US 11,864,449 B2
Display module having increased transmittance and electronic device including the display module
Ok-Kyung Park, Hwaseong-si (KR); Yujin Choe, Seoul (KR); Young-Seok Seo, Seoul (KR); and Hye Won Jang, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Sep. 15, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/945,245.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0130746 (KR), filed on Oct. 1, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0105728 A1, Apr. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. H10K 59/40 (2023.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC H10K 59/40 (2023.02) [G06F 3/0446 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04112 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display module comprising:
a display panel having a first area, a second area, and a third area, wherein the second area is adjacent to the first area, and the third area surrounds at least part of the second area; and
a sensor disposed on the display panel, wherein the sensor has a transmissive area, a first sensing area, and a second sensing area, wherein the transmissive area overlaps the first area, wherein the first sensing area overlaps the second area, and the second sensing area overlaps the third area,
wherein the sensor includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, and each of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes has a mesh structure,
wherein the mesh structure includes a first mesh structure and a second mesh structure, wherein the first mesh structure is configured to overlap the first sensing area, wherein the second mesh structure configured to overlap the second sensing area, and wherein the first mesh structure and the second mesh structure are different from each other, and
wherein a border between the first sensing area and the second sensing area has a polygonal shape.