Display device with touch sensor
First Claim
1. A display device having a capacitive touch sensor, comprising:
- a first substrate;
a second substrate facing the first substrate;
a display function layer having an image display function, the display function layer being interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the second substrate having a display function layer side facing the display function layer and an upper surface side facing away from the display function layer side;
a plurality of display pixel electrodes;
a common electrode facing the display pixel electrodes, the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode being disposed between the first substrate and the display function layer;
a control circuit that controls display of an image by applying a voltage to the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal;
a touch detection electrode for the capacitive touch sensor that is disposed on the upper surface side of the second substrate, the touch detection electrode comprising a plurality of individual electrodes arranged in a matrix and overlapping the common electrode;
a plurality of wires each of which is coupled to a respective one, and only one, of the individual electrodes on a one-to-one basis; and
a touch detection circuit that detects a position touched by an object based on a detection signal obtained, through one of the wires, from its respective one of the individual electrodes constituting the touch detection electrode;
wherein the common electrode is a single electrode overlapping the individual electrodes that are coupled to the touch detection circuit through the wires coupled to the individual electrodes on a one-to-one basis.
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Abstract
A common electrode for a display, which is originally provided in a liquid crystal display element, is also used as one (drive electrode) of a pair of electrodes for a touch sensor, and the other (detection-electrode-for-the-sensor) of the pair of electrodes is newly formed. An existing common drive signal as a drive signal for display is used in common for a drive signal for the touch sensor. A capacitance is formed between the common electrode and the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and touch detection is performed by utilizing a change of this capacitance caused by a finger touch of a user. Thus, a display device with a touch sensor is also applicable to a mobile device in which electric potential of the user is inconstant in many cases. The newly-provided electrode is only the detection-electrode-for-the-sensor, and it is unnecessary to newly prepare a drive signal for the touch sensor.
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11 Claims
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1. A display device having a capacitive touch sensor, comprising:
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a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a display function layer having an image display function, the display function layer being interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the second substrate having a display function layer side facing the display function layer and an upper surface side facing away from the display function layer side; a plurality of display pixel electrodes; a common electrode facing the display pixel electrodes, the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode being disposed between the first substrate and the display function layer; a control circuit that controls display of an image by applying a voltage to the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal; a touch detection electrode for the capacitive touch sensor that is disposed on the upper surface side of the second substrate, the touch detection electrode comprising a plurality of individual electrodes arranged in a matrix and overlapping the common electrode; a plurality of wires each of which is coupled to a respective one, and only one, of the individual electrodes on a one-to-one basis; and a touch detection circuit that detects a position touched by an object based on a detection signal obtained, through one of the wires, from its respective one of the individual electrodes constituting the touch detection electrode; wherein the common electrode is a single electrode overlapping the individual electrodes that are coupled to the touch detection circuit through the wires coupled to the individual electrodes on a one-to-one basis. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A display device having a capacitive touch sensor, comprising:
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a first substrate; a second substrate facing the first substrate; a display function layer having an image display function, the display function layer being interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the second substrate having a display function layer side facing the display function layer and an upper surface side facing away from the display function layer side; a plurality of display pixel electrodes; a common electrode facing the display pixel electrodes, the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode being disposed between the first substrate and the display function layer; a control circuit that controls display of an image by applying a voltage to the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal; a touch detection electrode for the capacitive touch sensor that is disposed on the upper surface side of the second substrate, the touch detection electrode comprising a plurality of individual electrodes arranged in a matrix and overlapping the common electrode; a plurality of wires each of which is coupled to a respective one, and only one, of the individual electrodes on a one-to-one basis; and a touch detection circuit that detects a position touched by an object based on a detection signal obtained, through one of the wires, from its respective one of the individual electrodes constituting the touch detection electrode, wherein, the common electrode is divided into a plurality of stripe-shaped individual electrodes each of which is longitudinal in a first direction, and each of the wires that are coupled to the individual electrodes on a one-to-one basis extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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