Patent ID: 8749476

Claim:
An electrophoretic display device, comprising: a thin film transistor array panel including a substrate, gate lines and data lines formed on the substrate and crossing each other, switching thin film transistors electrically connected to the gate and data lines, an off voltage line disposed in parallel with the gate lines and insulated from the data lines, a supply voltage line disposed in parallel with the data lines and insulated from the gate lines and the off voltage line, a photo sensor formed on the substrate, and pixel electrodes electrically connected to the switching thin film transistors; a common electrode panel facing the thin film transistor array panel and having a common electrode; and a display layer disposed between the thin film transistor array panel and the common electrode panel, wherein the display layer includes electric ink containing separately disposed negatively charged pigment particles and positively charged pigment particles, wherein the photo sensor includes a photo sensing transistor and a signal sensing capacitor, wherein the photo sensing transistor has an output terminal connected to the signal sensing capacitor, a control terminal connected to the off voltage line, and an input terminal directly connected to the supply voltage line, and is turned on by light incident on a channel of the photo sensing transistor, wherein the signal sensing capacitor has a first terminal connected to the output terminal of the photo sensing transistor and a second terminal connected to the off voltage line, and wherein each of the pixel electrodes have a light transmissive hole exposing the channel of the photo sensing transistor.