Driver apparatus

1. A driver apparatus, driving an electronic paper display panel to perform a touch sensing operation, the driver apparatus comprising:

a scanner apparatus, scanning a plurality of sensing blocks on the electronic paper display panel to perform the touch sensing operation, wherein each of the sensing blocks comprises one or a plurality of sensing devices, and the sensing blocks are arranged in an array; and

a sensing apparatus, electrically connected to the scanner apparatus, and controlling the scanner apparatus to scan the sensing blocks, wherein the sensing apparatus charges/discharges each of the sensing blocks according to a first voltage and a second voltage, so as to generate a relaxation signal, a pulse difference of the relaxation signal is changed by a touch object, and the touch object is a conductor,

wherein a touch position of the touch object on the electronic paper display panel is determined according to a relaxation frequency of the relaxation signal of each of the sensing blocks.

2. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the sensing apparatus comprises a plurality of sensing circuits, and the sensing circuits respectively charge/discharge the sensing blocks of different columns to generate the relaxation signal.

3. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein one of the sensing circuits outputs a control signal to control the scanner apparatus to scan the sensing blocks.

4. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein one of the sensing circuits outputs a synchronization signal to synchronize the other sensing circuits, so as to respectively charge/discharge the sensing blocks of different columns during a sensing period to generate the relaxation signal.

5. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each of the sensing circuits comprises:

a resistor device, having a first terminal and a second terminal, and the second terminal of the resistor device being coupled to the sensing blocks; and

an amplifier circuit, having a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the first input terminal receives a reference voltage, the second input terminal is coupled to the second terminal of the resistor device and the sensing blocks, and the output terminal is coupled to the first terminal of the resistor device,

wherein the reference voltage is switched between the first voltage and the second voltage.

6. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each of the sensing circuits comprising:

a resistor device, having a first terminal and a second terminal, and the second terminal of the resistor device being coupled to the sensing blocks;

a latch circuit, having a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal, and the output terminal of the latch circuit being coupled to the first terminal of the resistor device;

a first comparator circuit, having a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the first input terminal is coupled to the second terminal of the resistor device and the sensing blocks, the second input terminal receives the first voltage, and the output terminal is coupled to the first input terminal of the latch circuit; and

a second comparator circuit, having a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the first input terminal receives the second voltage, the second input terminal is coupled to the second terminal of the resistor device and the sensing blocks, and the output terminal is coupled to the second input terminal of the latch circuit.

7. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 2 , wherein each of the sensing circuits is a microcontroller unit (MCU).

8. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the scanner apparatus sequentially scans the sensing blocks of different rows on the electronic paper display panel based on rows.

9. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 8 , wherein the scanner apparatus comprises a plurality of scan circuits, and the scan circuits are respectively and electrically connected to the sensing blocks of different rows, and turn on the respectively connected sensing blocks during a sensing period, so as to perform the touch sensing operation.

10. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the touch position of the touch object on the electronic paper display panel comprises a first orientation and a second orientation, the first orientation is determined according to positions of a plurality of sensing circuits in the sensing apparatus, and the second orientation is determined according to positions of a plurality of scan circuits in the scanner apparatus.

11. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the scanner apparatus and the sensing apparatus are integrated in an integrated chip.

12. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 11 , wherein the integrated chip comprises:

a touch driving block, driving the electronic paper display panel to perform the touch sensing operation, wherein the scanner apparatus and the sensing apparatus are disposed in the touch driving block; and

a display driving block, electrically connected to the touch driving block, and driving the electronic paper display panel to perform an image display operation.

13. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the touch driving block comprises a voltage generation circuit electrically connected to the sensing apparatus and generating the first voltage and the second voltage.

14. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 12 , wherein the electronic paper display panel includes a plurality of pixel units operated in a display mode or a sensing mode, and the touch driving block comprises a pixel control circuit electrically connected to the sensing apparatus, and in the display mode, the pixel control circuit controls to turn on a transistor in each of the pixel units, and in the sensing mode, the pixel control circuit controls not to turn on the transistor in each of the pixel units.

15. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic paper display panel is one of a segmented electronic paper display panel and a thin film transistor electronic paper display panel.

16. The driver apparatus as claimed in claim 1 , wherein the electronic paper display panel comprises a conductive shielding layer.