Display device with touch sensor, potential control method and program
View Patent ↗A display device with a touch sensor includes: plural display pixel electrodes; a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes; a display function layer having an image display function; a display control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal; and a touch detection electrode provided opposite to the common electrode and forming capacitance between the touch detection electrode and the common electrode, wherein a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the display control circuit is used as a drive signal for the touch sensor, and a gate potential of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes is increased during a period when the drive signal for the touch sensor is applied.
1. A display device with a touch sensor comprising:
a plurality of display pixel electrodes;
a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes;
a display function layer having an image display function; and
a control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal,
wherein a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the control circuit is used as a drive signal for the touch sensor,
wherein a signal supplied to gates of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes is one of a pulse wave signal and a signal in which different three potentials are switched at given timings, and
the three potentials includes a first potential during the TFT circuits being off, a second potential for turning on the TFT circuits, and a third potential at the time of supplying the drive signal for the touch sensor.
2. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 1 , wherein
a potential of the signal supplied to gates of the TFT circuits in a vertical blanking period and in a horizontal blanking period is the third potential, and
the third potential is higher than the first potential.
3. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 1 ,
wherein the signal supplied to gates of the TFT circuits is the pulse wave signal synchronized with the drive signal for the touch sensor, in which the first potential and the third potential are repeated.
4. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 1 , wherein the signal supplied to gates of the TFT circuits is a signal in which different three potentials are switched at given timings when writing in a positive polarity display voltage is performed, and is a signal in which two potentials of the different three potentials are switched at given timings when writing in a negative polarity display voltage is performed.
5. A potential control method of a display device with a touch sensor including
a plurality of display pixel electrodes,
a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes,
a display function layer having an image display function, and
a control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal,
the method comprising:
using a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the control circuit as a drive signal for the touch sensor;
allowing a signal supplied to gates of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes to be one of a pulse wave signal and a signal in which different three potentials are switched at given timings, and
wherein the three potentials includes a first potential during the TFT circuits being off, a second potential for turning on the TFT circuits, and a third potential at the time of supplying the drive signal for the touch sensor.
6. A display device with a touch sensor comprising:
a plurality of display pixel electrodes;
a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes;
a display function layer having an image display function; and
a control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal,
wherein the control unit supplies to the common electrode with a drive voltage for display in a display period, and supplies to the common electrode with a drive voltage for touch detection in a touch detection period,
the drive voltage for touch detection is a pulse wave pattern, and
a gate potential of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes is increased during the touch detection period.
7. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 6 ,
wherein the signal supplied to gates of the TFT circuits is a pulse wave signal,
a gate potential becomes in the high state in synchronized with the drive voltage for the touch sensor during the touch detection period.
8. The display device with the touch sensor according to claim 6 ,
wherein the gate potential becomes in a high state when writing in a positive polarity display voltage is performed.
9. A potential control method of a display device with a touch sensor including
a plurality of display pixel electrodes,
a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes,
a display function layer having an image display function, and
a control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal,
the method comprising:
using a drive voltage for display applied to the common electrode by the control circuit in a display period,
using the drive voltage applied to the common electrode as a drive signal for touch detection in a touch detection period, and
increasing a gate potential of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes during the touch detection period when the drive voltage in a pulse wave for touch detection is applied.
10. A display device with a touch sensor comprising:
a plurality of display pixel electrodes;
a common electrode arranged opposite to the display pixel electrodes;
a display function layer having an image display function; and
a control circuit performing image display control so as to fulfill the display function of the display function layer by applying a voltage for display between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode based on an image signal,
wherein the control unit applies to the common electrode with a drive voltage for display in a display period, and supplies to the common electrode with a drive signal for touch detection in a touch detection period,
the drive signal for the touch detection is a pulse wave pattern, and
a gate potential of TFT circuits included in the display pixel electrodes is shifted to a high level and a low level that synchronized with the drive signal for touch sensor in the touch detection period.