Liquid crystal grating, 3d touch display device and driving method of liquid crystal grating

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2015160495-A1
Application number	US-201314348282-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Aug 19, 2013
Priority date	Mar 29, 2013
Publication date	Jun 11, 2015
Grant date	—

Abstract

A liquid crystal grating, a 3D touch display device and a driving method of the liquid crystal grating are provided. The liquid crystal grating including a first substrate; a second substrate, disposed opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer, filled between the first substrate and the second substrate; a touch electrode layer, located on a side of the first substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer; and a planar electrode, located on a side of the second substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer, wherein the touch electrode layer includes a plurality of strip-shaped electrodes parallel to each other and arranged separately at a set distance, and the strip-shaped electrodes in the touch electrode layer are divided into at least two touch electrode units that are not electrically connected to each other by a set rule of pattern division, for any one of the touch electrode units, when an external conductive object touches different positions of the touch electrode unit by way of single-point touch, variation of capacitance formed between the touch electrode unit and the external conductive object differs from one another.

First claim

1 . A liquid crystal grating, comprising:
a first substrate; a second substrate, disposed opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer, filled between the first substrate and the second substrate; a touch electrode layer, located on a side of the first substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer; and a planar electrode, located on a side of the second substrate that faces the liquid crystal layer, wherein the touch electrode layer includes a plurality of strip-shaped electrodes parallel to each other and arranged separately at a set distance, and the strip-shaped electrodes in the touch electrode layer are divided into at least two touch electrode units that are not electrically connected to each other by a set rule of pattern division, for any one of the touch electrode units, when an external conductive object touches different positions of the touch electrode unit by way of single-point touch, variation of capacitance formed between the touch electrode unit and the external conductive object differs from one another.

2 . The liquid crystal grating claimed as claim 1 , wherein any two touch electrode units have the same shape or different shapes.

3 . The liquid crystal grating claimed as claim 2 , wherein the shape of the touch electrode units at least includes one or more of the following shapes: a triangle or a trapezoid.

4 . The liquid crystal grating claimed as claim 1 , wherein for any one of the touch electrode units, the strip-shaped electrodes in the touch electrode unit are electrically connected to each other.

5 . The liquid crystal grating claimed as claim 4 , wherein for any one of the touch electrode units, the strip-shaped electrodes in the touch electrode unit are electrically connected to each other through a common electrode corresponding to the touch electrode unit.

6 . The liquid crystal grating claimed as claim 5 , wherein the strip-shaped electrodes, the planar electrode and the common electrode are made from transparent, conductive material.

7 . The liquid crystal grating claimed as claim 6 , wherein the transparent, conductive material is indium tin oxide or Al doped zinc oxide.

8 . The liquid crystal grating claimed as claim 1 , further comprising: a first polarizer, disposed on a side of the first substrate that faces away from the liquid crystal layer.

9 . The liquid crystal grating claimed as claim 8 , further comprising: a second polarizer, disposed on a side of the second substrate that faces away from the liquid crystal layer, wherein directions of transmission axes of the first polarizer and the second polarizer are parallel or perpendicular to each other.

10 . A 3D touch display device, comprising: a display; and a liquid crystal grating, disposed on a light exiting side of the display, wherein the liquid crystal grating is the liquid crystal grating as claimed in claim 1 .

11 . The 3D touch display device claimed as claim 10 , wherein the second substrate of the liquid crystal grating is attached to the display.

12 . The 3D touch display device claimed as claim 11 , wherein the second substrate of the liquid crystal grating serves as an upper substrate of the display.

13 . A driving method of the liquid crystal grating as claimed in claim 1 , comprising:
when the liquid crystal grating is in an operating state, a planar electrode in the liquid crystal grating is grounded, and driving strip-shaped electrodes in the liquid crystal grating by way of time-division driving.

14 . The driving method claimed as claim 13 , wherein the driving strip-shaped electrodes in the liquid crystal grating by way of time-division driving comprises:
when the liquid crystal grating is in a 3D operating state, within a first time of any two adjacent drive cycles, nonzero constant voltages with the same amplitude and opposite polarities are applied to the strip-shaped electrodes of the liquid crystal grating, respectively; and within a second time of each drive cycle, a constant voltage having a nonzero amplitude is applied to the strip-shaped electrodes of the liquid crystal grating; when the liquid crystal grating is in a 2D operating state, within the first time of each drive cycle, a constant voltage having a zero amplitude is applied to the strip-shaped electrodes of the liquid crystal grating, and within the second time of each drive cycle, a constant voltage having a nonzero amplitude is applied to the strip-shaped electrodes of the liquid crystal grating.

15 . The driving method claimed as claim 14 , wherein the drive cycle is 16.67 ms, the first time is 12 ms, and the second time is 4.67 ms.

Assignees

• Beijing Boe Optoelectronics
• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yang Shengji

Classifications

• G06F3/0412

  Digitisers structurally integrated in a display · CPC title

• G02F1/13338 Primary

  Input devices, e.g. touch panels · CPC title

• G02F1/13439

  characterised by their electrical, optical, physical properties; materials therefor; method of making · CPC title

• G02F1/134309

  characterised by their geometrical arrangement · CPC title

• G02B30/24

  involving temporal multiplexing, e.g. using sequentially activated left and right shutters · CPC title