IP Library Granted Patent US 8,487,903
Granted Patent B2
US 8,487,903 · App. 12/719,084 · Granted Jul 16, 2013

Display device

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 8,487,903
App. No.
12/719,084
Filed
Mar 8, 2010
Granted
Jul 16, 2013
Kind
B2
Examiner
SADIO, INSA
Art Unit
2692
USPC
345/174
Abstract

A display device incorporating a touch panel that can be made thinner than a conventional one and requires no countermeasure against misalignment in overlapping is provided by incorporating a touch panel. The display device incorporating a touch panel includes a display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate. The second substrate has a conductive light shielding film formed in a grid pattern on a surface on the opposite side from an observer. The conductive light shielding film is used as a touch panel electrode of electrostatic capacitive coupling system. The conductive light shielding film has a shape with four corners. The corners of the conductive light shielding film are connected to a touch position detection circuit. The display panel has four conductive members. The first substrate has four connecting portions each connected to each of the corners of the conductive light shielding film via each of the conductive members, four terminals connected to the touch position detection circuit, and wires each connecting each of the connecting portions with each of the terminals. The conductive member is a conductive bead.

Claims (30)

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate, the second substrate having a conductive light shielding film formed in a grid pattern;

a pulse-voltage-for-position-detection generating circuit that inputs a pulse voltage for position detection; and

a coordinate position computing circuit that computes a touch position on the conductive light shielding film, wherein

the conductive light shielding film is used as a touch panel electrode of electrostatic capacitive coupling system,

the conductive light shielding film has a shape with four corners,

the pulse-voltage-for-position-detection generating circuit supplies the pulse voltage for position detection to each of the four corners of the conductive light shielding film at different timings, and

the coordinate position computing circuit computes a touch position on the conductive light shielding film based on a voltage output from, when the pulse voltage for position detection is supplied to one of the four corners of the conductive light shielding film, another corner on the same diagonal line as the corner to which the pulse voltage is supplied.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the pulse voltage for position detection includes a first pulse voltage changing from a first voltage level to a second voltage level and a second pulse voltage changing from the second voltage level to the first voltage level.

3. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the coordinate position computing circuit has an integrator circuit, and

the integrator circuit integrates a current in a first period and discharges a current in a second period.

4. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the coordinate position computing circuit has a first integrator circuit that integrates a current in a first period and discharges a current in a second period and a second integrator circuit that integrates a current in a third period and discharges a current in a fourth period.

5. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the pulse-voltage-for-position-detection generating circuit supplies the pulse voltage for position detection more than once to each of the corners, and

the coordinate position computing circuit outputs a voltage that is obtained by adding voltages obtained by supplying the pulse voltage for position detection more than once.

6. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein

the coordinate position computing circuit has an integrator circuit and an A/D conversion circuit connected at the later stage of the integrator circuit.

7. A display device comprising:

a display panel having a first substrate and a second substrate, the second substrate having a conductive light shielding film formed in a grid pattern;

a pulse-voltage-for-position-detection generating circuit that inputs a pulse voltage for position detection; and

a coordinate position computing circuit that computes a touch position on the conductive light shielding film, wherein

the conductive light shielding film is used as a touch panel electrode of electrostatic capacitive coupling system,

the conductive light shielding film has a shape with four corners,

the pulse-voltage-for-position-detection generating circuit supplies the pulse voltage to the four corners of the conductive light shielding film, and

the coordinate position computing circuit computes a touch position on the conductive light shielding film based on a voltage output from, when the pulse voltage for position detection is supplied to a first corner of the conductive light shielding film, a second corner positioned on a diagonal line with respect to the first corner and on a voltage output from, when the pulse voltage for position detection is supplied to a third corner of the conductive light shielding film, a fourth corner positioned on a diagonal line with respect to the third corner.

8. The display device according to claim 7 , wherein

the coordinate position computing circuit computes a touch position based on a first time difference between a first time in which the voltage output from the second corner when the pulse voltage for position detection is supplied to the first corner becomes a predetermined voltage and a second time in which the voltage output from the first corner when the pulse voltage for position detection is supplied to the second corner becomes a predetermined voltage and on a second time difference between a third time in which the voltage output from the fourth corner when the pulse voltage for position detection is supplied to the third corner of the conductive light shielding film becomes a predetermined voltage and a fourth time in which the voltage output from the third corner when the pulse voltage for position detection is supplied to the fourth corner becomes a predetermined voltage.

Assignments (4)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 27, 2024
From: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA; JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
To: PANELTOUCH TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Reel/Frame 067245/0560 →
NUNC PRO TUNC ASSIGNMENT Recorded Nov 17, 2023
From: PANASONIC LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY CO., LTD.
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA
Reel/Frame 065615/0327 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 13, 2023
From: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST INC.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 063327/0210 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Apr 11, 2023
From: HITACHI DISPLAYS, LTD.
To: JAPAN DISPLAY EAST INC.
Reel/Frame 063297/0222 →