Touch display device and driving method thereof

• US 9,874,970 B2
• Filed: 03/18/2016
• Issued: 01/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FocalTech Systems Co.,Ltd
• Original Assignee: FocalTech Systems Co.,Ltd
• Inventors: Shih, Po-Sheng, Cheng, Chien-Yung
• Primary Examiner(s): Siddiqui, MD Saiful A
• Application Number:
  US15/074,685
• Publication Number:
  US 20170115799A1
• Time in Patent Office: 676 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04105 Pressure sensors for measuring the pressure or force exerted on the touch surface without providing the touch position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• 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 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0447 Position sensing using the local deformation of sensor cells

Abstract

A touch display device including a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium layer, a pixel array structure and a pressure sensing electrode layer is provided. The display medium layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The pixel array structure is disposed between the second substrate and the display medium layer and includes a plurality of pixel electrodes and a multi-function electrode layer overlapping the pixel electrodes. The pressure sensing electrode layer is parallel to the multi-function electrode layer and a changeable gap is formed between the pressure sensing electrode layer and the multi-function electrode layer. The touch display device capable of 3D touch is provided.

Claims

1. A touch display device, comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate;

a display medium layer, disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate;

a pixel array structure, disposed between the second substrate and the display medium layer, and comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes and a multi-function electrode layer overlapping with the pixel electrodes and being deposed over the second substrate; and

a pressure sensing electrode layer, disposed over the first substrate to be opposite to and parallel to the multi-function electrode layer, and a changeable gap being formed between the pressure sensing electrode layer and the multi-function electrode layer;

wherein the multi-function electrode layer comprises a plurality of independent multi-function electrodes each being capable of being independently charged or discharged such that the multi-function electrode layer has capability of performing self-capacitive touch sensing and pressure touch sensing; and

wherein signals of the pressure sensing electrode layer and the multi-function electrode layer are allowed to be synchronized.

2. The touch display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein each of the multi-function electrodes is overlapped with two or more pixel electrodes.

3. The touch display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the multi-function electrode layer is located between the pixel electrodes and the second substrate, and each of the pixel electrodes has a plurality of slits.

4. The touch display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pixel electrodes are located between the multi-function electrode layer and the second substrate, and the multi-function electrode layer has a plurality of slits.

5. The touch display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pressure sensing electrode layer is disposed between the first substrate and the display medium layer.

6. The touch display device as claimed in claim 5, further comprising a black matrix layer disposed between the pressure sensing electrode layer and the first substrate, wherein the black matrix layer comprises a plurality of light-shielding strips.

7. The touch display device as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a backlight module, wherein the second substrate is located between the first substrate and the backlight module, and the pressure sensing electrode layer is disposed on one side of the backlight module away from the second substrate.

8. The touch display device as claimed in claim 7, wherein the pressure sensing electrode layer is an entire piece of a conductive layer.

9. The touch display device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the backlight module comprises a back plate, spaced apart from the second substrate by a distance, and the pressure sensing electrode layer is disposed thereon.

10. A touch display device comprising:

a first substrate;

a second substrate;

a display medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate;

a pixel array structure being disposed between the second substrate and the display medium layer, and comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes and a multi-function electrode layer overlapping with the pixel electrodes;

a pressure sensing electrode layer disposed between the first substrate and the display medium layer to be parallel to the multi-function electrode layer, and a changeable gap being formed between the pressure sensing electrode layer and the multi-function electrode layer; and

a black matrix layer being disposed between the pressure sensing electrode layer and the first substrate, and comprising a plurality of light-shielding strips;

wherein the pressure sensing electrode layer comprises a plurality of electrode strips located within an area of the light-shielding strips.

11. The touch display device as claimed in claim 10, wherein an orthogonal projection of the pixel electrodes on the second substrate is separated from an orthogonal projection of the electrode strips on the second substrate.

12. The touch display device as claimed in claim 10, wherein an orthogonal projection of the electrode strips on the second substrate is overlapped with an orthogonal projection of the multi-function electrode layer on the second substrate.

13. The touch display device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the electrode strips are connected to form a grid.

14. A driving method of a touch display device comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, a pixel array structure being disposed between the second substrate and the display medium layer and comprising a plurality of pixel electrodes and a multi-function electrode layer overlapping with the pixel electrodes, and a pressure sensing electrode layer disposed to be parallel to the multi-function electrode layer with a changeable gap being formed between the pressure sensing electrode layer and the multi-function electrode layer, comprising:

implementing a display mode;

implementing a first touch mode to perform touch sensing through the multi-function electrode layer, and synchronizing signals of the pressure sensing electrode layer and the multi-function electrode layer; and

implementing a second touch mode by inputting an operating potential to the pressure sensing electrode layer, and performing touch sensing through the multi-function electrode layer.

15. The driving method of the touch display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein in the second touch mode, the operation potential is a fixed potential of a ground potential or a common potential;

a variable potential inverted and synchronous to a signal of the multi-function electrode layer;

or a variable potential non-inverted and synchronous but having a different amplitude relative to the signal of the multi-function electrode layer.

16. The driving method of the touch display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein in the display mode, a display potential is input to the pixel electrodes, a common potential is input to the multi-function electrode layer, and a fixed potential is input to the pressure sensing electrode layer.

17. The driving method of the touch display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein in the first touch mode and the second touch mode, the pixel electrodes are floating.

18. The driving method of the touch display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein a difference between sensing signals received by the multi-function electrode layer in the first touch mode and the second touch mode is taken as a pressure touch sensing signal value.

19. The driving method of the touch display device as claimed in claim 18, wherein the pressure touch sensing signal value is varied along with the changeable gap.

20. The driving method of the touch display device as claimed in claim 14, wherein implementing frequencies of the display mode, the first touch mode and the second touch mode are independent to each other.