Liquid crystal display device

• US 8,643,796 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2010
• Issued: 02/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display Central Incorporated (Japan Display Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Japan Display Central Incorporated (Japan Display Incorporated)
• Inventors: Kimura, Hiroyuki, Tabatake, Hiroshi, Kawamura, Tetsuya
• Primary Examiner(s): Glick, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen, Sang V
• Application Number:
  US12/952,532
• Publication Number:
  US 20110157504A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,169 Days
• Field of Search: 349 37- 39, 349/12, 345/173, 345/175, 345/156
• US Class Current: 349/39
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/133707 Structures for producing distorted electric fields, e.g. bumps, protrusions, recesses, slits in pixel electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136213 Storage capacitors associated with the pixel electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3648 using an active matrix G09G3/367 - G09G3/3696 take precedence

Abstract

In one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixels includes a first substrate having an insulating substrate, a first detection element extending in a first direction above the insulating substrate, a second detection element extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and an insulating film provided between the first and second detection circuits. A second substrate is arranged opposing to the first substrate so as to hold a liquid crystal layer therebetween. A detection circuit is provided on the first substrate to detect change of electrostatic capacitance between the first and second detection elements. At least one of the first and second detection elements is an element required for operating the liquid crystal layer.

Claims

1. A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixels, comprising:

a first substrate including;

an insulating substrate,

a plurality of signal lines arranged above the insulating substrate and extending in a first direction,

a first insulating film covering the signal lines,

a plurality of capacitance lines arranged on the first insulating film and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, each capacitance line including a slit formed above a portion of a respective signal line and extending in the first direction,

a second insulating film covering the capacitance lines, and

a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on the second insulating film so as to face the capacitance lines, the respective pixel electrodes including a plurality of slits, and

a second substrate opposing to the first substrate;

a liquid crystal layer held between the first and second substrates and including liquid crystal molecules; and

a detection circuit to detect change of electrostatic capacitance between the signal lines and the capacitance lines;

wherein

the capacitance lines include a common electrode arranged in common to the plurality of pixels, and the liquid crystal molecules are switched mainly using a lateral electric field between the common electrode and the pixel electrode; and

the detection circuit writes a detection signal into the plurality of capacitance lines simultaneously by grouping the capacitance lines of adjacent rows of pixels during a detection period successive to an image signal write-in period to write the image signal into the pixel electrode, and thereby detects the change of the electrostatic capacitance between the signal lines and the capacitance lines.

2. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising a gate line extending in the second direction, and a switching element electrically connected with the signal lines, the gate line, and the pixel electrode.

3. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising an auxiliary capacitance line electrically connected with the capacitance lines and extending in the second direction.

4. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising a transmissive mesh type shield electrode or a transmissive conductive paste arranged on an external surface of the second substrate opposing to the first substrate and a polarizer arranged on the external surface of the second substrate through the shield electrode or the transmissive conductive paste.

5. The liquid crystal display device according to claim 1, further comprising a driver IC chip including an image signal writing circuit to write the image signal into the pixel electrode and the detection circuit.