IP Library Granted Patent US 12,045,421
Granted Patent B2
US 12,045,421 · App. 18/196,252 · Granted Jul 23, 2024

Detection device, fingerprint detection device, and vein detection device

Inventors: Hirofumi Kato (Tokyo, JP); Ayato Kitamura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Japan Display Inc.
G06F3/0421G06V40/13G09G3/3611
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Patent No.
US 12,045,421
App. No.
18/196,252
Granted
Jul 23, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A detection device includes: optical sensors; switching elements, gate lines, and signal lines corresponding to the optical sensors; a detection circuit that is supplied with signals from the optical sensors through the signal lines; and a signal line selection circuit for switching a coupling state between the signal lines and the detection circuit. A drive signal is supplied to the gate lines row by row to bring the switching elements belonging to a predetermined row into a coupled state. The signal line selection circuit couples the signal lines to the detection circuit column by column in a predetermined order in a reading period of the predetermined row. A reset potential is supplied to the optical sensors and the signal lines belonging to the predetermined row after completion of the reading period of the predetermined row and before start of the reading period of a row next to the predetermined row.

Claims (21)

1. A detection device comprising:

a plurality of optical sensors arranged in a matrix having a row-column configuration;

a plurality of switching elements, a plurality of gate lines, and a plurality of signal lines provided corresponding to the optical sensors; and

a detection circuit configured to be supplied with signals from the optical sensors through the signal lines column by column in a predetermined order in a reading period of a predetermined row, wherein

a drive signal is supplied to the gate lines row by row to bring the switching elements belonging to the predetermined row into a coupled state, and

a reset potential is supplied to the optical sensors after completion of the reading period of the predetermined row and before start of the reading period of a row next to the predetermined row.

2. The detection device according to claim 1 , wherein

the signal lines are configured to be coupled to the detection circuit column by column in the predetermined order when the switching elements of the predetermined row are in the coupled state in the reading period of the predetermined row, and

the switching elements of the predetermined row are configured to be brought into a non-coupled state after the completion of the reading period of the predetermined row.

3. The detection device according to claim 1 , wherein

the switching elements of the predetermined row are configured to be in the coupled state in the reading period of the predetermined row and to be brought into a non-coupled state after a predetermined period has elapsed,

the signal lines are configured to be coupled to the detection circuit column by column in the predetermined order when the switching elements of the predetermined row are in the non-coupled state, and

the switching elements of the predetermined row are configured to be brought into the coupled state and the reset potential is supplied to the optical sensors and the signal lines belonging to the predetermined row, after the completion of the reading period and before the start of the reading period of the row next to the predetermined row.

4. The detection device according to claim 3 , wherein the signals from the optical sensors are adjusted based on a ratio of sensor capacitance generated in the optical sensors and signal line capacitance generated in the signal lines.

5. The detection device according to claim 1 , wherein an order of coupling between the signal lines and the detection circuit in the reading period on a one frame detection is changed by one frame detection basis.

6. A fingerprint detection device comprising:

the detection device according to claim 1 ; and

at least one or more light sources.

7. A vein detection device comprising:

the detection device according to claim 1 ; and

at least one or more light sources.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 22, 2025
From: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
To: MAGNOLIA WHITE CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 072130/0313 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 11, 2023
From: KATO, HIROFUMI; KITAMURA, AYATO
To: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
Reel/Frame 063617/0318 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2020-059056 · Mar 27, 2020 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17951296 · Sep 23, 2022
Continuation PCTJP2021010814 · Mar 17, 2021
Related Publication 20230280865A1 · Sep 7, 2023
Cited By (1)
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