Touch sensor and method to sense touch of user having touch electrodes

Abstract

A touch sensor includes first touch electrodes, second touch electrodes that form mutual capacitances with the first touch electrodes, and a controller that generates touch data by applying a scan signal to each of scan lines connected to the first touch electrodes during substantially a same time and that receives sensing signals from the second touch electrodes through sensing lines. The controller applies a plurality of multiple pulses and a target pulse as the scan signal to each of the scan lines in a plurality of time periods. Each of the plurality of multiple pulses includes a first pulse and a second pulse of phases opposite to each other. Multiple pulses applied to scan lines adjacent to each other among the scan lines have phases opposite to each other.