CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH DETECTION FUNCTION

• US 20110134076A1
• Filed: 06/14/2010
• Published: 06/09/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Japan Display West Incorporated (Japan Display Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Kida, Yoshitoshi, Nakanishi, Takayuki, Ishizaki, Koji, Noguchi, Kouji, Takeuchi, Takeya, Harada, Tsutomu
• Application Number:
  US13/059,044
• Publication Number:
  US 20110134076A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04182 Filtering of noise external to the device and not generated by digitiser components
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0445 using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer
• 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 capacitive touch panel capable of reducing a disturbance noise and reducing touch detection time with a simple structure is obtained. The capacitive touch panel includes: a plurality of drive electrodes each to which a drive signal for touch detection is applied; a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged to intersect the plurality of drive electrodes, and each outputting a detection signal synchronized with the drive signal; a first sampling circuit (A/D conversion circuits 72 and 73) extracting a first series of sampling signal including a signal component with first level and a noise component, from the detection signal; a second sampling circuit (A/D conversion circuits 75 and 76) extracting a second series of sampling signal including a signal component with second level different from the first level and the noise component, from the detection signal; a filter circuit (digital LPFs 81 and 82) performing a high range cut process on the first series of sampling signal and the second series of sampling signal; and a computation circuit (a subtraction circuit 90) determining a signal for touch detection based on an output of the filter circuit.

Claims

1. A capacitive touch panel comprising:

a plurality of drive electrodes each applied with a drive signal for touch detection;

a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged to intersect the plurality of drive electrodes so that electrostatic capacitance is formed at each of intersections of the drive electrodes and the touch detection electrodes, to output a detection signal synchronized with the drive signal;

a first sampling circuit extracting a first series of sampling signal from the detection signal outputted from each of the touch detection electrodes, the first series of sampling signal including a signal component with first level and a noise component;

a second sampling circuit extracting a second series of sampling signal from the detection signal outputted from each of the touch detection electrodes, the second series of sampling signal including a signal component with second level different from the first level and including a noise component;

a filter circuit performing a high range cut process which allows a band higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency to be cut from the first and second series of sampling signals outputted from the first and second sampling circuits, respectively; and

a computation circuit determining a signal for touch detection based on an output of the filter circuit.

2. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the computation circuit determines the signal for touch detection by finding a difference between the first and second series of sampling signals outputted from the first and second sampling circuit, respectively.

3. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 1, wherein

the drive signal is a signal with a periodic waveform including a section of a first voltage and a section of a second voltage different from the first voltage, and

a scanning control is performed so that the drive signal is applied to each of the plurality of drive electrodes one after another in time-divisional manner.

4. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 1, wherein a sampling period in the first sampling circuit and a sampling period in the second sampling circuit are equal to each other, and a sampling timing in the first sampling circuit is shifted from a sampling timing in the second sampling circuit by half period.

5. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the computation circuit adjusts one or both of a phase of the first series of sampling signal processed by the filter circuit and a phase of the second series of sampling signal processed by the filter circuit so as to allow the phases to coincide with each other, and then determines the signal for touch detection by finding a difference between the two sampling signals.

6. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the second level of the signal component is zero level.

7. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 6, wherein a duty ratio of the drive signal is shifted from 50%.

8. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 6, wherein

the first sampling circuit samples the detection signal at a plurality of timings which are located before and after one voltage change point in the drive signal and are adjacent to one another, and

the second sampling circuit samples the detection signal at a plurality of timings which are located immediately before the other voltage change point in the drive signal and are adjacent to one another.

9. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the drive signal is a signal with a periodic waveform including a section of a first polarity-alternating waveform with a first amplitude and a section of a second polarity-alternating waveform with a second amplitude different from the first amplitude.

10. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 9, wherein

the first sampling circuit samples the detection signal at a plurality of timings which are located before and after a polarity inversion point in the first polarity-alternating waveform and are adjacent to one another, and

the second sampling circuit samples the detection signal at a plurality of timings which are located before and after a polarity inversion point in the second polarity-alternating waveform and are adjacent to one another.

11. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 1, wherein the drive signal is a signal with a periodic waveform including a section of a first polarity-alternating waveform and a section of a second polarity-alternating waveform, the first and second polarity-alternating waveforms having phases shifted from each other.

12. The capacitive touch panel according to claim 11, wherein

the first sampling circuit samples the detection signal at a plurality of timings which are located before and after one of voltage change points in the first polarity-alternating waveform and are adjacent to one another, and

the second sampling circuit samples the detection signal at a plurality of timings which are located immediately before one of voltage change points in the second polarity-alternating waveform and are adjacent to one another.

13. A display device with a touch detection function comprising:

a plurality of drive electrodes each applied with a drive signal for touch detection;

a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged to intersect the plurality of drive electrodes so that electrostatic capacitance is formed at each of intersections of the drive electrodes and the touch detection electrodes, to output a detection signal synchronized with the drive signal;

a first sampling circuit extracting a first series of sampling signal from the detection signal outputted from each of the touch detection electrodes, the first series of sampling signal including a signal component with first level and a noise component;

a second sampling circuit extracting a second series of sampling signal from the detection signal outputted from each of the touch detection electrodes, the second series of sampling signal including a signal component with second level different from the first level and including a noise component;

a filter circuit performing a high range cut process which allows a band higher than or equal to a predetermined frequency to be cut from the first and second series of sampling signals outputted from the first and second sampling circuits, respectively; and

a computation circuit determining a signal for touch detection based on an output of the filter circuit; and

a display section displaying an image based on an image signal.

14. The display device with the touch detection function according to claim 13, wherein

the display section is configured with a liquid crystal device, and

the drive signal for touch detection also serves as a part of a display drive signal driving the display section.

15. The display device with the touch detection function according to claim 14, wherein

the display drive signal includes a pixel signal based on the image signal and includes a common signal,

the display section performs a display through a polarity-inversion drive in which polarities of a voltage applied to the liquid crystal device are time-divisionally inverted, the voltage being based on the pixel signal and the common signal, and

the drive signal for touch detection also serves as the common signal.