Patent ID: 8289285

Claim:
A liquid crystal display device having a plurality of pixel cells for displaying an image and sensing light incident on the pixel cells, each of the pixel cells comprising: a pixel circuit that displays an image based on a data voltage supplied from a data line in accordance with a gate signal from a gate line; and a touch sensor circuit configured to: sense light incident on the pixel cell; store a light sensing signal based on the sensed light; and supply the stored light sensing signal to a read-out integrated circuit via a read-out line in accordance with a scan signal from a scan line, wherein the liquid crystal display device comprises: a data driver, a timing controller, a gate driver for supplying the gate signal to the gate line, and a scan driver for supplying the scan signal to the scan line, wherein a first data enable signal input to the timing controller from a system and a second data enable signal input to the data driver from the timing controller have the same waveform, wherein the pixel circuit comprises: a pixel thin film transistor (TFT) for switching the data voltage from the data line in accordance with the gate signal from the gate line, a liquid crystal cell for rendering an image in accordance with a pixel voltage corresponding to a voltage difference between a data voltage from the pixel TFT and a bias voltage from a bias line, and a storage capacitor for storing the data voltage supplied to the liquid crystal cell for one frame period, wherein the touch sensor circuit comprises: a sensor TFT configured to receive the bias voltage from the bias line and a drive voltage from a driving line, to generate an optical current in accordance with an amount of light received from the outside of the pixel cell, the bias voltage and the drive voltage being separate and distinct from one another, a sensor capacitor for storing charges by the optical current from the sensor TFT, and a switch TFT for supplying the charges stored in the sensor capacitor to the read-out integrated circuit via the read-out line in accordance with the scan signal from the scan line, wherein the storage capacitor is connected between a drain electrode of the pixel TFT and the bias line, wherein the sensor TFT comprises: a gate electrode connected to the bias line, a source electrode connected to the driving line, and a drain electrode connected to a first node, and wherein the gate signal from the gate driver and the scan signal from the scan driver have the same output timing.