# US 2021/0240960 A1 · Detection apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2021/0240960 A1 - Document ID: US20210240960A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 17/237,317 - Filed: 2021-04-22 - Published: 2021-08-05 - Earliest claimed: 2018-11-30 - Assignees: Japan Display Inc. - Applicants: Japan Display Inc. - Inventors: Toshinori UEHARA - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20210240960A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/04166: {Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving (Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184)} - G06V 40/1306: {non-optical, e.g. ultrasonic or capacitive sensing} - G06F 3/044: by capacitive means - G06F 3/0446: {using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes} - G06F 2203/04107: Shielding in digitiser, i.e. guard or shielding arrangements, mostly for capacitive touchscreens, e.g. driven shields, driven grounds - G06F 2203/04108: Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction - G06V 40/1312: {direct reading, e.g. contactless acquisition} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G06V: IMAGE OR VIDEO RECOGNITION OR UNDERSTANDING ## Abstract A detection apparatus is provided and includes detection electrodes; detection circuit configured to be coupled to detection electrodes to detect detection signals corresponding to changes in capacitance of detection electrodes; coupling circuit configured to cause detection electrodes to be a coupled state in which detection electrodes are coupled to detection circuit and non-coupled state in which detection electrodes are uncoupled from detection circuit; drive electrode arranged at a position adjacent to detection electrodes; conductor arranged between detection electrodes and drive electrode; and drive signal generation circuit configured to be coupled to drive electrode to supply drive signal to drive electrode; wherein detection electrodes are provided to one face of insulating substrate, and wherein height of drive electrode from the one face is greater than height of the detection electrodes from the one face. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A detection apparatus comprising: a plurality of detection electrodes arranged in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction; a detection circuit configured to be coupled to the detection electrodes to detect detection signals corresponding to changes in capacitance of the detection electrodes; a coupling circuit configured to cause the detection electrodes to be a coupled state in which the detection electrodes are coupled to the detection circuit and a non-coupled state in which the detection electrodes are uncoupled from the detection circuit; a drive electrode arranged at a position adjacent to the detection electrodes; a conductor arranged between the detection electrodes and the drive electrode; and a drive signal generation circuit configured to be coupled to the drive electrode to supply a drive signal to the drive electrode; wherein the detection electrodes are provided to one face of an insulating substrate, and wherein a height of the drive electrode from the one face is greater than a height of the detection electrodes from the one face. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The detection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the detection apparatus has a plurality of selection patterns of the detection electrodes causing detection electrodes as first selection targets among the detection electrodes to be the coupled state in which the detection electrodes as the first selection targets are coupled to the detection circuit and causing detection electrodes as second selection targets that are not included in the first selection targets to be the non-coupled state in which the detection electrodes as the second selection targets are not coupled to the detection circuit. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The detection apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the selection patterns do not include any selection patterns causing detection electrodes as the first selection targets to be the non-coupled state and causing detection electrodes as the second selection targets to be the coupled state. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The detection apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: a computing circuit configured to subtract a signal for subtraction obtained when all the detection electrodes are the first selection targets, from a double signal obtained by doubling a signal intensity of one of the selection patterns. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The detection apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the coupling circuit has a first mode and a second mode different from the first mode, wherein, in the first mode, the coupling circuit performs either a first selection pattern causing the first selection targets to be the coupled state and causing the second selection targets to be the non-coupled state or a second selection pattern causing the first selection targets of the first selection pattern to be the non-coupled state and causing the second selection targets of the first selection pattern to be the coupled state, and wherein, in the second mode, the coupling circuit performs both the first selection pattern and the second selection pattern. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The detection apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the coupling circuit determines the selection patterns based on positive and negative signs of an Hadamard matrix. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The detection apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the coupling circuit determines the selection patterns based on positive and negative signs of an Hadamard matrix.