US 11,963,426 B2
Display device including fingerprint recognition function
Dae-Young Lee, Seoul (KR); Gee-Bum Kim, Seoul (KR); Byung Han Yoo, Suwon-si (KR); Sangwoo Kim, Seoul (KR); Jungha Son, Yongin-si (KR); Taekyung Ahn, Yongin-si (KR); Yunjong Yeo, Hwaseong-si (KR); Kijune Lee, Yongin-si (KR); Jaeik Lim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Min Oh Choi, Yongin-si (KR); and Chaungi Choi, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 18, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/904,913.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0096844 (KR), filed on Aug. 8, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0043875 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H10K 59/65 (2023.01); G06V 40/13 (2022.01); H10K 50/86 (2023.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.01)
CPC H10K 59/65 (2023.02) [G06V 40/13 (2022.01); G06V 40/1306 (2022.01); H10K 50/865 (2023.02); H10K 59/40 (2023.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a sensor including a transistor and a detection electrode electrically connected to the transistor, the detection electrode comprising a continuous electrode body;
an optical pattern layer disposed on the sensor and including a plurality of transmission portions and a light blocking portion; and
a display panel disposed on the optical pattern layer and including first electrodes disposed in a plurality of pixel areas, respectively,
wherein each of the first electrodes overlaps at least two of the plurality of transmission portions,
wherein the detection electrode overlaps X transmission portions among the plurality of transmission portions on a plane, wherein X is a positive integer greater than or equal to three, and
wherein each of the first electrodes overlaps with fewer than the X transmission portions among the plurality of transmission portions on the plane.