Liquid crystal display device with touch panel

• US 9,373,295 B2
• Filed: 06/25/2014
• Issued: 06/21/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/25/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Ryota, Furuhashi, Tsutomu, Tanaka, Hiroshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H
• Application Number:
  US14/314,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20140375604A1
• Time in Patent Office: 727 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• 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 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

A liquid crystal display device with a touch panel includes: pixel electrodes as a plurality of electrodes to each of which a potential corresponding to a gray-scale value is applied; common electrodes as a plurality of electrodes that extend in one direction; detection electrodes as a plurality of electrodes that extend in a direction different from the one direction and detect a contact position on the panel; a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition; and a drive pulse output unit that sequentially applies a potential for detecting a touch to drive electrodes as a plurality of electrodes of a portion of the common electrodes, wherein the drive pulse output unit can output a drive pulse to the drive electrode at plural different timings within one horizontal synchronizing period for display.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device with a touch panel comprising:

pixel electrodes as a plurality of electrodes each of which is arranged in each pixel arranged in a display area and to each of which a potential corresponding to a gray-scale value is applied;

common electrodes as a plurality of electrodes that extend in one direction so as to cross the display area;

detection electrodes as a plurality of electrodes that extend in a direction different from the one direction so as to cross the display area and detect a contact position on the touch panel;

a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition whose orientation is changed by an electric field formed by the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and

a drive pulse output unit that sequentially applies a potential for detecting a touch to drive electrodes as a plurality of electrodes of a portion of the common electrodes, wherein

the drive pulse output unit can output a drive pulse to the drive electrode at plural different timings within one horizontal synchronizing period for display,

a potential of the detection electrodes is changed by a rising and falling of the drive pulse, and

a period from the beginning of the one horizontal synchronizing period to the rising of the drive pulse is changed for each horizontal synchronizing period.

2. The liquid crystal display device with the touch panel according to claim 1, further comprising a detection circuit that detects a touch by accumulating changes in potential at both rising and falling edges of a plurality of drive pulses applied to the common electrode.

3. The liquid crystal display device with the touch panel according to claim 1, further comprising a drive pulse storage unit that stores the timing of generating a drive pulse.

4. The liquid crystal display device with the touch panel according to claim 1, further comprising

a detection circuit that detects the touch, and

a detection switch that disconnects electrical connection between a signal line extending from the detection electrode and the detection circuit.

5. The liquid crystal display device with the touch panel according to claim 4, further comprising a detection switch storage unit that stores the timing of turning off the detection switch and not detecting the touch.

6. A display device with a touch panel comprising:

a plurality of pixel electrodes;

a common electrode that faces the pixel electrodes and extends in a first direction;

a detection electrode that extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction; and

a drive circuit unit that supplies a drive pulse to the common electrode,

wherein

the drive pulse rises at a first timing, falls at a second timing, rises at a third timing, and falls at a fourth timing in this order in one horizontal synchronizing period,

the first timing, the second timing, the third timing, and the fourth timing are changeable each other, and

a potential of the detection electrode is changed by a rising and falling of the drive pulse.

7. The display device with the touch panel according to claim 6, further comprising a detection circuit that detects a signal at both timings of rising and falling edges of the drive pulse.

8. The display device with the touch panel according to claim 6, further comprising a drive pulse storage unit that stores the first, second, third, and fourth timings.

9. The display device with the touch panel according to claim 6, further comprising

a detection circuit that detects the touch, and

a detection switch that disconnects electrical connection between a signal line extending from the detection electrode and the detection circuit.

10. The display device with the touch panel according to claim 9, further comprising a detection switch storage unit that stores the timing of turning off the detection switch.