US 11,720,202 B2
Display device
Soowon Kim, Cheonan-si (KR); Jaseung Ku, Yongin-si (KR); Hyungchul Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Yerin Oh, Ulsan (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed on Jul. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/305,502.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2020-0147860 (KR), filed on Nov. 6, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0147214 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/04164 (2019.05) [G06F 3/0443 (2019.05); G06F 3/0446 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04111 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel comprising:
a display layer configured to display an image; and
a sensor layer on the display layer, and configured to sense an external input, the sensor layer comprising a first area, a second area adjacent to the first area in a first direction, and a third area adjacent to the second area in the first direction;
a first driver electrically connected with the sensor layer through a first pad area of the display panel; and
a second driver electrically connected with the sensor layer through a second pad area of the display panel,
wherein the sensor layer comprises:
a plurality of electrodes spaced from each other along a second direction crossing the first direction, each of the plurality of electrodes being located at the first area, the second area, and the third area;
a plurality of first intersecting electrodes at the first area, and spaced from each other along the first direction, the plurality of first intersecting electrodes being electrically connected with the first driver from among the first and second drivers;
a plurality of second intersecting electrodes at the second area, and spaced from each other along the first direction, each of the plurality of second intersecting electrodes being electrically connected with both the first driver and the second driver; and
a plurality of third intersecting electrodes at the third area, and spaced from each other along the first direction, the plurality of third intersecting electrodes being electrically connected with the second driver from among the first and second drivers.