Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Industry-university Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University

Yoonkyung Choi

Bumsoo Kim

Jinchul Lee

Yunrae Jo

Chadong Kim

Junchul Park

Jongmin Baek

Choonghoon Lee

Jinbong Kim

Gyeonggon Lee

Changju Lee

San-ho Byun

Sanho Byun

Hyunkyu Ouh

Michael Choi

Kyunghoon Lee

Seongwook Song

Junho Huh

Sungyong Cho

Chang-Ju Lee

Ki-Duk Kim

Minchul Lee

Kyeonggon Lee

Hojin Park

Ohkyong Kwon

Kiup Kim

Sanghyub Kang

Jaeho Park

Yeolmin Seong

Jaehyung Jung

Ji-Sung Jung

A sensing device includes a touch panel including first and second sensor electrodes, and a touch panel controller acquiring a sensing signal from the touch panel and detecting a user input based on the sensing signal. The touch panel controller acquires the sensing signal from at least one of the first sensor electrodes and the second sensor electrodes in a first mode operating at a first power. The touch panel controller selects a first transmitting electrode, a second transmitting electrode, and receiving electrodes from one of the first sensor electrodes and the second sensor electrodes, inputs a first driving signal to the first transmitting electrode, and inputs a second driving signal having a phase difference of 180 degrees with respect to the first driving signal to the second transmitting electrode in a second mode operating at a second power and a third mode in which a sensing operation is performed.

Touch panel controller including a sensing circuit configured to drive a touch panel

A touch sensor of multi-driving scheme includes a touch panel including input lines and output lines, the touch panel causes a change in mutual capacitance in response to touch. Processing circuitry generates transmission signals to the input lines as a result of an encoding operation on a first matrix having an inverse matrix, each of the transmission signals has a first polarity or a second polarity opposite in phase to the first polarity; outputs the transmission signals in an unbalanced period when the sum of phases of the transmission signals is greater than 0; receives receiving signals through the output lines; and decodes the receiving signals based on the first matrix, the receiving signals generated by the change in the mutual capacitance in response to the touch.

Touch sensor and touch sensing method

An apparatus for sensing a touch includes: a sensor array including a plurality of sensor groups, each of the plurality of sensor groups including sensors adjacent to each other; a first switch circuit configured to connect each of the plurality of sensor groups to a first channel or a second channel according to a first control signal; and a second switch circuit configured to select one of the first channel and the second channel according to a second control signal, wherein the first channel includes first signal lines connected to respective sensors included in a first sensor group of the plurality of sensor groups by the first switch circuit, and the second channel includes a second signal line commonly connected to the sensors included in the first sensor group by the first switch circuit.

Apparatus and method for sensing touch based on multi-channel

Sensing device including a first electrode receiving a first driving signal and a second electrode receiving a second driving signal

A touch display system includes: a display driver integrated circuit (IC) configured to drive a display panel; a touch screen controller configured to drive a touch screen panel; a driving voltage generator configured to provide driving voltages to the display panel, the display driver IC, and the touch screen controller; and a ground modulation device configured to receive a driving signal, which is used to drive the touch screen panel and periodically swings between a first reference voltage level and a second reference voltage level, from the touch screen controller, configured to generate a modulated ground voltage, which periodically swings between the first reference voltage level and the second reference voltage level, based on the driving signal, and configured to provide the modulated ground voltage to the display panel, the display driver IC, and the touch screen controller

Touch display system performing ground modulation

An electronic device includes a touch panel that includes a plurality of row touch lines and a plurality of column touch lines, a touch driver that controls the plurality of row touch lines and the plurality of column touch lines to obtain secondary biometrics including touch profile information, first indicator information, and second indicator information associated with a fingerprint of a user being in contact with the touch panel, in a fingerprint sensing mode of the electronic device, a fingerprint sensor that obtains fingerprint information about the fingerprint of the user, in the fingerprint sensing mode of the electronic device, an authentication module that performs a fingerprint matching operation and an anti-spoofing operation based on the fingerprint information and the secondary biometrics to output an authentication result, and an application processor that performs a security operation based on the authentication result.

Electronic device performing fingerprint authentication and operation method thereof

A touch display controller, panel and system may include a select circuit having a first selectable input terminal connected to touch sensors, a second selectable input terminal connected to display pixels, and an output terminal; an analog front-end circuit coupled to the output terminal of the select circuit to receive a raw analog signal, and having a shared processing path for analog signals from both the touch sensors and the display pixels; and a control circuit configured to control the an analog front-end circuit based on which type of element among the touch sensors or the display pixels is connected to the analog front-end circuit.

Touch display controller and touch display system including the same

A display chipset structure that is based on an integrated display controller is provided. The display controller includes including a display processor comprising a first digital circuit, and configured to receive image data from an application processor (AP) and output the image data to a first component driver chip configured to drive a gate line and a source line of a display panel; and a touch processor comprising a second digital circuit, and configured to receive touch data from a second component driver chip configured to drive sensing electrodes of a touch panel. The display controller is implemented as one semiconductor chip and separated from each of the first and second component driver chips, and the display processor and the touch processor communicate with each other through an internal interconnection of the one semiconductor chip.

Display controller, display system including the display controller, and method of operating the display controller

Touch panel controller having reduced noise and power consumption and sensing device including the same

Embodiments relate to a gate driving integrated circuit and an operating method thereof operating in a time-division method divided into a display period and a touch period. The gate driving integrated circuit includes a charging circuit, a gate control circuit, and a discharging circuit. The charging circuit charges a memory element. The discharging circuit discharges the memory element. The gate control circuit outputs a gate-on voltage to a gate line based on the charged memory element in during display period. The gate control circuit electrically disconnects the memory element from the gate control circuit during the touch period.

Gate driving integrated circuit for a touch display and operating method thereof

An operating method of a touch driving integrated circuit (TDI) sensing a user touch on a touch panel includes: transmitting a first touch signal through a transmission line connected with the touch panel; receiving a first sensing signal through a reception line connected to the touch panel; receiving a first display noise through a detection line connected to the touch panel; and offsetting a noise included in the first sensing signal by using the first display noise.

Touch display device including touch driving integrated circuit for noise detection and compensation and operating method of touch driving integrated circuit

A touch analog front-end (AFE) for a touch sensitive screen may include a transmitter configured to charge a touch panel and a receiver configured to sense the touch panel. The receiver may include a charge-to-voltage (C2V) converter configured to convert a change of capacitance received from the touch panel into a voltage signal, a correlated double sampling (CDS) block configured to convert the voltage signal into a differential signal and to sample each of the positive and the negative signals of the differential signal, and an integrator configured to accumulate a difference between the sampled positive and negative signals.

Touch analog front end and touch sensor controller having the same

A touch display device configured to drive a signal line in a first plurality of steps during a line-sensing period and adjust an offset capacitance in a second plurality of steps corresponding to the first plurality of steps.

Touch display device for controlling offset capacitance calibration

A touch sensing device including digital filter is provided. The touch sensing device includes a touch panel and a touch sensor configured to sensing a touch through the touch panel. The touch sensor includes a plurality of sensing units connected to the touch panel through a plurality of sensing lines. Each of the plurality of sensing units includes a digital filter configured to generate a valid filtered value at a time and invalid filtered value at other times by performing an operation on a plurality of input digital samples and a plurality of filter coefficients.

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Yoonkyung Choi