Abstract:
An electronic device having a touch sensor and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The electronic device includes a display panel having a touch screen, a touch driver configured to drive the touch screen, a timing controller configured to control the display panel and the touch driver, and a stylus pen configured to provide a signal to the touch screen. The timing controller, in order to synchronize with the stylus pen, generates and outputs a control signal having an extended vertical blanking period in which a vertical blanking period is extended, and a display driving period and a touch sensor driving period which alternate in two or more times for one frame.
Abstract:
A touch sensing system is disclosed. The touch sensing system includes an active stylus pen that generates a first pen driving signal for detecting a touch input in synchronization with a touch driving signal input from a touch screen and a second pen driving signal for detecting an additional input related to an additional function of the active stylus pen in a touch driving period and outputs the first and second pen driving signals to the touch screen; and a touch driving device that applies the touch driving signal to the touch screen, senses the first pen driving signal in a first period of the touch driving period, and senses the second pen driving signal in a second period of the touch driving period.
Abstract:
An active stylus pen is insensitive to external noise and has enhanced sensing performance with respect to an uplink signal input from a touch screen. The active stylus pen includes a housing connected to a ground, a conductive tip protruding outwardly from one side of the housing and brought into contact with a touch screen, a conductor layer surrounding an outer surface of the housing with an insulator interposed therebetween, a pen driving circuit connected to the conductor layer, and a switch connecting the conductor layer and the pen driving circuit. The pen driving circuit is cased by the housing, receives an uplink signal and a touch sensor driving signal from the touch screen, generates a pen driving signal synchronized with the touch sensor driving signal and outputs the generated pen driving signal to the touch screen through the conductive tip.
Abstract:
A touch sensitive display device, a method for driving the same, and a driving circuit of the display device are disclosed. The touch sensitive display device comprises a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels and a plurality of touch sensors. Each touch sensor is connected to at least one respective pixel of the pixels, the display panel driven in a plurality of successive display frame periods and during each display frame period a respective frame of image data is driven to the pixels. A touch driving circuit drives touch driving signals to the touch sensors during a touch frame that begins in a first display frame period of the display frame periods and ends in a second display frame period of the display frame periods that immediately follows the first display frame period.
Abstract:
An active stylus pen generates a pen driving signal synchronized with a touchscreen driving signal received from a touchscreen and outputs the pen driving signal to the touchscreen. The active stylus pen includes a pressure sensing unit for sensing pressure when touching the touchscreen to generate writing pressure information and a signal processor for modulating the pen driving signal in response to the signal level of the writing pressure information and outputs the modulated signal as a pen driving signal in which the writing pressure information has been reflected.
Abstract:
A touch sensing system and a method of driving the same are disclosed. The touch sensing system includes a touch screen integrated display panel provided with a plurality of touch sensors and a plurality of pixels, a timing controller time-dividing one display frame into a plurality of touch periods and a plurality of display periods, a microcontroller unit dividing a sensing mode of the plurality of touch sensors into a full scan mode and a local scan mode, and a touch integrated circuit (IC) sensing a finger touch input of the touch sensors through the touch periods in the full scan mode and time-division sensing a finger touch input and a pen touch input of the touch sensors through the touch periods in the local scan mode.
Abstract:
An active stylus pen according to the present invention includes a first signal processor configured to generate a touch frame recognition signal for discriminating touch frames on the basis of sub-pulses corresponding to part of each touchscreen driving signal received from a touchscreen and a second signal processor configured to generate a pen driving signal synchronized with main pulses of each touchscreen driving signal other than the sub-pulses and to vary the pen driving signal in units of a touch frame according to the touch frame recognition signal such that additional pen information is reflected in the pen driving signal.
Abstract:
A touch sensing system comprises a touchscreen with a plurality of touch electrodes, to which a touchscreen driving signal is applied, and a stylus pen that generates a pen driving signal based on the touchscreen driving signal and sends the same to the touchscreen. The stylus pen comprises: an amplifier that amplifies the touchscreen driving signal to generate an amplified signal; a comparator that compares the amplified signal with a preset reference voltage to generate a comparator output signal; and a signal processor that measures the pulse width of the comparator output signal, adjusts an amount of delay based on a measurement, and determines an output timing of the pen driving signal based on an adjusted amount of delay to synchronize the pen driving signal with the touchscreen driving signal.
Abstract:
A display device and a method for driving the same are discussed. The display device includes a display panel including a common electrode commonly connected to pixels, a display driving circuit for applying a data voltage to the pixels during a vertical active time, and a sensor driving circuit which applies a gesture sensing driving signal to the common electrode during a vertical blank time and senses a gesture input.
Abstract:
A touch sensing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a display device including a plurality of pixels and displaying an image; a touch screen including a plurality of touch sensors and being included in the display device; display panel driving circuits for driving the display device; a touch sensing circuit for applying a driving signal to the touch sensors to sense a voltage or capacitance variation in the touch sensors; a controller for time-dividing a first frame period into a first driving period for displaying an image on the display device and a second driving period for sensing the touch sensors; and a reset control circuit for controlling operations of the display panel driving circuits with a reset enable signal to initialize the pixels of the display device to an equivalent reset voltage at predetermined intervals between the first driving period and the second driving period.