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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2011
Tomohiko Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Jin Miyazawa, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiko Nishimura, Osaka, JP;
Jin Miyazawa, Osaka, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a display device with a touch sensor that can avoid the influence of noise originating from the polarity inversion of a common voltage of the display device without using special circuitry. The display device with a touch sensor includes a sensor output readout circuit () that is sequentially connected to multiple sensor electrodes in a touch sensor unit () and outputs signal voltages that correspond to the electrical characteristics of the electrodes, a sensor control circuit () that supplies a control signal to the sensor output readout circuit (), and a coordinate computation circuit () that detects a contact position based on the signal voltages. The sensor control circuit () causes a scan operation, in which the sensor output readout circuit () is sequentially connected to all of the sensor electrodes of the touch sensor unit () and outputs the signal voltages, to start after the common voltage has switched from a first polarity to a second polarity, and to end before the common voltage returns to the first polarity.