US 12,111,996 B2
Driving apparatus and operation method thereof
Wei-Lun Shih, Hsinchu (TW); Tsen-Wei Chang, Taichung (TW); Cho-Hsuan Jhang, Hsinchu (TW); Chih-Peng Hsia, Hsinchu County (TW); and Cheng-Yu Chiang, Taoyuan (TW)
Assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Novatek Microelectronics Corp., Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Aug. 19, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/891,149.
Application 17/891,149 is a continuation of application No. 16/845,001, filed on Apr. 9, 2020, granted, now 11,423,685.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/964,137, filed on Jan. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/831,718, filed on Apr. 9, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0406085 A1, Dec. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06V 40/13 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 3/04166 (2019.05) [G06V 40/13 (2022.01)] 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A driving apparatus, configured to drive a panel, the driving apparatus comprising:
a first driving circuit, configured to suspends performing at least one of a display driving operation and a touch sensing operation during a skip period under a driving mode, and the first driving circuit performs the at least one of the display driving operation and the touch sensing operation outside the skip period under the driving mode; and
a second driving circuit, coupled to the first driving circuit, and configured to perform a fingerprint sensing operation during the skip period,
wherein a length of the skip period comprises a length more than one frame period, under the driving mode.