Patent Grant
10481721
This application is the U.S. national phase of PCT Application No. PCT/CN2015/097420 filed on Dec. 15, 2015, which claims a priority of the Chinese patent application No. 201510123063.0 filed on Mar. 19, 2015, the disclosures of which are incorporated in their entirety by reference herein.
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of displaying, and in particular to a display substrate having a touch function, a method for driving the display substrate and a display apparatus.
Touch screens may be classified into categories such as resistive touch screens, self-capacitive touch screens, and mutual-capacitive touch screens according to their different operating principles. Among them, the mutual-capacitive touch screens have advantages such as high sensitivity and multi-touch, and are used more and more widely.
Specifically, a mutual-capacitive touch screen includes touch driving electrodes and touch sensing electrodes that are crossing and insulated from each other. Mutual capacitors are formed between touch driving electrodes and touch sensing electrodes. When a finger touches the touch screen, capacitance values of the mutual capacitors are changed, and thereby signals from the touch sensing electrodes are changed accordingly. A position of the finger touch may be accurately detected by scanning the touch driving electrodes line by line and obtaining the signals from the touch sensing electrodes. A mutual capacitive touch screen is typically embedded in a liquid crystal display (LCD), i.e. the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are arranged within the LCD, so as to improve light transmissibility, reduce a thickness of the LCD and reduce cost for manufacturing the touch screen.
The inventors of the present application find out that, when the mutual capacitive touch screen is embedded in the LCD, the capacitance values of the mutual capacitors are affected by deflection of liquid crystal molecules, i.e. dielectric coefficients of dielectrics between the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are changed when the liquid crystal molecules at a position are deflected, and thereby the capacitance values of the mutual capacitors are changed accordingly. Thus, the signals from the touch sensing electrodes are changed. As a result, a position of the finger touch might be difficult to be detected accurately due to the fact that a difference caused by the finger touch and the deflection of the molecules cannot be determined because of uncertainty of the deflections of the molecules.
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a display substrate having a touch function, a method for driving the display substrate and a display apparatus, so as to prevent the mutual capacitor from being adversely affected by the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules, and improve the accuracy of touch detecting.
In one aspect, the present disclosure provides in some embodiments a method for driving a display substrate having a touch function and includes the following technical solutions.
A method for driving a display substrate having a touch function, includes steps of: dividing touch driving electrodes included in the display substrate and parallel to gate lines into N portions, wherein each portion of the touch driving electrodes is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the gate lines, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and resetting pixels corresponding to an nth portion of the touch driving electrodes before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, so that the pixels have a same grey scale value, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N.
Alternatively, a touch driving time period for the nth portion coincides with a display scanning time period for at least another portion of the touch driving electrodes.
Alternatively, a display scanning time period for the nth portion coincides with a touch driving time period for an (n+1)th portion of the touch driving electrodes; and a display scanning time period for the Nth portion of the touch driving electrodes coincides with a touch driving time period for a first portion of the touch driving electrodes.
Alternatively, the step of resetting the pixels corresponding to the nth portion of the touch driving electrode includes steps of: enabling the gate lines for controlling the pixels corresponding to the nth portion; and supplying a same voltage to the pixels corresponding to the nth portion.
Alternatively, the step of enabling the gate lines for controlling the pixels corresponding to the nth portion includes a step of: inputting a reset enabling signal for enabling the gate lines for controlling the pixels corresponding to the nth portion.
Alternatively, the voltage is of a value determined by experiments to have a minimal affect on a display effect of a display apparatus including the display substrate.
Alternatively, the voltage is of a value to enable the grey scale value of the pixels corresponding to the nth portion to be 0.
Alternatively, after display scanning for a first portion to an Nth portion of the touch driving electrodes is finished, pixels corresponding to the first portion to the Nth portion are reset so that the pixels have a same grey scale value, and touch driving for the first portion to the Nth portion is started at the same time.
Alternatively, the nth portion is a portion of the touch driving electrodes that is close to touch sensing electrodes, and merely the pixels corresponding to the nth portion are reset.
Alternatively, during a touch driving time period for the nth portion, a touch driving signal is applied to the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes; and during a display scanning time period for the nth portion, a common electrode signal is applied to the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes.
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a method for driving a display substrate having a touch function, including steps of: dividing touch driving electrodes included in the display substrate and parallel to gate lines into N portions, wherein each portion of the touch driving electrodes is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the gate lines, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and resetting pixels corresponding to an nth portion of the touch driving electrodes before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, so that the pixels have a same grey scale value, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N. Therefore, all liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the nth portion are in a same defection state, so as to prevent the mutual capacitors between the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes from being adversely affected by the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules, and improve the accuracy of touch detecting.
The present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a display substrate having a touch function, including a plurality of touch driving electrodes extending in a direction parallel to gate lines, wherein the touch driving electrodes are divided into N portions, each portion of the touch driving electrodes is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the gate lines, and each portion of the touch driving electrodes is connected to a driving line, wherein N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and pixels corresponding to an nth portion of the touch driving electrodes are capable of being reset to have a same grey scale value before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, so that liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the nth portion have a same deflection state, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N; during a touch driving time period for the nth portion, the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes is applied with a touch driving signal; and during a display scanning time period for the nth portion, the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes is applied with a common electrode signal.
Alternatively, the display substrate further includes the gate lines, data lines, thin film transistors (TFTs) and pixel electrodes, wherein the pixel electrodes include slits or are strip-shaped electrodes, and the touch driving electrodes are arranged above and insulated from the pixel electrodes.
Alternatively, the display substrate further includes shielding structures arranged above the data lines and arranged on a same layer as the pixel electrodes.
The present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a display substrate having a touch function, including a plurality of touch driving electrodes extending in a direction parallel to gate lines, wherein the touch driving electrodes are divided into N portions, each portion of the touch driving electrodes is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the gate lines, and each portion of the touch driving electrodes is connected to a driving line, wherein N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. Thus, pixels corresponding to an nth portion of the touch driving electrodes are capable of being reset to have a same grey scale value before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, so that all liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the nth portion have a same deflection state, so as to prevent the mutual capacitors between the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes from being adversely affected by the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules, and improve the accuracy of touch detecting, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N.
The present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a touch display apparatus including any of the above display substrates having the touch display function.
Alternatively, the touch display apparatus further includes an reset-enabling-signal input module for inputting a reset enabling signal to the nth portion before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, wherein the reset enabling signal enables the pixels corresponding to the nth portion to be reset to have the same grey scale value, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N.
In order to illustrate the technical solutions of the present disclosure or the related art in a clearer manner, the drawings desired for the embodiments will be described briefly hereinafter. Obviously, the following drawings merely relate to some embodiments of the present disclosure, and based on these drawings, a person skilled in the art may obtain the other drawings without any creative effort.
1—touch driving electrode; 2—driving line; 3—touch sensing electrode; 4—pixel electrode; 5—shielding structure; 6—data line.
In the following, it is clearly and completely described the technical solutions according to the embodiments of the present disclosure. It is obvious that the described embodiments are some of the embodiments of the present disclosure rather than all of the embodiments. All of other embodiments that those skilled in the art may implement based on the embodiments of the present disclosure without creative work should also fall within the scope of the present disclosure.
Unless otherwise defined, any technical or scientific term used herein shall have the common meaning understood by a person of ordinary skills. Such words as “first” and “second” used in the specification and claims are merely used to differentiate different components rather than to represent any order, number or importance. Similarly, such words as “one” or “a” are merely used to represent the existence of at least one member, rather than to limit the number thereof. Such words as “connect” or “connected to” may include electrical connection, direct or indirect, rather than to be limited to physical or mechanical connection. Such words as “on”, “under”, “left” and “right” are merely used to represent relative position relationship, and when an absolute position of the object is changed, the relative position relationship will be changed too.
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a method for driving a display substrate having a touch function (or a display substrate for short hereafter), so as to prevent the mutual capacitor from being adversely affected by the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules, and improve the accuracy of touch detecting.
In particular, the method includes steps of: dividing touch driving electrodes included in the display substrate and parallel to gate lines into N portions, wherein each portion of the touch driving electrodes is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the gate lines, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and resetting pixels corresponding to an nth portion of the touch driving electrodes before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, so that the pixels have a same grey scale value, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N. As a result, during a touch driving time period for the nth portion, all liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the nth portion are in a same defection state, so as to prevent the mutual capacitors between the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes from being adversely affected by the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules, and improve the accuracy of touch detecting. In addition, a time period for resetting the pixels corresponding to the nth portion is short, e.g. 4 ms, so that the resetting of the pixels corresponding to the nth portion may not affect the display quality of the display apparatus.
It should be noted that a value of the parameter N may be determined based on a plurality of factors such as a size and a resolution of the display substrate. For example, the value of the parameter N may be 12.
Furthermore, in this embodiment of the present disclosure, a touch driving time period for the nth portion coincides with a display scanning time period for at least another portion of the touch driving electrodes. As a result, compared with a mechanism of separating the touching driving time period from the display scanning time period in related art, the touch driving time period for the whole display substrate may be significantly increased, and the sensitivity of the touch detecting is improved.
In this embodiment of the present disclosure, although resetting of the pixels before the touch driving is started is needed and spends time, such time period might not extend a length of a frame. Alternatively, the length of one frame may be remained unchanged by properly reducing the display scanning time period for the pixels corresponding to each portion of the touch driving electrodes.
Alternatively, in this embodiment of the present disclosure, a display scanning time period for the nth portion coincides with a touch driving time period for an (n+1)th portion of the touch driving electrodes, and a display scanning time period for the Nth portion of the touch driving electrodes coincides with a touch driving time period for a first portion of the touch driving electrodes, so as to enter the display scanning time period immediately after the touch driving time period for each portion of the touch driving electrodes elapses. At this point, the pixels corresponding to each portion are turned to have a displaying grey scale value instead of a resetting grey scale value, so as to prevent the pixels corresponding to each portion from having the resetting grey scale value for a long time and avoid affecting the display quality of the display apparatus adversely.
In order to facilitate understanding for a person skilled in the art, the present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a method for resetting the pixels corresponding to the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes including the following steps.
Step S1: enabling the gate lines for controlling the pixels corresponding to the nth portion.
For example, each pixel includes pixel units, and each unit includes a TFT and a pixel electrode, wherein a gate electrode of the TFT is connected to a gate line, a source electrode of the TFT is connected to a data line, and a drain electrode of the TFT is connected to the pixel electrode. When the gate line is enabled, the TFT controlled by the gate electrode connected to the gate line is turned on, and the source electrode is connected to the drain electrode, so as to transmit the signal from the data line to the pixel electrode and enable the gate line to control the pixel.
In particular, the step of enabling the gate lines for controlling the pixels corresponding to the nth portion includes a step of: inputting a reset enabling signal for enabling the gate lines for controlling the pixels corresponding to the nth portion. For example, the reset enabling signal may enable the gate lines for controlling the pixels corresponding to the nth portion sequentially by controlling a shift register connected to the gate lines to sequentially output the signals for enabling the gate lines. The reset enabling signal may be outputted by a reset-enabling-signal input module included in the display apparatus.
Step S2: supplying a same voltage to the pixels corresponding to the nth portion.
After enabling the gate lines for controlling the pixels corresponding to the nth portion, the TFTs controlled by the gate electrodes connected to the gate lines are turned on, and the source electrodes are connected to the drain electrodes, so as to transmit the signals from the data lines to the pixel electrodes. When the signals from the data lines are same, a same voltage may be inputted to the pixels corresponding to the nth portion.
It should be noted that, the present disclosure provides two manners for selecting the same voltage inputted to the pixel electrodes included in the pixels corresponding to the nth portion. In a first manner, the voltage is of a value determined by experiments to have a minimal impact on a display effect of a display apparatus including the display substrate, so as to minimize the impact of the resetting on the display quality. In a second manner, the voltage is of a value which enables a grey scale value of the pixels corresponding to the nth portion to be zero (0). As a result, the driving method is simplified, and for a display apparatus having an advanced super dimension switch (ADS) display mode, when the pixels have the grey scale value of zero (0), all of the liquid crystal molecules are of original orientations, and the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules are in consistence, so as to minimize the impact on the accuracy of touch detecting by the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules.
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a method for driving the display substrate including steps of: dividing touch driving electrodes included in the display substrate and parallel to gate lines into 12 portions, as shown in
In the following, it is explained the step of resetting pixels corresponding to a second portion of the touch driving electrodes and then implementing the touch driving for the second portion and the display scanning for the first portion simultaneously in details by referring to the timing sequence of
It should be noted that, in the above driving method, the display scanning or the touch driving for merely a portion of the pixels is implemented in one time period for the display scanning or one time period for the touch driving. However, the present disclosure is not limited thereto. Alternatively, the method may further include: after display scanning for a first portion to an Nth portion of the touch driving electrodes is finished, pixels corresponding to the first portion to the Nth portion are reset so as to have a same grey scale value, and touch driving for the first portion to the Nth portion is started at the same time. As a result, the method for driving the display substrate is simplified.
In addition, a capacitance value may be determined by an equation C=ξS/d, where “ξ” represents a dielectric coefficient of dielectric between two electrical conductors (plates) of a capacitor, “S” represents an area of the two plates where they are right opposite to each other, and “d” represents a vertical distance therebetween. The less a value of “d” is, the more the impact on the capacitance value by the change of the “ξ” is. Thus, the impact on the accuracy of touch detecting by the deflection of the liquid crystal molecules mainly focuses on a region where the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are close to each other. As a result, the pixels corresponding to merely the nth portion where the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are close to each other may be reset so as to simplify the method for driving the display substrate.
In addition, a common electrode may be further used as the touch driving electrodes to simplify the structure of the display substrate and the method for manufacturing the display substrate. At this point, during a touch driving time period for the nth portion, a touch driving signal “TX output” is applied to the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes; and during a display scanning time period for the nth portion, a common electrode signal is applied to the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes.
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a method for driving the display substrate having the touch function. The method includes steps of: dividing touch driving electrodes included in the display substrate and parallel to gate lines into N portions, wherein each portion of the touch driving electrodes is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the gate lines, and N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2; and resetting pixels corresponding to an nth portion of the touch driving electrodes before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, so that the pixels have a same grey scale value, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N. At this point, all liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the nth portion are in a same defection state, so as to prevent the mutual capacitor between the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes from being adversely affected by the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules, and improve the accuracy of touch detecting.
The present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a display substrate having a touch function (or a display substrate for short hereafter) driven by the above method. As shown in
In this embodiment of the present disclosure, common electrodes may be further used as the touch driving electrodes 1 to simplify the structure of the display substrate and the method for manufacturing the display substrate. At this point, during a touch driving time period for the nth portion, a touch driving signal “TX output” is applied to the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes; and during a display scanning time period for the nth portion, a common electrode signal is applied to the nth portion of the touch driving electrodes.
It should be noted that the touch driving electrodes 3 are shown in
Furthermore, the display substrate further includes gate lines, data lines, TFTs and the pixel electrodes. As illustrated in
The present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a display substrate having a touch function, including a plurality of rows of touch driving electrodes extending in a direction parallel to gate lines, wherein the touch driving electrodes are divided into N portions, each portion of the touch driving electrodes is arranged in a direction perpendicular to the gate lines, and each portion of the touch driving electrodes is connected to a driving line, wherein N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2. Thus, pixels corresponding to an nth portion of the touch driving electrodes are capable of being reset to have a same grey scale value before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, so that all liquid crystal molecules corresponding to the nth portion have a same deflection state, so as to prevent the mutual capacitors between the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes from being adversely affected by the deflections of the liquid crystal molecules, and improve the accuracy of touch detecting, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N.
The present disclosure further provides in some embodiments a touch display apparatus including any of the above display substrates having the touch display function.
Furthermore, the touch display apparatus further includes an reset-enabling-signal input module for inputting a reset enabling signal to the nth portion before a touch driving for the nth portion is started, wherein the reset enabling signal enables the pixels corresponding to the nth portion to be reset to have the same grey scale value, wherein n is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N.
The above are merely embodiments of the present disclosure and shall not be used to limit the scope of the present disclosure. It should be noted that, a person skilled in the art may make improvements and modifications without departing from the principle of the present disclosure, and these improvements and modifications shall also fall within the scope of the present disclosure. Thus, a scope of the present disclosure is confined in claims.
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