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Granted Patent B2
US 10,444,895 · App. 15/619,069 · Granted Oct 15, 2019

Input detection device and electronic device

Inventors: Tadayoshi Katsuta (Tokyo, JP); Hiroshi Mizuhashi (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
G06F3/0416G06F3/03545G06F3/044G06F3/046G06F3/0412G02F1/13338G06F2203/04106G06F2203/04108
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Patent No.
US 10,444,895
App. No.
15/619,069
Granted
Oct 15, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

An input detection device includes a plurality of drive electrodes which are arranged in parallel to each other in plan view, and each of which has a pair of ends. At least one drive electrode among the plurality of drive electrodes is driven such that a first drive state where a first drive voltage is supplied to one end of the drive electrode and a second drive voltage different from the first drive voltage is supplied to the other end of the drive electrode and a second drive state where the second drive voltage is supplied to the one end and the first drive voltage is supplied to the other end temporally alternately occur.

Claims (58)

1. An input detection device comprising:

a plurality of drive electrodes which are arranged in parallel to each other in plan view and each of which includes a pair of ends,

wherein at least one first drive electrode among the plurality of drive electrodes is configured to be driven such that a first drive state and a second drive state temporally alternately occur,

the first drive state is a state where a first drive voltage is supplied to one end of the first drive electrode and a second drive voltage different from the first drive voltage is supplied to the other end of the first drive electrode, and

the second drive state is a state where the second drive voltage, which is different from the first drive voltage, is supplied to the one end of the first drive electrode and the first drive voltage is supplied to the other end of the first drive electrode.

2. The input detection device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the plurality of drive electrodes include a second drive electrode which is arranged in parallel to the first drive electrode,

the second drive electrode is configured to be is brought into the second drive state where the second drive voltage is supplied to one end of the second drive electrode and the first drive voltage is supplied to the other end of the second drive electrode when the first drive electrode is in the first drive state, and

the second drive electrode is configured to be brought into the first drive state where the first drive voltage is supplied to the one end of the second drive electrode and the second drive voltage is supplied to the other end of the second drive electrode when the first drive electrode is in the second drive state.

3. The input detection device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the plurality of drive electrodes include a third drive electrode which is arranged between the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode, and

since each of the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode is temporally alternately brought into the first drive state and the second drive state, a magnetic field generated by the first drive electrode and a magnetic field generated by the second drive electrode overlap in a region where the third drive electrode is arranged.

4. The input detection device according to claim 2 ,

wherein each of the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode is configured to be temporally alternately driven to be in the first drive state and the second drive state, and thus, a direction of a current flowing through each of the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode changes, and a direction of a magnetic field generated at each of the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode changes.

5. The input detection device according to claim 2 , further comprising:

a first unit scanner circuit and a second unit scanner circuit which are arranged in proximity to the one ends of the plurality of drive electrodes;

a first selection drive circuit which is configured to supply the first drive voltage to one end of a drive electrode selected by the first unit scanner circuit and supply the second drive voltage to one end of a drive electrode selected by the second unit scanner circuit;

a third unit scanner circuit and a fourth unit scanner circuit which are arranged in proximity to the other ends of the plurality of drive electrodes; and

a second selection drive circuit which is configured to supply the first drive voltage to the other end of a drive electrode selected by the third unit scanner circuit and supply the second drive voltage to the other end of a drive electrode selected by the fourth unit scanner circuit,

wherein the first unit scanner circuit and the fourth unit scanner circuit is configured to select an identical drive electrode from among the plurality of drive electrodes as the first drive electrode, and

the second unit scanner circuit and the third unit scanner circuit is configured to select an identical drive electrode from among the plurality of drive electrodes as the second drive electrode.

6. The input detection device according to claim 5 ,

wherein each of the first unit scanner circuit, the second unit scanner circuit, the third unit scanner circuit, and the fourth unit scanner circuit includes a shift register which has a plurality of shift stages connected in series,

the shift register is configured to shift selection information indicating selection of a drive electrode according to a shift clock signal,

a position of a shift stage which stores the selection information in the shift register of the first unit scanner circuit is apart from a position of a shift stage which stores the selection information in the shift register of the second unit scanner circuit,

the first selection drive circuit is configured to supply the first drive voltage and the second drive voltage to the drive electrodes corresponding to the positions of the shift stages which store the selection information in the first unit scanner circuit and the second unit scanner circuit,

a position of a shift stage which stores the selection information in the shift register of the third unit scanner circuit is apart from a position of a shift stage which stores the selection information in the shift register of the fourth unit scanner circuit, and

the second selection drive circuit is configured to supply the second drive voltage and the first drive voltage to the drive electrodes corresponding to the positions of the shift stages which store the selection information in the third unit scanner circuit and the forth unit scanner circuit.

7. The input detection device according to claim 6 , further comprising:

a first register which is configured to store information determining a shift quantity by which the positions of the shift stages are apart.

8. The input detection device according to claim 2 ,

wherein the plurality of drive electrodes include a third drive electrode which is arranged between the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode, and

the third drive electrode is configured to be brought into a floating potential when each of the first drive electrode and the second drive electrode is temporally alternately brought into the first drive state and the second drive state.

9. The input detection device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the input detection device includes a magnetic field generation period in which a magnetic field is generated by the first drive electrode, and a magnetic field detection period in which a magnetic field generated by an external object is detected according to the magnetic field generated in the magnetic field generation period, and

the first drive electrode is configured to be driven such that each of the first drive state and the second drive state occurs once or more times in the magnetic field generation period.

10. The input detection device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the input detection device is configured to drive the first drive electrode to be in the second drive state at a timing when a change amount of a current flowing through the first drive electrode becomes less than a predetermined value when the first drive electrode is driven to be in the first drive state.

11. The input detection device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the input detection device is configured to drive the first drive electrode to be in the second drive state at a timing when a current flowing through the first drive electrode becomes steady when the first drive electrode is driven to be in the first drive state.

12. The input detection device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the first drive electrode includes a plurality of adjacent drive electrodes.

13. An electronic device comprising:

an input detection device according to claim 1 .

14. The input detection device according to claim 1 , further comprising a plurality of pixels,

wherein, in each pixel, a display drive signal is supplied to the drive electrode.

15. The input detection device according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a scan line; and

a signal line,

wherein at least one of the scan line and the signal line is configured to be brought into a floating potential when the drive electrode becomes at least one of the first drive state and the second drive state.

16. An input detection device comprising:

a plurality of drive electrodes which include at least one first drive electrode and are arranged on a first substrate;

a first selection drive circuit which is arranged in proximity to one ends of the plurality of drive electrodes;

a second selection drive circuit which is arranged in proximity to the other ends of the plurality of drive electrodes;

wherein, in a first period, the first selection drive circuit is configured to supply a first drive voltage to one end of the first drive electrode, and

the second selection drive circuit is configured to supply a second drive voltage which is different from the first drive voltage to the other end of the first drive electrode, and

in a second period which is different from the first period, the first selection drive circuit is configured to supply the second drive voltage to the one end of the first drive electrode, and

the second selection drive circuit is configured to supply the first drive voltage to the other end of the first drive electrode.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 8, 2024
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
To: WACOM CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 066704/0067 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 14, 2017
From: KATSUTA, TADAYOSHI; MIZUHASHI, HIROSHI
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 042707/0658 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-116231 · Jun 10, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20170357368A1 · Dec 14, 2017