04th week of 2011 patent applcation highlights part 20 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20110018738 | MOTION CONTROLLED DISPLAY - A method comprising creating configured display information; detecting if a display is moving; presenting, via the display, the configured display information if the display is detected to be stationary; identifying, if the display is detected to be moving, whether the configured display information includes moving image display information; presenting, via the display, the configured display information if the display is detected to be moving, and the configured display information does not include moving image display information; identifying, if the display is detected to be moving, the configured display information includes moving image display information, whether the moving image display information includes emergency information or traffic information; presenting, via the display, the configured display information, excluding the moving image display information, if the moving image display information does not include emergency information or traffic information; and presenting, via the display, the configured display information, including the moving image display information, if the moving image display information includes emergency information or traffic. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018739 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETECTING ABSENCES OF MANUAL AND AUTOMATIC PILOTING OF AN AIRCRAFT - According to the invention, as a function of the altitude, the vertical speed and the heading of the aircraft, as well as of the deviation of the actual trajectory of the aircraft with respect to the automatic trajectory, a time interval (T) is determined, during which it is tolerable for said aircraft to be able to fly without any control command, both on the part of the stick ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110018740 | TACTILE PILOT ALERTING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of alerting an occupant of a seat assembly of the occurrence of a triggering event comprising the steps of monitoring for the occurrence of the triggering event, vibrating the seat assembly and/or probing the seat assembly. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018741 | Mechanical latch locking detection sensors - The invention provides a sensor for determining when a latch for securing an engine cowl on an aircraft is secured by detecting the proximity of a latch hook and a latch pin. The sensor includes a resonant circuit configured and adapted to transmit a status signal when the latch is in a secured state. The sensor also includes a means for conveying status information of the latch to a location remote from the latch based on the status signal, the conveying means being operably connected to the resonant circuit. The invention also provides a method of determining when a latch is open or secured by detecting the proximity of a latch hook and a latch pin. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018742 | METHOD OF DISPLAYING AN IMAGE ON A SCREEN OF AN AIRCRAFT - In one aspect of the method for displaying an image on a screen of a cockpit of an aircraft, control means:
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20110018743 | INPUT-KEY CONTROL DEVICE, AND METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING INPUT KEY - An input-key control device is mounted on an apparatus having a plurality of operating modes and controls a plurality of input keys that receive input provided by a user. The input-key control device includes: a key-related-information storage unit that stores the operating modes and key-identifying information in association with each other, the key-identifying information being information for identifying an operable input key; an input-key identifying unit that identifies, when the operating mode is switched, an input key which has newly become operable as a result of the switching of the operating mode by comparing the key-identifying information associated with the operating mode before the switching and the key-identifying information associated with the operating mode after the switching; and a light-emission control unit that causes a lighting manner of a light-emitting element that illuminates the input key identified by the input-key identifying unit to differ from a lighting manner of a light-emitting element that illuminates remaining input key. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018744 | CAPACITIVE KEYBOARD WITH NON-LOCKING REDUCED KEYING AMBIGUITY - Keyboards, keypads and other data entry devices can suffer from a keying ambiguity problem. In a small keyboard, for example, a user's finger is likely to overlap from a desired key to onto adjacent ones. An iterative method of removing keying ambiguity from a keyboard comprising an array of capacitive keys involves measuring a signal strength associated with each key in the array, comparing the measured signal strengths to find a maximum, determining that the key having the maximum signal strength is the unique user-selected key, and maintaining that selection until either the initially selected key's signal strength drops below some threshold level or a second key's signal strength exceeds the first key's signal strength. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018745 | COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION APPARATUS AND COMPRESSION/DECOMPRESSION METHOD - A compression/decompression apparatus according to the present invention divides a transfer data amount per cycle, and after allocating compressed data in a predetermined amount of at least two sub-block data elements of a plurality of compressed sub-block data elements to each segmented region, combines elements of compressed data in respective segmented regions to generate transfer data, and the compression/decompression apparatus decompresses compressed data of read transfer data allocated to each segmented region in parallel and performs address conversion so that the compressed data is arranged at an original position in block data. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018746 | Method for decoding a message - A method for decoding a message is disclosed. The method is used for an electronic system for displaying messages. The method comprises the following steps: a processing module decoding an un-decoded string of a message received from a message transferring terminal, acquiring a first word group and saving the first word group to a word group handling buffer, and recording a repetition value of the first word group; the processing module decoding an un-decoded string of a message received from the message transferring terminal, acquiring a second word group from the un-decoded string, and saving the second word group to a word group decoding buffer; the processing module comparing the first word group and the second word group to determine whether the first word group and the second word group are the same; and if yes, increasing the repetition value of the first word group. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018747 | Data Generator Providing Large Amounts of Data of Arbitrary Word Length - A waveform memory | 2011-01-27 |
20110018748 | Systems and Methods for Two Tier Sampling Correction in a Data Processing Circuit - Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for data processing. For example, a data processing circuit is disclosed that includes an analog to digital converter, a digital interpolation circuit, a phase error circuit, and a phase adjustment control circuit. The analog to digital converter samples an analog data input at a sampling phase governed at least in part by a coarse control, and provides a series of digital samples. The digital interpolation circuit interpolates between a subset of the series of digital samples based at least in part on a fine control. The phase error circuit calculates a phase error value. The phase adjustment control circuit is operable to determine the coarse control and the fine control based at least in part on the phase error value. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018749 | CHARACTERISTIC ACQUISITION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - It is possible to reduce errors generated between multiple D/A conversion paths. A characteristic acquisition device includes [1] an arbitrary signal generator that converts a first (second) input digital pattern into a first (second) output analog pattern, [2] a digitizer that converts a first input analog pattern into a first output digital pattern, and [3] a characteristic acquisition device that includes a first transmission characteristic deriving unit that derives a first transmission characteristic which converts the first input digital pattern into the output digital pattern where the input analog pattern is the first output analog pattern, a second transmission characteristic deriving unit that derives a second transmission characteristic which converts the second input digital pattern into the output digital pattern where the input analog pattern is the second output analog pattern, and a transmission characteristic ratio deriving unit that derives a transmission characteristic ratio which is a ratio relating to the first transmission characteristic and the second transmission characteristic. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018750 | ERROR CORRECTION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A switched current source is provided. The switched current source is generally comprised of transistors and resistors, and the source has a high output impedance. Included with the switched current source is an error correction transistor and a resistor that cooperate to feed a current back through a bias transistor to correct an error that generally results from the current gains or β's of transistors within the switched current source. To accomplish this, however, the resistor is selected to have a value that is sufficiently large such that current from the error correction transistor flows back through the bias transistor. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018751 | FOLDING ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERTER - A folding analog-to-digital converter including: a reference voltage generator, a track-and-hold circuit and a first pre-amplification circuit. The reference voltage generator generates a plurality of reference voltages. The track-and-hold circuit generates a sampling control signal having a voltage level lower than or equal to a level of a power supply voltage by maintaining an initial level of a boost capacitor voltage at a level lower than a level of a power supply voltage, and samples and holds an input voltage signal in response to the generated sampling control signal to generate a sampled signal. The first pre-amplification circuit amplifies each of voltage differences between the sampled signal and each of the plurality of reference voltages. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018752 | FLASH A/D CONVERTER, FLASH A/D CONVERSION MODULE, AND DELTA-SIGMA A/D CONVERTER - In a flash A/D converter, a predictor predicts next analog input data based on a digital output signal from an A/D converter, and outputs prediction data. Based on the prediction data from the predictor, a controller turns on comparators having reference voltages near the prediction data, and in order to ensure a certain degree of A/D conversion accuracy even when the prediction fails, also turns on even-numbered comparators | 2011-01-27 |
20110018753 | NOISE-SHAPED SEGMENTED DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER - A segmented digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is disclosed. In the present invention, the segmented DAC of the present invention comprises a signal component processing stage and a plurality of noise component processing stages cascaded with the signal component processing stage. A noise component of an input word for the DAC is split into a plurality of portions to be processed. By doing so, effect due to gain mismatch(es) in an analog portion of the DAC can be effectively reduced without significantly increasing DAC cells used in the DAC | 2011-01-27 |
20110018754 | REMOTE OPERATION APPARATUS, OPERATION TARGET APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING REMOTE OPERATION APPARATUS, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION TARGET APPARATUS, AND REMOTE OPERATION SYSTEM - A remote operation apparatus ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110018755 | OBJECT DETECTING APPARATUS - In an FM/CW type radar device (R), when object candidate information storage means (M | 2011-01-27 |
20110018756 | Synthesized Aperture Three-Dimensional Radar Imaging - A synthesized aperture radar imaging system is disclosed. The system includes an antenna reflector and a radar signal transceiver configured to generate a plurality of radar transmission signals and to receive a respective plurality of reflected radar signals. The system also includes a wave reflection device configured to sequentially reflect each of the plurality of radar transmission signals onto separate respective spot-portions of the antenna reflector. The plurality of radar transmission signals can be transmitted from the antenna reflector to a target and reflected from the target as the respective plurality of reflected radar signals. The system further includes a synthesized aperture radar controller configured to integrate the plurality of reflected radar signals and to generate a high-resolution, three-dimensional image of the target from the integrated plurality of reflected radar signals. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018757 | WEATHER RADAR APPARATUS AND RAINFALL RATE CALCULATION METHOD - According to one embodiment, a weather radar apparatus includes a transmitting/receiving unit configured to simultaneously transmit radar waves of a horizontally polarized wave and a vertically polarized wave and receive reflected waves, a signal processing unit configured to perform dual polarization observation based on a reception output from the transmitting/receiving unit and calculate a received power of each polarized wave, an observation parameter calculation unit configured to calculate, based on the received powers, a first observation parameter having a first spatial resolution, and a second observation parameter having higher correlation with a rainfall rate than that of the first observation parameter and a second spatial resolution lower than the first spatial resolution, and a rainfall rate calculation unit configured to synthetically determine the rainfall rate based on the first observation parameter and the second observation parameter. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018758 | ANTENNA FEED ASSEMBLY - An antenna feed assembly is provided which includes at least two elongate feed chains lying adjacent one another. Each feed chain is adapted to transmit or receive electromagnetic radiation between itself and the antenna along a longitudinal feed axis thereof via a transmit/receive element. The feed chains are held in fixed lateral relationship to one another by first and second mountings spaced apart axially of the feed chains. The transmit/receive elements extend axially from the first mounting towards the antenna and the second mounting is positioned on a side of the first mounting remote from the antenna. The first mounting has a lower coefficient of thermal expansion in the lateral direction than the second mounting whereby translational movement of each transmit/receive element in the lateral direction owing to temperature change of the assembly will be reduced. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018759 | COUPLED GPS PHONE AND NAVIGATION SYSTEM - A navigation system includes a Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled wireless phone and a GPS navigation system. The GPS enabled wireless phone includes a GPS receiver, a communications interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the GPS receiver and to the communications interface. The GPS navigation system includes a GPS receiver, a communications interface operable to communicatively couple to the communications interface of the GPS enabled wireless phone, and processing circuitry coupled to the GPS receiver and to the communications interface. The processing circuitry of the GPS navigation system is operable to establish device pairing with the GPS enabled wireless phone and to exchange GPS information and other information with the GPS enabled wireless phone via the secure link. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018760 | GPS FILTER ALGORITHM - A method for determining location such as vehicle location receives data at a predetermined frequency, validates the received data, stores the received data based on the validation and computes a location based on the stored data. The validation includes verifying a presence of particular data substrings within the received data, verifying a presence of a plurality of data fields within each data substring, computing a parameter based on information contained in two of the plurality of data fields and comparing the computer parameter with a pre-defined threshold. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018761 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR A FULL GNSS CAPABLE MULTI-STANDARD SINGLE CHIP - A multi-standard single chip integrated within a multi-standard mobile device concurrently receives multi-standard radio frequency signals by corresponding two or more integrated radios. The multi-standard single chip generates full GNSS measurement comprising pseudo-range information using the received radio frequency signals. The multi-standard single chip comprises a GNSS radio and multiple non-GNSS radios such as Bluetooth. The full GNSS measurement is generated using GNSS radio frequency signals received by the integrated GNSS radio and communicated over, for example, Bluetooth radio. GNSS satellite reference information embedded in radio frequency signals received by the integrated non-GNSS radios is extracted to assist the full GNSS measurement. A full GNSS navigation solution for the multi-standard mobile device is generated internally to and/or externally to the multi-standard single chip depending on the location of a navigation engine. The generation of the full GNSS measurement is independent of a host processor within the multi-standard mobile device. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018762 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING A LOCAL GNSS CLOCK USING NON-GNSS SYSTEM CLOCKS IN A GNSS ENABLED MOBILE DEVICE - A GNSS enabled mobile device is operable to receive two or more system clocks via from a plurality of associated non-GNSS communication networks, for example, GSM, GPRS, UMTS, EDGE, EGPRS, LTE, WiMAX, high-speed wireless LAN (WiFi), and/or short-range wireless (Bluetooth). The received system clocks are used to calibrate an local GNSS clock for the GNSS enabled mobile device. The GNSS enabled mobile device communicates the received system clocks with an associated GNSS receiver without using an external circuitry. The GNSS receiver selects a calibration clock from the received system clocks based on the status (active or inactive) of corresponding system clocks. An active system clock is selected as the calibration clock. The associated local GNSS clock is calibrated by removing clock errors from the associated local GNSS clock using the selected calibration clock. The calibrated local GNSS clock is used for detecting GNSS signals and/or processing detected GNSS signals. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018763 | Positioning apparatus, positioning method, and program product - A GPS receiver outputs pseudo distances each containing a clock bias error. A clock bias and a reception position are calculated based on each of the outputted pseudo distances. A clock drift is calculated based on clock biases at past n points or Doppler information outputted from the GPS receiver. Based on the calculated clock drift, a reference clock bias is estimated using a regression equation or a Kalman filter. Thereby, a position-fix accuracy is evaluated appropriately, without needing external data, such as autonomous navigation information. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018764 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SHARING CLOCK SOURCES TO SAVE POWER ON A GNSS ENABLED MOBILE DEVICE - A GNSS enabled mobile device selects an associated local GNSS clock or host clock as a clock source to operate a GNSS radio and one or more non-GNSS radios within the GNSS enabled mobile device. When the GNSS radio is in a GNSS active mode, the local GNSS clock is turned ON and selected to be shared with the host. The host operates the GNSS radio and the non-GNSS radios only using the local GNSS clock instead of the host clock. The host clock is turned OFF to save power. When the GNSS radio is in a GNSS inactive mode, the host clock is turned ON and selected to operate the non-GNSS radios. The local GNSS clock is turned OFF to save power. The non-GNSS radios comprise a Bluetooth radio, a WiFi radio, a FM radio, a cellular radio and/or a WiMAX radio. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018765 | GNSS RECEIVER AND EXTERNAL STORAGE DEVICE SYSTEM AND GNSS DATA PROCESSING METHOD - A GNSS system includes a receiver connected to an external mass storage device. Applications for the system, including GNSS data processing methods are also disclosed. The external storage device can comprise a flash (thumb) drive, which can be connected to the receiver via a USB interconnection. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018766 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ESTIMATING LOCATION OF A WIRELESS STATION USING MULTI-BEAM TRANSMISSION - A method and apparatus for estimating location of wireless stations in a wireless communication network are provided. An estimation of a bearing angle of a wireless station from a reference point of a multi-beam antenna pattern is made based on a plurality of beaming angles of a multi-beam antenna pattern and a received signal property, at the wireless station, of each of a plurality of wireless signals transmitted on respective beams of the multi-beam antenna pattern for each of the plurality of beaming angles. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018767 | ADAPTIVE ANTENNA BEAMFORMING - Adaptive antenna beamforming may involve a maximum signal-to-noise ratio beamforming method, a correlation matrix based beamforming method, or a maximum ray beamforming method. The adaptive antenna beamforming may be used in a millimeter-wave wireless personal area network in one embodiment. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018768 | ADAPTATION OF A DIRECTIONAL CHARACTERISTIC OF A RADIO SIGNAL BASED ON THE SPATIAL ORIENTATION OF A RADIO TRANSMITTER - It is described an open-loop transmit coil diversity scheme, intended for communication based on magnetic induction, wherein the diversity scheme automatically aligns the transmit coil ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110018769 | POSITIONING OF MOBILE OBJECTS BASED ON MUTUALLY TRANSMITTED SIGNALS - Location estimation for a first target object assisted by a second target object, which have co-located signalling devices is provided. A positioning engine employs a data model of a location-dependent physical quantity and determines location probability distributions for the target objects. One signalling device sends positioning-assisting signals to the other which makes observations from it. The positioning engineuses observations on the physical quantity and the positioning-assisting signals to make a quantity observation set, and determines location probability distributions for the target objects. The positioning engine determines an updated first location probability distribution based on the location probability distributions and the positioning-assisting observation set. The positioning engine determines the location estimate for the first target object based on the updated first location probability distribution and triggers a physical action based on the location estimate for the first target object. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018770 | BUILT-IN STRAIGHT MOBILE ANTENNA TYPE DUAL BAND ANTENNA ASSEMBLY WITH IMPROVED HAC PERFORMANCE - A built-in straight mobile antenna type dual band antenna assembly includes a circuit board, a first radiator transversely arranged on one end of the circuit board and having a first resonance frequency, and a second radiator longitudinally arranged on one lateral side of the circuit board. The first radiator and the second radiator constitute an L-shaped structure for signal input through a feed end, and are connected to a ground plane on the circuit board through a common grounding lug. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018771 | ANTENNA MODULE, METHOD FOR MAKING THE ANTENNA MODULE, AND HOUSING INCORPORATING THE ANTENNA MODULE - An antenna module includes a first antenna structure, a second antenna structure, a first insulating layer, and a matching unit. The first antenna structure includes a plurality of first antenna layers, second insulating layers respectively positioned between each two adjacent first antenna layers, and first conductive portions respectively connecting to two adjacent first antenna layers. The second antenna structure includes a plurality of second antenna layers, third insulating layers respectively positioned between each two adjacent second antenna layers, and second conductive portions respectively connecting to two adjacent second antenna layers. The first insulating layer is positioned between the first antenna structure | 2011-01-27 |
20110018772 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to one embodiment, an antenna incorporated in an electronic apparatus includes an antenna element formed of a metal thin film and provided on the inner surface of a side wall of a housing, an antenna ground formed of a metal thin film and provided on the inner surface of the bottom wall of the housing, and a conductor portion formed of a metal thin film, provided at least on the inner surface of the bottom wall and connecting the antenna element to the antenna ground. The feed pin of a feed terminal mounted on a printed circuit board is kept in contact with the conductor portion on the bottom wall to feed power from a wireless module to the antenna. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018773 | WIRELESS DEVICE - A wireless device, including an antenna different from another antenna included in one of two casings, in a joint part where the two casings are joined together, is capable of reducing deterioration in properties of the antenna included in the joint part. The wireless device ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110018774 | COMPACT CIRCULAR POLARIZED ANTENNA WITH CAVITY FOR ADDITIONAL DEVICES - According to one embodiment, an antenna comprises a plurality of elongated side radiating elements having longitudinal axes oriented at angles of between about 10° and about 80° from a line perpendicular to an imaginary base plane extending across ends of the side radiating elements, and a cavity positioned between the side radiating elements defined by at least one non-radio frequency-transparent sidewall. In another embodiment, a system comprises a plurality of elongated side radiating elements each lying along a unique side plane and having longitudinal axes oriented at angles of between about 10° and about 80° from a line perpendicular to an imaginary base plane extending across ends of the side radiating elements, and a cavity being positioned between the side radiating elements defined by at least one non-radio frequency-transparent sidewall, wherein the at least one sidewall has sides each lying along a plane about parallel to the unique side plane. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018775 | Planar Compound Loop Antenna - The present invention relates to planar compound field antennas. Improvements relate particularly, but not exclusively, to compound loop antennas having coplanar electric field radiators and magnetic loops with electric fields orthogonal to magnetic fields that achieve performance benefits in higher bandwidth (lower Q), greater radiation intensity/power/gain, and greater efficiency. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018776 | Printed Compound Loop Antenna - The present invention relates to printed or single-sided compound field antennas. The single-sided compound loop antennas have coplanar electric field radiators and magnetic loops with electric fields orthogonal to magnetic fields that achieve performance benefits in higher bandwidth (lower Q), greater radiation intensity/power/gain, and greater efficiency. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018777 | SELF-CONTAINED COUNTERPOISE COMPOUND LOOP ANTENNA - The present invention relates to a self-contained counterpoise compound field antenna. Improvements relate particularly, but not exclusively, to compound loop antennas having coplanar electric field radiators and magnetic loops with electric fields orthogonal to magnetic fields that achieve performance benefits in higher bandwidth (lower Q), greater radiation intensity/power/gain, and greater efficiency. Embodiments of the self-contained antenna include a transition formed on the magnetic loop and having a transition width greater than the width of the magnetic loop. The transition substantially isolates a counterpoise formed on the magnetic loop opposite or adjacent the electric field radiator. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018778 | INTEGRATED RESONATOR AND DIPOLE FOR RADIATION OF HIGH POWER RF ENERGY - An integrated resonator and dipole for generation of high power directional RF energy. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018779 | Mobile telecommunication terminal - A mobile communication terminal comprises a shell, and a backfire antenna which includes a main board disposed in the shell and having a transmitting circuit and a receiving circuit on the main board; a main antenna element coupled to the transmitting circuit and the receiving circuit on the main board; and a backfire resonator located at a side of the shell deviated from a user's head, and coupled to the main board and the main antenna element, in which the backfire resonator is fed by the main board from a position on the main board deviated from a center of the main board. The mobile communication terminal according to embodiment of the present disclosure may cause most electromagnetic waves to radiate towards a direction deviated form the user, thus reducing radiation and harm thereof to the user, strengthening the signal received by the base station, and improving the communication quality. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018780 | Antenna Array For Multiple In Multiple Out (MIMO) Communication Systems - The present disclosure provides techniques for configuring multiple element antenna arrays for use in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communications. The antenna arrays include a ground plane and antenna elements. The ground plane forms an electrically conductive surface having a ground potential. The antenna elements, located near the ground plane, transmit and receive a wireless communication signals over a predetermined wireless channel. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018781 | Ultra-Wideband Antenna - An ultra-wideband has an elongated grounding plate disposed horizontally with a long front edge defined thereon. A connecting portion extends upwards from an end of the front edge. A first antenna radiator includes a first radiating strip extended from a side of the connecting portion and a second radiating strip connecting with a free end of the first radiating strip. A third antenna radiator includes a third radiating strip suspended over the grounding plate, a fourth radiating strip connecting with an end of a long front edge of the third radiating strip and an upper side of the second radiating strip, a fifth radiating strip extended downwards from the long front edge of the third radiating strip connecting with the connecting portion. A third antenna radiator extends downwards from a middle of the long front edge of the third radiating strip. A feeding point disposes on the second radiating strip. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018782 | ANTENNA - An antenna is provided. The antenna includes a substrate, a ground element, a first feed conductor and a second feed conductor. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface. The ground element is formed on the first surface, wherein the ground element has an aperture, the aperture is funnel shaped, the aperture has an opening portion and a convergent portion, and the opening portion is connected to the convergent portion. The first feed conductor is disposed on the second surface, wherein the first feed conductor feeds a first signal to the aperture. The second feed conductor is disposed on the second surface, wherein the second feed conductor feeds a second signal to the aperture. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018783 | Shorted Monopole Antenna - The present invention discloses a shorted monopole antenna comprising a dielectric substrate, a ground plane, a radiating portion, a feeding portion, a shorting portion, and a capacitive element. The ground plane is disposed on a portion of the dielectric substrate. The radiating portion comprises a first metal portion and a second metal portion and is located on the dielectric substrate, without overlapping with the ground plane. The first metal portion comprises a coupling section formed by bending the front portion of the first metal portion into two adjacent sections with a coupling gap. The length of the first metal portion is larger than one-eighth of the wavelength of the central frequency of the antenna's lower band. A first end of the second metal portion is electrically connected to the first metal portion. A second end of the second metal portion is open-ended. The feeding portion is disposed on the dielectric substrate, without overlapping with the ground plane. A first end of the feeding portion is electrically connected to the first metal portion. A second end of the feeding portion is the antenna's feeding point. The shorting portion is disposed on the dielectric substrate, without overlapping with the ground plane. A first end of the shorting portion is electrically connected to the first metal portion. A second end of the shorting portion is connected to the ground plane. The capacitive element is disposed on the dielectric substrate and overlaps with the ground plane. A first end of the capacitive element is electrically connected to the antenna's feeding point. A second end of the capacitive element is electrically connected to a source. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018784 | ANTENNA, IN PARTICULAR FOR RADAR SIGNALS, AS WELL AS METHOD AND USE - In an antenna, e.g., for radar signals, a substrate carries two pairs of diametrically opposed antenna elements, first diametrically opposed antenna elements being oriented in a direction that considerably deviates from the direction of second diametrically opposed antenna elements, e.g., by 90°, and the first and second diametrically opposed antenna elements each lying symmetrically with respect to the point of intersection of their orientation directions. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018785 | SLIDE-OUT INFORMATION DISPLAY - Slide-out and roll-up information displays and methods supply enlarged viewing areas. A slide-out information display device includes stacked display segments wherein each of the display segments except one is at least partially covered by the others. Separable bezel segments support the display segments, the stacked display segments being uncovered when the bezel segments are separated from a collapsed configuration to an un-collapsed configuration for use by a user. A roll-up display device includes flexible display membranes. Scrolling assemblies in the roll-up display include rotatably mounted scrolling assembly mechanisms for rolling up the flexible display membranes. Some scrolling assemblies are movable and can be extended beyond the housing members. At least one display membrane being covered by at least one other display membrane when the movable scrolling assemblies are not extended, and the covered display membranes being uncovered when the movable scrolling assemblies are extended. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018786 | PLASMA DISPLAY PANEL AND PLASMA DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided a technique for discharge stabilization of a plasma display panel by forming magnesium oxide with a large diameter and adjusting residual amounts of impurities contained in the magnesium oxide. That is, discharge stabilization material particle, which is coated on a protective-film layer of protecting electrodes and supplies sufficient amount of priming particles into a discharge gap, is focused. By setting each impurity concentration in the magnesium oxide used as the discharge stabilization material particle to 20 ppm or lower, discharge time lag is suppressed. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018787 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a display device including: a display region in which a plurality of pixels each including a light emitting element are arranged; a power supply unit provided outside the display region; a plurality of power supply lines connected to the power supply unit, for supplying power to the elements; and a light emission control unit ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110018788 | ORGANIC EL DISPLAY DEVICE - A solid-sealing type organic EL display device having an excellent mechanical strength, sealed by a highly reliable sealing method and in which the luminescence property is less deteriorated. A laminate film including a thermoplastic adhesive member and a barrier layer against moisture is disposed on an upper electrode that is situated over an organic EL layer. In a sealing part existed in a periphery of the display region, only a metal oxide film which is formed of metal alkoxide exists between an edge of the laminate film and the element substrate. The organic EL element is surrounded only by an inorganic film so that moisture permeation from the outside can be prevented. Moreover the sealing part is composed of the inorganic film having an excellent sealing property against water thereby it is possible to make a width of the sealing part small. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018789 | Liquid Crystal Module - A liquid crystal module includes a liquid crystal panel, a plastic frame enclosing a periphery of the liquid crystal panel and a metal shell coupled with the plastic frame. A plurality of aseismatic portions are protruded outwards from at least one of the plastic frame and the metal shell. The aseismatic portions are capable of contacting an outer hard means foremost and are resiliently compressed to buffer an impacting force applied to the liquid crystal module, when the liquid crystal module knock against the outer hard means. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018790 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device includes gate and data lines on a first substrate, wherein the gate lines cross the data lines to define sub-pixels, thin film transistors adjacent to where the gate lines cross the data lines, pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors, common electrodes at left and right sides of the sub-pixels, wherein a first parasitic capacitance between a first data line arranged at the left side of a first sub-pixel and an adjacent first common electrode is smaller than a second parasitic capacitance between a second data line arranged at the right side of the first sub-pixel and an adjacent second common electrode, and a second substrate bonded to the first substrate with a layer of liquid crystal molecules therebetween. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018791 | Liquid crystal display device - The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device which includes a first pixel and a second pixel which are arranged close to each other and are allocated to the same color, and color filters which differ in color tone and are formed on the first pixel and the second pixel, wherein a voltage for driving liquid crystal of the first pixel and a voltage for driving liquid crystal of the second pixel are controlled independently from each other. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018792 | MULTIMODE SOURCE DRIVER AND DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A multimode source driver for driving a display device in provided, including a bus swapping circuit, connecting a first data bus to one of first and second internal buses and connecting a second data bus to the other one of the first and second internal buses according to a swapping control signal, a start pulse swapping circuit, receiving a first start pulse and a second start pulse to provide a first swap start pulse and a second swap start pulse according to the swapping control signal, a first shift register, triggered by the first swap start pulse to generate a first series of latch signals, a second shift register, triggered by the second swap start pulse to generate a second series of latch signals, a shift multiplexer, outputting a third series of latch signals by selecting the first series and second series of latch signals, a plurality of latch multiplexers, each configured to selectively transmit pixel data from the first or second internal bus according to a mode control signal, a plurality of latch units, configured to latch the pixel data from the latch multiplexers, and an output unit, configured to provide a plurality of driving voltages. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018793 | Mobile Device Customizer - A method and system for customizing a mobile host device is disclosed. An accessory device for interfacing with and customizing a mobile host device includes a communication channel designed to establish a bi-directional communication link between the accessory device and the host device. The accessory device also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the communication channel. The processor is designed to execute a plurality of applications. In addition, the accessory device includes an input assembly communicatively coupled to the processor. The input assembly is designed to minimize a total number of input elements included in the input assembly. Further, at least a first input element being selectively mapped to one or more input functions of the host device based on a user selection. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018794 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING MOBILE AND CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICES - Various methods for controlling a device is disclosed including dynamically selecting a set of mappings defining how a gesture made by a movement of at least one wearable item will be interpreted as one or more commands; determining whether the gesture has a mapping in the set of mappings; and translating the gesture into a command for the device based on the determination. Interpreting movements of a wearable item as gestures associated with a command to control a controlled device is also disclosed that includes sensing a movement of the wearable item in context as being indicative of a gesture relating to the command based on the first context. A method for communicating control information by a wearable device is further disclosed including determining an agreed upon set of control gestures between first and second devices, wherein the control gestures are performable using the first device and are supportable by the second device; and participating in a control sequence to control the second device via a wireless transmission corresponding to at least one of the control gestures to be performed using the first device. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018795 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROLLING ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING USER INTERACTION - A method and an apparatus for controlling an electronic device according to a user interaction occurring in a space neighboring the electronic device. The method for controlling an electronic device using an input interaction includes: recognizing at least one interaction occurring in a space neighboring the electronic device; and controlling the electronic device corresponding to the at least one interaction. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018796 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In a car stereo system, when an object such as a hand comes close to a sensing range of a proximity sensor provided near an illumination button while a display section and lights of an operation section that are provided on a front face of the car stereo system are in a state of complete non-lighting, only the light of the illumination button is turned on; if the illumination button is operated within the predetermined period of time, then the display section and the lights of the operation section are turned on; and if the illumination button is not operated within the predetermined period of time, then the light of the illumination button is turned off so that the state of complete non-lighting is entered again. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018797 | TRAJECTORY-BASED CONTROL METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - This disclosure discloses a trajectory-based control method which includes the steps of: obtaining at least one smoothed coordinate of an object in accordance with an object tracking procedure; performing a function control mode or a cursor control mode in accordance with a first trajectory of the object, wherein the first trajectory of the object is expressed in accordance with the at least one smoothed coordinate; performing at least one system function in accordance with the function control mode; and moving at least one cursor in accordance with the cursor control mode. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018798 | Cursor control device - A cursor control device having a low profile characteristic is disclosed to include a module holder defining an accommodation space and a slot, an operation module having a carrier frame mounted in the accommodation space and inserted through the slot, a rolling roll rotatably and axially movably set in a rotation groove on the carrier frame outside the module holder, and a circuit module having a microprocessor and a sensor module mounted in carrier frame outside the rotation groove and electrically connected with the microprocessor for detecting the direction and amount of movement of the rolling roll. The rolling roll can be directly removed from the carrier frame by the user for cleaning or for a replacement. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018799 | COMPUTER SYSTEM HAVING WIRELESS OPTICAL PEN - An exemplary computer system includes a monitor, a wireless optical pen, a camera module, and a host. The wireless optical pen is configured for projecting an infrared light spot and emitting two visible light beams having different wavelengths to project two visible light spots. The camera module is mounted to the monitor and is configured for capturing images of movement tracks of the infrared light spot and capturing images of the two visible light spots. The host is configured for controlling a movement of a displayed cursor on the monitor and implementing a right-click input or a left-click input according to the images of the movement tracks of the infrared light spot and the images of one of the two visible light spots. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018800 | OPTICAL POINTING APPARATUS AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC APPARATUS WITH THE SAME - An optical pointing device and a portable electronic device having the same, in which external noise light and/or noise light due to diffused reflection or the like is prevented from being introduced into an optical sensor enhancing precision of operation and providing a housing with improved structure. The device includes an infrared source; a cover having a cover plate transmitting infrared rays from the IR source for reaching a subject out of the cover plate and a cover frame that supports the cover plate; an optical unit in the cover and on which the infrared ray reflected from the subject is incident; and an optical sensor sensing the infrared ray incident thereon from the optical unit; the cover plate has a base coupled to the cover frame, and an IR band-pass filter layer provided on one side of the base. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018801 | Visual Input/Output Device with Light Shelter - A visual input/output device with a light shield is disclosed. The device includes an active area for performing visual input/output tasks, and a non-active area surrounding the active area in the peripheral area of the device. The light shield is formed in the non-active area for substantially preventing unwanted light from interfering with the active area. The light shield is formed on a same layer as a color filter in the active area, and the light shield is made of black pigment or carbon. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018802 | Remote Control Device and Multimedia System - A remote control device for a multimedia device includes a housing, a touch pad placed on a plane of the housing and comprising a dedicated touch area, a signal determination unit placed inside the housing and coupled to the touch pad for generating an indication signal corresponding to an output effect when the dedicated touch area receives a touch signal, and a wireless transmitter placed inside the housing and coupled to the signal determination unit for wirelessly transmitting the indication signal to the multimedia device to control the multimedia device to reach the output effect. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018803 | Spatial, Multi-Modal Control Device For Use With Spatial Operating System - A system comprising an input device includes a detector coupled to a processor. The detector detects an orientation of the input device. The input device has multiple modal orientations corresponding to the orientation. The modal orientations correspond to multiple input modes of a gestural control system. The detector is coupled to the gestural control system and automatically controls selection of an input mode in response to the orientation. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018804 | Operation control device and operation control method - There is provided an operation control device including a motion detection part which detects an object to be detected, which is moved by motion of a user, a motion determination part which determines motion of the object to be detected based on a detection result, a movable region movement processing part which moves a cursor movable region including a cursor operating an object displayed in a display region, and a cursor movement processing part which moves the cursor. Based on motion of a first detected object, the movable region movement processing part moves the cursor movable region along with the cursor in the display region by a first movement unit. Based on motion of a second detected object, the cursor movement processing part moves only the cursor in the cursor movable region by a second movement unit smaller than the first movement unit. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018805 | LOCATION-DETECTING SYSTEM AND ARRANGEMENT METHOD THEREOF - The invention discloses a location-detecting system including an indication region, one of a camera unit and a light-emitting unit, and an optical device. The indication region is for indication of a target location thereon. One of the camera unit and the light-emitting unit is disposed at a first location of the indication region, and the optical device is disposed at a second location of the indication region and corresponding to one of the camera unit and the light-emitting unit. The optical device is for forming one of a specular reflection camera unit and a specular reflection light-emitting unit, wherein the specular reflection camera unit originates from the camera unit, and the specular reflection light-emitting unit originates from the light-emitting unit. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018806 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND POINTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a display module, a coordinate information generation module, a cursor display module, and a processing module. The display module displays image information on a display screen. The coordinate information generation module detects that objects are simultaneously contacted with or approached to first and second detection points of the display screen, and generates coordinate information of the first and second detection points. The cursor display module displays a cursor on the display screen. The processing module, when the coordinate information generation module detects that the objects are contacted with or approached to the first and second detection points and the first detection point exists on the cursor, generates a predetermined event which corresponds to an input operation of a mouse, in accordance with the coordinate information of the second detection point. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018807 | DEVICE THAT MANAGES POWER PROVIDED TO AN OBJECT SENSOR - A hand-held device with a sensor for providing a signal indicative of a position of the hand-held device relative to an object surface enables power to the sensor at a first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is stationary and adjacent relative to the object surface, enables power to the sensor at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval when the hand-held device is indicated to be in a position that is moving and adjacent relative to the object surface, and enables power to the sensor at a third time interval when the hand-held device is determined to be in a position that is removed relative to the object surface. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018808 | INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD FOR PORTABLE TERMINAL AND APPARATUS USING THE SAME - Provided is an information display method of a portable terminal, which includes activating a user function of the portable terminal; determining a relation function related to the user function; collecting relation information according to the determined relation function; and outputting the relation information. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018809 | PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION NUMBER INPUT DEVICE - According to one embodiment, a personal identification number input device includes a device main body having an input unit for a personal identification number, a shielding member attached to the device main body and configured to shield the input unit for an identification number from the outside, and a non-slip section provided on an outer side of the shielding member. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018810 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING FACILITATED INPUT AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - An improved handheld electronic device and an improved method facilitate the entry of data when the data is provided in a predetermined data format. In the depicted exemplary embodiment, the handheld electronic device includes a user interface that facilitates the entry of data having a predetermined data format. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018811 | GRADUAL PROXIMITY TOUCH SCREEN - In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein an apparatus comprising a touch screen display, a sensing mechanism operable to sense an object in proximity of the touch screen display, and control logic coupled to the sensing mechanism and the touch screen display. The control logic is operable to calculate an anticipated touch point for the object on the touch screen. The control logic is responsive to calculating the anticipated touch point to increase a size of a portion of the touch screen display around the anticipated touch point. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018812 | Fast Typographical Error Correction for Touchscreen Keyboards - Techniques are provided for receiving an input from a touchscreen keyboard of a touchscreen display device having a display area, where the touchscreen keyboard is displayed in a first part of a display area and the input represents a selected key on the touchscreen keyboard. A character corresponding to the selected key is displayed in a text box that is displayed in a second part of the display area. A set of adjacent keys are determined that are adjacent to the selected key on the touchscreen keyboard, and the selected key and the set of adjacent keys are displayed in a third part of the display area. A correction touchscreen input is received from the third part of the display area for a key selected from among the set of adjacent keys, and a character displayed in the text box is replaced with a character corresponding to the correction touchscreen input. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018813 | ELECTRO-OSMOTIC TACTILE DISPLAY - The present disclosure generally relates to tactile display devices that include a reservoir for containing a driving fluid. A plurality of toxel portions may be sensitively drivable by the fluid for causing toxels to be displayed, and a pump member associated with the reservoir and toxel portions may pump the fluid from the reservoir to selected toxel portions to display a tactile image. The pump member may include an electro-osmotic pump configured to pump the fluid electro-osmotically in response to an applied voltage, and may be configured to selectively pump the fluid to generally activate the toxels independently from each other. The toxel layer may include the plurality of toxels as well as an elastomeric membrane that may have a pattern of the toxels, and may be configured such that the toxels may be expandable generally independently of each other in response to increased pressure of the fluid pumped into association therewith. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018814 | Virtual Device Buttons - Various implementations of virtual device button simulation are disclosed. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018815 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - Provided are a touch screen panel and a method of manufacturing the same. The touch screen panel comprises: a substrate; a first reflection-preventing film formed on the substrate; a first gate wiring formed on the first reflection-preventing film; and a sensing wiring formed above the first gate wiring to be insulated from the first gate wiring and to cross the first gate wiring. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018816 | MODULAR TOUCH CONTROL ASSEMBLY AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE SAME - A modular touch control assembly is applicable to an electronic device for generating contact operating signals and a press operating signals. The modular touch control assembly includes a substrate, a touchpad, and at least one elastic member. The touchpad is disposed on the substrate, and is provided to be contacted to generate the contact operating signals. The touchpad is also provided to be pressed and tilted, and detectors such as switches or displacement detectors monitor the touchpad. As the touchpad is tilted, a corresponding press operating signal is generated by the detectors according to the direction that the touchpad is tilted. The elastic member is disposed between the touchpad and the substrate, to be pressed by the tilted touchpad, to generating an elastic force to reset the touchpad to the original position. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018817 | TOUCHPAD-ENABLED REMOTE CONTROLLER AND USER INTERACTION METHODS - The hand held case of the remote control unit includes at least one touchpad, and other sensors, such as acceleration sensors, case perimeter sensors, pressure sensors, RF signal sensors. These sensors provide a rich array of sensory inputs that are classified by a pattern recognizer to generate control commands for both the consumer electronic equipment and the remote control unit itself. A power management system to conserve unit battery power is also responsive to the pattern recognizer to allow intelligent power management control. The control system uses the display of the consumer electronic equipment to provide instructions to the user, and the behavior of the remote control system uses what is displayed on the display as context information for pattern recognition. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018818 | Map Display Device - A circular contour is drawn by hand so as to surround icons | 2011-01-27 |
20110018819 | Touch Panel Interface System Used on Touch Panel, Touch device, and Method thereof - For solving the defect that a hardware clock of a serial peripheral interface bus has to cooperate with slower software-simulated clocks used by a microprocessor while applying serial peripheral interface buses on a large-scale touch panel, a programmable logic device is used as a bridge of communicating information between the micro processor and sensors. Therefore, the microprocessor no longer has to take execution time to simulate serial peripheral interface buses by software, and is able to program hardware clocks of each of the serial peripheral interface buses according to speed requirements of different sensors, so that sensing signals of a plurality of sensors may be integrated on a touch device having the large-scale touch panel, and a processing speed of the touch device in processing the sensing signals may be optimized as a result. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018820 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS WITH IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY - The invention relates to an electronic apparatus comprising a flexible display | 2011-01-27 |
20110018821 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a first touch panel, a second touch panel, and a controller. The first touch panel displays a first object and detects a first touch operation of a user on the first object. The second touch panel displays a second object and detects a second touch operation of the user on the second object. The controller links and changes the displayed first object and the displayed second object when the second touch operation is detected within a predetermined time period since the first touch operation has been detected. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018822 | GESTURE RECOGNITION METHOD AND TOUCH SYSTEM INCORPORATING THE SAME - A gesture recognition method for a touch system includes the steps of: capturing images looking across a plate surface with at least one image sensor; processing the images to determine a contact state variation of a single pointer on the plate surface; and recognizing whether a relative variation between the single pointer and the plate surface matches a predetermined gesture when the contact state variation is larger than a threshold. The present invention further provides a touch system. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018823 | Organic light emitting diode display device including tough panel - An OLED display device includes a display panel configured to display an image, a touch panel on a first surface of the display panel, a frame covering side surfaces of the display panel, and an adhesive tape connecting the touch panel both to the frame and the display panel. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018824 | DISPLAY SYSTEM AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Disclosed are a display system and a method of controlling the same, the display system including: an input device which includes a movable light interceptor and selectively intercepts light; a display panel which is touched with the input device; an emitter which emits light; a receiver which receives light; and a display device including a controller which controls the emitter and the receiver to emit and receive light, respectively, and recognizes the input device if light emitted from the emitter is intercepted by the light interceptor. With this, a contact time and a recognition time of an object can be separated. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018825 | SENSING A TYPE OF ACTION USED TO OPERATE A TOUCH PANEL - Apparatus and methods relate to a touch panel and a sensor that senses a type of action used to operate the touch panel. The sensor can be a vibration sensor that senses a vibration caused by an object contacting the touch panel. The sensor can be separate from the touch panel. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018826 | ELECTROSTATIC CAPACITANCE TYPE INPUT APPARATUS AND DISPLAY APPARATUS WITH INPUT FUNCTION INCLUDING THE SAME - Disclosed herein is an electrostatic capacitance type input apparatus, including, a first substrate, a flexible second substrate disposed so as to face the first substrate, a first electrode for detection of a depressed position, the first electrode being provided either on a surface side, in the first substrate, facing the flexible second substrate or on a side opposite to the flexible second substrate with respect to the first substrate, a second electrode for detection of a depressed position, the second electrode being provided on the flexible second substrate, and an elastic member having an insulating property and provided between the first substrate and the flexible second substrate. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018827 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, DISPLAY METHOD, AND DISPLAY PROGRAM - An information processing apparatus includes a position detecting section that detects a touch position of a pointing object on a display screen of a display section, a region detecting section that detects a region on the display screen which is hidden by the pointing object, and a control section that displays information associated with the touch position outside the region detected by the region detecting section, when the touch position is detected by the position detecting section. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018828 | TOUCH DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD AND CONTROL UNIT FOR MULTI-TOUCH ENVIRONMENT - A touch device for multi-touch environment generates a sensing signal in response to an object touch thereon, generates an event signal according to the sensing signal and a control signal, generates a cursor signal according to coordinate information of each touch point contained in the sensing signal and the event signal, and transmits the cursor signal and the event signal to the multi-touch environment. The cursor signal is used to control a cursor application to show a cursor at a screen for each touch point and changes appearances of the cursors. The cursors clearly inform a user of locations where his/her fingers correspond on the screen. By conducting touch events in the multi-touch environment through the cursors instead of actual fingers, the user can operate the touch device other than a touch screen in a multi-touch manner as operating a multi-touch screen. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018829 | MUTUAL CAPACITANCE SENSING ARRAY - A method and apparatus for sensing a conductive object by a mutual capacitance sensing array is described according to an embodiment of the present invention. The mutual capacitance sensing array comprises one or more sensor elements. Each sensor element comprises an outer frame including a conductive material. A cavity is formed within the interior of the outer frame. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018830 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING HUMAN INPUT TO A COMPUTER - The invention provides a method for providing human input to a computer which allows a user to interact with a display connected to the computer. The method includes the steps of placing a first target on a first portion of the user's body, using an electro-optical sensing means, sensing data related to the location of the first target and data related to the location of a second portion of the user's body, the first and second portions of the user's body being movable relative to each other, providing an output of the electro-optical sensing means to the input of the computer, determining the location of the first target and the location of the second portion of the user's body, and varying the output of the computer to the display based upon the determined locations for contemporaneous viewing by the user. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018831 | HUMAN INTERFACES FOR VEHICLES, HOMES, AND OTHER APPLICATIONS - The disclosed invention concerns novel methods and apparatus for controlling computer systems using both touch screens and physical controls, and is useful in many applications such as vehicles, homes and the like. Physical controls and virtual displayed controls on single and multipoint touch screens are used, separately or in combination to enable higher visibility and understanding of control information and easier operation of controls, particularly useful in stressful situations. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018832 | HUMAN INTERFACES FOR VEHICLES, HOMES, AND OTHER APPLICATIONS - The disclosed invention concerns novel methods and apparatus for controlling computer systems using both touch screens and physical controls, and is useful in many applications such as vehicles, homes and the like. Physical controls and virtual displayed controls on single and multipoint touch screens are used, separately or in combination to enable higher visibility and understanding of control information and easier operation of controls, particularly useful in stressful situations. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018833 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL AND INFORMATION DISPLAY METHOD THEREOF - An information display method in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes displaying information on a display unit of the mobile terminal, generating a scrolling start signal, and scrolling the information with a positive acceleration based on the generated scrolling start signal. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018834 | Touch System and Recognition Method - A touch system including a touch panel and a readout circuit is disclosed. The touch panel is integrated with a plurality of photosensitive elements within pixel elements, and capable of displaying at least touch position by at least an optical inputting. The touch panel provides a signal data when the touch panel is touched. The readout circuit is configured to receive the signal data and includes a transformation unit and a processing unit. The transformation unit generates a signal value based on the signal data and a transformation parameter. The processing unit executes a specific action when the signal value is less than a preset value. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018835 | INPUT DETECTION DEVICE, INPUT DETECTION METHOD, PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An input detection device ( | 2011-01-27 |
20110018836 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH CONTROL MODULE AND METHOD FOR MAKING THE SAME - A capacitive touch control module includes a touch screen, an indium tin oxide conducting layer and a shell. The touch screen has an outer surface and an opposite inner surface. The indium tin oxide conducting layer is disposed on the inner surface of the touch screen and thus forms a touch sensing circuit. The shell is substantially concave frame shape and a shell surrounds the periphery of the touch screen. An outer periphery flange of the shell is higher than an inner circumference flange of the shell. The plane of the touch screen is lower than the outer periphery flange of the shell. | 2011-01-27 |
20110018837 | MULTI-TOUCH DETECTION METHOD FOR TOUCH PANEL - An apparatus and a method for controlling a touch panel are disclosed herein, the apparatus includes an object detection module and an adjusting device. The object detection module can detect a position of at least one object contacting the touch panel. A position analyzer recognizes position of the object and the adjusting device can set the touch panel to a predetermined position according to the result recognized by the position analyzer. | 2011-01-27 |