Touch Sensing Method for Ultrathin AMOLED Panels

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Solution Overview

Problem

Ultrathin touch display panels, particularly those combining AMOLED display panels with touch panels, face issues with poor induction due to excessive thickness and increased mutual capacitance, leading to misjudgment of touch events.

Innovation Solution

A touch sensing method that adjusts system parameters, such as induction time, by comparing voltages across capacitors formed between sensing and driving electrodes, and between sensing and upper electrodes, to accurately detect touch points and mitigate induction errors.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Length of moving object

If the touch display panel is made thinner to achieve lightness and slimness, then the weight and thickness are reduced, but the induction performance deteriorates due to increased mutual capacitance and poor signal detection

Engineering Contradiction:
ImprovethicknessVSAvoidinduction performance
Core Design Contradiction:
Length of moving objectVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by performing an induction driving period before the actual sensing operation. During this induction period, the system pre-charges the parasitic capacitance between the sensing electrode and upper electrode, establishing a baseline voltage state. This preliminary charging action enables the subsequent sensing period to accurately detect touch-induced voltage changes despite the ultrathin panel structure, resolving the contradiction between reduced thickness and maintained induction performance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent employs parameter changes by dynamically adjusting system parameters including induction time duration, driving voltages (first voltage during induction, second voltage during sensing), and threshold values. These parameter adjustments optimize the voltage differential detection capability in ultrathin panels, allowing the system to maintain measurement precision while operating at reduced thickness levels below 100 micrometers.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Measurement precision

If the induction time is extended to improve touch detection accuracy, then the measurement precision is improved, but the response time and productivity are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetouch detection accuracyVSAvoidresponse time
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements periodic action by dividing the touch sensing operation into distinct time periods: an induction driving period for pre-charging parasitic capacitance, followed by a sensing period for actual touch detection. This periodic structure allows the system to achieve accurate touch detection through voltage differential measurement between periods, rather than requiring continuously extended induction times, thus maintaining both precision and response speed.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent ensures continuity of useful action by overlapping the induction driving period with the display refresh cycle and by continuously monitoring voltage differentials during the sensing period. This continuous monitoring approach allows the system to detect touch events as they occur without requiring long idle induction periods, maintaining high productivity while ensuring accurate detection through sustained voltage measurement.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

The method effectively reduces induction errors and misjudgments in ultrathin touch display panels by dynamically adjusting system parameters, ensuring accurate detection of touch events even at thicknesses below 100 micrometers.

Implementation Method 1

a first voltage is applied to the driving electrode layer and a second voltage is applied to the electrode layer during an induction driving period

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectCapacitance: Capacitance

Implementation Method 2

a parasitic capacitance voltage corresponding to the induction event is obtained

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectParasitic capacitance: Parasitic Capacitance

Implementation Method 3

an induction event of the driving electrode layer is read during the induction driving period, and a sensing voltage is generated corresponding to the induction event

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectElectrical induction: Electrostatic Induction

Data Source

PatentUS9811206B2Touch sensing method, touch display apparatus and portable electronic device
Publication Date: 2017.11.07 HANNSTAR DISPLAY CORP
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AI summary

A touch sensing method, a touch display apparatus and a portable electronic device thereof are provided. A system, a driving method and an architecture of a provided touch display panel are used for decreasing a resistance value between the ultrathin touch display panel (for example, a combination of an AMOLED display panel and a touch panel) or decreasing an influence of the resistance value, so as to decrease a chance of induction error of the touch event or induction misjudgement.