Display device with built-in touch sensors

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10203792-B2
Application number	US-201715712745-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2017
Priority date	Sep 30, 2016
Publication date	Feb 12, 2019
Grant date	Feb 12, 2019

Abstract

A display device includes a display panel having a pixel array and built-in touch sensors, with a shared common electrode, driven between display and touch sensing periods; a display drive circuit outputting image data to the display panel during the display period; a common voltage regulator outputting common voltage data to indicate a common voltage to be applied to the common electrode during the touch sensing period; and a touch sensing circuit decoding the common voltage data during the touch sensing period to vary the common voltage and applying the varied common voltage to the common electrode. The common voltage regulator determines an average value of image data for each line of the pixel array and outputs a first common voltage data to decrease the voltage level of the common voltage when the average value is at or above a preset threshold and corresponds to positive image data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A display device, comprising:
a display panel having a pixel array with built-in touch sensors configured to be driven between a display period and a touch sensing period in a time-division manner, the pixels and the touch sensors sharing a common electrode;
a display drive circuit configured to output image data to the display panel during the display period;
a common voltage regulator configured to output common voltage data to indicate a voltage level of a common voltage to be applied to the common electrode during the touch sensing period; and
a touch sensing circuit configured to decode the common voltage data during the touch sensing period to vary the common voltage and to apply the varied common voltage to the common electrode to drive the touch sensors,
wherein the common voltage regulator is configured to determine an average value of image data for each line of the pixel array and to output a first common voltage data to decrease the voltage level of the common voltage to be applied to the common electrode during the touch sensing period when the average value is at or above a preset threshold and corresponds to positive image data.

2. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the touch sensing circuit is further configured to apply a common voltage to the common electrode during the display period, and is configured to apply a first common voltage having a lower voltage level than the common voltage to the common electrode during the touch sensing period.

3. The display device of claim 2 , wherein the common voltage regulator is further configured to output second common voltage data to the touch sensing circuit when the average value is at or above the preset threshold, and the touch sensing circuit is configured to apply the second common voltage having a higher voltage level than the common voltage during the touch sensing period.

4. The display device of claim 2 , wherein, when the average value is below the preset threshold, the touch sensing circuit is further configured to maintain the voltage applied to the common electrode at the voltage level of the common voltage during the display period.

5. The display device of claim 1 , wherein, during the touch sensing period, the touch sensing circuit applies a signal that alternates between the common voltage and a predetermined sensing high voltage higher than the common voltage to the common electrode.

6. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the common voltage regulator is configured to determine the average value of image data output to the last pixel line during the display period.

7. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the display panel includes first and second panel blocks, the display drive circuit is further configured to output image data to the first panel block during a first display period and to output image data to the second panel block during a second display period, and the common voltage regulator is configured to determine the average value of image data written to the last pixel line of the first panel block.

8. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the image data for each line includes positive image data and negative image data, and the average value corresponds to positive data of gray levels 0 to 255 or negative data of gray levels 0 to 255.

9. The display device of claim 1 , wherein the common voltage regulator is configured to output a lower voltage level for the first common voltage in response to a higher absolute value of the average value.

10. The display device of claim 3 , wherein the touch sensing circuit is configured to apply a higher voltage level as the second common voltage for a larger difference between the absolute value of the average value and the preset threshold.

Assignees

• Lg Display Co Ltd

Inventors

• Kwon Kitae

Classifications

• G06F2203/04111

  Cross over in capacitive digitiser, i.e. details of structures for connecting electrodes of the sensing pattern where the connections cross each other, e.g. bridge structures comprising an insulating layer, or vias through substrate · CPC title

• G06F3/0416 Primary

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/0412 Primary

  Digitisers structurally integrated in a display · CPC title

• G06F3/044

  by capacitive means · CPC title

• G06F2203/04112

  Electrode mesh in capacitive digitiser: electrode for touch sensing is formed of a mesh of very fine, normally metallic, interconnected lines that are almost invisible to see. This provides a quite large but transparent electrode surface, without need for ITO or similar transparent conductive material · CPC title