Touch screen driver

• US 9,965,109 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2014
• Issued: 05/08/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Kang, Hyeongwon, Kim, Beomjin
• Primary Examiner(s): Adediran, Abdul-Samad A
• Application Number:
  US14/291,283
• Publication Number:
  US 20140354592A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,439 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04182 Filtering of noise external to the device and not generated by digitiser components
• 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

A touch screen driver includes a touch screen comprising Tx channels, Rx channels crossing the Tx channels, and sensor nodes formed at the crossings of the Tx channels and the Rx channels; a Tx driving circuit for supplying a Tx driving pulse to the Tx channels; an Rx driving circuit comprising an offset charge compensation circuit that equally compensates for the amount of offset charge included in the voltages of the sensor nodes supplied through the Rx channels and a sampling circuit that samples the offset-compensated voltages of the sensor nodes in response to an Rx sampling clock and converts the sampled voltages into digital data; and a touch controller that analyzes the digital data input from the Rx driving circuit by a preset touch recognition algorithm and outputs touch data including coordinate information of a touch position.

Claims

1. A touch screen driver, comprising:

a touch screen including Tx channels, Rx channels crossing the Tx channels, and sensor nodes formed at the crossings of the Tx channels and the Rx channels;

a Tx driving circuit to supply a Tx driving pulse to the Tx channels;

an Rx driving circuit including;

an offset charge compensation circuit that equally compensates for an amount of offset charge included in voltages at the sensor nodes supplied through the Rx channels; and

a sampling circuit that, in response to an Rx sampling clock, samples the voltages at the sensor nodes which have been offset-compensated by the offset charge compensation circuit, and converts the sampled voltages into digital data,

wherein the offset charge compensation circuit is connected to the Rx channels between the sensor nodes and the sampling circuit such that offset compensations have been applied to the voltages sampled by the sampling circuit; and

a touch controller that analyzes the digital data input from the Rx driving circuit by a preset touch recognition algorithm and outputs touch data including coordinate information of a touch position,

wherein the offset charge compensation circuit comprises;

an input terminal into which a compensation pulse having an opposite phase to that of a Tx driving pulse is input;

a plurality of compensation capacitors connected in parallel to the input terminal;

a plurality of switches, one end of which being connected in series to the compensation capacitors and another end of which being connected commonly to at least one of the Rx channels; and

a level shifter that is connected in series between the input terminal and the compensation capacitors and level-shifts an amplitude of the compensation pulse,

wherein an amount required to compensate for the amount of offset charge by a predetermined reference value is determined depending on a number of switches to be conducted among the switches.

2. The touch screen driver of claim 1, wherein the offset charge compensation circuit is connected on a one-to-one basis to each Rx channel or connected to a plurality of Rx channels.

3. The touch screen driver of claim 1, wherein the switches are switched on or off according to a predetermined charge control register value based on parameter information on the touch screen.

4. The touch screen driver of claim 1, wherein the amount required to compensate varies with a touch position on the touch screen.

5. The touch screen driver of claim 1, wherein the sampling circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter that receives the offset-compensated voltages at the sensor nodes from the offset charge compensation circuit.

6. The touch screen driver of claim 1, wherein the level shifter is configured to increase the amplitude of the compensation pulse by ‘

n’

times, and output the compensation pulse with the increased amplitude to the compensation capacitors.

7. The touch screen driver of claim 1, wherein the offset charge compensation circuit includes a plurality of offset charge compensation circuits respectively connected to the Rx channels on a one-to-one basis such that respective offset compensations are applied to corresponding Rx channels.

8. The touch screen driver of claim 3, wherein the parameter information includes parasitic capacitance of the Tx channels and parasitic capacitance of the Rx channels.