Touch controller having increased sensing sensitivity, and display driving circuit and display device and system having the touch controller

• US 10,254,903 B2
• Filed: 04/12/2016
• Issued: 04/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Hyoung-Rae, Choi, Yoon-Kyung, Cho, Hwa-Hyun, Kim, Sang-Woo, Ahn, Hae-Yong, Kwon, Hyung-Dal, Park, Jong-Kang, Byun, San-Ho, Yu, Jae-suk
• Primary Examiner(s): Faragalla, Michael A
• Application Number:
  US15/096,859
• Publication Number:
  US 20160224188A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,092 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/13338 Input devices, e.g. touch panels
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3215 Monitoring of peripheral devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3237 by disabling clock generation or distribution
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3265 Power saving in display device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• 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 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2310/08 Details of timing specific for flat panels, other than clock recovery
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2007 Display of intermediate tones
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/2092 Details of a display terminals using a flat panel, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto suitable for both CRT and flat panel G09G5/003; specific for a CRT G09G1/165
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 59/40 OLEDs integrated with touch screens

Abstract

A touch controller includes a touch data generator that is connected to a plurality of sensing lines, the touch data generator sensing a change in capacitance of a sensing unit connected to each of the sensing lines and generating touch data by processing the sensing signal corresponding to the result of sensing; and a signal processor that controls a timing of generating the touch data by receiving at least one piece of timing information for driving a display panel from a timing controller, and then providing either the timing information or a signal generated from the timing information as a control signal to the touch data generator.

Claims

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel including sensing units and display pixels;

a display driving unit configured to drive the display panel; and

a touch controller configured to detect an electrical change of the sensing units,

wherein the display driving unit and the touch controller are included in a same semiconductor chip,

the display driving unit and the touch controller share timing information, and

the touch controller is configured to periodically check the electrical change of the sensing units when the display panel is in a sleep mode.

2. The display device of claim 1, wherein the display driving unit is configured to receive image data from an external host.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein the display driving unit is configured to generate gray-scale data and to transmit the gray-scale data to the display panel.

4. The display device of claim 3, wherein the sensing units and the display pixels are disposed on a same plate.

5. The display device of claim 3, wherein the display driving unit includes:

a source driver configured to generate the gray-scale data for a displaying operation; and

a power generator configured to supply power voltage to the touch controller.

6. The display device of claim 5, wherein the timing information includes at least one of a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal.

7. The display device of claim 2, further comprising:

a first pad for receiving the electrical change; and

a second pad for receiving the image data.

8. The display device of claim 1, further comprising:

a window glass disposed on the display panel; and

a polarizing plate disposed on the display panel.

9. The display device of claim 1, wherein the display panel is an organic light-emitting diode panel.

10. The display device of claim 8, wherein the display panel is a liquid crystal display panel.

11. A display device comprising:

a display panel including display pixels;

a touch panel including sensing units;

a display driving unit configured to drive the display panel; and

a touch controller configured to detect an electrical change of the sensing units,

wherein the sensing units are disposed on an upper glass plate of the display panel,

wherein the display driving unit and the touch controller share timing information,

wherein the display driving unit and the touch controller are included in a same semiconductor chip, and

wherein the touch controller is configured to periodically check the electrical change of the sensing units when the display panel is in a sleep mode.

12. The display device of claim 11, wherein the display driving unit and the touch controller are electrically connected to the touch panel via a flexible printed circuit board.

13. The display device of claim 11, wherein the timing information includes at least one of a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal.

14. The display device of claim 11, wherein the display panel is a liquid crystal display panel.

15. The display device of claim 11, wherein the display panel is an organic light-emitting diode panel.