Time-Divided Display-Touch Gate Driving with Narrower Touch Pulses

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Solution Overview

Problem

Conventional touch sensing display apparatuses face challenges in increasing touch performance due to insufficient scan output time for touch sensing, as they alternately drive display and touch frames using a time division scheme with an intactly used gate driving circuit.

Innovation Solution

A touch sensing display apparatus that alternately implements display driving and touch sensing at predetermined periods, utilizing a gate driving circuit with multiple stages activated by display and touch carry clocks, where the touch scan signal has a narrower pulse width than the display scan signal, ensuring sufficient scan output time for touch sensing.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a conventional gate driving circuit is used for time division driving, then the display function is maintained, but the scan output time for touch sensing is insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedisplay functionVSAvoidscan output time for touch sensing
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The gate driving circuit is designed with dynamic reconfigurability, allowing it to switch between display driving mode and touch sensing mode. The circuit can be selectively activated or deactivated based on the current operation mode, enabling flexible time-division multiplexing between display and touch functions without requiring separate dedicated circuits for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Solution Approach 2:

The gate driving circuit is divided into multiple stages that can be independently controlled. By segmenting the circuit into display-driving stages and touch-sensing stages, the system can selectively activate only the necessary stages for the current operation, thereby securing sufficient scan output time for touch sensing while maintaining display functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

2Measurement precision

If the touch scan signal has a wider pulse width to improve touch sensing, then touch performance is enhanced, but the scan output time requirement increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetouch sensing performanceVSAvoidscan output time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The gate driving circuit is activated in advance before the touch scan signal needs to be output. By pre-activating the circuit stages and preparing the signal path beforehand, the system can deliver a wider pulse width touch scan signal within the available time frame, thereby improving touch sensing performance without exceeding the total scan output time budget.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The gate driving circuit uses accelerated signal propagation techniques to quickly transition through the necessary stages. By rushing the signal through the circuit stages with optimized timing and reduced delays, the system can accommodate wider pulse widths for improved touch sensing while still completing the scan operation within the required time constraints.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #21Skipping (Rushing through)

Data Source

PatentUS12436633B2Touch sensing display apparatus
Publication Date: 2025.10.07 LG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A touch sensing display apparatus includes a display panel where display driving and touch sensing driving are alternately implemented and a gate driving circuit includes a stages that are sequentially activated to drive gate lines. Each stage is activated according to a display carry clock having a voltage level that changes between a gate on voltage and a gate off voltage in a display frame and output a display scan signal to the display panel during the display driving, and each stage is activated according to a touch carry clock changing between the gate on voltage and the gate off voltage in a touch frame and output a touch scan signal to the display panel. An on-pulse width of the touch carry clock is narrower than an on pulse width of the display carry clock.