Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Yoon-Kyung Choi

Bumsoo Kim

Jin-Bong Kim

Young-Joo Lee

Jinchul Lee

Yunrae Jo

Junchul Park

Min-Sung Kim

Hyunwook Lim

Bum-Soo Kim

Choonghoon Lee

Woohyuk Jang

Hwi-Taek Chung

Sungyong Cho

San-ho Byun

Chang-Ju Lee

Taekon Yu

Jong-Oh Lee

Se-won Seo

Heon Jekal

Steve J Kim

Wongab Jung

Jonghee Na

Byunghwee Park

Gwangho Nam

Kyeong-Gon Lee

Eung-Man Kim

Cha-Dong Kim

Junho Huh

Seong-il Park

Changju Lee

Yongil Kwon

Do-Kyung Kim

Min-gyu Kim

Sanho Byun

Sun-Kwon Kim

Jinbong Kim

Chadong Kim

Jin-chul Lee

Hyunkyu Ouh

Sang-Uk Woo

Sang-Hyub Kang

Se-woong Ahn

Jun-chul Park

A touch sensor controller for driving a touch sensor that is stacked on a display panel and includes driving electrodes and receiving electrodes crossing the driving electrodes, the touch sensor controller including: a driving circuit configured to sequentially provide driving signals to the driving electrodes; a read-out circuit configured to, in response to the driving signals, generate touch data based on first sensing signals received from the receiving electrodes and generate display noise data based on a second sensing signal received from a first driving electrode to which a driving signal of the driving signals is not applied from among the driving electrodes; and a touch processor configured to determine whether a touch input has occurred on the touch sensor based on the touch data and the display noise data.

Touch sensor controller, operating method of touch sensor controller, and touch screen driving circuit

A touch sensing device may include a touch sensor array including at least one beacon driving section and at least one compensation section, the at least one beacon driving section including a plurality of first touch electrodes, and the at least one compensation section including a plurality of second touch electrodes; and a touch controller connected to the touch sensor array through at least one first driving channel and at least one second driving channel, the touch controller is configured to, during a first uplink period for communication with an active pen, provide at least one beacon signal to the at least one first driving channel, and provide at least one compensation signal to the at least one second driving channel, the at least one compensation signal being an inverse of the at least one beacon signal.

Touch controller, touch sensing device including the touch controller, operating method of touch controller

A touch screen driving circuit for driving a touch screen which includes a display layer and a touch sensor layer on the display layer is provided. The touch screen driving circuit includes: a touch controller configured to provide a plurality of drive signals respectively to a plurality of first electrodes of the touch sensor layer, in a driving period, wherein the plurality of drive signals are phase synchronized during a first sub-period of the driving period; and a display driving circuit configured to provide a compensation signal to at least some of a plurality of source lines of the display layer in the first sub-period of the driving period, wherein the plurality of compensation signals are phase synchronized opposite to the plurality of drive signals in the first sub-period.

Touch controller, touch screen driving circuit comprising the same, and method of operating touch screen driving circuit

A backlight device includes LED elements divided into dimming groups; a panel driver configured to output a reference current for driving the LED elements; and pixel circuits, each of which is connected to the panel driver through a common line and is respectively configured to drive first LED elements comprised in a corresponding dimming group. Each of the pixel circuits is configured to: in a first period of a frame period, obtain a reference voltage based on the reference current and store the reference voltage, in a second period of the frame period, obtain luminance data of an image displayed by the corresponding dimming group, and in a third period of the frame period, drive the first LED elements during a light emitting time corresponding to the luminance data obtained in the second period using the reference voltage stored in the first period.

Backlight driver, backlight device including the same, and operating method of the backlight device

A touch controller includes a controller receiving a display timing signal and generating a touch sensing control signal synchronously with the display timing signal. The touch controller also includes a sensing circuit driving a touch sensing array in response to the touch sensing control signal in order to generate touch data corresponding to sensing signals provided by the touch sensing array. The sensing circuit provides a first driving signal having a first polarity to at least one driving channel of the touch sensing array during a first display frame period, and provides a second driving signal having a second polarity different from the first polarity during a second display frame period.

Touch controller, touch sensing device, and touch sensing method

Provided are a fingerprint controller for driving a fingerprint sensing array in a touchscreen divided by at least a touch sensing region and a fingerprint sensing region, a method of operating the fingerprint controller, and a driver integrated circuit for driving the touchscreen including the fingerprint sensing array. The method includes: receiving a reference timing signal from an external module; generating a fingerprint sensing timing signal for driving the fingerprint sensing array in synchronization with the reference timing signal; and driving the fingerprint sensing array based on the fingerprint sensing timing signal.

Apparatus and method for driving fingerprint sensing array provided in touchscreen, and driver integrated circuit for driving the touchscreen including the fingerprint sensing array

A touch display system includes a display system including a plurality of pixels, a touch system disposed on the display system and comprising a plurality of touch sensor electrodes, and a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) configured to supply power and a modulated ground (GND) voltage to the display system and the touch system.

Touch display system including a power management integrated circuit providing modulated ground voltage to a display system and a touch system

Provided are a touch processor for performing active protection, a touch display driver integrated circuit (DDI) chip including the touch processor, and a method of operating the touch processor. The touch processor for driving a touch panel including a sensing cell includes a driving circuit configured to provide a driving signal to the touch panel, and a capacitance controller. The capacitance controller is configured to generate a switch control signal for controlling a switch connected to a sensing unit included in the sensing cell, and a compensation signal having a different waveform than the driving signal, so as to reduce a value of an ambient capacitance component of the sensing cell.

Touch processor, touch display driver integrated circuit chip including touch processor, and method of operating touch processor

In one embodiment, the touch screen controller includes a sensing circuit configured to generate touch data and force data by processing a single output signal from a touch panel. The touch data indicates whether a touch input is detected, and the force data indicates an amount of force of the touch input.

Touch screen controller, system and method

A touch sensing apparatus includes a plurality of touch sensors provided in a touch panel and a switching unit for transmitting sensing signals per column or row of the touch sensors through a single line to a touch controller.

Touch sensing apparatus, touch sensing method, touch sensing system, and display system using the same

A touch screen controller is provided. The touch screen controller includes: an offset cancellation circuit configured to cancel offset capacitance of a touch screen panel including a first channel and a second channel crossing the first channel, the offset cancellation circuit connected to the touch screen panel through a sensing node; a charge amplifier configured to generate a sensing voltage from a sensing signal output from the touch screen panel, the charge amplifier including an amplifier having a first input terminal connected to the sensing node and a second input terminal to which an input voltage is applied; and a channel driver configured to provide a driving voltage, which is equal to or greater than the input voltage, to the second channel in a self capacitance sensing mode for the first channel.

Touch screen controller, touch sensing device, and touch sensing method

A touch screen panel is provided. The touch screen panel includes: a sensing area comprising a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a matrix form in first and second directions of a substrate and a plurality of second electrodes extending in the first direction, the plurality of second electrodes being arranged alternately with the plurality of first electrodes in the second direction; a channel wiring area including a plurality of channel wires configured to transmit signals of the plurality of first electrodes and signals of the plurality of second electrodes, the channel wiring area being disposed around the sensing area; and an electrode wiring area comprising a plurality of electrode wires connecting the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes to the plurality of channel wires, the electrode wiring area being in the sensing area, wherein at least two electrodes, from among the first electrodes, that are disposed in a same column are connected to different channel wires.

Touch screen panel, touch sensing controller, and touch sensing system including the same

Provided are a semiconductor device and a semiconductor system, which can increase immunity against noises through tertiary correlated double sampling (CDS). The semiconductor device includes an amplifier that receives noise and a driving signal, resets for each predetermined period of the driving signal and samples the noise to generate first sampled noise. The first sampled noise includes multiple noise differences each occurring between consecutive reset points. A sampler performs second sampling and third sampling on the first sampled noise and performs fourth sampling on the second and third sampled noises. The first sampled noise includes first to third noise differences, the second sampled noise is a difference between the first and second noise differences, the third sampled noise is a difference between the second and third noise differences, and the fourth sampled noise is a difference between the second and third sampled noises.

Semiconductor device and semiconductor system for producing noise differences between points of time

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Yoon-Kyung Choi