Display substrate, display device and remote control system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10078398-B2
Application number	US-201515105005-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 11, 2015
Priority date	Apr 29, 2015
Publication date	Sep 18, 2018
Grant date	Sep 18, 2018

Abstract

A display substrate, a display device and a remote control system are provided in order to solve a problem that the existing touch technology is not capable of touching and controlling accurately any region in the display device distant from a user. The display substrate comprises a base substrate, color filters located on the base substrate and at least one optical recognition structure which is located at least partially in non-display regions of the display substrate and is configured to sense an irradiation of a predefined light beam to generate a voltage signal and transmit the voltage signal to an external circuit through a signal line connected to the optical recognition structure.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display substrate, comprising at least one optical recognition structure,
wherein the at least one optical recognition structure is at least partially disposed in a non-display region of the display substrate and is configured to sense an irradiation of a predefined light beam to generate a voltage signal and transmit the voltage signal to an external circuit through a signal line connected to the optical recognition structure,
wherein the display substrate comprises a base substrate and a color filter layer located on the base substrate,
the color filter layer comprises a plurality of color filters arranged regularly, and
the optical recognition structure is disposed in a region on the base substrate other than regions where the color filters are disposed, the optical recognition structure is disposed between any two adjacent color filters and next to the color filters.

2. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the optical recognition structure comprises a solar cell structure located on a side of the base substrate, the solar cell structure comprising:
a negative electrode located on the side of the base substrate;
an N-type semiconductor layer located on a side of the negative electrode facing away from the base substrate;
a P-type semiconductor layer located on a side of the N-type semiconductor layer facing away from the negative electrode; and
a positive electrode located on a side of the P-type semiconductor layer facing away from the N-type semiconductor layer.

3. The display substrate according to claim 2 , wherein the negative electrode is connected with the external circuit through a first signal line on the base substrate, and the positive electrode is connected with the external circuit through a second signal line on the base substrate.

4. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the optical recognition structure comprises:
a solar cell structure located on a side of the base substrate and a thin film transistor located on a side of the solar cell structure facing away from the base substrate, wherein the thin film transistor has a gate electrode which is also used as a positive electrode of the solar cell structure.

5. The display substrate according to claim 4 , wherein the optical recognition structure comprises:
an N-type semiconductor layer located on the side of the base substrate;
a P-type semiconductor layer located on a side of the N-type semiconductor layer facing away from the base substrate;
a gate electrode located on a side of the P-type semiconductor layer facing away from the N-type semiconductor layer;
a gate insulation layer located on a side of the gate electrode facing away from the P-type semiconductor layer; and
a source electrode, a drain electrode and an active layer located on a side of the gate insulation layer facing away from the gate electrode, and
wherein the source electrode is electrically connected with the gate electrode.

6. The display substrate according to claim 5 , wherein the source electrode is connected with the external circuit through a first signal line on the base substrate, and the drain electrode is connected with the external circuit through a second signal line on the base substrate.

7. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the optical recognition structure is configured to not generate any voltage signal when a light beam from a first light source is irradiating on it and to generate a voltage signal when a light beam from a second light source is irradiating on it.

8. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein the optical recognition structure is an opaque structure to replace a black matrix.

9. The display substrate according to claim 1 , wherein each optical recognition structure is arranged to correspond to one color filter.

10. The display substrate according to claim 9 , wherein the optical recognition structure presents an L-shape to form a half-surrounding structure for the color filter.

11. A display device comprising the display substrate according to claim 1 .

12. The display device according to claim 11 , wherein the display device further comprises a coordinate register and an information processing circuit located in a peripheral circuit region of the display device, and
wherein the coordinate register stores coordinates of each optical recognition structure therein for determining coordinate information of a position where light beam is irradiating according to a voltage signal output by the optical recognition structure and outputting the coordinate information to the information processing circuit, and
the information processing circuit is configured for determining a user's operation command according to the coordinate information output by the coordinate register to perform a corresponding operation and for outputting a display signal to drive the display device to display.

13. A remote control system, comprising the display device according to claim 11 and a remote control terminal for emitting a predefined light beam to the display device so as to send an operation command to the display device.

14. The remote control system according to claim 13 , wherein the remote control terminal comprises a position laser for positioning and an operation laser for performing an operation, and wherein a laser spot from the position laser coincides with that from the operation laser, and a light wave frequency of the position laser is lower than that of the operation laser, so that no voltage signal is generated when the light beam from the position laser is irradiating on the optical recognition structure and a voltage signal is generated when the light beam from the operation laser is irradiating on the optical recognition structure.

15. The remote control system according to claim 14 , wherein the position laser emits visible light and the operation laser emits invisible light.

16. The remote control system according to claim 14 , wherein the position laser emits red or green light and the operation laser emits blue or ultraviolet light.

17. A remote control system, comprising the display device according to claim 12 and a remote control terminal for emitting a predefined light beam to the display device so as to send an operation command to the display device.

18. The remote control system according to claim 17 , wherein the remote control terminal comprises a position laser for positioning and an operation laser for performing an operation, and wherein a laser spot from the position laser coincides with that from the operation laser, and a light wave frequency of the position laser is lower than that of the operation laser, so that no voltage signal is generated when the light beam from the position laser is irradiating on the optical recognition structure and a voltage signal is generated when the light beam from the operation laser is irradiating on the optical recognition structure.

19. The remote control system according to claim 18 , wherein the position laser emits visible light and the operation laser emits invisible light.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Xie Dini

Classifications

• G06F3/03542

  Light pens for emitting or receiving light · CPC title

• G06F3/0386

  for light pen · CPC title

• G06F3/0304

  Detection arrangements using opto-electronic means (constructional details of pointing devices not related to the detection arrangement using opto-electronic means G06F3/033; optical digitisers G06F3/042) · CPC title

• G02F2001/136222

  Physics · mapped topic

• G02F1/133514

  Colour filters · CPC title