# US 2025/0094010 A1 · Display device > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2025/0094010 A1 - Document ID: US20250094010A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/972,739 - Filed: 2024-12-06 - Published: 2025-03-20 - Earliest claimed: 2020-09-28 - Assignees: LG Display Co., Ltd. - Applicants: LG Display Co., Ltd. - Inventors: NamSu CHOI - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250094010A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/0412: {Digitisers structurally integrated in a display} - G06F 3/0443: {using a single layer of sensing electrodes} - G06F 3/0446: {using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes} - G06F 3/0448: {Details of the electrode shape, e.g. for enhancing the detection of touches, for generating specific electric field shapes, for enhancing display quality} - H04M 1/0266: {for a display module assembly} - H10K 59/353: {characterised by the geometrical arrangement of the RGB subpixels} - H10K 59/40: OLEDs integrated with touch screens - H04M 1/026: {Details of the structure or mounting of specific components} - H04M 1/0264: {for a camera module assembly} - H04M 2250/22: including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector - H10K 59/8731: {multilayered coatings having a repetitive structure, e.g. having multiple organic-inorganic bilayers} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) - H10K: ORGANIC ELECTRIC SOLID-STATE DEVICES ## Abstract A display panel with a first area and a second area, may include: an encapsulation layer disposed over a substrate in the first area and the second area; a bank disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation layer in the first area and the second area; a touch buffer layer disposed over the encapsulation layer; a first touch sensing portion disposed over the touch buffer layer in the first area; and a second touch sensing portion disposed over the touch buffer layer in the second area. An overlapping area between the bank in the first area and the first touch sensing portion may be different from an overlapping area between the bank in the second area and the second touch sensing portion. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A display panel with a first area and a second area, the display panel comprising: an encapsulation layer disposed over a substrate in the first area and the second area; a bank disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation layer in the first area and the second area; a touch buffer layer disposed over the encapsulation layer; a first touch sensing portion disposed over the touch buffer layer in the first area; and a second touch sensing portion disposed over the touch buffer layer in the second area, wherein an overlapping area between the bank in the first area and the first touch sensing portion is different from an overlapping area between the bank in the second area and the second touch sensing portion. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The display panel of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second touch sensing portions includes a touch electrode having a mesh pattern of lines. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The display panel of claim 2, wherein at least one of the lines of the mesh pattern of the touch electrode of the first touch sensing portion has a uniform width. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The display panel of claim 2, wherein at least one of the lines of the mesh pattern of the touch electrode of the second touch sensing portion includes a first portion having a first width and a second portion having a second width different from the first width. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The display panel of claim 4, wherein: the second width is greater than the first width; and the first width is greater than or equal to the width of the at least one of the lines of the mesh pattern of the first touch sensing portion. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The display panel of claim 4, wherein the second width is equal to or greater than the width of the at least one of the lines of the mesh pattern of the touch electrode of the first touch sensing portion. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The display panel of claim 4, wherein the second width is equal to or less than 5 times the first width. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The display panel of claim 1, wherein the first area and the second area have a different resolution from each other. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The display panel of claim 1, wherein a resolution of the second area is lower than a resolution of the first area. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The display panel of claim 1, wherein the second area has a higher light transmittance than the first area. ### Claim 11 (depends on 1) The display panel of claim 1, further comprising: a plurality of pixels disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation layer in the first area and the second area, respectively, wherein a pixel arrangement in the second area is different from a pixel arrangement in the first area. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The display panel of claim 1, further comprising one or more camera holes in the second area. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The display panel of claim 12, further comprising: a plurality of pixels disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation layer in the first area and the second area, respectively, wherein the plurality of pixels in the second area are arranged in units of pixel groups, and wherein the one or more camera holes are disposed between the pixel groups. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The display panel of claim 13, wherein a distance between two adjacent camera holes among the one or more camera holes is smaller than a distance between two adjacent pixel groups among the pixel groups. ### Claim 15 (depends on 2) The display panel of claim 2, wherein a pitch of the lines constituting the mesh pattern of the touch electrode of the first touch sensing portion is smaller than a pitch of the lines constituting the mesh pattern of the touch electrode of the second touch sensing portion. ### Claim 16 (depends on 1) The display panel of claim 1, wherein the first and second touch sensing portions are based on a mutual-capacitive sensing scheme and are configured so that capacitances caused by respective touch inputs into the first and second areas are uniform with respect to each other. ### Claim 17 A display panel, comprising: a circuit layer disposed over a substrate; a light emitting element layer disposed over the circuit layer; an encapsulation layer disposed over the substrate in a first area and a second area; a bank disposed between the substrate and the encapsulation layer in the first area and the second area; a touch buffer layer disposed over the encapsulation layer; a first touch sensing portion disposed over the touch buffer layer in the first area; and a second touch sensing portion disposed over the touch buffer layer in the second area, wherein each of the first and second touch sensing portions includes a touch electrode having a mesh pattern of lines, wherein an overlapping area between the bank in the first area and the first touch sensing portion is different from an overlapping area between the bank in the second area and the second touch sensing portion. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The display panel of claim 17, further comprising: a polarization layer disposed over the first and the second touch sensing portions; and a cover layer disposed over the polarization layer. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The display panel of claim 17, wherein: at least one of the lines of the mesh pattern of the touch electrode of the second touch sensing portion includes a step shape where a first portion of the mesh pattern connects to a second portion of the mesh pattern; and at least one of the lines of the mesh pattern of the touch electrode of the first touch sensing portion does not include a step shape. ### Claim 20 (depends on 17) The display panel of claim 17, further comprising: a plurality of pixels including light emitting areas in the first area and the second area, respectively, wherein the mesh pattern includes openings so that the touch electrode does not overlap light emitting areas of the display panel in a plan view, and wherein the light emitting areas are disposed entirely in the openings of the mesh pattern in the plan view.