Display device

• US 9,569,038 B2
• Filed: 09/22/2011
• Issued: 02/14/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/24/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Japan Display Incorporated
• Inventors: Doi, Koji, Nagata, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Pappas, Claire X
• Assistant Examiner(s): Casarez, Benjamin
• Application Number:
  US13/240,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20120075243A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,972 Days
• Field of Search: 345/173, 345/174
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04106 Multi-sensing digitiser, i.e. digitiser using at least two different sensing technologies simultaneously or alternatively, e.g. for detecting pen and finger, for saving power or for improving position detection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04164 Connections between sensors and controllers, e.g. routing lines between electrodes and connection pads
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04166 Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0447 Position sensing using the local deformation of sensor cells

Abstract

A touch panel of capacitance type includes plural X-electrodes, plural Y-electrodes, and a Z-electrode. Each of the X-electrode and the Y-electrode is formed to have pad portions and thin line portions alternately arranged in an extending direction. The pad portion of the X-electrode and the pad portion of the Y-electrode are arranged without being overlapped in a planar view. The Z-electrode is electrically in a floating state, and formed to be overlapped with both the adjacent X-electrode and the Y-electrode in a planar view. The touched position is calculated based on a local minimal point as an intersection with the interelectrode capacitance value that is equal to or smaller than each of the interelectrode capacitance values of four peripheral intersections among those at the intersections between the plural X-electrodes and the plural Y-electrodes.

Claims

1. A display device provided with a touch panel of capacitance type, wherein:

the touch panel of capacitance type includes a plurality of X-electrodes and a plurality of Y-electrodes;

the X-electrode and the Y-electrode intersecting with each other via a first insulating layer, each of which is formed to have a pad portion and a thin line portion alternately arranged in an extending direction, and the pad portion of the X-electrode and the pad portion of the Y-electrode are arranged without being overlapped in a planar view; and

the display device comprises;

a measurement circuit, the measurement circuit being configured to measure an interelectrode capacitance at each intersection between the plurality of X-electrodes and the plurality of Y-electrodes by applying a pulse signal sequentially to one of the X-electrode and the Y-electrode, and detecting a signal from the other electrode;

a data storage circuit, the data storage circuit having a two-dimensionally arranged data table that stores an interelectrode capacitance value measured by the measurement circuit at each of the intersections between the plurality of X-electrodes and the plurality of Y-electrodes; and

a control circuit, the control circuit being configured to calculate a touched position on the touch panel of capacitance type based on a local minimal point as an intersection with the interelectrode capacitance value that is equal to or smaller than each of the interelectrode capacitance values of adjacently surrounding four peripheral intersections among those at the respective intersections stored in the two-dimensionally arranged data table of the data storage circuit, and a local maximal point as an intersection with the interelectrode capacitance value that is equal to or larger than each of the interelectrode capacitance values of four adjacent peripheral intersections among those at the respective intersections stored in the two-dimensionally arranged data table of the data storage circuit, and determines that the touch panel of capacitance type is touched with a human finger or a conductive pen when the touched position is calculated based on the local minimal point, and determines that the touch panel of capacitance type is touched with an insulating pen when the touched position is calculated based on the local maximal point.

2. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the data storage circuit includes a touched state management table which manages a touched position and a touch type; and

the control circuit being configured to determine that the touch panel of capacitance type is touched with the human finger or the conductive pen when the touched position calculated based on the local maximal point is stored in the touched state management table, and the touch type stored in the touched state management table is set to the human finger or the conductive pen even if the touched position is calculated based on the local maximal point.

3. The display device according to claim 1, wherein:

the control circuit being configured to search the intersections adjacent to the local maximal point as a start point in four directions sequentially among the interelectrode capacitance values at the respective intersections stored in the data storage circuit;

when the searched intersection has the interelectrode capacitance value that is equal to or smaller than the interelectrode capacitance value at a present intersection by a predetermined threshold value or smaller, the searched data are added to a touched region to be extracted; and

the touched position on the touch panel of capacitance type is calculated based on the interelectrode capacitance value in the touched region.

4. The display device according to claim 3, wherein:

the data storage circuit being configured to store a signal value;

the control circuit being configured to calculate a difference value between the interelectrode capacitance value in the touched region and the interelectrode capacitance value at each of the intersections around the touched region as a reference value after extracting the touched region to store the difference value in the data storage circuit as the signal value; and

when a maximum value of the signal value at the intersection in the touched region is equal to or larger than the threshold value, it is determined that the “

touched state is established”

, and the touched position on the touch panel of capacitance type is calculated.