Display device including a sensor, with reducing influence of parasitic capacitance on the sensor, and method of driving display device

• US 9,746,950 B2
• Filed: 06/03/2015
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 06/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Inventors: Fukushima, Toshiaki, Noguchi, Koji, Mizuhashi, Hiroshi, Koide, Gen, Katsuta, Tadayoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Davis, David D
• Application Number:
  US14/729,515
• Publication Number:
  US 20150355765A1
• Time in Patent Office: 818 Days
• Field of Search: None
• 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 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes
• 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 2300/0876 Supplementary capacities in pixels having special driving circuits and electrodes instead of being connected to common electrode or ground; Use of additional capacitively coupled compensation electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/0286 Details of a shift registers arranged for use in a driving circuit
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3655 Details of drivers for counter electrodes, e.g. common electrodes for pixel capacitors or supplementary storage capacitors
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3666 with the matrix divided into sections

Abstract

A display device includes a sensor, a display panel, and a plurality of electrodes for a touch sensor. The plurality of electrodes include drive electrodes and detection electrodes. The drive electrodes are also used as common electrodes for display, which are provided in the display panel. An image display operation of the display panel and a driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor are performed in a time sharing manner. In the driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor, a code division multiplexing (CDM) drive is performed in units of successive common electrodes, and a drive signal which synchronizes with the CDM drive is input to all common electrodes other than successive common electrodes subjected to the CDM drive.

Claims

1. A display device provided with a sensor, comprising:

a plurality of electrodes for a touch sensor, which comprise a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a single direction, and a plurality of detection electrodes extending in a direction crossing the direction in which the drive electrodes extend, and provided to generate capacitances at intersections of the detection electrodes and the drive electrodes; and

a display panel which includes a plurality of display elements arranged in a matrix, a plurality of gate lines extending along display elements arranged in a row direction, and a plurality of source lines extending along display elements arranged in a column direction,

wherein a plurality of common electrodes for display which are provided in the display panel are also applied as the drive electrodes in the plurality of electrodes for the touch sensor,

an image display operation of the display panel and a driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor are performed in a time sharing manner,

in the driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor, a code division multiplexing (CDM) drive is performed in units of successive common electrodes, and a drive signal which synchronizes with the CDM drive is input to all common electrodes other than successive common electrodes subjected to the CDM drive, and

in the driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor, all of the source lines and the gate lines in the display panel are caused to be in a floating state before the CDM drive is performed.

2. The display device provided with the sensor according to claim 1, wherein in the CDM drive, one of the successive common electrodes is supplied with a drive signal whose polarity is opposite to that of drive signals supplied to the others of the successive common electrodes, and the successive common electrodes are successively supplied with the drive signal of the opposite polarity at respective times, and

all the common electrodes other than the successive common electrodes are supplied with drive signals whose polarity is the same as that of the others of the successive common electrodes.

3. A method of driving a display device provided with a sensor, which comprises:

a plurality of electrodes for a touch sensor, which comprise a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a single direction, and a plurality of detection electrodes extending in a direction crossing the direction in which the drive electrodes extend, and provided to generate capacitances at intersections of the detection electrodes and the drive electrodes; and

a display panel which includes a plurality of display elements arranged in a matrix, a plurality of gate lines extending along display elements arranged in a row direction, and a plurality of source lines extending along display elements arranged in a column direction, the method comprising;

applying a plurality of common electrodes for display which are provided in the display panel, as the drive electrodes in the plurality of electrodes for the touch sensor;

performing an image display operation of the display panel and a driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor in a time sharing manner, and

performing, in the driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor, a code division multiplexing (CDM) drive in units of successive common electrodes, and inputting a drive signal which synchronizes with the CDM drive to all common electrodes other than successive common electrodes subjected to the CDM drive,

wherein in the driving operation of the electrodes for the touch sensor, all of the source lines and the gate lines in the display panel are caused to be in a floating state before the CDM drive is performed.

4. The method of driving the display device provided with the sensor, according to claim 3, wherein in the CDM drive, one of the successive common electrodes is supplied with a drive signal whose polarity is opposite to that of drive signals supplied to the others of the successive common electrodes, and the successive common electrodes are successively supplied with the drive signal of the opposite polarity at respective times, and

all the common electrodes other than the successive common electrodes are supplied with drive signals whose polarity is the same as that of the others of the successive common electrodes.