# US 2024/0201813 A1 · Touch substrate, display apparatus and display system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2024/0201813 A1 - Document ID: US20240201813A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/565,132 - Filed: 2021-06-03 - Published: 2024-06-20 - Earliest claimed: 2021-06-03 - Assignees: Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd.; Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Beijing BOE Sensor Technology Co., Ltd.; Boe Technology Group Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Feng LIU; Shoujin CAI; Cheng LI; Chuncheng CHE; Tiansheng LI; Lin ZHOU; Yingzi WANG - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20240201813A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/0421: {by interrupting or reflecting a light beam, e.g. optical touch-screen} - G02F 1/13338: {Input devices, e.g. touch panels} - G02F 1/133512: {Light shielding layers, e.g. black matrix (G02F1/136209 takes precedence)} - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/042: by opto-electronic means - G06F 3/0488: using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures - G09F 9/35: being liquid crystals (G09F9/302 takes precedence; liquid crystal materials C09K19/00; {liquid crystal panels comprising a number of electrodes in a single cell per se G02F1/13}) - H10F 39/12: Image sensors - G06F 3/041: Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - G02F: OPTICAL DEVICES OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE CONTROL OF LIGHT BY MODIFICATION OF THE OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF THE MEDIA OF THE ELEMENTS INVOLVED THEREIN; NON-LINEAR OPTICS; FREQUENCY-CHANGING OF LIGHT; OPTICAL LOGIC ELEMENTS; OPTICAL ANALOGUE/DIGITAL CONVERTERS - G09F: DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS - H10F: INORGANIC SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES SENSITIVE TO INFRARED RADIATION, LIGHT, ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION OF SHORTER WAVELENGTH OR CORPUSCULAR RADIATION ## Abstract A touch substrate, a display apparatus and a display system are provided. The touch substrate includes: a base substrate including a photosensitive region; and a plurality of photosensitive pixels in an array in the photosensitive region. Each photosensitive pixel includes a plurality of non-visible light sensors and at least one transistor, and each transistor is connected to at least two non-visible light sensors of the plurality of non-visible light sensors. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A touch substrate, comprising: a base substrate comprising a photosensitive region; and a plurality of photosensitive pixels arranged in an array in the photosensitive region, wherein each photosensitive pixel comprises a plurality of non-visible light sensors and at least one transistor, and each transistor is connected to at least two non-visible light sensors of the plurality of non-visible light sensors. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The touch substrate of claim 1, further comprising a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, wherein the plurality of gate lines extend in a first direction, and the plurality of data lines extend in a second direction; and each photosensitive pixel is divided into four regions by one gate line and one data line intersecting with each other, and at least one region of the four regions each is provided with one transistor and at least two non-visible light sensor electrically connected to the transistor. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The touch substrate of claim 2, wherein each photosensitive pixel comprises two transistors, and one transistor and at least two non-visible light sensors electrically connected to the transistor are in each of two regions in a diagonal direction. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The touch substrate of claim 3, wherein two non-visible light sensors in each of the two regions are arranged along the diagonal direction. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The touch substrate of claim 4, further comprising a bias layer on a side of the plurality of non-visible light sensors away from the base substrate, wherein the bias layer comprises a bias line extending along the second direction and leads extending along the first direction; each non-visible light sensor comprises a first electrode between a layer where the at least one transistor is located and the bias layer; and in each photosensitive pixel, the first electrodes of the plurality of non-visible light sensors are electrically connected to the bias line through different leads. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The touch substrate of claim 5, wherein each non-visible light sensor further comprises a photosensitive layer between layers where the first electrode and the transistor are located, and in direct contact with the first electrode; and a ratio of an area of the photosensitive layer in each non-visible light sensor to an area of each photosensitive pixel is in a range from 1:2500 to 9:2500. ### Claim 7 (depends on 3) The touch substrate of claim 3, wherein non-visible light sensors in each of the two regions are arranged in an array along the first direction and the second direction. ### Claim 8 (depends on 2) The touch substrate of claim 2, wherein each photosensitive pixel comprises one transistor, and this transistor and non-visible light sensors, electrically connected to this transistor, arranged in an array along the first direction and the second direction are in only one region of the four regions. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The touch substrate of claim 7, further comprising a bias layer on a side of the plurality of non-visible light sensors away from the base substrate, wherein the bias layer comprises a bias line extending along the second direction and leads extending along the first direction; each non-visible light sensor comprises a first electrode between a layer where the at least one transistor is located and the bias layer; and in each photosensitive pixel, the first electrodes of the plurality of non-visible light sensors in an array are arranged to be connected in series, and are electrically connected to the bias line through a same lead. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The touch substrate of claim 9, wherein each non-visible light sensor further comprises a photosensitive layer between layers where the first electrode and the transistor are located, and in direct contact with the first electrode; and a ratio of an area of the photosensitive layer in each non-visible light sensor to an area of each photosensitive pixel is in a range from 1:10000 to 1:900. ### Claim 11 (depends on 5) The touch substrate of claim 5, wherein an orthographic projection of the bias line on the base substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of a channel region of one transistor of each photosensitive pixel on the base substrate. ### Claim 12 (depends on 6) The touch substrate of claim 6, wherein each non-visible light sensor further comprises a second electrode between a layer where a source electrode or a drain electrode of the transistor is located and the photosensitive layer, opposite to the first electrode, and in direct contact with the photosensitive layer; and the second electrodes of all the non-visible light sensors in each region are arranged to be connected in series, and are electrically connected to the source electrode or the drain electrode of the transistor. ### Claim 13 (depends on 2) The touch substrate of claim 2, wherein in each of the at least one region, in the first direction, a distance between an orthographic projection of the transistor on the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the data line on the base substrate is less than a distance between an orthographic projection of each non-visible light sensor on the base substrate and the orthographic projection of the data line on the base substrate. ### Claim 14 (canceled) ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The touch substrate of claim 1, further comprising: a non-visible light antireflection film on a side of the plurality of non-visible light sensors away from the base substrate; wherein the non-visible light antireflection film covers only the plurality of non-visible light sensors. ### Claim 16 A display apparatus, comprising: a backlight source; a liquid crystal display module on a light outgoing side of the backlight source; and a touch substrate on a side of the liquid crystal display module opposite to a display surface of the liquid crystal display module; wherein the touch substrate comprises: a base substrate comprising a photosensitive region; and a plurality of photosensitive pixels arranged in an array in the photosensitive region, wherein each photosensitive pixel comprises a plurality of non-visible light sensors and at least one transistor, and each transistor is connected to at least two non-visible light sensors of the plurality of non-visible light sensor. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The display apparatus of claim 16, wherein the liquid crystal display module comprises a black matrix, and each photosensitive pixel comprises four non-visible light sensors along the diagonal direction, and the four non-visible light sensors satisfy following distance relationships: d 1 ≥ A + C × n 3 ; d 2 ≤ ( C 3 - A ) + C × n 3 ; d 3 ≥ D + C × n ; d 4 ≤ C - D + C × n ; where d1 denotes a minimum distance, in the first direction, between the two non-visible light sensors in the at least one region; d2 denotes a maximum distance, in the first direction, between the two non-visible light sensors in the at least one region; d3 denotes a minimum distance, in the second direction, between the two non-visible light sensors in the at least one region; d4 denotes a maximum distance, in the second direction, between the two non-visible light sensors in the at least one region; C denotes a side length of each display pixel in the liquid crystal display module; A denotes a width of the black matrix in the first direction; D denotes a width of the black matrix in the second direction, and n denotes a positive integer. ### Claim 18 (depends on 16) The display apparatus of claim 16, wherein the liquid crystal display module comprises a black matrix, and each photosensitive pixel comprises the plurality of non-visible light sensors arranged in an array, and the plurality of non-visible light sensors arranged in an array satisfy a following distance relationship: d 5 ≥ D ; where d5 denotes a maximum distance, in each of the first direction and the second direction, between two farthest ones of the plurality of non-visible light sensors arranged in an array, and D denotes a width of the black matrix in the second direction. ### Claim 19 (depends on 16) The display apparatus of claim 16, wherein the liquid crystal display module comprises a plurality of display pixels, and a ratio of an area of each display pixel to an area of each photosensitive pixel is in a range from 1:1 to 2:1. ### Claim 20 (depends on 16) The display apparatus of claim 16, further comprising: a reflector, a diffusion sheet, and a light guide plate; wherein the reflector is on a side of the touch substrate away from the liquid crystal display module; the diffusion sheet is between the touch substrate and the liquid crystal display module; and the light guide plate is between the diffusion sheet and the liquid crystal display module. ### Claim 21 (depends on 16) A display system, comprising a display apparatus and a non-visible light emitter, wherein the display apparatus is the display apparatus of claim 16.