# US 12,004,404 B2 · Electronic apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 12,004,404 B2 - Document ID: US12004404B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/886,723 - Filed: 2022-08-12 - Published: 2023-10-05 - Granted: 2024-06-04 - Earliest claimed: 2022-03-15 - Assignees: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Samsung Display Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Jongseon Park; Hwan-Hee Jeong - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US12004404B2 ## CPC - H10K 59/40: OLEDs integrated with touch screens - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/0445: {using two or more layers of sensing electrodes, e.g. using two layers of electrodes separated by a dielectric layer} - G06F 3/0446: {using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes} - H10K 59/353: {characterised by the geometrical arrangement of the RGB subpixels} - G06F 2203/04112: Electrode mesh in capacitive digitiser: electrode for touch sensing is formed of a mesh of very fine, normally metallic, interconnected lines that are almost invisible to see. This provides a quite large but transparent electrode surface, without need for ITO or similar transparent conductive material - H10K: ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract Provided is an electronic apparatus including a display panel configured to provide an active region including a plurality of light-emitting regions, a first electrode including a plurality of first sensor patterns disposed in the active region and a plurality of first connection patterns respectively connected to the first sensor patterns, and a second electrode including a plurality of second sensor patterns insulated from the first electrode and disposed in the active region and a plurality of second connection patterns respectively connected to the second sensor patterns, wherein each of the first connection patterns includes a first pattern and a second pattern separated from each other in a first direction and respectively having a bar shape extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, and the light-emitting regions include at least one light-emitting pixel spaced apart from and disposed between the first pattern and the second pattern. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An electronic apparatus comprising: a display panel including an active region which includes a plurality of light-emitting regions; a first electrode comprising a plurality of first sensor patterns disposed in the active region and a plurality of first connection patterns respectively connecting adjacent first sensor patterns; a second electrode comprising a plurality of second sensor patterns insulated from the first electrode and disposed in the active region, and a plurality of second connection patterns respectively connecting adjacent second sensor patterns; and an insulating layer disposed between the plurality of first connection patterns and the plurality of second connection patterns, wherein each of the plurality of first connection patterns comprises: a first pattern and a second pattern spaced apart from each other in a first direction, respectively having a bar shape extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, and each connecting the adjacent first sensor patterns through contact holes formed in the insulating layer, a third pattern extending along the first direction and connected to each of the first pattern and the second pattern, and a fourth pattern extending along the first direction, spaced apart from the third pattern in the second direction, and connected to each of the first pattern and the second pattern, wherein each of the plurality of light-emitting regions comprise a light-emitting pixel, and wherein the light-emitting pixel includes a plurality of sub-pixels disposed between the first pattern and the second pattern along the first direction. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein: the sub-pixels are spaced apart from each other in the first direction or in the second direction. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The electronic apparatus of claim 2, wherein the light-emitting pixel is provided in plural between the first pattern and the second pattern, and the plurality of light-emitting pixels are arranged along the second direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of first sensor patterns, the plurality of second sensor patterns, and the plurality of second connection patterns are disposed on a layer different from a layer on which the plurality of first connection patterns are disposed. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The electronic apparatus of claim 4, further comprising a floating pattern insulated from the first electrode and the second electrode, and disposed between the first pattern and the second pattern, wherein the floating pattern is disposed on a layer different from the layer on which the plurality of first connection patterns are disposed, and wherein the floating pattern does not overlap the plurality of first sensor patterns, the plurality of first connection patterns, the plurality of second sensor patterns, and the plurality of second connecting patterns in a plan view. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein: contact holes connecting the plurality of first connection patterns and the plurality of first sensor patterns through the contact holes are respectively formed to overlap the third pattern and the fourth pattern in a plan view. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The electronic apparatus of claim 6, wherein the contact holes overlapping the third pattern are arranged in a line along the second direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein an edge of the active region comprises at least one curved portion. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The electronic apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a plurality of signal lines connected to the plurality of first sensor patterns, respectively, wherein the signal line has a curved portion. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The electronic apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of first sensor patterns comprises first mesh lines extending along the first direction and second mesh lines extending along the second direction. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The electronic apparatus of claim 10, wherein each of the first pattern and the second pattern is any one of the second mesh lines. ### Claim 12 An electronic apparatus comprising: a display panel including an active region which includes a plurality of light-emitting regions; a first electrode comprising a plurality of first sensor patterns disposed in the active region and a plurality of first connection patterns respectively connecting adjacent first sensor patterns; a second electrode comprising a plurality of second sensor patterns insulated from the first electrode and disposed in the active region, and a plurality of second connection patterns respectively connecting adjacent second sensor patterns; an insulator disposed between the plurality of first connection patterns and the plurality of second connection patterns; and a floating pattern insulated from each of the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein: each of the plurality of first connection patterns comprises a first pattern and a second pattern spaced apart from each other in the first direction, each of the first pattern and the second pattern connecting the adjacent first sensor patterns through contact holes formed in the insulating layer; and the floating pattern is disposed between the first pattern and the second pattern on a layer different from a layer on which the plurality of first connection patterns are disposed not to overlap the first pattern and the second pattern in a plan view. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein each of the first pattern and the second pattern has a bar shape extending along the second direction. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The electronic apparatus of claim 13, wherein: each of the plurality of first connection patterns further comprises a third pattern and a fourth pattern spaced apart from each other in the second direction with the first pattern and the second pattern interposed therebetween and connected to the first pattern and the second pattern; and contact holes connecting the plurality of first connection patterns and the plurality of first sensor patterns through the contact holes are formed to overlap the third pattern and the fourth pattern in a plan view. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The electronic apparatus of claim 14, wherein the arrangement direction of the contact holes is a direction crossing the second direction. ### Claim 16 (depends on 12) The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein: at least three sub-pixels are disposed between the first pattern and the second pattern; and each of the plurality of light-emitting regions is a region in which each of the at least three sub-pixels emits light. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The electronic apparatus of claim 16, wherein the sub-pixels are spaced apart from each other in the first direction or in the second direction. ### Claim 18 (depends on 12) The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein: each of the plurality of first connection patterns comprises first mesh lines extending along the first direction and second mesh lines extending along the second direction; and each of the first pattern and the second pattern is any one of the second mesh lines. ### Claim 19 (depends on 12) The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein the floating pattern is disposed in the same layer as the plurality of first sensor patterns. ### Claim 20 (depends on 12) The electronic apparatus of claim 12, wherein the first pattern and the second pattern are disposed between the plurality of light-emitting regions.