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

• US 10,768,760 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2019
• Issued: 09/08/2020
• 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): Nguyen, Chanh D
• Assistant Examiner(s): Truong, Nguyen H
• Application Number:
  US16/280,243
• Publication Number:
  US 20190179456A1
• Time in Patent Office: 566 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 touch display driver integrated chip (TDDI) comprising:

a display driver configured to drive a source line of a display panel and to generate a timing control signal that controls driving of the source line; and

a touch controller configured to generate touch data at a timing based on the timing control signal and to exchange a signal with a host controller,

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

wherein the display driver provides power from 4 to 5V to the touch controller when the display driver is in a low-power consumption mode and an operation for driving the source line of the display panel is kept deactivated, and

wherein the touch controller is configured to periodically perform a touch sensing operation by using the power from the display driver during the low-power consumption mode of the display driver.

2. The touch display driver integrated chip of claim 1, wherein the touch controller comprises a serial peripheral interface configured to exchange the signal with the host controller.

3. The touch display driver integrated chip of claim 1, wherein the touch controller comprises an I2C interface configured to exchange the signal with the host controller.

4. The touch display driver integrated chip of claim 1, wherein an operation of the display driver and an operation of the touch controller are synchronized with each other based on the timing control signal.

5. The touch display driver integrated chip of claim 4, wherein the timing control signal comprises a vertical synchronization signal.

6. The touch display driver integrated chip of claim 1, wherein the display driver is configured to provide the timing control signal to the touch controller via a wire interconnection.

7. The touch display driver integrated chip of claim 1, wherein the display driver comprises an RGB interface configured to connect with the host controller.

8. A display device comprising:

a display panel including sensors and display pixels;

a display driver configured to drive a source line of the display panel; and

a touch controller configured to detect an electrical change of the sensors, to generate touch data responsive to the detected electrical change, and to exchange a signal with a host controller,

wherein the display driver and the touch controller are included in a same semiconductor chip, and the display driver and the touch controller share timing information,

wherein the display driver provides power from 4 to 5V to the touch controller when the display driver is in a low-power consumption mode and an operation for driving the source line of the display panel is kept deactivated, and

wherein the touch controller is configured to periodically detect the electrical change of the sensors by using the power from the display driver during the low-power consumption mode of the display driver.

9. The display device of claim 8, wherein the touch controller comprises a serial peripheral interface configured to exchange the signal with the host controller.

10. The display device of claim 8, wherein the touch controller comprises an I2C interface configured to exchange the signal with the host controller.

11. The display device of claim 8, wherein the display driver comprises a timing controller configured to generate the timing information that controls driving of the display panel and to provide the timing information to the touch controller, and

wherein an operation of the display driver and an operation of the touch controller are synchronized with each other based on the timing information.

12. The display device of claim 11, wherein the timing information comprises a vertical synchronization signal.