Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Min-Hong Kim

Taejoon Kim

Jungmok Park

Hyun-Wook Cho

Hyun-wook Cho

Bogeun Yuk

Jaehyun Park

Eungkwan Lee

Junseong Lee

Jinwoo Park

Jaewoo Choi

Sangkook Kim

Jiyeong Lee

Disclosed is an apparatus for inspecting a defect of a display panel. The apparatus for inspecting includes the display panel that displays an image, an input sensor that is disposed on the display panel and senses an input applied from outside, a sensor driving part that drives the input sensor, and an inspection part that is connected with the sensor driving part, sets a frequency of the input sensor to an inspection frequency, and detects the defect of the display panel based on a change in a jitter occurring when the input sensor is driven at the inspection frequency. The inspection frequency includes a harmonic frequency of a driving frequency of the display panel.

Apparatus and method for defect inspection of display panel

An electronic device includes a display panel, an input sensor disposed on the display panel and including a sensing electrode, a first signal line connected to the sensing electrode, and a second signal line connected to the sensing electrode, and a circuit board electrically connected to the input sensor. The circuit board includes a first group signal line electrically connected to the first signal line, a second group signal line electrically connected to the first group signal line and to the second signal line, a first inspection signal line electrically connected to the first group signal line, and a second inspection signal line electrically connected to the second group signal line.

Inspectable electronic device and method of inspecting the same

A circuit board includes a base substrate, and a connection structure disposed on the base substrate, and connected to the base substrate by an accessing part. The connection structure includes a first connection electrode, a second connection electrode disposed in a same layer as the first connection electrode, a third connection electrode connected to the first connection electrode on the first connection electrode, and a fourth connection electrode connected to the second connection electrode on the second connection electrode, and disposed in a same layer as the third connection electrode.

Circuit board and display device including the same

A display device includes a display panel, and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes a detection electrode in an active area of the input sensor, a signal line connected to the detection electrode, a slave chip connected to the signal line and overlapping a non-active area adjacent to the active area, a master chip overlapping the non-active area, and a plurality of connection lines connecting the master chip and the slave chip so that a sensed signal of the detection electrode is delivered to the master chip through the slave chip.

Display device

A display device includes a display panel including pixels, a touch panel including electrodes, a proximity sensor which is adjacent to the touch panel and detects proximity with respect to an object based on a capacitance variation, a display driver which drives the display panel and a touch controller which drives the touch panel and the proximity sensor. Here, the touch controller provides a negative voltage to the proximity sensor when the proximity sensor detects that the object approaches the proximity sensor such that a shortest distance from the object to the proximity sensor is equal to or less than a first reference distance.

Display device including touch panel and method of driving display device including touch panel

An input sensor short-circuit inspection method including: setting an inspection frequency for detecting a short-circuit of an input sensor comprising a plurality of electrodes; driving the input sensor in an inspection mode at the set inspection frequency; and detecting the short-circuit of the input sensor based on a capacitance charged between adjacent electrodes among the plurality of electrodes of the input sensor in the inspection mode.

Input sensor short-circuit inspection module and input sensor short-circuit inspection method using the same

A display device includes a display panel including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, the second surface having a first area and a second area surrounding the first area, a conductive sheet disposed on the second surface of the display panel and including a first conductive line disposed in the first area and extending in a first direction and a conductive layer disposed in the second area, a first circuit board bending from the first surface to the second surface to be connected to a first end of the first conductive line, and a second circuit board spaced apart from the first circuit board in the first direction, the second circuit board bending from the first surface to the second surface to be connected to a second end opposite to the first end of the first conductive line.

A display device includes: a display panel; and an input sensor disposed on the display panel, wherein the input sensor includes: a plurality of sensing electrodes; a plurality of sensing wirings electrically connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes, respectively; and a conductive part covering the plurality of sensing wirings, wherein the conductive part is configured to be floated or to receive a substantially constant voltage, and wherein the conductive part has a single, contiguous shape.

Display device having a blocking part covering sensing wirings

An electronic device includes display driver and a sensor driver. The display driver drives a display layer and provide a grayscale voltage to a data lines. The sensor driver is synchronized with the display driver to drive a sensor layer, and operates in a first sensing mode and a second sensing mode. In the first sensing mode, the sensor driver senses an input through the sensor layer based on a first timing. In the second sensing mode, the sensor driver senses an input through the sensor layer based on a second timing different from the first timing.

Electronic device

Disclosed is a display device including a display panel, an input sensing layer, a display controller that receives a vertical synchronization signal and a horizontal synchronization signal and controls an operation of the display panel depending on the vertical synchronization signal and the horizontal synchronization signal, and a sensing controller that receives the vertical synchronization signal and the horizontal synchronization signal and generates a driving control signal for driving the input sensing layer. One frame of the vertical synchronization signal includes a first vertical section and a second vertical section in which the display controller transmits a data signal to the display panel. The sensing controller determines an operating frequency of the driving control signal based on a horizontal synchronization signal, which is included in a first horizontal section overlapping with the first vertical section, in the horizontal synchronization signal.

Disclosed is a display device including a display panel, an input sensing layer, a display controller that drives the display panel and outputs a synchronization signal including information about an operating frequency of the display panel, and a sensing controller that receives the synchronization signal and determines an operating frequency of the input sensing layer based on the synchronization signal. A driving frame of the display panel includes a first section during which an image is not displayed and a second section during which an image is displayed. During the driving frame, the display controller transmits a data signal for displaying an image to the display panel. The synchronization signal includes a first pulse corresponding to a timing of the first section, and a second pulse corresponding to a timing of the second section.

Display device with synchronized input sensing layer

A circuit board including: a body part including a driving chip; a pad part including a plurality of pads connected to a plurality of lines, wherein the pad part extends in a first direction from the body part; and a line part including a first line of the lines, wherein the first line is electrically connected to the driving chip, the line part extends in the first direction from the body part, and the line part is bendable with respect to a bending line.

Circuit board and a display device having the same

A display device includes: a display panel and an input sensor disposed on the display panel and operable in a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode, wherein the input sensor may include a plurality of sensing electrodes, a plurality of sensing wirings electrically connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes, respectively, and a blocking part covering the plurality of sensing wirings. The blocking part is configured to be floated in the first mode and to receive a substantially constant voltage in the second mode.

An electronic device may include a display panel, and an input sensor, in which a first region, a second region enclosing the first region, and a third region enclosing the second region are defined, on the display panel and including sensing electrodes including a first electrode including a first main electrode and a first subsidiary electrode, and a second electrode adjacent the first electrode, and including a second main electrode and a second subsidiary electrode between the first main electrode and the first subsidiary electrode in the first region.

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Hwaseong-si, South Korea

Min-Hong Kim