Patent ID: 8823671
Filing Date: 2014-09-02
Classification: G06F,G09G

Abstract:
1. A display device with a touch sensor comprising: a display panel that has an active matrix substrate in which a plurality of pixel electrodes are provided, a display medium layer, and a counter substrate in which a counter electrode that opposes the plurality of pixel electrodes is provided; a display panel driving circuit that supplies a display signal voltage to the plurality of pixel electrode and supplies a common voltage that undergoes cyclical polarity inversion to the counter electrode; a touch sensor unit that is disposed on a surface of the display panel on the counter substrate side and includes a plurality of sensor electrodes, an electrical characteristic of the sensor electrodes changing when touched by a contact body; a sensor output readout circuit that is sequentially connected to each of the sensor electrodes and outputs signal voltages that correspond to the electrical characteristics of the connected sensor electrodes; a sensor control circuit that supplies a control signal to the sensor output readout circuit; and a coordinate computation circuit that detects a position in the touch sensor unit that was touched by the contact body based on the signal voltages output from the sensor output readout circuit, wherein the sensor control circuit causes a scan operation, in which the sensor output readout circuit is sequentially connected to all of the sensor electrodes of the touch sensor unit and outputs the signal voltages, to start after the common voltage has switched from a first polarity to a second polarity, and to end before the common voltage returns to the first polarity, the sensor electrodes include a first sensor electrode group in which a plurality of sensor electrodes are aligned in a first axis direction with respect to coordinates in the touch sensor unit, and a second sensor electrode group in which a plurality of sensor electrodes are aligned in a second axis direction with respect to coordinates in the touch sensor unit, and the coordinate computation circuit determines a coordinate in the first axis direction of the position touched by the contact body based on the signal voltages that were output when the sensor output readout circuit was connected to the sensor electrodes that belong to the first sensor electrode group, and determines a coordinate in the second axis direction of the position touched by the contact body based on the signal voltages that were output when the sensor output readout circuit was connected to the sensor electrodes that belong to the second sensor electrode group.