Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Hideo Yoshimura

Jin-Woo Park

Hee-Chul Hwang

Sang-Uk Kim

Sang-Jin Pak

Mu-Kyung Jeon

Joo-Hyung Lee

Ji-Gong Lee

Sang-Kwon Ha

Cheol-Min Kim

Young Soo Hwang

Jin-Hee Lee

Sang Jin Pak

Hoe Seok Na

A Ram Song

Yong Jin Jee

Ji Gong Lee

Sang Kwon Ha

My-Kyung Jeon

A display device includes pixels connected to scan lines, control lines, data lines, and sensing lines; a scan driver configured to supply a scan signal to the scan lines and supply a control signal to the control lines; a data driver configured to supply one of an image data signal and a sensing data signal to the data lines; a sensing circuit configured to sense the characteristics based on a sensing current supplied through the sensing lines during the sensing period; and a power supply configured to supply a voltage of first power to the pixels. The sensing period includes a first sensing period during which a first sensing current is extracted based on a first sensing data signal corresponding to a first grayscale, and a second sensing period during which a second sensing current is extracted based on a second sensing data signal corresponding to a second grayscale, and the voltage of the first power supplied during the first sensing period is different from the voltage of the first power supplied during the second sensing period.

Display device and driving method therefor

A method of driving a display device, includes: supplying a first sensing data signal corresponding to a first grayscale, first power having a first sensing voltage, and a reference voltage to a pixel during a first sensing period; sensing a first sensing current, generated based on the first sensing voltage, from the pixel during the first sensing period; supplying a second sensing data signal corresponding to a second grayscale and different from the first sensing data signal, the first power having a second sensing voltage, and the reference voltage to the pixel during a second sensing period; sensing a second sensing current, generated based on the second sensing voltage different from the first sensing voltage, from the pixel during the second sensing period; and calculating characteristics of a driving transistor of the pixel using the first sensing current and the second sensing current.

A touch sensor includes a plurality of driving electrodes, a plurality of sensing electrodes that intersect the plurality of driving electrodes, a driver configured to substantially simultaneously supply driving signals to at least some of the plurality of driving electrodes, a sensing unit configured to detect sensing signals from the plurality of sensing electrodes, and a touch controller configured to control the driver so that the number of driving electrodes to which the driving signals are supplied in a first driving period is different from the number of driving electrodes to which the driving signals are supplied in a second driving period.

Touch sensor and a display device including the same

A liquid crystal display integrated with a touch sensor includes a first substrate including pixels connected to gate wires and data wires, a second substrate positioned to face the first substrate, a plurality of common electrodes corresponding to the pixels, a plurality of sensing electrodes on the second substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, a gate drive unit driven corresponding to a gate control signal and configured to supply a gate signal to the pixels through the gate wires, a common electrode drive unit configured to supply a touch driving signal to the common electrodes during a touch driving period, and a control unit configured to supply a gate control signal synchronized with the touch driving signal to the gate drive unit.

Liquid crystal display with integrated touch sensor

A capacitive touch panel sensor includes a plurality of driving-lines in a first direction, a plurality of sensing-lines in a second direction, a scan signal generator configured to generate a scan signal corresponding to at least one scan pulse, and to output the scan signal to the driving-lines, and a capacitance detector configured to receive a capacitance sensing signal output from the sensing-lines, and to detect a touched location based on the capacitance sensing signal, wherein the scan signal generator is configured to output the scan signal during first noise avoidance time periods, each first noise avoidance time period being in a respective horizontal time period of a display driving operation, and wherein the capacitance detector is configured to receive the capacitance sensing signal during the first noise avoidance time periods.

Capacitive touch panel sensor synchronized with display driving operation and touch panel display device having the same

A display device includes a driver connected to a display panel and transmitting scan signals or data signals to the display panel, a frame memory connected to the driver, storing image data and transmitting at least some of the image data to the driver, and a controller connected to the driver and the frame memory, generating a control signal and transmitting the control signal to the driver or the frame memory, wherein each of the sub-fields includes an address period in which the scan signals are transmitted to the respective pixel rows, the controller transmits the control signal to the driver to transmit the scan signals to the pixel rows during a current frame such that the scan signals corresponding to the current frame are transmitted after, among the image data corresponding to the current frame, the image data corresponding to the pixel rows are stored in the frame memory.

Display device and driving method thereof

A liquid crystal display device having a built in touch screen including a first substrate having pixel units comprising: a plurality of pixels displaying an image and sensor regions having light sensors formed adjacent to the corresponding pixel units to sense a position of a contacted object; a second substrate disposed on the first substrate, comprising: color filters formed on regions corresponding to the pixel units and first black matrices formed on regions corresponding to the sensor regions of the pixel units; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; and a backlight assembly disposed on a bottom portion of the first substrate and providing light to the first substrate and the second substrate. The liquid crystal display device with the built in touch screen determines a point of contact on the touch screen.

Liquid crystal display device with a built in touch screen with light sensor

A liquid crystal display (LCD) with an integrated touch screen panel includes a plurality of pixels connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, the gate lines being divided into a plurality of groups, a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of common electrodes divided into a plurality of groups, a common electrode driver configured to simultaneously supply a driving signal to common electrodes within each group of the plurality of groups of the common electrodes, and to sequentially supply the driving signal to the plurality of groups of the common electrodes, and a gate driver configured to sequentially supply a gate signal to gate lines within each of the plurality of group of the gate lines.

Liquid crystal display with integrated touch screen panel and driving method thereof

A liquid crystal display (LCD) with a built-in touch screen includes: a first substrate including a sensor area having a plurality of photosensors; a second substrate positioned over the first substrate, and including a color filter, a light receiving portion, and a transparent electrode layer and a front polarizing plate; an LCD panel including a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates; a touch screen driver circuit to measure a capacitance variation sensed through a first sensing line connected to the transparent electrode layer and to calculate a touch area using optical information sensed through a second sensing line connected to the photosensors when a contact object is in contact with the LCD panel, and to output position information of the contact object, sensed by determining whether a touch occurs and whether a multi-touch occurs using the capacitance variation and the touch area.

Liquid crystal display having a built-in touch screen using capacitance and sense lines for detecting a touch position

A liquid crystal display (LCD) with a built-in touch screen includes: a first substrate including a pixel area having a plurality of pixels and a sensor area having a plurality of photosensors; a second substrate positioned over the first substrate, and including a color filter, a light receiving portion, a transparent electrode layer, and a front polarizing plate; an LCD panel including a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates; and a touch screen driver circuit to sense a capacitance variation provided through a first sensing line connected to the transparent electrode layer when an object is in contact with the LCD panel, and to output position information of the object, sensed by using optical information sensed through a second sensing line connected the plurality of photosensors when the capacitance variation is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.

Liquid crystal display having a built-in touch screen using capacitance and optical information for detecting a touch position

An LCD with an integrated touch screen panel includes a first substrate having a plurality of pixels formed thereon, wherein each pixel of the plurality of pixels is provided with a thin film transistor and a pixel electrode. A second substrate faces the first substrate and has a plurality of common electrodes formed inside thereof. The plurality of common electrodes is arranged in a first direction to correspond to the plurality of pixels. A plurality of sensing electrodes is outside of the second substrate and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A liquid crystal layer is between the first and the second substrates. A common electrode driver sequentially supplies a driving signal to the common electrodes and supplies a compensation signal having a phase opposite to the driving signal to the common electrodes.

Liquid crystal display with integrated touch screen panel

A touch screen panel includes a display unit including a timing controller for receiving a vertical synchronizing signal and a horizontal synchronizing signal to display an image, a touch sensing unit including driving electrodes, a control signal generator for generating a control signal from the vertical synchronizing signal and the horizontal synchronizing signal, and a touch controller for supplying a driving signal to the touch sensing unit in response to the control signal from the control signal generator.

Touch screen panel

A flat panel display (FPD) with a photo sensor type built-in touch screen capable of performing a scan operation. The FPD with the built-in touch screen includes a plurality of unit pixels disposed in a display region of the FPD and arranged in pixel groups and photo sensors adjacent to the unit pixels of the respective pixel groups. In a scan operation mode, the plurality of unit pixels in each of the pixel groups sequentially emit light to perform a scan operation using the light emitted from the unit pixels and reflected by a scan object to be scanned to be incident on the photo sensors.

Flat panel display with built-in touch screen and a method of driving the same

A sensor scan driver may include a shift register unit for driving photodiodes, a transmission gate unit for changing a voltage range of sensor scan signals generated by the shift register unit, and a buffer unit for supplying the sensor scan signals supplied from the transmission gate unit to the photodiodes, wherein the transmission gate unit includes first and second transmission gates, each including an electrode adapted to receive an output signal of the shift register unit, another electrode adapted to receive the inverted output signal of the shift register unit, an input terminal coupled to first and second power sources, respectively, and an output terminal coupled to an output terminal of the transmission gate unit.

Sensor scan drivers, flat panel displays with built-in touch screen including such a sensor scan driver, and methods of driving such flat panel displays

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Yongin, South Korea

Hideo Yoshimura