US 12,314,519 B2
Display device
Kiwook Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); Kwangmin Kim, Seoul (KR); Yangwan Kim, Hwaseong-si (KR); and Jisu Na, Yongin-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Display Co., Ltd., Yongin-Si (KR)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/361,229.
Application 17/361,229 is a continuation of application No. 16/504,341, filed on Jul. 8, 2019, granted, now 11,073,955.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0109297 (KR), filed on Sep. 12, 2018; and application No. 10-2018-0129168 (KR), filed on Oct. 26, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0326005 A1, Oct. 21, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); H01L 33/06 (2010.01); H10H 20/812 (2025.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 3/0446 (2019.05) [G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/0448 (2019.05); H10H 20/812 (2025.01); H10K 59/40 (2023.02)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A display device comprising:
a display panel comprising a plurality of emission areas in each of which a light emitting element is disposed and a non-emission area surrounding the plurality of emission areas; and
an input sensor disposed on the display panel and comprising a sensing area and a line area,
wherein the input sensor comprises:
a plurality of first sensing electrodes which are disposed on the sensing area and including mesh lines defining a plurality of openings in the first sensing electrodes; and
a plurality of second sensing electrodes which are disposed on the sensing area to cross the plurality of first sensing electrodes and including mesh lines defining a plurality of openings in the second sensing electrodes,
wherein:
the sensing area includes a first sensing area and a second sensing area,
the first sensing area and the second sensing area have a same surface area,
each of the first sensing area and the second sensing area comprises a 1-1 sensing part of a corresponding first sensing electrode among the plurality of first sensing electrode, a 1-2 sensing part of the corresponding first sensing electrode spaced apart from the 1-1 sensing part, a first connection part of the corresponding first sensing electrode connecting the 1-1 sensing part and the 1-2 sensing part, a 2-1 sensing part of a corresponding second sensing electrode among the plurality of second sensing electrode, a 2-2 sensing part of the corresponding second sensing electrode spaced apart from the 2-1 sensing part, and a second connection part of the corresponding second sensing electrode connecting the 2-1 sensing part and the 2-2 sensing part and crossing the corresponding first sensing electrode,
the plurality of openings of the first sensing area and the plurality of openings of the second sensing area have a different arrangement from each other,
wherein emission areas, which are disposed on the first sensing area, of the plurality of emission areas are defined as a first emission area group, and emission areas, which are disposed on the second sensing area, of the plurality of emission areas are defined as a second emission area group,
each of the first emission area group and the second emission area group comprises first cell units and second cell units,
each of the first cell units comprises a first emission area and a third emission area, which are sequentially arranged in a diagonal direction,
each of the second cell units comprises a second emission area and the third emission area, which are sequentially arranged in a diagonal direction,
the first cell units and the second cell units of the first emission area group have a first arrangement, and the first cell units and the second cell units of the second emission area group have a second arrangement different from the first arrangement,
wherein the first arrangement comprises an alternating disposition of the first and second cell units starting with the first emission area of one of the first cell units at a left-most position of a first row of the first and second cell units in the first sensing area,
wherein the second arrangement comprises an alternating disposition of the first and second cell units starting with the second emission area of one of the second cell units at a left-most position of a first row of the first and second cell units in the second sensing area,
wherein the first emission area of each of the first cell units and the second emission area of each of the second cell units generate different color light, and
wherein the third emission area of each of the first cell units and the third emission area of each of the second cell units generate the same color light.