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US 11,237,683 B2Granted
Display device
AssigneeSamsung Display Co., Ltd.
InventorsSoo Jung Lee, Suk Kim, Ki Seo Kim, Yu Na Kim, Keum Dong Jung, Go Eun Cha
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Abstract
A display device includes: a display panel which includes a first area and a second area; and a sensor device which overlaps the first area in a thickness direction of the display panel. The display panel includes first sensor electrodes in the first area and second sensor electrodes in the second area, and a shape of a first sensor electrode of the first sensor electrodes is different from a shape of a second sensor electrode of the second sensor electrodes.
Claims20
A display device comprising:
- a display panel which comprises a first area and a second area;
- and
- a sensor device which overlaps the first area in a thickness direction of the display panel and is under the display panel,
- wherein the display panel comprises first sensor electrodes in the first area and second sensor electrodes in the second area, and a shape of a first sensor electrode of the first sensor electrodes is different from a shape of a second sensor electrode of the second sensor electrodes,
- wherein the first sensor electrode comprises protrusions protruding from a first reference line and recesses recessed from the first reference line,
- wherein the first sensor electrode comprises first driving electrodes and first sensing electrodes,
- wherein the first reference line crosses a second reference line,
- wherein a point between two first sensing electrodes of the first sensing electrodes adjacent in a first direction is between two first driving electrodes of the first driving electrodes adjacent in a second direction crossing the first direction,
- wherein a crossing where the first reference line and the second reference line cross each other is at the point, and
- wherein each of the two first sensing electrodes and the two first driving electrodes comprises a respective one of the protrusions that protrudes from the first reference line.
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A display device comprising:
- a display panel which comprises a first area and a second area;
- and
- a sensor device which overlaps the first area in a thickness direction of the display panel,
- wherein the display panel comprises first sensor electrodes in the first area and second sensor electrodes in the second area, and a shape of a first sensor electrode of the first sensor electrodes is different from a shape of a second sensor electrode of the second sensor electrodes,
- the first sensor electrodes comprise first driving electrodes and first sensing electrodes, the second sensor electrodes comprise second driving electrodes and second sensing electrodes, and a first distance between each of the first driving electrodes and an adjacent first sensing electrode is smaller than a second distance between each of the second driving electrodes and an adjacent second sensing electrode,
- the display device further comprises:
- first connection electrodes which connect first driving electrodes adjacent in a second direction;
- and
- second connection electrodes which connect second driving electrodes adjacent in a second direction, and
- each first connection electrode comprises two or more first sub-connection electrodes, each second connection electrode comprises one or more second sub-connection electrodes, and a number of the first sub-connection electrodes is greater than a number of the second sub-connection electrodes.
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A display device comprising:
- a display panel which comprises a first area and a second area;
- first pixels in the first area and second pixels in the second area;
- and
- a sensor device which overlaps the first area in a thickness direction and is under the display panel,
- wherein the display panel comprises first sensor electrodes in the first area and second sensor electrodes in the second area, and values of a first mutual capacitance of the first sensor electrodes are different from values of a second mutual capacitance of the second sensor electrodes,
- wherein a number of the first pixels per unit area in the first area is smaller than a number of the second pixels per unit area in the second area, and
- wherein the first area further comprises a transmitting portion overlapping the sensor device in the thickness direction and not overlapping the first pixels, the transmitting portion having a first breadth in a first direction greater than or equal to a distance spanned by a plurality of first pixels of the first pixels arranged with each other along the first direction.
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