IP Library Granted Patent US 8,446,390
Granted Patent B2
US 8,446,390 · App. 12/423,395 · Granted May 21, 2013

Electro-optical device and electronic apparatus

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Patent No.
US 8,446,390
App. No.
12/423,395
Granted
May 21, 2013
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electro-optical device includes a plurality of pixel portions formed in a display region on a substrate, a first light-receiving element which is formed in the display region and shows light-receiving sensitivity with respect to an incident visible ray which enters a display surface, a second light-receiving element which is formed in the display region and shows light-receiving sensitivity with respect to an incident infrared ray which enters the display surface, and a detecting unit which detects a pointing unit which points the display surface on the basis of the light-receiving sensitivity with respect to the incident visible ray and the light-receiving sensitivity with respect to the incident infrared ray.

Claims (23)

1. An electro-optical device comprising:

a plurality of pixel portions formed in a display region on a substrate; and

a plurality of photodetecting circuits corresponding to the pixel portions, each photodetecting circuit including

an optical sensor portion including

a first light-receiving element which is formed in the display region and shows light-receiving sensitivity with respect to an incident visible ray which enters a display surface,

a second light-receiving element which is formed in the display region and shows light-receiving sensitivity with respect to an incident infrared ray which enters the display surface, and

a detecting unit which detects a pointing unit which points the display surface on the basis of a sum of the light-receiving sensitivity with respect to the incident visible ray and the light-receiving sensitivity with respect to the incident infrared ray, and

a light quantity adjustment portion configured to adjust, for each respective pixel portion, the amount of incident visible rays which enter the display surface and are received by the respective first light-receiving element, and

wherein the first and second light-receiving elements are electrically connected in parallel to each other such that a cathode terminal of the first light-receiving element is directly connected to a cathode terminal of the second light-receiving element, and an anode terminal of the first light-receiving element is directly connected to an anode terminal of the second light-receiving element.

2. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein the pixel portion has a pixel switching element which includes a first semiconductor layer formed in a first layer on the substrate, wherein the first light-receiving element has a first light-receiving layer which constitutes a portion of a second semiconductor layer formed in the first layer, wherein the second light-receiving element has a second light-receiving layer formed in a second layer which is different from the first layer, and wherein the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are formed through a common process.

3. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , further comprising a visible ray filter which is formed at a display surface side when the electro-optical device is viewed from the second light-receiving element, overlaps the second light-receiving element, blocks the visible ray which travels from a substrate toward the display surface, and allows the incident infrared ray to pass therethrough.

4. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , further comprising a light source unit which is placed on the opposite side of the display surface when the electro-optical device is viewed from a substrate and radiates light source rays including a plurality of different colored rays and an infrared ray toward the display region, wherein the pixel portion has a plurality of sub-pixel portions having a plurality of color filters, respectively, which can allow the plurality of colored rays to pass therethrough, wherein the plurality of sub-pixels portions has light modulation elements, respectively, which modulate the plurality of colored rays, and wherein at least one color filter of the plurality of color filters allows the infrared ray to pass therethrough.

5. The electro-optical device according to claim 4 , wherein the light source unit is a fluorescence device which converts an ultraviolet (UV) ray to the light source ray using a fluorescent material.

6. The electro-optical device according to claim 4 , wherein the light source unit is a light-emitting device including a light-emitting element which radiates the light source rays according to input current.

7. The electro-optical device according to claim 6 , wherein the light-emitting element is an organic electroluminescent (EL) element.

8. The electro-optical device according to claim 6 , wherein the light-emitting element is a semiconductor light-emitting element.

9. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein the pixel portion includes a plurality of sub-pixel portions which radiates a plurality of different colored rays, respectively and wherein at least one sub-pixel portion of the plurality of sub-pixel portions has a light-emitting element which radiates an infrared ray toward the display surface along with one of the plurality of colored rays.

10. An electronic apparatus comprising the electro-optical device according to claim 1 .

11. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein the parallel connection of first and second light-receiving elements is connected between first and second power source lines.

12. The electro-optical device according to claim 11 , wherein a storage capacitor is connected between the first power source line and the parallel connection of first and second light-receiving elements.

13. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein a sum of output currents from the first and second light-receiving elements is converted to a voltage that is read out to a read signal line.

14. The electro-optical device according to claim 13 , wherein the voltage is read out to the read signal line according to an operation of a reset TFT, a voltage amplifying TFT, and an output control TFT.

15. The electro-optical device according to claim 1 , wherein the light quantity adjustment portion includes a liquid crystal element, an adjustment control TFT, and a storage capacitor.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 9, 2013
From: SONY CORPORATION
To: JAPAN DISPLAY WEST INC.
Reel/Frame 030182/0522 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Feb 28, 2011
From: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
To: SONY CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 025872/0184 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 14, 2009
From: HATTORI, YASUNORI
To: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 022528/0878 →