Patent ID: 8866783
Filing Date: 2014-10-21
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. An electronic apparatus including a display device and a touch panel, the display device comprising: a display element configured to display an image on a screen, and driving circuits configured to drive the display element so that a scan mode carrying out scanning and a pause mode pausing the scanning are alternately repeated, wherein each of the scan mode and the pause mode are alternately repeated in at least a single one of a plurality of frames to thereby occur a plurality of times in at least the single one of the plurality of frames, during the pause mode, the driving circuits are configured to output, to the touch panel, a detection command signal which commands that detection of input to the touch panel be carried out, the display element is a matrix display element including a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix manner, the display circuits further include a plurality of data signal lines and a plurality of scan signal lines configured to drive the plurality of pixel electrodes, the driving circuits include a data drive circuit and a scan drive circuit configured to drive the plurality of data signal lines and the plurality of scan signal lines, respectively, the detection command signal is outputted from either the data drive circuit or the scan drive circuit, and the touch panel is configured to carry out a detection of the input to the touch panel in accordance with the detection command signal from the display device.