Embedded touch screen

• US 9,760,221 B2
• Filed: 11/19/2014
• Issued: 09/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 05/28/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Corporation of America (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Liquid Crystal Display Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Kawachi, Genshiro, Kita, Kazuo, Ono, Kikuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Pappas, Claire X
• Assistant Examiner(s): KOHLMAN, CHRISTOPHER J
• Application Number:
  US14/547,592
• Publication Number:
  US 20150077393A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,028 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/1333 Constructional arrangements; Manufacturing methodsG02F1/135, G02F1/136 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134363 for applying an electric field parallel to the substrate, i.e. in-plane switching [IPS]
• 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

Abstract

An embedded touch screen, including: a first substrate including, on a front surface thereof, a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in a second direction; a second substrate having an image region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged in matrix, the second substrate including: a pixel electrode connected to corresponding one of the plurality of video signal lines via a switching element connected to corresponding one of the plurality of scanning signal lines in each of the plurality of pixels; and a common electrode; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate; an application circuit for applying an alternating signal to the pixel electrode; a detection circuit for detecting a signal excited on the corresponding one of the plurality of detecting electrodes; and a scanning circuit for scanning the pixel electrode in the second direction during detection by the detection circuit.

Claims

1. An embedded touch screen, comprising:

a plurality of scanning signal lines extending in a first direction;

a plurality of video signal lines extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction;

a first substrate comprising, on one of a front surface and a rear surface thereof, a plurality of detecting electrodes extending in the second direction;

a second substrate having an image region in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, the plurality of pixels being sectioned by the plurality of scanning signal lines and the plurality of video signal lines in matrix,

the second substrate comprising, on a front surface thereof;

a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of video signal lines via a switching element connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of scanning signal lines in each of the plurality of pixels; and

a common electrode;

a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate;

a video signal line drive circuit connected to one end of each of the plurality of video signal lines in order to apply voltages corresponding to video signals to the plurality of pixel electrodes respectively during a display sub-frame;

an application circuit connected to another end of each of the plurality of video signal lines in order to apply an alternating signal to the plurality of pixel electrodes during a contact detection sub-frame which is different from the display sub-frame;

a detection circuit for detecting a signal excited on a corresponding one of the plurality of detecting electrodes during the contact detection sub-frame; and

a scanning circuit for scanning the pixel electrode at least in the second direction during the contact detection sub-frame.

2. The embedded touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the scanning circuit outputs a scanning signal to corresponding one of the plurality of scanning signal lines.

3. The embedded touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of detecting electrodes are formed on the rear surface of the first substrate.

4. The embedded touch screen according to claim 3, wherein the front surface of the first substrate comprises a polished surface.

5. The embedded touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of detecting electrodes are formed on the front surface of the first substrate.

6. The embedded touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the detection circuit includes at least one amplifier connected to a corresponding one of the plurality of detecting electrodes.

7. The embedded touch screen according to claim 1, wherein a frequency of the alternating signal is equal to or larger than 1 kHz.

8. The embedded touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the application circuit and the plurality of video signal lines are connected to each other via a high-pass filter.

9. The embedded touch screen according to claim 1, wherein the application circuit includes an alternating power source which divides the plurality of video signal lines into a plurality of groups, each of the plurality of video signal lines in a corresponding group of the plurality of groups being short-circuited to each other via the alternating power source, the alternating power source applying the alternating signal to the plurality of groups.