Embodiment
The present invention discloses the capacitance type touch-control panel in a kind of display device that is applied to image display system, and specifically, contact panel utilizes respectively scan modes more than two stages to decide the input position of user on contact panel.In order to make narration of the present invention more detailed and complete, can and coordinate Fig. 1 to Fig. 2 d with reference to following description.
With reference to figure 1, Fig. 1 shows display system 1 according to an embodiment of the invention, described display system comprises have display device 100 electronic installation 10 of (for example liquid crystal indicator or OLED display device), particularly capacitance type touch-control panel 200 is installed in display device 100, display device 100 also comprises a power supply supply (not shown) for contact panel 200 runnings, and the image that user can watch display device 100 to provide by capacitance type touch-control panel 200.
In the present embodiment, the electronic installation 10 that has a display device 100 can be applicable to mobile phone, digital camera, personal digital assistant (PDA), mobile computer, desktop PC, TV, vehicle display, display, GPS (GPS) or portable digital videodisc (DVD) player for aviation.
Fig. 2 a shows the circuit of capacitance type touch-control panel 200 according to an embodiment of the invention.In the present embodiment, capacitance type touch-control panel 200 comprises a plurality of capacitor groups 202, the first sweep circuit 204, the second sweep circuit 206 and treatment circuit 208.Wherein, each capacitor group 202 also comprises a plurality of capacitor modules 2022, and each capacitor module 2022 comprises respectively a variable capacitor sensor Cs, and the electrode of variable capacitor sensor Cs can be embodied as transparency electrode, its material can be indium tin oxide (Indium Tin Oxide is called for short ITO).When capacitor module 2022, for example pointed or pointer when touching, the capacitance in capacitor sensor Cs changes.This part is that those skilled in the art know ground, repeats no more.
But it should be noted, between the common electrode PV of the electrode of capacitor module 2022 and display device 100 or the electrode of adjacent capacitor module 2022, have capacitor parasitics Cp, and capacitor parasitics Cp produces when contact panel 200 is made and is arranged at display device 100, wherein the capacitance of capacitor parasitics Cp is approximately fixed.Fig. 2 b shows the schematic diagram that is related to of the capacitance variation that area caused that touched by object under test TOB according to capacitor module 2022, and wherein X-axis means capacitance, and Y-axis means the area that capacitor module 2022 is touched.The area change being touched along with capacitor module 2022 increases, and the capacitance of its capacitor sensor Cs is also along with increase, and storable electric weight is also along with change.
Treatment circuit 208 comprises charge-discharge circuit 2082.2082 pairs of capacitor modules of charge-discharge circuit 2022 carry out charge and discharge.Whether it is worth mentioning that, aforesaid capacitor parasitics Cp also can impact capacitor sensor Cs, but as shown in Figure 2 b, the capacitance of capacitor parasitics Cp is approximately definite value, can be not touched and change along with capacitor module 2022.
Charge-discharge circuit 2082 will provide charging voltage V, in order to capacitor module 2022 is charged, and provide fixed current I to discharge to capacitor module 2022, and the time that charge-discharge circuit 2082 discharges and recharges is in addition certain value.And when treatment circuit 208 and capacitor module 2022 conducting, can measure at node A the equivalent voltage of capacitor module 2022, and when capacitor module 2022 is touched by object under test TOB, the variation of the capacitance of capacitor sensor Cs will affect the equivalent voltage of node A.
In another embodiment, treatment circuit 208 also comprises noise suppression circuit 2084, and noise suppression circuit 2084 mainly comprises a sampling capacitor device Cx, when capacitor module 2022 (or capacitor group 202) discharges with charge-discharge circuit 2082 conductings, be used for the electric weight that reservior capacitor module 2022 flows out, and measure thus capacitance or the capacitance variation of capacitor module 2022.As previously mentioned, capacitor module 2022 inevitably can contain capacitor parasitics Cp, and being common electrode PV with respect to display device 100, capacitor parasitics Cp forms, and when common electrode PV is during with noise, will make capacitor module 2022 and the electric weight that sampling capacitor device Cx stores all be subject to the impact of noise, and cannot measure exactly the capacitance of capacitor module 2022.Therefore, in the present embodiment, sampling capacitor device Cx one end and capacitor module 2022 link, and the sampling capacitor device Cx other end links with the common electrode PV of display device 100.As shown in the figure, sampling capacitor device Cx two ends all can be subject to the impact of common electrode PV simultaneously and mutually offset, therefore when common electrode PV is during with noise, sampling capacitor device Cx still can measure capacitance or the capacitance variation of capacitor module 2022 exactly.
Fig. 2 c shows according to the detailed circuit of the capacitance type touch-control panel 200 of one embodiment of the invention.Each capacitor group (for example EA) comprises a plurality of capacitor modules, for example three capacitor modules (EA1-EA3).In the present embodiment, each capacitor module comprises a transparency electrode, and width is between 0.1mm-0.5mm, and transparency electrode is except elongate in shape, also can be arbitrary shape.
Contact panel 200 adopts two stage scannings.First stage scanning is for capacitor group EA-EG, and subordinate phase is for the capacitor module in particular comparator group wherein.To further illustrate as follows.
first stage scanning
With reference to figure 2c, the first sweep circuit 204 provides many span scan lines (L1-L7), link respectively capacitor group (EA-EG), and the number of capacitor group is corresponding to the number of the first sweep circuit 204 sweep traces.The signal that scans of the first sweep circuit 204 is issued capacitor group EA, capacitor group EB successively, until capacitor group EG.When receive the first sweep circuit 204 scan signal time, capacitor group EA-EG successively with treatment circuit 208 conductings.In this embodiment, alleged capacitor group and treatment circuit 208 conductings, refer to capacitor module in this capacitor group together with treatment circuit 208 conductings.And treatment circuit 208 can, according to the whole stored electric weight of capacitor module in capacitor group, measure the capacitance of capacitor group.
As shown in Figure 2 c, when object under test TOB touches capacitor group EC, ED and EE, the capacitance of its capacitor module can change, for example be greater than a predetermined value, and then processed circuit 208 is detected in previously described mode, 208 for the treatment of circuits record capacitor group EC, ED and EE is " particular comparator group ", to carry out scanning of next stage.In another embodiment, except being detected " the particular comparator group " that capacitance changes, the last capacitor group for the treatment of circuit 208 additional records " particular comparator group " (EC, ED and EE) (capacitor group EB) and a rear capacitor group (capacitor group EF), to carry out scanning of next stage.
subordinate phase scanning
Capacitor module number in corresponding each capacitor group, the second sweep circuit 206 provides three Reginal-block scanning lines (S1-S3), and it is connected with the capacitor module (EA1-EG3) in capacitor group (EA-EG) respectively successively.The capacitor group EA of take is example, Reginal-block scanning line S1 connects capacitor module EA1, Reginal-block scanning line S2 connects capacitor module EA2, Reginal-block scanning line S3 connects capacitor module EA3, and according to above-mentioned connected mode, Reginal-block scanning line S1-S3 is connected to the capacitor module (EB1-EG3) in capacitor group (EB-EG) successively.
In " subordinate phase scanning ", the second sweep circuit 206 can't scan all capacitor modules (EA1-EG3), relatively, the second sweep circuit 206 only sends and scans signal and give in the last stage and scan particular comparator group EC, ED that middle treatment circuit 208 records and the capacitor module of EE, or the capacitor module of capacitor group EB and EF before and after adding.When receive the second sweep circuit 206 scan signal time, the capacitor module of above-mentioned capacitor group and treatment circuit 208 conductings, and treatment circuit 208 can, according to the stored electric weight of capacitance module (EB1-EF3), measure its capacitance.As shown in Figure 2 c, and when object under test TOB touches capacitor module EC2, EC3, ED1, ED2, ED3, EE1 and EE2, its capacitance can change, for example be greater than a predetermined value, and then processed circuit 208 detects, 208 for the treatment of circuits record capacitor module EC2, EC3, ED1, ED2, ED3, EE1 and EE2 for " particular comparator module ", determine thus position touched on contact panel 200, to produce an input signal.
In one embodiment, can calculate the mean place of capacitor module EC2, EC3, ED1, ED2, ED3, EE1 and EE2, or further select two at a distance of capacitor module (being capacitor module EC2 and capacitor module EE2) farthest from capacitor module EC2, EC3, ED1, ED2, ED3, EE1 and EE2, the central point O that calculates again two capacitor module EC2 and EE2, determines position touched on contact panel 200 thus.
From above-described embodiment, can also recognize, panel 200 can allow at least two, and capacitor module is touched or two capacitor groups are touched, take Fig. 2 c as example, and capacitor group EC has touched capacitor module EC2 and EC3, capacitor group ED have touched capacitor module ED1-ED3, capacitor group EE has touched capacitor module EE1 and EE2.Yet, to be familiar with this technical field person and should to recognize, above-described embodiment is for exemplary illustration, but not is used for limiting capacitor group touched in the present invention or the number of capacitor module; Be that more than one capacitor module is touched, or in two capacitor groups (can be adjacent or non-conterminous), all there is the embodiment of touched capacitor module, all in the scope that the present invention wanted to contain.
It should be noted that, in other embodiments, the first sweep circuit 204 and the second sweep circuit 206 can be integrated in the signal/control circuit (not showing on figure) in display device 100, and save contact panel 200 pin (Pin) number because needing span scan line (L1-L7) and Reginal-block scanning line (S1-S3) to increase originally, for example span scan line (L1-L7) can directly utilize the pin of original signal/control in display device 100 with Reginal-block scanning line (S1-S3), and does not need additionally to increase pin so that scanning to be provided again.
In addition, with reference to figure 2d, in the present embodiment, capacitance type touch-control panel 200 is provided with change-over switch unit, comprise a plurality of change-over switch TX, each change-over switch TX is controlled by a switched scan line SWX respectively, and a respectively corresponding capacitor module, this can make signal/control signal (for example extra sweep signal) by change-over switch TX, the capacitor group that scanning is arranged along directions X (or Y-direction).This by the mode that directions X and Y-direction are scanned respectively, can obtain judged result more accurately.
Below further illustrate the embodiment of Fig. 2 d.The capacitor module EA1 to ENm of the corresponding capacitor group in change-over switch unit (EA-EN), described capacitor module EA1 to ENm is respectively arranged with transistor switch TX and RTX.Transistor switch TX and RTX are anti-phase, and for example transistor switch TX is N-shaped transistor, and transistor switch RTX is p-type transistor.Transistor switch TX is relevant to RTX and directions X, and is subject to the control of directions X sweep trace SWX.In this embodiment, capacitor group (EA-EN) is all arranged along directions X, therefore when receive directions X sweep trace SWX scan signal time, switch TX all in capacitor group (EA-EN) open, and all switch RTX close.
The capacitor group EA of take is example, and the first sweep circuit 204 is provided with a plurality of transistor switch T1 and RT1, and each transistor switch T1 distinguishes the capacitor module EA1-EAm in corresponding capacitor group EA with RT1, and controlled by span scan line L1.The second sweep circuit 206 comprises a plurality of transistor switch T11-T1m and RT11-RT1m, wherein, the respectively corresponding capacitor module EA1-EAm of transistor switch T11-T1m arranges, transistor switch RT11-RT1m also distinguishes corresponding capacitor module EA1-EAm and arranges, and transistor switch T11 and RT11 are controlled by Reginal-block scanning line S 1, transistor switch T1m and RT1m are controlled by Reginal-block scanning line Sm.In addition, transistor switch T1 and RT1 are anti-phase, and for example transistor switch T1 is N-shaped transistor, and transistor switch RT1 is p-type transistor; Transistor switch T11-T1m and RT11-RT1m are anti-phase, and for example transistor switch T11-T1m is N-shaped transistor, and transistor switch RT11-RT1m is p-type transistor.Take capacitor module EA1 as example, transistor switch T1 and T11 connect with transistor switch TX, therefore as transistor switch T1, T11, and TX while all opening, capacitor module EA1 just can with treatment circuit 208 conductings, and transistor switch RT1, RT11, be connected in parallel to each other with RTX, and work as long as one of them unlatching, capacitor module EA1 ground connection.Other capacitor module can reference capacitor module EA1, in the mode of icon, arranges, and not in this to go forth.
While scanning in the first stage, all switch TX and T11-TNm open, and all switch RTX and RT11-RTNm close.The span scan line L1-Ln of the first sweep circuit 204 now, turn-on transistor switch T1-TN successively, with conducting treatment circuit 208 and capacitor group (EA-EN), and treatment circuit 208 measures the capacitance of capacitor group (EA-EN), and in this example, treatment circuit 208, according to measured capacitance or capacitance variation, judges that the capacitance of capacitor group EA is greater than a predetermined value, therefore further select capacitor group EA, to carry out scanning of next stage.
Subordinate phase scanning is only for capacitor group EA, and wherein all switch TX and the T1 of capacitor group EA open, and all switch RTX and RT1 close.The Reginal-block scanning line S1-Sm of the second sweep circuit 206 now, open successively transistor switch T11-T1m in capacitor group EA, conducting treatment circuit 208 and capacitor module EA1 to EAm, and treatment circuit 208 measures capacitance or the capacitance variation of capacitor module EA1 to EAm, selected capacitor module EA1 to EAm at least one of them, and produce input signal.
According to above setting, the embodiment of the present invention provides a kind of capacitance type touch-control panel being incorporated in display device, it has advantages of with respect to electric resistance touch-control panel, for example, according to the embodiment of the present invention, can not increase the thickness of display device, solve the problem of stray capacitance and noise, in addition yet, by two stage scanning, also solved the problem of known capacitance formula contact panel lack of resolution.
The foregoing is only preferred embodiment of the present invention, not in order to limit claim of the present invention; All other do not depart from the equivalence completing under disclosed spirit and changes or modify, and all should be included in following claim.