Driving method of display device

• US 9,772,702 B2
• Filed: 02/23/2011
• Issued: 09/26/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kurokawa, Yoshiyuki, Ikeda, Takayuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Nicholas
• Application Number:
  US13/032,894
• Publication Number:
  US 20110221723A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,407 Days
• Field of Search: 345207
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

A display device has a pixel array including a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix and a backlight provided to face a substrate over which the pixel array is formed, and display element portions photosensor portions are formed in the pixels. In the display device, in one frame period for displaying a black image which is interposed between two successive periods forming an image or a backlighting shutoff period in one frame period in which the display element portion holds an image, an accumulation operation of the photosensor portion is performed, the pixels are successively selected for each row, and a signal corresponding to the potential of a signal charge accumulation portion of the photosensor portion is output.

Claims

1. A method for driving a display device wherein the display device comprises:

a first photosensor portion comprising;

a first photodiode;

a first transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to the first photodiode;

a second transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second terminal of the first transistor; and

a third transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the third transistor is electrically connected to the first terminal of the second transistor;

a second photosensor portion comprising;

a second photodiode;

a fourth transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the fourth transistor is electrically connected to the second photodiode;

a fifth transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the gate of the fifth transistor is electrically connected to the second terminal of the fourth transistor; and

a sixth transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the sixth transistor is electrically connected to the first terminal of the fifth transistor; and

a backlight;

the method comprising the steps of;

turning off the backlight;

turning on the first transistor and the fourth transistor simultaneously;

after the turning on the first transistor and the fourth transistor, turning off the first transistor and the fourth transistor simultaneously;

after turning off the first transistor and the fourth transistor, turning on the backlight;

after turning on the backlight, turning on the third transistor; and

after turning on the third transistor, turning on the sixth transistor,

wherein each of the first transistor and the fourth transistor comprises an oxide semiconductor,

wherein the second photosensor portion is provided in a row different from the first photosensor portion.

2. The method for driving a display device according to claim 1, wherein the oxide semiconductor comprises indium, gallium, and zinc.

3. The method for driving a display device according to claim 1,

wherein the gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first wiring, and

wherein the gate of the fourth transistor is electrically connected to a second wiring being different from the first wiring.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein a node between the second terminal of the first transistor and the gate of the second transistor holds charge in accordance with an amount of light received by the first photodiode.

4. A method for driving a display device wherein the display device comprises:

a backlight; and

a pixel array comprising;

a plurality of display element portions;

a plurality of photosensor portions, each of the plurality of photosensor portions comprising;

a photodiode;

a first transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to the photodiode;

a second transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second terminal of the first terminal; and

a third transistor comprising a gate, a first terminal, and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the third transistor is electrically connected to the first terminal of the second transistor;

the method comprising the steps of;

turning off the backlight;

after turning off the backlight, applying a first potential to the gate of the first transistor in all of the plurality of photosensor portions simultaneously and changing a second potential to a third potential in a node between the second terminal of the first transistor and the gate of the second transistor with irradiating the photodiode with light,

after applying the first potential to the gate of the first transistor, turning on the backlight;

after turning on the backlight, applying a fourth potential to the gate of the third transistor in all of the plurality of photosensor portions sequentially row by row to turn on the third transistor,

wherein the light is irradiated from out of the display device,

wherein each of the plurality of photosensor portions is provided in a row different from one another, and

wherein the first transistor comprises an oxide semiconductor.

5. The method for driving a display device according to claim 4, wherein the oxide semiconductor comprises indium, gallium, and zinc.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein none of the first transistor in all of the plurality of photosensor portions is on during the third transistor being on.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the node between the gate of the second transistor and the second terminal of the first transistor holds charge in accordance with an amount of light received by the photodiode.

9. A method for driving a display device wherein the display device comprises:

a pixel array comprising a plurality of pixels provided in a matrix, each of the plurality of pixels comprising;

a display element portion; and

a photosensor portion comprising a signal charge accumulation portion; and

a backlight;

the method comprising the steps of;

turning off the backlight;

after turning off the backlight, accumulating charge to the signal charge accumulation portion of the photosensor portion simultaneously in all of the plurality of pixels;

after accumulating the charge, turning on the backlight; and

after turning on the backlight, outputting a signal corresponding to a potential of the signal charge accumulation portion of the photosensor portion by sequentially selecting the plurality of pixels row by row.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein operation from turning off the backlight to outputting the signal is performed within one frame period.