50th week of 2014 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140361916 | ANALOG-TO-DIGITAL CONVERSION - An analog-to-digital conversion apparatus | 2014-12-11 |
20140361917 | COMPARING CIRCUIT AND A/D CONVERTER - The first amplifier operates according a first clock, changes voltages of a first terminal and a second terminal from a first fixed voltage to a second fixed voltage according to a voltage of an input signal and a first reference voltage, respectively, when an on period of a first clock starts, and keeps the voltages of the first and second terminals at the second fixed voltage, respectively, after the voltages of the first and second terminals reach the second fixed voltage and until the on period of the first clock ends, and the first comparator generates first and second logic signals that have logical levels different from each other, based on a difference between the voltages of the first and second terminals when the on period of a second clock whose on period at least partially overlaps with that of the first clock starts. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361919 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTION FREE TARGET DETECTION IN A DEPENDENT NON-GAUSSIAN BACKGROUND - A method for target detection includes: receiving input data via an input signal; generating a histogram from the received data by a processor; rank-ordering the received data based on power or amplitude of the received input signal; comparing the ranked data received in a current time period to the ranked data received in a previous time period to calculate a Bivariate Conditional Exceedance function (BCEF); utilizing the calculated BCEF to estimate a Gumbel Copula parameter; accumulating a log-likelihood statistic from the estimated Gumbel Copula parameter and the generated histogram; comparing the log-likelihood statistic with a threshold value; and determining a detection of the target, when the log-likelihood statistic is below the threshold value. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361920 | COOPERATIVE INTRUSION DETECTION - Systems, methods, and devices for cooperative intrusion detection are described herein. For example, one or more embodiments include completing a radar scan with a network of outer perimeter radar nodes, detecting an intrusion event with the network of outer perimeter radar nodes, notifying at least one inner perimeter radar node in a network of inner perimeter radar nodes of the intrusion event, activating the at least one inner perimeter radar node from an idle mode in response to the notification of the intrusion event, and completing a radar scan with the at least one inner perimeter radar node upon activation. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361921 | SYNTHETIC-APERTURE-RADAR APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF SYNTHETIC-APERTURE-RADAR IMAGES OF MOVING OBJECTS - A SAR apparatus including: a radar transceiver to emit electromagnetic pukes and to provide a radar signal in response to echoes of the electromagnetic pukes; and a processing unit, configured to produce SAR images of moving objects from the radar signal. The processing unit includes: a first processing; module to apply translational motion compensation to a central reference point of a moving object in a subaperture of the radar signal; a second processing module, to execute phase compensation with the single central reference point as reference; and a third processing module to apply phase compensation to the radar signal as a function of an estimated phase component the auxiliary point and of a normalization parameter to a distance in range between the central reference point and the auxiliary point. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361922 | MULTI-ELEVATIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE - The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with an antenna system comprising a tension member configured to be towed by an aerial platform and/or secured to an orbiting satellite. In some embodiments, a first end of the tension member may be secured to the aerial platform and the second end may extend unsecured from the aerial platform at a different elevation than the first end. A plurality of antenna assemblies, each comprising at least one antenna, may be secured to and spaced along the length of the tension member. Each of the plurality of antennas may be adapted for use with a particular frequency or frequency bandwidth. For example, each of the plurality of antennas may be adapted or tuned for one or more frequencies useful for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). In some embodiments, a receiving system, a communication link, and/or an antenna location system may be utilized. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361923 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING CONVECTIVE WEATHER ON A WEATHER RADAR DISPLAY - A convective weather graphic element generator system generates graphic elements associated with severe convective weather for presentation on a display on an aircraft. An exemplary system employs a weather radar and a processing system. The processing system determines a value associated with the detected convective weather based on the received weather radar returns detected by the weather radar, compares the value associated with the detected convective weather with a threshold, and generates a graphic element for a region of airspace when the value associated with the detected convective weather exceeds the threshold. The display is configured to concurrently present the weather reflectivity information generated by the weather radar and the graphic element associated with the convective weather, wherein portions of both the presented graphic element and the presented weather reflectivity information of the corresponding area are concurrently visible on the display. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361924 | ON-BOARD METEOROLOGICAL RADAR HAVING A ROTATING ANTENNA - A meteorological radar installed on board an aircraft, including a mechanical support fixed to a bulkhead of a nose of the aircraft, wherein an antenna is mounted on the mechanical support to enable turning mobility around an axis of rotation. The antenna includes a pedestal, on which at least one blade, extending radially along the axis of rotation, is installed. A free side of the blade, along which a plurality of radiating elements is distributed, perceptibly has the shape of a portion of conic in a plane including the axis of rotation. Because the blade is mobile only in rotation along the axis of rotation, and the selection of the emission/reception direction is performed electronically, not mechanically, the space and length requirements of the meteorological radar are fixed, whether the meteorological radar is in operation or not, and are determined based on the eccentricity and parameter of the conic. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361925 | SIGNAL RECEIVING APPARATUS AND SIGNAL RECEIVING METHOD OF THE SAME - Disclosed is a signal receiving apparatus including: a receiver configured to comprise a plurality of terminals to receive different plural satellite signals; a storage portion configured to store characteristic information therein corresponding to the plurality of satellite signals; and a controller configured to determine which of the plurality of satellite signals is received by the plurality of terminals, based on the characteristic information, and configured to control the receiver to tune the plurality of satellite signals received by the plurality of terminals, according to the determination result. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361926 | 2D WEB TRILATERATION - The invention provides systems and methods of locating a network device based on the time latency between a request by a user device and the receipt of the request by a plurality of satellite servers provided at different locations. Preferably three or more satellites may be employed. The request may be for an item, which may have a known file size, and which may or may not exist. Triangulation techniques may be utilized to determine the location of the device relative to the satellite servers. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361927 | TERRESTRIAL POSITIONING ASSISTANCE SERVING BASED ON RECEIVER DEVICE CONTEXT - A method and apparatus for harvesting information from a plurality of radio frequency (RF) sources. In one example, a collector device receives RF signals from the RF sources to produce the harvesting information. The collector device also determines environmental context information describing a physical environment of the collector device as the RF signals were being received, and a position of the collector device where the RF signals where received. The collector device then associates the environmental context information with the harvesting information and the position, and transmits the harvesting information and position with the associated environmental context information to a server device. The server device may then compute positioning information biased to different environmental contexts. This biased positioning information may then be utilized by other collector devices having similar environmental contexts to better estimate their respective locations. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361928 | METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT IMPROVING REAL TIME LOCATION SYSTEMS WITH MULTIPLE LOCATION TECHNOLOGIES - Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media are disclosed for improving, in some examples, real time location systems with multiple location technologies. In one embodiment, a method is provided including receiving blink data from a location tag associated with a first sensor; receiving proximity data generated based on communications between the first sensor and a second sensor, the proximity data including a sensor identifier; calculating location data associated with the location tag based on the blink data; and determining sensor position calculation data associated with the first sensor based on the proximity data. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361929 | ANTENNA STRUCTURE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE SAME - An antenna structure includes a metal member, a first antenna, and a second antenna. The second antenna includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. Both of the second portion and the third portion are connected to the first portion. Both of the first portion and the third portion are spaced from the first antenna, and are coupled with the metal member. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361930 | ANTENNA ASSEMBLY AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE USING THE SAME - An antenna assembly includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and at least one connecting member. The first antenna includes a radiator and at least one connecting portion connected to the radiator, and the radiator is a part of a housing of a wireless communication device. The at least one connecting member is connected to the at least one connecting portion to fix the first antenna to the wireless communication device to feed current to the first antenna and the second antenna. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361931 | Cavity Antennas With Flexible Printed Circuits - An antenna with a curved shape may be mounted behind a curved antenna window. The antenna may have an antenna resonating element such as an inverted-F antenna resonating element and may have an antenna ground. The antenna resonating element may be formed from patterned metal traces on a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit may have ground traces that run along a peripheral edge of the flexible printed circuit. The antenna ground may be formed from a metal can with walls surrounding a cavity having an opening. The metal can may have a lip formed from bent portions of the walls. The flexible printed circuit may be soldered to the lip so that the ground traces are shorted to the can. A cable connector may be mounted on a bent tab in the flexible printed circuit that extends through a notch in the lip. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361932 | Electronic Devices With Antenna Windows on Opposing Housing Surfaces - An electronic device housing may have a base unit and a lid. Aligned antenna windows may be formed on opposing upper and lower surfaces of the base unit along a hinge. Antenna structures that are located between respective upper and lower antenna windows on the upper and lower surfaces may be based on a pair of antennas that are coupled to switching circuitry that can select which antenna to switch into use or may be based on an antenna having a position that may be adjusted relative to the upper and lower antenna windows using a mechanical coupling to the lid or using a positioner. A sensor such as a lid position sensor may monitor how the lid is positioned relative to the base unit. Information from the lid position sensor may be used in adjusting the antenna structures to optimize performance. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361933 | ANTENNA MODULE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEM - The disclosure discloses an antenna module and an electronic system. The antenna module includes a waterproof protective cover, a transparent cap, a printed circuit board, a wireless communication unit and an antenna unit. The waterproof protective cover is removably assembled onto an opening on a metal shielding case of the electronic system. The water-proof protective cover has a housing slot. The transparent cap is mounted on the waterproof protective cover. A first part of the printed circuit board is inserted into the housing slot. A second part of the printed circuit is located within the metal shielding case. The wireless communication unit is disposed on the second part of the printed circuit board. The antenna unit is disposed on the first part of the printed circuit board and electrically connected with the wireless communication unit. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361934 | ANTENNA WINDOW AND ANTENNA PATTERN FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A housing for an electronic device, including an aluminum layer enclosing a volume that includes a radio-frequency (RF) antenna is provided. The housing includes a window aligned with the RF antenna; the window including a non-conductive material filling a cavity in the aluminum layer; and a thin aluminum oxide layer adjacent to the aluminum layer and to the non-conductive material; wherein the non-conductive material and the thin aluminum oxide layer form an RF-transparent path through the window. A housing for an electronic device including an integrated RF-antenna is also provided. A method of manufacturing a housing for an electronic device as described above is provided. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361935 | MODULAR STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL SUBASSEMBLIES - A housing for a personal electronic device is described herein. The housing may include at least one modular subassembly configured to be arranged within an internal cavity of the housing. The at least one modular subassembly is aligned with a feature external to the housing, is affixed to an interior surface of the internal cavity, and is configured to function both as an antenna and as an internal support member of the housing. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361936 | Apparatus for Wireless Communication - An apparatus comprising: a ground member configured to receive one or more antennas, the one or more antennas being configured to operate in at least a first operational resonant frequency band; and a cover defining an exterior surface of the apparatus and including a conductive cover portion, the conductive cover portion being coupled to the ground member via a first reactive component to form a first resonant circuit configured to resonate at least partially in the first operational resonant frequency band, and via at least a second reactive component to form at least a second resonant circuit configured to resonate at least partially in at least the first operational resonant frequency band. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361937 | METHOD FOR RF TESTING UTILIZING A TEST FIXTURE - One embodiment provides a system, method, and test fixture for performing RF testing of an electronic device. An RF antenna is received in a base plate. One or more guides are positioned on the base plate for securing the electronic device above the RF antenna. The electronic device is secured on the base plate to perform the RF testing utilizing the one or more guides. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361938 | MULTI-ELEVATIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE - The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with an antenna system comprising a tension member configured to be towed by an aerial platform. In some embodiments, a first end of the tension member may be secured to the aerial platform and the second end may extend unsecured from the aerial platform at a different elevation than the first end. A plurality of antenna assemblies, each comprising at least one antenna, may be secured to and spaced along the length of the tension member. Each of the plurality of antennas may be adapted for use with a particular frequency or frequency bandwidth. For example, each of the plurality of antennas may be adapted or tuned for one or more frequencies useful for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). In some embodiments, a receiving system, a communication link, and/or an antenna location system may be utilized. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361939 | MULTI-ELEVATIONAL ANTENNA SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF USE - The present disclosure provides systems and methods associated with an antenna system comprising a tension member configured to be towed by an aerial platform and/or secured to an orbiting satellite. In some embodiments, a first end of the tension member may be secured to the aerial platform and the second end may extend unsecured from the aerial platform at a different elevation than the first end. A plurality of antenna assemblies, each comprising at least one antenna, may be secured to and spaced along the length of the tension member. Each of the plurality of antennas may be adapted for use with a particular frequency or frequency bandwidth. For example, each of the plurality of antennas may be adapted or tuned for one or more frequencies useful for synthetic aperture radar (SAR). In some embodiments, a receiving system, a communication link, and/or an antenna location system may be utilized. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361940 | VEHICLE DOOR HANDLE ASSEMBLY WITH ANTENNA CIRCUIT - A door handle assembly for a door of a vehicle, with the door handle assembly configured to mount at a handle region of a vehicle door, includes an antenna circuit for an antenna of a passive entry system of the vehicle. The antenna circuit includes at least an inductor in series electrical connection with a capacitor. The antenna circuit includes a resistor in electrical connection with the inductor and the capacitor. The resistor is selected to provide a selected reduction of a quality factor or Q factor of the antenna circuit to a reduced level. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361941 | MULTI-TYPE ANTENNA - Exemplary embodiments are related to multi-type antennas. A device may include an antenna and a ground plane. The device may further include a low-pass filter for coupling the antenna to the ground plane in a first mode of operation and isolating the antenna from the ground plane in a second, different mode of operation. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361942 | MULTIPLE POLARIZATION LOOP ANTENNA AND ASSOCIATED METHODS - The multiple polarization loop antenna includes a circularly polarized loop antenna, which may utilize a loop electrical conductor and two signal feedpoints along the loop electrical conductor separated by one quarter of the length of the loop circumference for a signal feedpoint phase angle input difference of 90 degrees. Each of the signal feedpoints may include a loop discontinuity, so that at least one signal source coupled thereto provides circular polarization from the loop electrical conductor. The circularly polarized loop antenna provides an increase in gain and decrease in size relative to the dipole turnstile. It can provide two orthogonal polarizations from two isolated ports, and the polarizations may be dual linear or dual circular. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361943 | ANTENNA STRUCTURE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE EMPLOYING SAME - An antenna structure includes a dielectric substrate, a slot antenna, and a feeding strip. The dielectric substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The slot antenna includes a ground plane positioned on the first surface of the dielectric substrate, and a slot defined in the ground plane where the conductive material is missing. The slot opens at an edge of the ground plane. The feeding strip is positioned on the second surface of the dielectric substrate and extends across the slot, the feeding strip resonates with the slot antenna. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361944 | ANTENNA - An antenna includes antenna coil having a magnetic-material core and a coil conductor. The antenna coil is arranged toward a side of a planar conductor, such as a circuit board. Of the coil conductor, a first conductor part close to a first main face of the magnetic-material core and a second conductor part close to a second main face of the magnetic-material core are provided such that the first conductor part is not over the second conductor part in view from a line in a direction normal to the first main face or the second main face of the magnetic-material core. In addition, a coil axis of the coil conductor is orthogonal to the side of the planar conductor. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361945 | RADIO-FREQUENCY TRANSPARENT WINDOW - A patch for a device in an electronic housing including an aluminum layer having a threshold thickness, a non-conductive layer on a first side of the aluminum layer, and a radio-frequency (RF) transparent layer on a second side of the aluminum layer is provided. A method for manufacturing an antenna window including a patch as above is also provided, the method including determining a thickness of the aluminum layer adjacent to an anodized aluminum layer. A method for manufacturing an antenna window including coating an aluminum layer having a threshold thickness on a radio-frequency (RF) transparent layer to form an RF transparent laminate is also provided. A method for manufacturing an antenna window including removing a thickness of aluminum is also provided. A method for manufacturing an antenna window including disposing a mask on an aluminum substrate and anodizing the aluminum substrate to a selected thickness is also provided. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361946 | TECHNIQUES FOR DESIGNING MILLIMETER WAVE PRINTED DIPOLE ANTENNAS - A printed millimeter wave dipole antenna and techniques for designing such an antenna are disclosed. In one embodiment, the dipole antenna comprises: a signal wing and at least one ground wing for propagating signals in a millimeter wave band; and an unbalanced feeding structure directly coupled to the signal wing. The unbalanced feeding structure is boarded by a plurality of escorting vias to ensure equipotential grounds. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361947 | ANTENNA ELEMENT & ANTENNA DEVICE COMPRISING SUCH ELEMENTS - An antenna element ( | 2014-12-11 |
20140361948 | ANTENNA SYSTEM - Discussed herein is an antenna system that comprises a feed element and a radiating element that are formed on a dielectric substrate positioned above a circuit board which includes a feed circuit and a ground layer. Specifically, the feed element is disposed within an outer periphery defined by the radiating element. A capacitive coupling is formed between the feed element and the radiating element. With the aforesaid configuration, the antenna system is less affected by the circuit board and interference from other elements that are mounted on the circuit board. Further, manufacturing costs are reduced as compared to the case where the feed element and the radiating element are respectively formed on a front and rear surface of a resin layer. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361949 | ANTENNA COIL DEVICE - An antenna coil device including: a connector unit mounted with a connector of an external circuit detachably by being plugged-in; and a base unit provided with an antenna body including a coil, in which the connector unit and the base unit are constituted by separate members and are used by being combined integrally each other, wherein for the connector unit and the base unit, there are formed a connector fitting portion and a base fitting portion which are formed with a concave and a convex in a direction intersecting with respect to the plug-in direction of the connector unit, and by fitting the connector fitting portion and the base fitting portion, the connector unit and the base unit are combined in a state in which the antenna body is positioned with respect to the connector unit. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361950 | ANTENNA STRUCTURE AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE EMPOLYING SAME - An antenna structure includes a main antenna and a diversity antenna spaced apart from the main antenna. The main antenna extends in a main antenna radiation direction. The diversity antenna includes a first radiation portion extending in a first radiation direction and a second radiation portion extending in a second radiation direction, the first radiation direction is substantially perpendicular to either the second radiation direction or an the main antenna radiation direction. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361951 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device ( | 2014-12-11 |
20140361952 | PATCH ANTENNA ARRANGEMENT - An improved patch antenna arrangement includes a patch electrode and a frame patch electrode surrounding the patch electrode provided on a dielectric. A top patch is also provided. The top patch is arranged opposite the dielectric at a distance from the patch electrode surface and at a distance from the ring or frame patch electrode surface. The top patch has an extent in the longitudinal and transverse direction, such that the top patch covers both the patch electrode surface and the frame patch electrode surface at least in some sections. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361953 | DIRECTIONAL COUPLER - Microstrip directional couplers and methods of their design are disclosed. According to one aspect, a microstrip directional coupler has a substrate of a first thickness. Disposed upon the substrate is a first microstrip having a first portion of a first length and a second microstrip having a second portion of a second length. The first and second microstrips are positioned to exhibit a gap between the first portion and the second portion. The first and second lengths are less than one sixteenth of a wavelength at the lowest frequency of operation of the directional coupler. The gap is less than a predetermined amount to reduce a difference in phase velocity of even and odd modes of the microstrip directional coupler. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361954 | PERSONAL CONTROL APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SHARING INFORMATION IN A COLLABORATION WORKSPACE - A method and apparatus for use with a presentation system including at least first and second display screens, the method comprising the steps of receiving a wireless association request signal from a user device identifying the user device, identifying the presentation system and requesting that the user device be associated with the presentation system, associating the user device with the presentation system, providing first presentation system specifying information to the user device, receiving a selection signal from the user device indicating a subset of the presentation system display screens, associating the user device with the selected subset of display screens, receiving data from the user device and using the received data from the user device to present information via the selected subset of display screens. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361955 | MEANS FOR DYNAMICALLY REGULATING THE TIME-OUT CHARACTERISTICS OF A DISPLAY OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method, electronic device and user-wearable device for improving user-interaction with an electronic device whose display periodically transitions into a sleep state due to perceived non-viewing of the electronic device. A processor initiates a sleep state timer that, upon expiration, triggers the display to transition from an active state to a sleep state. The processor determines whether the sleep state timer has less than a time remaining threshold before the timer expires. In response to determining that the sleep state timer has less than the threshold time remaining, the processor determines whether the display is being actively viewed by a user-wearable device. The processor enables the display to transition to the sleep state at expiration of the sleep state timer in response to determining that the display is not being actively viewed. The processor resets the sleep state timer in response to determining that the display is being actively viewed. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361956 | Head Mounted Display - A head mounted display is provided. The head mounted display includes a head attachment portion and a viewing module coupled to the head attachment portion. The viewing module includes an inner portion having a view port into a screen configuring for rendering image content, and an exterior housing. Further included are a plurality illuminating elements integrated with the exterior housing of the viewing module. The plurality of illumination elements defined for image tracking of the head mounted display. Illumination logic is provided for controlling the plurality of illumination elements to be active or inactive during use of the head mounted display. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361957 | COMPACT EYE-TRACKED HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAY - Eye-tracked head-mounted displays are provide which, in one aspect, may utilize the same optics for eyetracking and image viewing, with a selected portion of the optics used for an eyetracking optical path and a selected portion of the display optics used for an image viewing optical path. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361958 | ORGANIC LIGHT-EMITTING DIODE DISPLAY - An organic light-emitting diode display including: a display panel; a bezel on which the display panel is mounted; and a buffer disposed between a lower surface of the display panel and the bezel. The buffer includes a peripheral buffer and a central buffer that has a step-shaped structure. The peripheral buffer is disposed at first and second sides of the central buffer. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361959 | DISPLAY DEVICE - In a display element such as an organic EL element, deterioration progresses due to light emission, and emission luminance is lowered even if the same voltage is applied to the display element. Therefore, use over time causes variations in luminance of each pixel, thereby a so-called “image burn-in” phenomenon occurs. Given this factor, the invention provides a display device which can reduce the difference in deterioration of a display element in each pixel and suppress variations in light emission of a display element in a pixel. It is prevented that only a specific pixel has a long accumulated lighting time. For that purpose, a gray scale of a display pattern is changed to prevent the difference in deterioration of display element in pixels from increasing. Alternatively, a specific display pattern is prevented from being fixedly displayed in a specific region. Further alternatively, a pixel lagging behind in deterioration is deteriorated so that the accumulated lighting time of pixels is equal to each other. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361960 | PIXEL CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A pixel circuit includes: a light emitting element; an n-channel drive transistor T | 2014-12-11 |
20140361961 | EL DISPLAY DEVICE AND PRODUCTION METHOD THEREFOR - An EL display device includes an EL display panel including a plurality of pixels each having an EL element. Each of the pixels has: driving transistor that supplies a current to EL element; first switching transistor; and second switching transistors that supply video signals to the pixel. The EL display device also includes: gate driver circuit that is formed and disposed along with pixels on the EL display panel; and gate driver IC that is externally connected to gate signal lines. Gate driver circuit is connected to a gate terminal of first switching transistor, and gate driver IC is connected to gate terminals of second switching transistors. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361962 | DISPLAY DEVICE - Any one of a write scanning line, a power source supply line, and a video signal line is structured as a subsidiary wiring disposed in the same layer as that having a lower electrode disposed therein. The subsidiary wiring is used in the power source supply line through which a power source drive pulse to be pulse-driven is transmitted, or other wirings (such as the write scanning line and the video signal line). | 2014-12-11 |
20140361963 | Luminous display and method for controlling the same - A luminous display includes pixels arranged in rows and columns Control signals that are used for controlling first switches for measuring parameters of pixel cells in a first row are also used to control second switches for programming pixel cells in a second row. In this way it is possible to use a single control signal for selecting one pixel cell for programming and simultaneously selecting another pixel cell for measuring. Programming and measuring are thus performed in a time staggered manner, while the addressing is moved to the respective next row. The programming is preferably voltage programming In one embodiment the current through the pixel cell that is currently programmed is interrupted. In another embodiment the measuring is performed only after the transient current into signal holding means coupled to current control means has set. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361964 | PIXEL DRIVING METHOD OF A DISPLAY PANEL AND DISPLAY PANEL THEREOF - A pixel driving method of a display panel is disclosed. The display panel includes a plurality of scan lines, data lines and pixels. Each of the pixel includes a first transistor with a first end coupled to the data line, and a gate end coupled to the scan line, a second transistor with a first end selectively coupled to a voltage source or current source, and a gate end coupled to a second end of the first transistor, and a light-emitting unit with a first end coupled to a second end of the second transistor. The method includes turning on the first transistors of the pixels; coupling the data lines and first ends of the second transistors to the current source; reading voltage levels of gate ends of the second transistors; and providing corresponding data voltages to the pixels according to voltage levels of gate ends of the second transistors. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361965 | OLED PANEL WITH PARTITION PLATE - An OLED panel includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel and a third sub-pixel spaced from each other by a plurality of baffle plates. The first sub-pixel of each pixel is located adjacent to that of a neighboring pixel. The first sub-pixel of each pixel is spaced from that of the neighboring pixel by a partition plate. The partition plate has a height less than a height of each baffle plate. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361966 | LEVEL CONVERSION CIRCUIT AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE USING THE SAME - A level conversion circuit includes level conversion portions which are connected in series. The level conversion portion includes circuit blocks. The circuit block inverts an input signal. The circuit block includes a transistor connected between a power supply and a node, a transistor connected between the node and a power supply, a transistor connected between a gate of the transistor and the power supply, and a capacitor connected between an output node and the gate of the transistor. The circuit block carried out level conversion in step with operation of the transistor in accordance with a signal applied from an input node to a gate thereof and operation of the transistor an ON/OFF state of which is switched by application of an output of the circuit block to a gate thereof, to thereby output potential change at the node. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361967 | VOLTAGE GENERATOR - A voltage generator for providing a plurality of output voltages having different levels includes: a reference block and a plurality of digital-to-analog conversion blocks. The reference block is employed for providing a plurality of reference voltages according to a supply voltage. The plurality of digital-to-analog conversion blocks is coupled to the reference block, and each of the digital-to-analog conversion blocks receives the reference voltages and generates a digital-to-analog output voltage according to a digital code, wherein digital-to-analog output voltages generated by the digital-to-analog conversion blocks have different levels, respectively. In addition, a range of the digital-to-analog output voltage generated by a first digital-to-analog conversion block of the digital-to-analog conversion blocks is different from that of the digital-to-analog output voltage generated by a second digital-to-analog conversion block. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361968 | DISPLAY DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - The present technology relates to a display device, a display control method, and a program that enable various states of the device to be expressed in a limited region. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361969 | DYNAMIC DIMMING LED BACKLIGHT - Disclosed herein is a system for controlling the interactions of light between adjacent subsections of a dynamic LED backlight. Preferred embodiments contain a dividing wall positioned between each adjacent subsection of the LED backlight. The dividing wall may be in contact with the LED backlight and extend away from the LED backlight. The dividing wall may prohibit light from a first subsection from entering an adjacent second subsection at its full luminance. The luminance for each adjacent subsection may be approximately half of the full luminance of each subsection, when measured at the location of the dividing wall. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361970 | REFLECTIVE DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A reflective display device includes a drive array substrate, an electrophoretic display film, a reflective optical film and a light source module. The electrophoretic display film is disposed on the drive array substrate and includes a plurality of display mediums. The reflective optical film is disposed on the electrophoretic display film. The light source module is disposed beside the reflective optical film. A light emitting from the light source module is reflected to the electrophoretic display film by the reflective optical film. The light source module includes a plurality of first-color light sources, a plurality of second-color light sources and a plurality of third-color light sources which are switched on in sequence. The reflective display device is in a color display mode when the light source module is turned on. The reflective display device is in a monochrome display mode when the light source module is turned off. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361971 | VISUAL ENHANCEMENTS BASED ON EYE TRACKING - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to selectively enhancing content displayed on a display device. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method comprising tracking a gaze location at which a gaze of a user intersects the graphical user interface, and upon detecting a gaze pattern that meets a defined gaze pattern condition indicative of difficulty in perceiving an item at the gaze location, displaying the item in at the gaze location a visually enhanced form via a user interface object displayed separately from the item at the gaze location. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361972 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR VOLUMETRIC COMPUTING - A system and method is provided for analyzing the movement of an object. The system is comprised of a sensor that is coupled to a processor that is configured to generate a volume that corresponds to a predefined area and the location of the object. The sensor detects the movement of the object and determines if the object's movement is within the volume. If the movement is within the volume, then an information channel is created between the volume and the user defined algorithm. The movement is then compared with the requirements of the user defined algorithm and accepted if the movement meets the requirements. Otherwise, the object's movement is discarded if the movement is not within the volume or does not meet the requirements of the user defined algorithm. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361973 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIMODAL HUMAN-VEHICLE INTERACTION AND BELIEF TRACKING - A method and system for multimodal human-vehicle interaction including receiving input from an occupant in a vehicle via more than one mode and performing multimodal recognition of the input. The method also includes augmenting at least one recognition hypothesis based on at least one visual point of interest and determining a belief state of the occupant's intent based on the recognition hypothesis. The method further includes selecting an action to take based on the determined belief state. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361974 | KARAOKE AVATAR ANIMATION BASED ON FACIAL MOTION DATA - Apparatus, systems, media and/or methods may involve animating avatars. User facial motion data may be extracted that corresponds to one or more user facial gestures observed by an image capture device when a user emulates a source object. An avatar animation may be provided based on the user facial motion data. Also, script data may be provided to the user and/or the user facial motion data may be extracted when the user utilizes the script data. Moreover, audio may be captured and/or converted to a predetermined tone. Source facial motion data may be extracted and/or an avatar animation may be provided based on the source facial motion data. A degree of match may be determined between the user facial motion data of a plurality of users and the source facial motion data. The user may select an avatar as a user avatar and/or a source object avatar. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361975 | MANAGEMENT OF INPUT METHODS - Embodiments of a system and method are disclosed concerning the management of a plurality input methods on a computer. The input method may define how input from a human interface device is interpreted by a receiving application. The method may include locating one or more input method factors. The method may also include determining a numerical score of the input method factor using a metric of the input method factor and a weight of the factor. The method may also include ranking an input method factor using the determined numerical score of the input method factor. The method may also include presenting a user selection interface that lists the plurality of input methods as a function of the ranking. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361976 | SWITCHING MODE OF OPERATION IN A HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for managing the display of images on a head mounted device (HMD). One method includes an operation for tracking the gaze of a user wearing the HMD, where the HMD is displaying a scene of a virtual world. In addition, the method includes an operation for detecting that the gaze of the user is fixed on a predetermined area for a predetermined amount of time. In response to the detecting, the method fades out a region of the display in the HMD, while maintaining the scene of the virtual world in an area of the display outside the region. Additionally, the method includes an operation for fading in a view of the real world in the region as if the HMD were transparent to the user while the user is looking through the region. The fading in of the view of the real world includes maintaining the scene of the virtual world outside the region. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361977 | IMAGE RENDERING RESPONSIVE TO USER ACTIONS IN HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY - Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for rendering images on a head mounted display (HMD). One method includes operations for tracking, with one or more first cameras inside the HMD, the gaze of a user and for tracking motion of the HMD. The motion of the HMD is tracked by analyzing images of the HMD taken with a second camera that is not in the HMD. Further, the method includes an operation for predicting the motion of the gaze of the user based on the gaze and the motion of the HMD. Rendering policies for a plurality of regions, defined on a view rendered by the HMD, are determined based on the predicted motion of the gaze. The images are rendered on the view based on the rendering policies. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361978 | PORTABLE COMPUTER MONITORING - Disclosed is a method of predicting the condition of a portable computer comprising a motion sensor on a computer system, the method comprising collecting motion data from said motion sensor; periodically sending said collected motion data from the portable computer to the computer system; evaluating said motion data on the computer system; and predicting said condition from the evaluated motion data. Computer program products, a portable computer, and a system for implementing aspects of the method are also disclosed. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361979 | GRIP SENSOR DEVICE AND GRIP SENSING METHOD - A grip sensor device and a grip sensing method are provided. The grip sensor device includes an antenna that is formed of metal within a mobile electronic device and communicates a signal of a first frequency and a grip sensor module that is formed within the mobile electronic device, is electrically connected to the antenna, and outputs a proximity detection signal according to proximity of an external object to the antenna. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361980 | INFORMATION PROCESSOR AND PROGRAM - A novel bendable and highly portable information processor is provided. In addition, a novel information processor capable of displaying information or the like on a seamless large screen is provided. A novel information processor in which one display region can be divided into two regions at a bend position is provided. A novel information processor in which different images or images for different purposes can be displayed in the respective regions is provided. The present inventors have conceived a program including a step of dividing the display region and displaying image data in the respective regions when a display unit of the information processor is bent. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361981 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An image obtained by capturing a gesture input region is acquired, and an object that makes a gesture is detected from the image. An intersection position at which the detected object crosses a determination region used to determine the position of the object with respect to the gesture input region is detected from the image. The base position of the gesture made by the object is computed based on the intersection position. The position of a target of manipulation by the gesture is determined as a manipulation target position. A gesture coordinate system different from the coordinate system of the image is determined based on the base position and the manipulation target position. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361982 | PROXY GESTURE RECOGNIZER - An electronic device displays one or more views. A first view includes a plurality of gesture recognizers. The plurality of gesture recognizers in the first view includes one or more proxy gesture recognizers and one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers. Each gesture recognizer indicates one of a plurality of predefined states. A first proxy gesture recognizer in the first view indicates a state that corresponds to a state of a respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view. The device delivers a respective sub-event to the respective non-proxy gesture recognizer that is not in the first view and at least a subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view. The device processes the respective sub-event in accordance with states of the first proxy gesture recognizer and at least the subset of the one or more non-proxy gesture recognizers in the first view. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361983 | REAL-TIME STROKE-ORDER AND STROKE-DIRECTION INDEPENDENT HANDWRITING RECOGNITION - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a technique for providing handwriting input functionality on a user device. A handwriting recognition module is trained to have a repertoire comprising multiple non-overlapping scripts and capable of recognizing tens of thousands of characters using a single handwriting recognition model. The handwriting input module provides real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition for multi-character handwriting input. In particular, real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition is provided for multi-character, or sentence level Chinese handwriting recognition. User interfaces for providing the handwriting input functionality are also disclosed. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361984 | VISIBILITY IMPROVEMENT METHOD BASED ON EYE TRACKING, MACHINE-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A visibility improvement method using gaze tracking includes detecting a gaze of a user using a camera; determining a focus object at which the user gazes from among at least one object viewed through a display unit of an electronic device; and displaying, on the display unit, an image with high visibility that corresponds to the focus object and has higher visibility than the focus object. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361985 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS CAPABLE OF RECOGNIZING USER OPERATION AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An information processing apparatus according to the present invention can improve the operability when a user performs a gesture operation relating to a target object. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361986 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE BASED ON IMAGE DATA DETECTED THROUGH A PLURALITY OF CAMERAS - An electronic device including a first camera and a second camera and method for controlling the electronic device are provided. The method includes detecting a user through the first camera; detecting the user through the second camera; and performing a preset function in the electronic device, based on a sequence of the detecting of the user through the first camera and the second camera. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361987 | Eye controls - A head mountable display (HMD) system in which images are generated for display to the user comprises an eyes-shut detector configured to detect a user's eye or eyes being shut; and an image generator configured to generate images for display by the HMD, the image generator being configured to carry out actions in response, at least in part, to a detection of whether the HMD wearer has one or both eyes shut for at least a first predetermined period, the image generator executing different respective actions in dependence upon: (i) a detection that the user's eyes are shut for at least the first predetermined period but less than a second predetermined period, the second predetermined period being longer than the first predetermined period; and (ii) a detection that the user's eyes are shut for at least the second predetermined period. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361988 | Touch Free Interface for Augmented Reality Systems - A method and system for augmented reality. Images of a real world scene are obtained from one or more from one or more image sensors. An orientation and/or location of the image sensors is obtained from one or more state sensors. A real world object at which a predefined pointing object is performing a predefined gesture in the images of the real world scene is identified and data associated with the identified object is displayed on a viewing device. The invention also provides a computer program comprising computer program code means for performing all the steps of the method of the invention when said program is run on a computer. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361989 | Method and Device for Operating Functions in a Vehicle Using Gestures Performed in Three-Dimensional Space, and Related Computer Program Product - A method to control functions in a vehicle using gestures carried out in three-dimensional space. When it is determined that a first gesture carried out in three-dimensional space is detected using an image-based detection procedure it is determined whether the first gesture is a gesture allocated to an activation of an operation of a function. If it is that the detected first gesture is the gesture allocated to the activation of the function, then the function is activated. Next, a second a second gesture carried out in three-dimensional space is detected using the image-based detection procedure and it is determined whether the detected second gesture is a gesture allocated to the operation of the function. If it is determined that the second gesture has been detected, an operation of the function is performed. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361990 | DISPLAY WITH OBSERVER TRACKING - The invention relates to a display, in particular an autostereoscopic or holographic display, for representing preferably three-dimensional information, wherein the stereo views or the reconstructions of the holographically encoded objects can be tracked to the movements of the associated eyes of one or more observers in a finely stepped manner within a plurality of zones of the movement region. In this case, the zones are selected by the activation of switchable polarization gratings. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361991 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING MOUSE MODULE - The invention discloses a method and electronic device for controlling a mouse module, the method being applied to an electronic device loaded with an operating system, wherein the electronic device includes at least one first type of program function module and at least one second type of program function module, the first type of program function module is a module capable of background operation in the operating system in a preset period of time, and the second type of program function module is a module capable of responding to an operation only when an application interface is displayed; and the mouse module includes a mouse service module and a mouse function module corresponding to the mouse service module, and the mouse service module belongs to said at least one first type of program function module; and the method includes: obtaining a mouse function control instruction from a first application module, wherein the first application module belongs to said at least one second type of program function module; and controlling the mouse module based upon the mouse function control instruction to enable the mouse function module in a started or stopped status. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361992 | Method and apparatus for inputting data packets into an electronic device - A condensed keyboard for mobile phones and other small electronic devices, having two sets of four character keys arrayed on the back of the device for the user's fingers, and one or two joysticks or similar radially movable components for one or both of the user's thumbs. The position of the joystick when a key is pressed determines which of a set of different characters associated with that key is inputted. The joysticks can also be used to input direction commands, for video games and other purposes. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361993 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PREVIEWING CHARACTERS BASED ON FINGER POSITION ON KEYBOARD - Systems and methods are provided for detecting a touch of a first key associated with a first character on the keyboard, detecting a touch of a second key corresponding to a second character on the keyboard, determining an order for previewing the first and second characters in response to the detecting, and previewing the first and second characters in the determined order in an information entry field of the electronic device. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361994 | ILLUMINATED KEYBOARD - A portable electronic device with an illuminated keyboard is disclosed. The device includes a plurality of user input keys arranged to form a keyboard; a reflective surface spaced apart from the keys; and a plurality of light emitters located between the keys and the reflective surface, the light emitters being configured to emit light towards the reflective surface for reflection towards the input keys. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361995 | COMPUTING DEVICE EXPANSION SYSTEM - Examples of the present disclosure provide a computing device expansion system. According to one implementation, a docking receptacle is coupled to a touch-enabled monitor computing device and is also configured to receive and connect to a portable electronic device. Furthermore, when the portable electronic device is attached to the docking receptacle, a display area of the portable electronic device is cloned on the monitor computing device such that touch input on either the portable electronic device or monitor computing device is replicated on the monitor computing device or portable electronic device. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361996 | CALIBRATING EYE TRACKING SYSTEM BY TOUCH INPUT - Embodiments are disclosed that relate to calibrating an eye tracking system via touch inputs. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides, on a computing system comprising a touch sensitive display and an eye tracking system, a method comprising displaying a user interface on the touch sensitive display, determining a gaze location via the eye tracking system, receiving a touch input at a touch location on the touch sensitive display, and calibrating the eye tracking system based upon an offset between the gaze location and the touch location. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361997 | MOTION-BASED INPUT METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for efficient data input may include displaying a user interface, detecting a plurality of positions of an object, and, controlling a display screen to display a data content, in response to a plurality of movements of the object. If the controller determines the object moved substantially in a first direction, the display screen modifies the data content based on a group of data choices. If the controller determines the object moved substantially in a second direction, the controller stores, into a memory, the data content currently being displayed on the display screen. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361998 | TOUCH APPARATUS AND TOUCH METHOD USING THE SAME - A touch apparatus and touch method using the same. The apparatus includes: driving lines, sensing lines, a driving module, a sensing module, a determination module, and a detection module. The sensing lines are intersected with the driving lines to form intersection points. The driving module outputs pulse signals to the driving lines. The pulse signal includes at least three sub-periods in a period. The pulse signal has a sub-pulse signal in each of the sub-periods, and the sub-pulse signals respectively correspond to different phases. The sensing module receives the pulse signals from the sensing lines via the intersection points, and generates digital values corresponding to the sub-pulse signals of each pulse signal. The determination module determines whether the sub-pulse signals are interfered by noise according to the digital values. The detection module determines the position at which the touch event is triggered according to the sensing signals. | 2014-12-11 |
20140361999 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR INSERTING COMMENTS USING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for inserting comments is used in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a touch panel having a corner formed by two adjacent edges. A content region and a comment region are divided of an electronic document respectively in response to a dividing operation on the touch panel. The comments edited in the commend region are received by the electronic device. The comment is linked with content of the document in response to a linking operation. The dividing operation is implemented by drawing a broken line perpendicularly connecting to the edges to form a corner region and folding the corner region to form the comment region. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362000 | DISPLAY DEVICE INCLUDING TOUCH SENSOR AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a display device including a touch sensor and a manufacturing method thereof, and more particularly, to a display device including a touch sensor using a piezoelectric material and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a first substrate, wherein a plurality of thin film transistors are disposed on the first substrate; a second substrate disposed facing the first substrate; a plurality of piezoelectric elements disposed on the second substrate; and a first sensing electrode overlapping the piezoelectric elements, the first sensing electrode being configured to transfer a sensing voltage generated as a result of pressure applied to the piezoelectric elements. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362001 | TOUCH DETECTION AT BEZEL EDGE - This relates to a method of extrapolating proximity information to generate a border column or row of touch nodes (also known as touch pixels) and then fitting an ellipse to the contact patch including the extrapolated border touch nodes. Additionally, a contact can be identified as a thumb based on both its major axis and its distance to an edge of the touch sensing surface. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362002 | DISPLAY CONTROL DEVICE, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to an embodiment, a display control device includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, a first calculator, a second calculator, a control unit. The first acquisition unit is configured to acquire first position information representing a contact position of an input device on a screen. The second acquisition unit is configured to acquire second position information representing a contact position of an object holding the input device on the screen. The first calculator is configured to calculate a first vector having the contact positions of the object and the input device as start and end points, respectively, based on the first and second position information. The second calculator is configured to calculate a second vector representing a display direction based on an angle formed by a reference vector and the first vector. The control unit is configured to control display in accordance with the second vector. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362003 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SELECTING OBJECT BY USING MULTI-TOUCH, AND COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM - A method of selecting an object by using a multi-touch, by which the object displayed on a screen of an electronic device is selected, is provided. The method includes determining whether at least two touches are input to a touch screen of an electronic device, determining a reference point from touch points where the at least two touches have been input, when it is determined that the at least two touches have been input, tracking a path along which the determined reference point is moved, as the at least two touch points are moved on the touch screen, and selecting at least one object corresponding to the moving path of the reference point on a screen displayed on the touch screen. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362004 | INPUT PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM, INPUT PROCESSING METHOD, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, INPUT PROCESSING PROGRAM AND INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM - An input processing apparatus for communicating with an information processing apparatus, includes an input detection section configured to detect a proximity and a contact of an object as input, an event type distinguishing section configured to distinguish a type of an input event on the basis of coordinates of the input detected by the input detection section, a mode information acquiring section configured to acquire information of a processing mode for an application to be processed by the information processing apparatus, and a transmission section configured to transmit data including the information of the type of the event distinguished by the event type distinguishing section and the information of the processing mode acquired by the mode information acquiring section to the information processing apparatus. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362005 | INFORMATION TERMINAL DEVICE, KEY CORRECTION METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - An information terminal device includes an input unit that inputs, when a touch operation performed in a detection area that is associated with one of keys of a software keyboard displayed on a screen has been detected, a character associated with the key in the detection area. The information terminal device includes a determining unit that determines, when a modification of a character input by the input unit has been detected, whether the key of the pre-modification character is adjacent to a key of a post-modification character in the layout of the software keyboard. The information terminal device includes a correcting unit that extends, when the determining unit determines that the key of the pre-modification character is adjacent to the key of the post-modification character, the detection area of the key associated with the post-modification character in the arrangement direction of the key that is associated with the pre-modification character. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362006 | Pointing Device for Interacting with Touch-Sensitive Devices and Method Thereof - The present application is directed to a pointing device and a method for interacting with touch-sensitive devices. The pointing device includes a base; a housing configured to cover a portion of the base; a cavity formed between the housing and the portion of the base; a sliding member; a supporting member; a biasing member situated between the sliding member and the supporting member; a first contact point provided on the sliding member and configured to contact a screen of the touch-sensitive device when the pointing device is placed on the screen; and a second contact point provided on the supporting member and configured to contact the screen when the pointing device is placed on the screen; wherein the first contact point slides on the screen relative to the second contact point via the engagement of the housing and the sliding member when the housing moves towards the screen. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362007 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING A USER INTERFACE - Provided is a method and apparatus for controlling a user interface. The method of controlling a user interface of an electronic device includes: displaying a drawing object formed by a path input into the electronic device on a screen, and controlling the user interface by applying different functions to a drawing object area and the remaining area excluding the drawing object area in the touch screen. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362008 | TERMINAL APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - A terminal apparatus includes a light modulation unit to perform an automatic light modulation of a touch panel, an illuminance sensor, a proximity sensor, an illuminance determination unit to determine whether or not an illuminance detected by the illuminance sensor varies, and an operation determination unit to determine whether or not an operation of the touch panel occurs near the illuminance sensor, wherein the light modulation unit suspends the automatic light modulation when the operation of the touch panel occurs before a first time elapses after the detected illuminance decreases, and the light modulation unit suspends the automatic light modulation when the operation determination unit determines that the operation of the touch panel does not occur before the first time elapses after that the detected illuminance decreases and then the proximity sensor detects an object before a second time elapses. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362009 | TOUCH DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME TO PERFORM A POWER-SAVING FUNCTION OR A POWER-ON FUNCTION - A method for controlling a touch device to power on or power off has steps of receiving direction information of the touch device; determining if the touch device is oriented to a direction that is outside or inside a preset viewing angle according to the direction information; detecting a gesture present on the touch device; and performing a power-saving function or a power-on function when detecting the gesture present on the touch device and determining that the direction of the touch device is outside or inside the preset viewing angle. The foregoing technique can replace the power-saving function and the power-on function activated by pressing a physical power button. Accordingly, operational frequency and failure rate of the physical power button can be reduced and an intuitive method for powering on or off the touch device with easy operation can thus be provided. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362010 | SENSING ELECTRODES AND SENSING METHOD THEREOF - A plurality of dummy lines are arranged between a plurality of sensing electrode unit pairs to compensate a capacitance sensing value imbalance caused by two sensing electrodes. Further, a coordinate compensation value is calculated according to a layout of electrodes and wires to alleviate or reduce a ripple effect of sensed position errors. As such, sensing accuracy of a touch sensing apparatus is improved. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362011 | HANDWRITING INPUT APPARATUS, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM AND CONTROL METHOD - Provided are a handwriting input apparatus, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a control method. The handwriting input apparatus includes a touch panel configured to detect pressure acting thereon through a sheet of paper; a holding section for pressing the sheet to hold the sheet onto the touch panel; and a page feed determining section configured to determine whether a page feed action has been performed or not by detecting a state change of the holding section. The handwriting input apparatus further includes a control section configured to, in response to the page feed determining section determining that the page feed action has been performed, conduct at least one of storing information of handwriting input which has been received through the touch panel until the page feed action as handwriting data and transferring the information of the handwriting input as handwriting data to an external device. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362012 | INPUT DEVICE HAVING MULTI-LEVEL DEVICE AND USER DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME - One or more embodiments provide an input device including a multi-level driver and an operating method thereof. The input device includes a sensor board that includes at least one loop. The input device also includes at least one multi-level driver that includes a plurality of drivers, and is configured to output, to the at least one loop, a signal generated based on signals output from the plurality of drivers. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362013 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING TOUCH - Aspects of the present disclosure are directed towards methods, systems, and apparatuses that include a pressure-sensor arrangement including a plate structure and a plurality or array of pressure-sensor cells. Additionally, the methods, systems, and apparatuses include integrated circuitry communicatively coupled to the pressure-sensor arrangement that senses pressure changes exhibited by changes in capacitance or vibrational characteristics. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362014 | Systems and Methods for Pressure-Based Haptic Effects - One illustrative system disclosed herein includes a sensor configured to detect a user interaction with a touch surface and transmit a sensor signal including data associated with a pressure of the user interaction. The illustrative system also includes a processor in communication with the sensor, the processor configured to: receive the sensor signal; determine, based on the sensor signal, a pressure level; determine a user interface level based at least in part on the pressure level; perform a function associated with the user interface level and the user interaction; determine a haptic effect based at least in part on the user interface level and the user interaction; generate a haptic signal based at least in part on the haptic effect; and transmit the haptic signal. The illustrative system further includes a haptic output device in configured to receive the haptic signal and output the haptic effect. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362015 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING THE DISPLAYING OF INTERFACE CONTENT - Provided is a method for controlling the displaying of interface content, said method includes: detecting a touch signal acting on a touch screen or a touchpad; judging whether a gesture corresponding to said touch signal matches with a preset gesture; and if the gesture corresponding to said touch signal matches with the preset gesture, then acquiring a mask area according to the gesture corresponding to said touch signal, and generating a mask layer on said mask area. According to the method, a mask layer can be generated on an interface to mask interface content through a simple touching operation, so as to prevent the interface content from being peeped by other people, thereby improving the security. Furthermore, a device for controlling the displaying of interface content is provided. | 2014-12-11 |
20140362016 | ELECTRONIC BOOK DISPLAY DEVICE THAT PERFORMS PAGE TURNING IN RESPONSE TO USER OPERATION PRESSING SCREEN, PAGE TURNING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A method is disclosed of successively displaying pages of an electronic book by one or more pages each time on a display screen, and turning the pages on the screen in response to a user's input via finger touch of the screen. This method includes: upon the user's soft touch on the screen with the finger with an intensity below a predetermined value, selecting a page turn direction based on at least one of a position at which the soft touch was performed with the finger, and a direction of the finger's movement after the soft touch; and upon the selection being followed by the user's hard touch on the screen with the finger with an intensity above the predetermined value, authorizing initiation of a page turn event for turning the pages on the screen in the selected page-turn-direction. | 2014-12-11 |