Patent Grant
9971449
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a touch display panel with pressure detecting function, a display device and a driving method.
Pressure sensing technology is a technology that can detect an external force, for example, a pressure in the current environment can be tested to determine whether it is consistent with its physical adaptability through the technology, and can enable customers to get a better human-computer interaction experience. As a result, many manufactures are looking for appropriate solutions to achieve pressure test in a display area, especially a portable electronic device such as a cell phone or a tablet.
At present, in field of the display, an additional institution is generally added in a backlight module of a liquid crystal display device (referred to as LCD) or the mid frame of a cell phone to achieve the pressure detection. However, the design needs to change the structural design of the liquid crystal display device, and a detecting accuracy of the design is limited due to a large assembly tolerance.
Embodiments according to the present invention provide a touch display panel with pressure detecting function, comprising: an array substrate and an opposed substrate that are disposed opposite to each other; a plurality of touch electrodes and touch electrode wirings electrically connected to each of the touch electrodes disposed on the opposed substrate; a plurality of pressure detecting electrodes and pressure detecting electrode wirings electrically connected to each of the pressure detecting electrodes disposed on the opposed substrate or the array substrate; wherein, any of the pressure detecting electrodes overlaps with at least one of the touch electrodes in a direction perpendicular to the opposed substrate; the touch electrodes are closer to a light exit side of the touch display panel with respect to the pressure detecting electrodes.
In some examples, the pressure detecting electrodes also used as common electrodes.
In some examples, the pressure detecting electrodes are disposed on the array substrate.
In some examples, the array substrate further comprises a thin film transistor, a gate line and a data line; the gate line is disposed on the same layer as a gate electrode of the thin film transistor, the data line is disposed on the same layer as a source electrode and a drain electrode of the thin film transistor; the pressure detecting electrode wirings are disposed on the same layer as the gate line or the data line.
In some examples, the array substrate further comprises auxiliary wirings located in a non-display area, the auxiliary wirings correspond to the touch electrode wirings one by one, and the auxiliary wirings are electrically connected to the touch electrode wirings.
In some examples, the opposed substrate further comprises a black matrix; the touch electrodes are of a lattice structure, and located on a side of the black matrix closed to the array substrate and corresponding to the black matrix; wherein, the touch electrodes have a material of metal.
In some examples, a capacitor is formed between each of the pressure detecting electrodes and at least one of the touch electrodes overlapping therewith.
Other embodiments according to the present invention provide a display device, comprising: the touch display panel, and a first integrated circuit (IC) connected to the touch electrode wiring and a second IC connected to the pressure detecting wiring.
In some examples, the display device further comprises a metal back shell, and the touch display panel is disposed on the metal back shell.
In some examples, the pressure detecting electrodes are disposed on the array substrate, the array substrate comprises a pixel electrode; the pressure detecting electrodes are closer to the metal back shell with respect to the pixel electrode on the array substrate.
In some examples, a capacitor is formed between the pressure detecting electrodes and the metal back shell.
Other embodiments according to the present invention provide a driving method of the display device, comprising: a touch phase in which the first IC inputs a drive signal to the touch electrodes through the touch electrode wirings and receives a feedback signal to identify a touch position; a pressure detecting phase in which the first IC inputs a fixed voltage signal to the touch electrodes through the touch electrode wirings, the second IC inputs a drive signal to the pressure detecting electrodes through the pressure detecting wirings and receives a feedback signal to detect a pressure value; and a signal line between the pressure detecting electrodes and the touch electrodes is controlled in a high resistance state; wherein, the signal line comprises at least one of a gate line and a data line.
In some examples, the display device further comprises a metal back shell, a capacitor is formed between the pressure detecting electrodes and the metal back shell, in the pressure detecting phase, the driving method further comprises: controlling a signal line between the pressure detecting electrodes and the metal back shell in a high resistance state.
In some examples, the display device comprises a third IC connected to the gate line and a fourth IC connected to the data line, the driving method further comprising: a display phase in which the third IC inputs a scanning signal to the gate line in a line sequence, the fourth IC inputs a data signal to the data line; and the first IC and the second IC input common voltage signals to the touch electrodes and the pressure detecting electrodes, respectively; wherein, the pressure detecting electrodes also used as common electrodes.
In some examples, in the touch phase, modulation signals with the same frequency and the same amplitude as those for the touch electrodes are simultaneously input from the second IC to the pressure detecting electrodes, from the third IC to the gate line, and from the fourth IC to the data line.
In order to clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described in the following; it is obvious that the drawings in the description are only related to some embodiments of the present invention and not limited to the invention.
In order to make objects, technical details and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention, the technical solutions of the embodiments will be described in a clearly and fully understandable way in connection with the drawings related to the embodiments of the present invention. Apparently, the described embodiments are just a part but not all of the embodiments of the present invention. Based on the described embodiments herein, those skilled in the art can obtain other embodiment(s), without any inventive work, which should be within the scope of the present invention.
Unless otherwise defined, the technical terminology or scientific terminology used herein should have the general meanings understood by those skills in the art to which the present invention belongs. The “first”, “second” and similar words used in the present invention application specification and claims do not mean any sequence, amount or importance, but are merely used to distinguish different components. Likewise, “a” or “an” or similar words do not mean the limitation to amount, instead, it refers to at least one. “Connecting” or “connected” and similar words are not limited to the physical or mechanical connection, but may comprise electrical connection, no matter directly or indirectly. “Over”, “under” and the like are merely used to denote the relative location relationship which based on the relationship described in drawings, and only to describe the present invention conveniently.
Embodiments of the present invention provide a touch display panel 01 with pressure detecting function, as illustrated in
In embodiments of the present invention, the principle for achieving a touch function is: due to effect of the electric field in a human body, when a finger contacts a light exit side of the touch display panel 01, as a conductor, the finger forms an external capacitor (Cf) together with the touch electrodes 10 on the opposed substrate 02. The external capacitor (Cf) and a self inductance capacitor (Cp) of the touch control electrode 10 form a coupling electric field between the touch control electrode (10) and the fingers, which can change the size of the self inductance capacitor (Cp). According to the change of the capacitance on the touch point position, the touch point position is calculated, and the touch function is achieved.
The principle for achieving pressure detecting is: due to the pressure detecting electrodes 30 correspond to at least one of the touch electrodes 10, according to the formula of parallel plate capacitance, that is
when an overlapping area (S) exists between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 along a direction of a distance (d) of the two, a capacitance (C) is generated between the two. On the basis of this, when the touch display panel 01 is not under pressure, the capacitance between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the corresponding touch electrodes 10 is fixed. When the touch display panel 01 is subjected to a pressure, the distance between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 changes due to a deformation of the touch display panel 01, so that the capacitance between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the corresponding touch electrodes 10 changes, and a pressure value can be obtained by a corresponding conversion.
It should be noted that, the touch electrodes 10 correspond to the touch electrode wirings 20 one by one, and the touch electrodes 10 are electrically connected to the touch electrode wirings 20. They can be located in the same layer and are electrically connected directly, and can also be located in different layers, and are electrically connected through a through hole.
The pressure detecting electrodes 30 correspond to the pressure detecting electrode wirings 40 one by one, and the pressure detecting electrodes 30 are electrically connected the pressure detecting electrode wirings 40. They can be located in the same layer and are electrically connected directly, and can also be located in different layers, and are electrically connected through a through hole.
Furthermore,
The pressure detecting electrodes 30 can be located on the array substrate 03 as illustrated in
According to the accuracy of pressure detection, along a direction perpendicular to the touch display panel 01, a projection area of the pressure detecting electrodes 30 on the opposed substrate 02 or the array substrate 03 can be adjusted appropriately. When the accuracy of pressure detection is higher, the projection area of the pressure detecting electrodes 30 is smaller. When the accuracy of pressure detection is lower, the projection area of the pressure detecting electrodes 30 is larger.
Furthermore, the pressure detecting electrodes 30 has a material of transparent conductive material, such as ITO, so that to avoid the impact on the normal display of the touch display panel 01.
The material of the touch electrodes 10 is not limited, and the touch electrodes 10 can be made of a transparent conductive material or a metal material. When the touch electrodes 10 are made of a metal material, as illustrated in
As illustrated in
The touch display panel 01 can also be an organic light emitting diode display panel, on this basis, the opposed substrate 02 can be a package substrate. The array substrate 03 comprises a thin film transistor, an anode electrically connected to a drain of the thin film transistor, cathode, and an organic material functional layer between the anode and the cathode.
Embodiments of the present invention provide the touch display panel 01 with pressure detecting function, on one aspect, the recognition of the touch position can be realized by setting the touch electrodes 10 and touch electrode wirings 20. On the other aspect, a capacitor is formed between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 by setting the pressure detecting electrodes 30. When the touch display panel 01 is subjected to a pressure, a capacitance value of the capacitor is changed, the pressure can be detected through the pressure detecting electrode wirings 40 sending a signal which indicates the capacitance value to a corresponding IC (integrated circuit). Compared with an additional mechanism needed in the prior art, the present invention can be realized by mostly adding a corresponding patterning process in the preparation process of the display panel, and a mechanism design of the device does not need to be changed.
In some examples, as illustrated in
For example, a transparent electrode layer can be divided into a plurality of regions, in a display phase, each of the regions is one common electrode 100, and in a pressure detecting phase, each of the regions is one pressure detecting electrode 30.
Thus, in spite of the fact that embodiments of the present invention are provided with the pressure detecting electrodes 30, the number of patterning processes is not increased.
It should be noted that, the transparent electrode layer disposed on the array substrate 03 is as an example as illustrated in
In some examples, as illustrated in
The array substrate 03 further comprises a thin film transistor 50, a pixel electrode 60, a gate line 70 and a data line 80; the thin film transistor comprises a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an active layer, a source and a drain, the drain electrode is electrically connected to the pixel electrode 60, the source electrode is electrically connected to the data line 80, and the gate electrode is electrically connected to the gate line 70.
Thus, in the display phase, the use of advanced super dimensional switching (referred to as ADS) can improve an image quality of the device, and the device can be with high resolution, high transmission rate, low power consumption, wide viewing angle, high aperture ratio, low color, and no squeezing water ripple (Push Mura) etc. Due to the common electrodes 100 are also used as the pressure detecting electrodes 30, and the accuracy of the pressure detecting electrodes 30 are not necessarily as small as a sub-pixel size. In embodiments of the present invention, the common electrodes 100 are plate electrodes, the pixel electrode 60 is a strip electrode, and the pixel electrode 60 is located above the common electrodes 100.
In some examples, the pressure detecting electrode wirings 40 are disposed on the same layer as the gate line 70, or the pressure detecting electrode wirings 40 are disposed on the same layer as the data line 80. The gate line 70 is disposed on the same layer as the gate electrode of the thin film transistor 50, and the data line 80 is disposed on the same layer as the source electrode and the drain electrode of the thin film transistor 50.
In this way, the increase of the number of the patterning process caused by the formation of the pressure detecting electrodes 40 is also avoided.
For example, the touch electrodes 10 on the opposed substrate 02 can have a material of metal. Because of a metal material has a low resistance, a touch sensitivity can be improved.
In some examples, as illustrated in
In this way, the influence on display by the touch electrodes 10 can be avoided.
Furthermore, since the touch electrode wirings 20 located on the opposed substrate 02 need to be connected to a corresponding integrated circuit (IC) to drive the touch electrodes 10 to identify a touch position, a circuit board provided with the IC is required to be pressed on the opposed substrate 02 to provide a signal to the touch electrode wirings 20. And for the array substrate 03, a corresponding circuit board needs to be pressed on the array substrate 03, in order to provide a signal to the gate line 70, the data line 80, and so on. Therefore, in embodiments of the present invention, all of the IC can be integrated on the circuit board which is pressed on the array substrate 03. For example, as illustrated in
It should be noted that, the non-display area 04 is relative to a display area, which located around the display area. The display area is used to display pictures, and the non-display is used to extract the gate line 70, the data line 80, etc. in the display area to connect to the IC on the circuit board. For example, the non-display area 04 is disposed on the periphery of the display area.
Embodiments of the present invention further provide a display device, the display device comprises the touch display panel 01, and a first integrated circuit (IC) connected to the touch electrode wirings 20 and a second IC connected to the pressure detecting wirings 40. The first IC and the second IC are disposed on a circuit board.
Furthermore, the display device further comprises a third IC connected to the gate line 70 and a fourth IC connected to the data line 80.
For example, as illustrated in
In the condition that a back shell of the display device is the metal back shell, a capacitor can also be formed between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the grounded metal back shell 05 in embodiments of the present invention.
Thus, sum of the capacitance formed between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 as well as that between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05 can detect the pressure. That is, when the display device is under pressure, the deformed touch display panel 01 resulting in that a distance between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 as well as that the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05 becomes small, so that make the sum of the capacitance formed between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 as well as that between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05 becomes large. By comparing with the sum of the capacitance formed between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 as well as that between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05 upon being subjected to no pressure, the pressure value can be obtained through a corresponding conversion.
Since the capacitance formed in embodiments of the present invention is the sum of the capacitance between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes as well as that the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05, the capacitance value is larger and easy to recognize, so that to improve the detecting accuracy.
In some examples, as illustrated in
Due to the overlapping area between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05 is larger, so in order to further improve the detecting accuracy, controlling the distance between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05 to be smaller to increase the capacitance between them. On the basis of this, it is also possible to avoid the influence of the pixel electrode 60 on the capacitor between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05.
Embodiments of the present invention further provide a driving method of the display device, as illustrated in
S10: as illustrated in
Here, the pressure detecting electrodes 30, a signal line and so on can be controlled not to work, modulation signals with the same frequency and the same amplitude as those for the touch electrodes 10 can also be certainly input to the pressure detecting electrodes 30, and the signal lines. The signal line comprises the gate line 70 and/or data line 80.
As illustrated in
S11: as illustrated in
Furthermore, controlling the signal line between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 in the high resistance state, the purpose is to avoid the shielding of the signal line to the capacitor between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10.
The signal line between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 can be the gate line 70, can also be the data line 80, and can also be the gate line 70 and the data line 80.
It should be noted that, the first IC and the second IC can be different ICs, and can also be the same IC, it is not limited here.
Furthermore, controlling the signal line between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the touch electrodes 10 in the high resistance state, for example, the third IC connected to the gate line 70 is controlled as internal disconnection so that the gate line 70 is in the high impedance state. The fourth IC connected to the data line 80 is controlled as internal disconnection so that the data line 80 is in the high impedance state.
The driving method provided in embodiments of the present invention, on one aspect, the touch position can be realized by inputting the driving signal to the touch electrodes 10 and receiving the feedback signal. One the other aspect, a capacitor is formed between the touch electrodes 10 and the pressure detecting electrodes 30 by inputting the fixed voltage signal to the touch electrodes 10 and inputting the driving signal to the pressure detecting electrodes 30. On the basis of this, when the touch display panel 01 is subject to a pressure, the capacitance between them is changed, and the pressure detecting can be realized by the feedback signal of the pressure detecting electrodes 30.
In some examples, in the condition that the display device further comprises a metal back shell 05, in the pressure detecting phase, the driving method further comprises: controlling a signal line between the pressure detecting electrodes 30 and the metal back shell 05 in a high resistance state.
That is, in this condition, the third IC is controlled as internal disconnection so that the gate line 70 is in the high impedance state. The fourth IC is controlled as internal disconnection so that the data line 80 is in the high impedance state.
In some examples, as illustrated in
S12: refer to
In the display phase, the pressure detecting electrodes 30 are also used as common electrodes. The touch electrodes 10 are used as a shielding layer to shield an external signal by inputting the common voltage signal to the touch electrodes 10.
The foregoing are only some specific embodiments of the present invention, and the protection scope of the invention is not limited thereto. Therefore, the protection scope of the invention is defined by the claims.
The application claims priority to the Chinese patent application No. 201510580210.7, filed on Sep. 11, 2015, the entire present invention of which is incorporated herein by reference as part of the present application.
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