6. A non-transitory computer program product stored on a computer readable medium that when executed by a processor performs steps for controlling a display device with a touch sensor including

plural display pixel electrodes,

a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes,

a display function layer having an image display function,

a display control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal, and

a touch detection electrode provided opposite to the common electrode and forming capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode, the steps including:

using a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the display control circuit as a drive signal for the touch sensor, and

allowing a signal supplied to gates of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes to be one of a pulse wave signal and a signal in which different three potentials are switched at given timings, and

wherein the three potentials include a first potential during the TFT circuits being off, a second potential for turning on the TFT circuits, and a third potential at the time of supplying the drive signal for the touch sensor.

7. A display device with a touch sensor comprising:

plural display pixel electrodes;

a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes;

a display function layer having an image display function;

a display control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal; and

a touch detection electrode provided opposite to the common electrode and forming capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode,

wherein a drive voltage is applied to the common electrode for display in a display period by the display control circuit and is used as a drive signal for the touch sensor in a touch detection period,

the display period is different from the touch detection period in which the drive signal for the touch sensor in a pulse wave pattern is applied, and

a gate potential of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes is increased during the touch detection period.

8. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 7,

wherein the gate potential during the touch detection period including a vertical blanking period and a horizontal blanking period is higher than a gate potential when TFT circuits are off.

9. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 8,

wherein the signal supplied to gates of the TFT circuits is a pulse wave signal,

the gate potential becomes in the high state in synchronized with the drive signal for the touch sensor.

10. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 7,

wherein the gate potential becomes in a high state when writing in a positive polarity display voltage is performed.

11. A potential control method of a display device with a touch sensor including

plural display pixel electrodes,

a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes,

a display function layer having an image display function,

a display control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal, and

a touch detection electrode provided opposite to the common electrode and forming capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode, the method comprising:

using a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the display control circuit in a display period,

using the drive voltage applied to the common electrode as a drive signal for the touch sensor in a touch detection period, and

increasing a gate potential of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes during the touch detection period when the drive signal in a pulse wave for the touch sensor is applied,

wherein the display period is different from the touch detection period.

12. A non-transitory computer program product stored on a computer readable medium that when executed by a processor performs steps for controlling a display device with a touch sensor including

plural display pixel electrodes,

a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes,

a display function layer having an image display function,

a display control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal, and

a touch detection electrode provided opposite to the common electrode and forming capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode, the steps including:

using a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the display control circuit in a display period, and

using the drive voltage applied to the common electrode as a drive signal for the touch sensor in a touch detection period, and

increasing a gate potential of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes during the touch detection period when the drive signal in a pulse wave for the touch sensor is applied,

wherein the display period is different from the touch detection period.