Display device

• US 9,632,379 B2
• Filed: 07/24/2014
• Issued: 04/25/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/28/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Display Company Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Lee, IL Ho, Kim, In Cheol, Nam, Seung Ho, Lee, Yoon Gyu, Lee, Hyun-Ju
• Primary Examiner(s): CROCKETT, RYAN M
• Application Number:
  US14/340,013
• Publication Number:
  US 20150062453A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134318 having a patterned common electrode
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/134363 for applying an electric field parallel to the substrate, i.e. in-plane switching [IPS]
• CPC Class Codes: G02F 1/136286 Wiring, e.g. gate line, drain line
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04103 Manufacturing, i.e. details related to manufacturing processes specially suited for touch sensitive devices
• 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 3/0443 using a single layer of sensing electrodes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0448 Details of the electrode shape, e.g. for enhancing the detection of touches, for generating specific electric field shapes, for enhancing display quality

Abstract

A display device includes: a first substrate; a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on the first substrate; a common electrode including a plurality of common electrode plates disposed on the first substrate, where the common electrode plates cover the pixel electrodes and are arranged substantially in a matrix form; and a plurality of common electrode line groups which applies a common voltage to the common electrode plates, in which laterally adjacent common electrode plates of the common electrode plates are connected to different common electrode line groups.

Claims

1. A display device, comprising:

a first substrate;

a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on the first substrate;

a common electrode comprising a plurality of common electrode plates disposed on the first substrate, wherein the common electrode plates cover the pixel electrodes and are arranged substantially in a matrix form;

a plurality of common electrode line groups which applies a common voltage to the common electrode plates; and

a plurality of touch signal lines to which the common voltage and a sensing input signal are applied,

wherein laterally adjacent common electrode plates of the common electrode plates are connected to different common electrode line groups,

each of the plurality of common electrode line groups includes a plurality of common electrode lines that are connected to one of the plurality of common electrode plates and commonly connected to a single touch signal line of the plurality of touch signal lines, and

each of the plurality of common electrode line groups transmits the sensing input signal to one of the plurality of common electrode plates and a sensing output signal from the one of the plurality of common electrode plates.

2. The display device of claim 1, further comprising:

a touch signal processor which determines an occurrence of a touch based on the sensing output signal from the touch signal lines,

wherein the laterally adjacent common electrode plates are connected to different touch signal lines.

3. The display device of claim 2, wherein

the touch signal lines are connected to the common electrode line groups, respectively.

4. The display device of claim 3, further comprising:

a first signal line which applies the common voltage to the touch signal lines;

a second signal line which applies the sensing input signal to the touch signal lines; and

a third signal line which receives the sensing output signal from the touch signal lines.

5. The display device of claim 4, wherein

the first signal line, the second signal line or the third signal line is disposed in the touch signal processor.

6. The display device of claim 5, wherein

when the display device displays an image, the touch signal lines are all connected to the first signal line to receive the common voltage, and

when the display device does not display the image, one of the touch signal lines receives the sensing input signal through the second signal line, and then the one of the touch signal lines outputs the sensing output signal through the third signal line.

7. The display device of claim 6, further comprising:

a gate driver which applies a gate voltage to a plurality of pixels comprising the pixel electrodes,

wherein the touch signal processor is disposed in the gate driver.

8. The display device of claim 6, further comprising:

a gate driver which applies a gate voltage to a plurality of pixels comprising the pixel electrodes; and

a signal processor which controls the gate driver,

wherein the touch signal processor is disposed in the signal processor.

9. The display device of claim 8, wherein

two different touch signal lines are disposed at opposing sides of the common electrode plates, respectively.

10. The display device of claim 6, wherein

a size of each of the common electrode plates is about 4 millimeters×

about 5 millimeters.

11. The display device of claim 6, wherein

a period during which the display device does not display the image corresponds to a vertical blank period.

12. The display device of claim 6, wherein

the common electrode is disposed above the pixel electrodes.

13. The display device of claim 6, wherein

a plurality of openings is defined in the common electrode plates.

14. The display device of claim 13, wherein

each of the openings in the common electrode plates is curved.

15. The display device of claim 6, further comprising:

a plurality of data lines disposed on the first substrate; and

a plurality of gate lines disposed on the first substrate,

wherein the data lines and gate lines cross each other, and are insulated from each other.

16. The display device of claim 15, wherein

the common electrode line groups are disposed in a same layer as the gate lines.

17. The display device of claim 16, wherein

each of the common electrode line groups comprises three common electrode lines.

18. The display device of claim 17, wherein

each of the common electrode line groups is connected to a corresponding common electrode plate of the common electrode plates through a contact hole.

19. The display device of claim 18, further comprising:

a liquid crystal layer disposed on the first substrate.

20. The display device of claim 19, further comprising:

a second substrate disposed on the liquid crystal layer.