Patent ID: 9176616
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A display device, comprising: an insulating substrate; a plurality of pixels formed on the insulating substrate and arranged in a matrix of rows and columns, the pixels forming a plurality of pixel blocks formed of a plurality of rows and columns of the pixels; a sensor circuit arranged in a space between adjacent rows of pixels on the insulating substrate in each pixel block and including a coupling electrode, a detection electrode arranged adjacent to the coupling electrode for forming a coupling capacitance therebetween, and a reading-out circuit to read out a potential of the detection electrode; a plurality of scanning lines extending along the pixels arranged in the row direction; a plurality of signal lines extending along the pixels arranged in the column direction; a driver circuit for writing an image signal into the respective pixels through the signal lines by driving the scanning lines in a period to drive the pixels, wherein the signal lines are used as a precharge line to supply a precharge voltage to the detection electrode and a reading-out line to read out the potential of the detection electrode in a driving period for driving the sensor circuit; a coupling line extending in the column direction to change a potential of the coupling electrode, wherein a potential change of the detection electrode is read out by driving the coupling line; and a peripheral circuit including a TCON, a microcomputer, a memory, an A/D converter, and a comparison circuit to compare an output signal of the sensor circuit with a reference voltage, wherein each of the pixel blocks comprises a plurality of display pixel units respectively including a red display pixel, a green display pixel, and a blue display pixel, and arranged in the rows and columns, the detection electrode extends in the row direction crossing a plurality of signal lines, and is formed integrally over the display pixels of the display pixel units arranged in the row direction in one block, the detection electrode is arranged in a space between the adjacent rows of the display pixels, the detection electrode in one block is electrically separated from the detection electrode arranged in an adjacent block in the row direction, the detection electrode includes two ends extending in the row direction, and a coupling electrode is branched from the coupling line to extend in the row direction facing the two ends of the detection electrode, and a contacted position is detected only by a magnitude of the coupling capacitance.