US 11,868,560 B2
Sensor device and driving method thereof using multi-frequency transmission
Keum Dong Jung, Yongin-si (KR); Ji Woong Kim, Yongin-si (KR); Hyung Gun Ma, Yongin-si (KR); Kyung Tea Park, Yongin-si (KR); Moon Jae Jeong, Yongin-si (KR); and Sang Hyun Heo, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 27, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/809,091.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0157981 (KR), filed on Nov. 16, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0152922 A1, May 18, 2023
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04166 (2019.05) [G06F 3/0446 (2019.05); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/0448 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04112 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sensor device comprising:
first sensors;
second sensors forming capacitance with the first sensors;
a multi-frequency generator generating a first frequency signal and a second frequency signal having different frequencies;
a sensor transmitter supplying first driving signals based on the first frequency signal to first sensors of a first group among the first sensors and simultaneously supplying second driving signals based on the second frequency signal to first sensors of a second group among the first sensors; and
a sensor receiver simultaneously receiving sensing signals from the second sensors,
wherein each two or more first sensors of the first group forms each of first sub-groups, a first sensor of another group is not located within the first sub-groups, and a first sensor of another group is located between the first sub-groups.