This application claims priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 201910007261.9, filed on Jan. 4, 2019, which is hereby incorporated by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies, and particularly to a touch display panel, a method for driving the same, and a display device.
As smart mobile phones are being popularized, display devices with a high screen to panel ratio have been increasingly favored. A fingerprint recognition function can be built in a display screen to thereby dispense with such a space on the front face of a mobile phone that would otherwise have been occupied by a fingerprint recognition module, so as to greatly improve a high screen to panel ratio.
Some embodiments of the disclosure provide a touch display panel including: a plurality of pixel zones arranged in an array, a plurality of control signal lines arranged at gaps between rows of pixel zones, and a plurality of acquisition signal lines arranged at gaps between columns of pixel zones, and insulated from the control signal lines, wherein:
In a possible implementation, in the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, the line recognition electrodes include first sub-electrodes arranged at the gaps between the rows of sub-pixels, and second sub-electrodes arranged at gaps between the columns of sub-pixels, and electrically connected with the first sub-electrode, wherein:
In a possible implementation, in the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, a length of the first sub-electrode in the pixel zones is less than a sum of lengths of the sub-pixels in a row direction, and a length of the second sub-electrode is identical to a length of the sub-pixels in a column direction.
In a possible implementation, in the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, the touch display panel further includes scan signal lines arranged at gaps between the rows of pixel zones; and
In a possible implementation, in the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, the touch display panel further includes data signal lines arranged at gaps between the columns of sub-pixels; and
In a possible implementation, in the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, the touch display panel further includes black matrixes; and
Based upon the same inventive idea, some embodiments of the disclosure further provide a display device including the touch display panel above.
Correspondingly some embodiments of the disclosure further provide a method for driving the touch display panel above, the method including:
In a possible implementation, in the driving method above according to embodiments of the disclosure, the applying the line recognition signal to the line recognition electrodes through the acquisition signal lines includes:
In a possible implementation, in the driving method above according to embodiments of the disclosure, the detecting the feedback signal of the line recognition electrodes acquired through the acquisition signal lines to recognize a line includes:
In a possible implementation, in the driving method above according to embodiments of the disclosure, the determining the acquisition signal lines to be detected again, according to the touch position includes:
In a possible implementation, in the driving method above according to embodiments of the disclosure, before the control signal is applied to the control signal lines line by line, the method further includes: receiving a fingerprint recognition request.
Particular implementations of the touch display panel, the method for driving the same, and the display device according to the embodiments of the disclosure will be described below in details with reference to the drawings. It shall be noted that the embodiments described in this specification are only a part but not all of the embodiments of the disclosure; and the embodiments of the disclosure, and the features in the embodiments can be combined with each other unless they conflict with each other. Moreover based upon the embodiments here of the disclosure, all the other embodiments which can occur to those ordinarily skilled in the art without any inventive effort shall fall into the scope of the disclosure.
The shapes and sizes of respective layers in the drawings are not intended to reflect their real proportions in the touch display panel, but only intended to illustrate the disclosure of the disclosure.
As illustrated in
A plurality of sub-pixels (e.g., a red sub-pixel R, a green sub-pixel G, and a blue sub-pixel B in
The control signal lines 102 are configured to provide the line recognition control transistors 104 with a control signal.
The acquisition signal lines 103 are configured to provide the line recognition electrodes 105 with a line recognition signal through the line recognition control transistors 104, and to receive a signal carrying line information transmitted by the line recognition electrodes 105 through the line recognition control transistors 104.
In the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, the line recognition control transistors 104, the line recognition electrodes 105, the acquisition signal line 103, and the control signal lines 102 are integrated in the touch display panel to thereby recognize a line (e.g., a fingerprint) so as to improve a screen to panel ratio.
It shall be noted that in the touch display panel above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, as illustrated in
In a particular implementation, in the touch display panel above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, as illustrated in
One first sub-electrode 1051 is arranged at a row gap between two adjacent pixel zones 101, and one second sub-electrode 1052 is arranged at a column gap between them.
Stated otherwise, in the touch display panel above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, as illustrated in
In a particular implementation, in order to guarantee the precision of line recognition, in the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, as illustrated in
In a particular implementation, in the touch display panel above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, as illustrated in
Of course, in a particular implementation, the scan signal lines and the control signal lines 102 can alternatively be formed separately, although embodiments of the disclosure will not be limited thereto, and when the scan signal lines and the control signal lines 102 are formed separately, the scan signal lines and the control signal lines 102 can be formed in the same patterning process, that is, the scan signal lines and the control signal lines 102 are arranged at the same layer.
In a particular implementation, in the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, as illustrated in
In order to simplify the fabrication process, and to guarantee a lightweight and thinned design, the data signal lines 107 can be arranged at the same layer as the acquisition signal lines 103, and in order to avoid signals on the data signal lines 107, and signals on the acquisition signal lines 103 from interfering with each other, the respective data signal lines 107 (e.g., the first data signal lines DR, the second data signal lines DG and the third data signal lines DB as illustrated in
In a particular implementation, in the touch display panel above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, as illustrated in
An orthographic projection of the black matrix 108 onto the array substrate cover orthographic projections of the line recognition electrodes 105, the control signal lines 102, the acquisition signal lines 103, and the line recognition control transistors 104 onto the array substrate, so that the line recognition electrodes 105, the control signal lines 102, the acquisition signal lines 103, and the line recognition control transistors 104 will not hinder an image from being displayed normally.
In some embodiments, as illustrated in
As can be appreciated, in order to recognize a finger in the touch display panel above according to embodiments of the disclosure, as illustrated in
Correspondingly, some embodiments of the disclosure further provide a method for driving the touch display panel above, and as illustrated in
However, in view of a power loss and a corresponding capacity of the IC (it may be rather difficult for the current IC to both receive and read capacitance data fed back on more than 1000 columns of acquisition signal lines 103), in the fingerprint recognition process above, in order to guarantee the corresponding capacity of the IC, and to lower the power loss of the IC, in the driving method above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, the step S602 of applying the line recognition signal to the line recognition electrodes on the acquisition signal lines can particularly include:
In a particular implementation, in order to guarantee the corresponding capacity of the IC, and to lower the power loss of the IC, in the driving method above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, the step S603 of detecting the feedback signal of the line recognition electrodes acquired on the acquisition signal lines to recognize a line can include:
Stated otherwise, after the touch position is determined, the line recognition signal is applied again to the zone including the touch position to thereby recognize a fingerprint, so that only a part of the acquisition signal lines operate in the line recognition process to thereby reduce the number of IC channels, lower the power loss of the IC, and improve the efficiency.
In a particular implementation, in the driving method above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, in order to acquire all the fingerprint information, the step of determining the acquisition signal lines to be detected again, according to the touch position can include:
In a particular implementation, in the driving method above according to the embodiment of the disclosure, before the control signal is applied to the respective control signal lines line by line in the step S601, the method can further include the step of receiving a fingerprint recognition request, that is, a fingerprint is recognized upon reception of the fingerprint recognition request which is a trigger instruction.
In order to better understand the fingerprint recognition function according to embodiments of the disclosure, the touch display panel with the resolution of 1080×1920 will be described below in details by way of an example.
After the system sends the fingerprint recognition request, firstly the touch position is determined so that a general touch function of the touch display panel can be performed without recognizing any fingerprint.
In the positioning process above, a fingerprint recognition process is performed after the touch position P of the current finger (as illustrated in
Based upon the same inventive idea, some embodiments of the disclosure further provide a display device including the touch display panel above according to the embodiment of the disclosure. The display device can be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a TV set, a monitor, a notebook computer, a digital photo frame, a navigator, a smart watch, a fitness wrist band, a personal digital assistant, an automatic teller machine, or any other product or component with a display function. All the other components indispensable to the display device shall readily occur to those ordinarily skilled in the art, so a repeated description thereof will be omitted here, and embodiments of the disclosure will not be limited thereto. Reference can be made to the embodiment of the touch display panel above for an implementation of the display device, so a repeated description thereof will be omitted here.
In the touch display panel, the method for driving the same, and the display device above according to the embodiments of the disclosure, the touch display panel includes: an array substrate including a plurality of pixel zones arranged in an array, a plurality of control signal lines located at gaps between respective rows of pixel zones, and a plurality of acquisition signal lines located at gaps between respective columns of pixel zones, and insulated from the control signal lines, where a plurality of sub-pixels, line recognition control transistors, and line recognition electrodes located at gaps between the respective sub-pixels are arranged in each pixel zone; the line recognition control transistors have gates connected with the control signal line, sources connected with the line recognition electrodes, and drains connected with the acquisition signal line; the control signal lines are configured to provide the line recognition control transistors with a control signal; and the acquisition signal lines are configured to provide the line recognition electrodes with a line recognition signal through the line recognition control transistors, and to receive a signal carrying line information transmitted by the line recognition electrodes through the line recognition control transistors. The line recognition control transistors, the line recognition electrodes, the acquisition signal line, and the control signal lines are integrated in the touch display panel to thereby recognize a line (e.g., a fingerprint) so as to improve a screen to panel ratio.
It should be noted that some terms, such as “first”, “second”, are only used for distinguishing one entity or operation from another entity or operation, but not for requiring or implying any relationship or sequence between entities or operations.
Evidently those skilled in the art can make various modifications and variations to the disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the disclosure. Thus the disclosure is also intended to encompass these modifications and variations thereto so long as the modifications and variations come into the scope of the claims appended to the disclosure and their equivalents.
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