Touch Sensor Mesh Layout for Uniform Color Display Viewing

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing display devices face challenges in achieving improved display quality and touch sensing quality with high resolution, particularly in reducing light blocking differences across viewing angles for different colors.

Innovation Solution

The display device incorporates a specific arrangement of unit pixels with alternating light emitting areas of different colors and a conductive layer with mesh openings, allowing for improved light emission and touch sensing capabilities.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If a conventional sensor conductive layer is used, then touch sensing function is provided, but light blocking differences across viewing angles occur

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetouch sensing functionVSAvoidlight blocking variation
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The sensor conductive layer is divided into multiple segments corresponding to different color regions (red, green, blue sub-pixels). Each segment has optimized conductivity characteristics tailored to its specific color region, allowing differential compensation of viewing angle dependencies for different colors while maintaining touch sensing functionality.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

Different regions of the sensor conductive layer are assigned different conductivity characteristics. Specifically, the conductivity in each color region (red, green, blue) is independently optimized to compensate for the specific viewing angle dependency of that color, creating local quality variations that address the global light blocking issue.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

2Measurement precision

If sensor conductive layer conductivity is increased to improve touch sensing, then sensing accuracy improves, but light blocking increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetouch sensing accuracyVSAvoidlight transmission
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSIllumination intensity

Solution Approach 1:

The conductivity of the sensor conductive layer is optimized locally for each color region rather than using a uniform high conductivity throughout. This allows each region to have just enough conductivity for accurate touch sensing while minimizing light blocking, as each region's conductivity is tailored to its specific requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The sensor conductive layer is segmented into multiple regions with different conductivity characteristics. This segmentation allows the system to achieve adequate touch sensing accuracy through distributed conductivity rather than requiring uniformly high conductivity, thereby reducing overall light blocking while maintaining sensing precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP4657219A1Display device and electronic apparatus including the same
Publication Date: 2025.12.03 SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO LTD
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AI summary

A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of unit pixels and an input sensor. The input sensor includes a first sensor conductive layer, a first sensor insulating layer, and a second sensor conductive layer. At least one of the first and second sensor conductive layers is provided with a mesh opening defined therethrough, each of the unit pixels includes first, second, and third light emitting areas respectively emitting first, second, and third color lights, the first light emitting area of the first unit pixel and the second light emitting area of the second unit pixel are alternately arranged with each other in a first direction, and the second light emitting area of the first unit pixel and the first light emitting area of the second unit pixel are alternately arranged with each other in the first direction.