Image display device

• US 9,495,044 B2
• Filed: 01/16/2013
• Issued: 11/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Inventors: Kida, Yoshitoshi, Noguchi, Koji, Ishizaki, Koji, Azumi, Kohei
• Primary Examiner(s): Sternbane, Larry
• Application Number:
  US13/743,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20130241869A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,399 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0445 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

Abstract

An image display device includes: a first substrate which has a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface; a second substrate which has a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, the first surface being arranged to face the second surface of the first substrate, and is made of a transparent material; and an image display layer which is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein a driving electrode is provided on the first surface of the second substrate, a plurality of first detection electrodes are provided on the second surface of the second substrate, a second detection electrode is provided on the first substrate, the first detection electrodes and the driving electrode constitute a capacitance-type first touch panel unit, and the second detection electrode and the driving electrode constitute a capacitance-type second touch panel unit.

Claims

1. An image display device comprising:

a first substrate which has a lower surface side and a upper surface side;

a second substrate which has a lower surface side and a upper surface side, the lower surface side of the second substrate being arranged to face the upper surface side of the first substrate, and is made of a transparent material;

an image display layer which is made of liquid crystal arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate;

a plurality of pixel electrodes provided on the upper surface side of the first substrate; and

a sheet light source device which is arranged on the lower surface side of the first substrate,

wherein

a driving electrode is provided on the lower surface side of the second substrate,

a plurality of first detection electrodes are provided on the upper surface side of the second substrate,

a second detection electrode is provided on the lower surface side of the first substrate and layered on the sheet light source device, and a gap exists between the second detection electrode and the first substrate;

the sheet light source device, the second detection electrode, the first substrate, the pixel electrodes, the image display layer, the driving electrode, the second substrate, and the first detection electrodes are layered in this order,

the first detection electrodes and the driving electrode constitute a capacitance-type first touch panel unit, and

the second detection electrode and the driving electrode constitute a capacitance-type second touch panel unit.

2. The image display device according to claim 1,

wherein the driving electrode doubles as an electrode for driving the image display layer.

3. The image display device according to claim 1,

wherein each first detection electrode, the second detection electrode, and the driving electrode are connected to a detection unit, and

the detection unit includes a first capacitor connected in series to a first capacitive unit constituted by the first detection electrode and the driving electrode, and a second capacitor connected in series to a second capacitive unit constituted by the second detection electrode and the driving electrode.

4. The image display device according to claim 3,

wherein the detection unit further includes a first operational amplifier connected in parallel to the first capacitor, and a second operational amplifier connected in parallel to the second capacitor.

5. The image display device according to claim 1,

wherein each of the first detection electrode, the second detection electrode, and the driving electrode are connected to a detection unit,

the detection unit includes a variable-capacitance capacitor connected in series to a first capacitive unit constituted by the first detection electrode and the driving electrode and a second capacitive unit constituted by the second detection electrode and the driving electrode, and

the capacitance of the capacitor changes between the detection of the first touch panel unit and the detection of the second touch panel unit.

6. The image display device according to claim 5,

wherein the detection unit further includes an operational amplifier connected in parallel to the capacitor.

7. The image display device according to claim 1,

wherein each of the first detection electrode, the second detection electrode, and the driving electrode are connected to a detection unit,

the detection unit includes a capacitor connected in series to a first capacitive unit constituted by the first detection electrode and the driving electrode and a second capacitive unit constituted by the second detection electrode and the driving electrode,

the detection unit further includes an operational amplifier connected in parallel to the capacitor, and

a reference voltage of the operational amplifier changes between the detection of the first touch panel unit and the detection of the second touch panel unit.

8. An image display device comprising:

a first substrate which has a lower surface side and a upper surface side;

a second substrate which has a lower surface side and a upper surface side, the lower surface side of the second substrate being arranged to face the upper surface side of the first substrate, and is made of a transparent material;

a sheet light source device provided on the lower surface side of the first substrate;

a plurality of pixel electrodes provided on the upper surface side of the first substrate; and

an image display layer which is configured as a lateral electric field mode liquid crystal layer and is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate,

wherein

a driving electrode is provided on the lower surface side of the second substrate,

a plurality of first detection electrodes are provided on the upper surface side of the second substrate, and

the first substrate, a second detection electrode, the pixel electrodes, the image display layer, the driving electrode, the second substrate, and the first detection electrodes are layered in this order on the sheet light source device such that the second detection electrode is provided on the upper surface side of the first substrate and is layered between the drive electrodes and the sheet light source device,

the first detection electrodes and the driving electrode constitute a capacitance-type first touch panel unit, and

the second detection electrode and the driving electrode constitute a capacitance-type second touch panel unit.