05th week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 23 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150029066 | SURROUNDED ANTENNA HAVING A PHASE SHIFTER THEREIN - A surrounded antenna includes a radiation patch comprising a closed slot and a surface current path of a predetermined width surrounding the closed slot; a phase shifter comprising at least one short-circuit path (short stub) segment and at least one open path (open stub) segment, each short-circuit path (short stub) segment being connected between two internal contacts of the surface current path, each open path (open stub) segment comprising opposing connection end and open end, the connection end being to the surface current path; a grounded patch spaced apart from the radiation patch at a predetermined distance; and a feeding point located at one short-circuit path (short stub) segment and connected to the grounded patch through at least one hole. Thus, the phase shifter can offset the phase between surface current paths, achieving in-phase radio signal strength enhancement. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029067 | RF SIGNAL PICKUP FROM AN ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE SUBSTRATE UTILIZING PASSIVE SLITS - Embodiments of the present application relate generally to electronic hardware, computer software, wireless communications, network communications, wearable, hand-held, and portable computing devices for facilitating communication of information and presentation of media. An electrically conductive substrate (e.g., a metal or metal alloy) includes an antenna formed by a slot or opening formed in the substrate, and also includes at least one separate passive slot or opening (e.g., a passive slit) formed in the substrate. The antenna may be intentionally detuned from one or more target frequencies (e.g., 802.11, 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz) such that the antenna is not optimized (e.g., is not tuned) for the one or more target frequencies. One portion of the antenna may be electrically coupled with a ground potential. Another portion of the antenna may be electrically coupled with a RF receiver, transmitter, or transceiver. The antenna may be an active antenna, a passive antenna or both. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029068 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device | 2015-01-29 |
20150029069 | Waveguide Radiator, Array Antenna Radiator and Synthetic Aperture Radar System - A waveguide radiator includes a slotted waveguide with a plurality of transverse or longitudinal slots provided in the waveguide and an additional inner conductor provided in the waveguide. The inner conductor is formed, depending on the alignment of the slots in such a manner that the result is a feed according to the traveling wave principle, wherein all slots of the waveguide can be excited with identical phase. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029070 | DEVICE TO REFLECT AND TRANSMIT ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE AND ANTENNA DEVICE - A device includes a dielectric, wherein a front and a back of the dielectric for reflecting and transmitting an electromagnetic wave are defined by a first surface and a second surface, the first or second surface forming a half mirror, the first surface has a height that changes in spiral as leaving from the second surface, and the second surface has a height that changes in spiral as leaving from the first surface. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029071 | ANTENNA WITH MULTIPLE FEED POINTS - An antenna includes a grounding portion extending in a longitudinal direction, a radiating portion extending in the longitudinal direction and parallel with the grounding portion, a connecting portion connecting the grounding portion and the radiating portion in a transverse direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction and a coaxial cable. The coaxial cable comprises an inner conductor and an outer conductor surrounding the inner conductor, wherein the inner conductor comprises a first feed point connecting the connecting portion and a second feed point connecting the radiating portion, one part of the connecting portion is shortened serving as a shortened section between the first and second feed points. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029072 | Power Divider and Radio-Frequency Device - A power divider for transmitting signals of an input terminal to a plurality of output terminals includes a rectangular microstrip line coupled to the input terminal, and a plurality of coupling units conducting the rectangular microstrip line and the plurality of output terminals by electromagnetic coupling, wherein each of the plurality of coupling units and the rectangular microstrip line are separated by a first gap, and each coupling unit includes at least one dual-L resonator disposed between the microstrip line and an output terminal, wherein the first gap and a second gap of each dual-L resonator are related to a power ratio between the input terminal and the plurality of output terminals. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029073 | Transmission Device and Near Field Communication Device Using the Same - A transmission device for a near field communication (NFC) device includes a matching circuit, a connecting interface with a first width for connecting an operating circuit of the NFC device, a first transmission line electrically connected between an antenna of the NFC device and the matching circuit, and a second transmission line electrically connected between connecting interface and the matching circuit, including an increasing width portion and a constant width portion, wherein a width of the second transmission increases from the first width to a second width within the increasing width portion and keeps the second width within the constant width portion, wherein the second width is greater than and related to the first width. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029074 | RADIO COMMUNICATION MODULE - Disclosed herein is a radio communication module, including: a printed circuit board provided with a receiving unit receiving a radio wave and provided with a via hole; an antenna including a connector which has a transmitting unit connected to the receiving unit formed thereat and forms a ring part outwardly bent at a tip thereof and forms a cut part at a circumference thereof so that the ring part is elastically deformed so as to be inserted and fastened into the via hole; a ground GND formed on the printed circuit board; and a discharge unit disposed between the receiving unit and the ground and including an ESD diode and a discharge line guiding electrostatic discharge (ESD) introduced from the outside to the ground. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029075 | Method and Apparatus for Controlling Display of Shared Screen - The disclosure provides a method and an device for controlling display of a shared screen. The above method comprises: a source terminal displays a shared screen and a screen of a sink terminal on a screen of the source terminal in a preset proportion according to first shared screen display information from the sink terminal, wherein the first shared screen display information can indicate a first display area of the shared screen on the screen of the sink terminal; the source terminal generates second shared screen display information according to the first shared screen display information and adjustment operation information currently input by a user, wherein the second shared screen display information is used for indicating a second display area of the shared screen on the screen of the sink terminal; and the source terminal sends the second shared screen display information to the sink terminal. By adopting the above technical solutions provided in the disclosure, a user directly adjusts a position of a shared screen on a screen of a sink terminal very conveniently by operating a source terminal. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029076 | SHARING AN OVERLAPPING REGION IN A DISPLAY - A method, system, and/or computer program product enables the sharing of an overlapping area on a shared projection. A system detects an overlapping area on a shared projection, which presents content from a first projection and a second projection. A computing device identifies any redundant resources, which perform the same function as one another, in the first projection and the second projection. A consolidated resource, which provides the same function as the redundant resources, is defined and/or created, and then displayed in the overlapping area. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029077 | SHARING AN OVERLAPPING REGION IN A DISPLAY - A method, system, and/or computer program product enables the sharing of an overlapping area on a shared projection. A system detects an overlapping area on a shared projection, which presents content from a first projection and a second projection. A computing device identifies any redundant resources, which perform the same function as one another, in the first projection and the second projection. A consolidated resource, which provides the same function as the redundant resources, is defined and/or created, and then displayed in the overlapping area. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029078 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DISPLAY DEVICE - A mobile electronic display device comprising: a frame through which a license plate is mounted to a motor vehicle; one or more electronic displays mounted to the frame such that the one or more electronic displays are located adjacent to the mounted license plate; a controller in electrical communication with the one or more electronic displays, wherein the controller causes media content to be displayed on the one or more electronic displays; and a wireless input mechanism in communication with the controller through which media content is received and presented to the controller for the controller to cause to be displayed on the one or more electronic displays. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029079 | DRIVE CIRCUIT, DISPLAY DEVICE, AND DRIVE METHOD - A drive circuit for a light emitting element small in the number of components which can correct a threshold voltage of a drive transistor is provided. The drive circuit includes a line that is connected between two reference voltages, a light emitting element on the line, a drive transistor on the line, a first capacitor connected between a gate and a drain of the drive transistor, a second capacitor connected between the gate and a source of the drive transistor, a first switching element connected to the gate of the drive transistor and turning on during a signal writing period to supply a signal voltage to the gate of the drive transistor, and a second switching element disposed on the line and having one side connected to the source of the drive transistor, and the second capacitor. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029080 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING HIGHER APERTURE RATIO AND LOWER POWER CONSUMPTION - A display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a column direction and in a row direction, as well as a data line connected to a pixel of a k-th column (where ‘k’ is a natural number) and a (k+1)-th column in an odd-numbered row of the pixels, and connected to a pixel of a (k−1)-th column and a (k+2)-th column in an even-numbered row of the pixels. A data driving part is configured to apply a data signal to the data lines. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029081 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided is a liquid crystal display device, including: a plurality of scanning connection lines formed on at least one side of edges of the image display region, the plurality of scanning connection lines connecting together a scanning signal drive circuit and a plurality of scanning signal lines; a selection circuit formed so as to be interposed between the plurality of scanning connection lines and the plurality of scanning signal lines, the selection circuit being configured to selectively short-circuit one of a plurality of the scanning signal lines to one of the plurality of scanning connection lines based on a selection signal; and a selection signal line connected to the selection circuit, the selection signal line transmitting the selection signal to the selection circuit. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029082 | GATE DRIVE CIRCUIT AND DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A gate drive circuit includes a shift register having a plurality of stages, in which an n-th stage (‘n’ is a natural number) of the plurality of stages is connected to at least one subsequent stage. The n-th stage includes a pull-up part configured to output a high voltage of an n-th gate signal using a high voltage of a clock signal as in response to a high voltage of a control node, a control pull-down part configured to pull-down a voltage of the control node into a low voltage in response to a carry signal outputted from at least one of next stages of the n-th stage and receiving a back-bias voltage corresponding to the low voltage, and a carry part configured to output the high voltage of the clock signal as an n-th carry signal in response to a high voltage of the control node. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029083 | SHIFT REGISTER, GATE DRIVING UNIT AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Provided are a shift register, a gate driving unit and a display device. By disposing a scanning sequence control circuit configured to control output sequence of a first gate signal and a second gate signal according to the received first and second scanning sequence control signals, a first control circuit and a second control circuit in the shift register unit, it may settle a Vertical mura problem in the prior art and may improve an image quality of the display device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029084 | METHOD OF COMPENSATING FOR PIXEL DATA AND LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A method of compensating for pixel data includes extending a side portion and a corner portion of a real screen to set an virtual screen, setting dimming values of the virtual screen using dimming values of the real screen, calculating an amount of light of each of pixels on the real screen using the dimming values of the virtual screen mapped to a predetermined analysis area, and multiplying the amount of light of each pixel by a gain of each pixel to modulate pixel data. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029085 | Apparatus and Method Pertaining to the Use of a Plurality of 3D Gesture Sensors to Detect 3D Gestures - A device having at least two 3-dimensional gesture sensors that employ differing gesture-sensing modalities as compared to one another further includes a control circuit that operably couples to both of these 3-dimensional gesture sensors and employs both to detect three-dimensional gestures. By one approach the control circuit employs both sensors in a temporally-overlapping manner to reliably and accurately detect the 3D gesture. As another illustrative example, the control circuit may employ different sensors during different portions of a given 3D gesture to detect those corresponding portions of the 3D gesture. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029086 | BACKLIGHT FOR TOUCHLESS GESTURE DETECTION - A device and method to detect a gesture performed by an object in touch-less communication with the device are described. The device includes two or more ambient light sensors arranged at respective first surface locations of the device, each of the two or more ambient light sensors sensing light intensity at the respective first surface location. The device also includes one or more processors to control one or more light sources at respective second surface locations of the device based on the light intensity sensed by the two or more ambient light sensors, calibrate the two or more ambient light sensors based on the one or more light sources, and detect the gesture based on the light intensity sensed by each of the two or more ambient light sensors. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029087 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ADJUSTING POWER CONSUMPTION IN A USER DEVICE BASED ON BRAIN ACTIVITY - Methods and systems are disclosed herein for adjusting power consumption and/or sensitivity levels of a user device based on the current brain activity of a user. For example, a media guidance application implemented on a user device may monitor brain activity of a user. In response to determining particular brain activity (e.g., associated with the inactivity of the user), the media guidance application may initiate a stand-by mode in order to reduce power consumption. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029088 | HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAY AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREFOR - A method of controlling a head mounted display (HMD) according to one embodiment of the present specification includes the steps of detecting a first contact contacted with a nose pad of the HMD, detecting a second contact contacted with a temple of the HMD, if the first contact and the second contact are detected, operating in a wearing mode to activate a display unit and an audio input unit, if the first contact is not detected and the second contact is detected, operating in a mute mode to activate the display unit and inactivate the audio input unit, and if the first contact and the second contact are not detected, operating in a non-wearing mode to inactivate the display unit and the audio input unit. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029089 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING PERSONALIZED SERVICE THEREOF - A display apparatus is provided, which includes a storage configured to store voice patterns of at least one user and personalization information set with respect to at least one user, a receiver configured to receive a user voice, and a controller configured to detect the personalization information that corresponds to the voice pattern of the user voice from the storage and to control a function of the display apparatus according to the detected personalization information. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029090 | CHARACTER INPUT METHOD AND DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes: a display configured to display a virtual keyboard; an inputter configured to receive a stroke input on a key on the virtual keyboard; and a controller configured to display a character which corresponds to the key in an input window in response to the stroke input being received, and configured to perform a control operation to suggest at least one character that is likely to follow a character which corresponds to the key and display the at least one suggested character. The at least one suggested character is displayed so as not to overlap a character of a basic key on the virtual keyboard. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029091 | INFORMATION PRESENTATION APPARATUS AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM - An information presentation apparatus includes a main body, a detection unit, and a presentation unit. The main body is mounted on a head portion of a user. The detection unit is disposed on a position intersecting a median plane of the user who wears the main body and configured to detect a motion of the head portion of the user. The presentation unit is disposed on the main body and is capable of presenting information switched on the basis of an output from the detection unit to the user. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029092 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF INTERPRETING COMPLEX GESTURES - The technology disclosed relates to using a curvilinear gestural path of a control object as a gesture-based input command for a motion-sensing system. In particular, the curvilinear gestural path can be broken down into curve segments, and each curve segment can be mapped to a recorded gesture primitive. Further, certain sequences of gesture primitives can be used to identify the original curvilinear gesture. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029093 | Motion-Based View Scrolling with Proportional and Dynamic Modes - The present invention provides a system and methods for motion-based scrolling of a relatively large contents view on an electronic device with a relatively small screen display. The user controls the scrolling by changing the device's tilt relative to a baseline tilt. The scrolling control can follow a Proportional Scroll mode, where the relative tilt directly controls the screen position over the contents view, or a Dynamic Scroll mode where the relative tilt controls the scrolling speed. The present invention obtains a criterion for automatically selecting the best scrolling mode when the dimensions of the contents view change. The baseline tilt is updated when the screen reaches an edge of the contents view to eliminate the creation of a non responsive range of tilt changes when the user changes tilt direction. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029094 | USER INTERFACE WITH LOCATION MAPPING - A system includes a processing logic and output logic. The processing logic is configured to receive information identifying points of interest, identify at least one of location or distance information from each of the points of interest to the system, and sort the points of interest based on the location or distance information. The output logic is configured to project information identifying the points of interest onto a surface, wherein the projected information is displayed in accordance with the sorting. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029095 | COMMAND OF A DEVICE BY GESTURE EMULATION OF TOUCH GESTURES - A user to machine interface emulates a touch interface on a screen. The interface is configured for operating in a touch emulation mode based on a triggering event. A triggering event may be a rotation around a first axis of an angle higher than a first threshold. Analysis of the amount of rotation around a second axis may be used to determine the number of fingers defining a specific touch gesture. An infinite variety of touch gestures may therefore be emulated by a remote control based on application context thus allowing for multiple uses of the touch screen machine from a distance. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029096 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - There is provided an image display device which is kept from wastefully consuming electric power while an eyelid is closed by blinks in a waking state. A signal from an FIR sensor ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150029097 | SCENARIO-SPECIFIC BODY-PART TRACKING - A human subject is tracked within a scene of an observed depth image supplied to a general-purpose body-part tracker. The general-purpose body-part tracker is retrained for a specific scenario. The general-purpose body-part tracker was previously trained using supervised machine learning to identify one or more general-purpose parameters to be used by the general-purpose body-part tracker to track a human subject. During a retraining phase, scenario data is received that represents a human training-subject performing an action specific to a particular scenario. One or more special-purpose parameters are identified from the processed scenario data. The special-purpose parameters are selectively used to augment or replace one or more general-purpose parameters if the general-purpose body-part tracker is used to track a human subject performing the action specific to the particular scenario. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029098 | DISPLAY DEVICE, PROJECTOR, AND DISPLAY METHOD - A display device include a display unit that displays a display image on a display surface based on image data, a location detection unit that detects a pointed location with respect to the display image on the display surface, a coordinate calculation unit that calculates first coordinates as coordinates of the pointed location in a displayable area within the display surface, a coordinate conversion unit that converts the first coordinates calculated by the coordinate calculation unit into second coordinates as coordinates in the image data, and an output unit that outputs the second coordinates obtained by the coordinate conversion unit. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029099 | METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TOUCH AND MOTION SENSING POINTING DEVICE - A method for controlling a touch and motion sensing pointing device is disclosed. In the method, a touch on the pointing device is sensed through a touch sensing module. Whether or not a touch size of the touch is smaller than a predetermined size is determined when the touch is sensed. An output of coordinate signals of the pointing device is locked when the touch size of the touch is smaller than the predetermined size. Whether or not a persisting time of the touch is larger than a predetermined time is measured when the output of coordinate signals is locked. The output of coordinate signals is unlocked when the persisting time of the touch is greater than the predetermined time. A mouse-click signal is transmitted when the persisting time of the touch is smaller than or equal to the predetermined time. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029100 | 2D AND 3D POINTING DEVICE BASED ON A PASSIVE LIGHTS DETECTION OPERATION METHOD USING ONE CAMERA - Systems for surface-free pointing and/or command input include a computing device operably linked to an imaging device. The imaging device can be any suitable video recording device including a conventional webcam. At least one pointing/input device is provided including first, second, and third sets of actuable light sources, wherein at least the first and second sets emit differently colored light. The imaging device captures one or more sequential image frames each including a view of a scene including the activated light sources. One or more computer program products calculate a two-dimensional or three-dimensional position and/or a motion and/or an orientation of the pointing/input device in the captured image frames by identifying a two-dimensional or three-dimensional position of the activated light sources of the first, second, and/or third sets of light sources. Certain activation patterns of light sources are mapped to particular pointing and/or input commands. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029101 | POSITION CONTROL APPARATUS USING JOYSTICK - Disclosed herein is a position control apparatus using a joystick, capable of restricting motion of an object when pressure acting on the object is sensed and the pressure is applied thereto. The position control apparatus using a joystick includes a stick unit, a sensing unit, a motor, and a pressing unit. The stick unit includes a stick bar which is capable of rotating about a point between one end and the other end thereof when a load is applied to one end thereof. The sensing unit senses a rotation position of the stick unit. The motor is driven when pressure is measured by a pressure sensor. The pressing unit applies pressure to the stick bar by driving the motor in proportional to the pressure measured by the pressure sensor, so as to prevent the stick bar from rotating in an increasing direction of the pressure. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029102 | COMPUTER MOUSE WITH DUST-PROOF BLOCK - An exemplary computer mouse which is proofed against the ingress of contaminants includes a housing, a bottom cover, a left button, a right button and a middle button bracket. The middle button bracket includes a dust-proof block and a number of elastic components. The dust-proof block includes a raised portion. A middle button hole is defined between the left button and the right button, the raised portion is received in the middle button hole, and a sidewall of the raised portion is contact with or abuts a sidewall of the middle button hole. The number of the elastic components are arranged between the dust-proof block and the bottom cover. The elastic components keep a top surface of the raised portion substantially flush with outer surfaces of the left and right buttons when no button is pressed and flush with the outer surface of the button which is pressed. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029103 | MOUSE DEVICE - A mouse device includes a main casing, a base plate, and a rear swinging part. The base plate includes a concave part and a bulge. The main casing includes a front swinging part. The rear swinging part is disposed within the main casing. Moreover, the front swinging part is embedded within the concave part of the base plate. A bottom surface of the rear swinging part is contacted with a top surface of the bulge. When one side of the main casing is depressed, the front swinging part and the rear swinging part allow the main casing to be correspondingly swung relative to the base plate in a first direction or a second direction. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029104 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND POINTING DEVICE CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes an input, an output and a controller. The input receives operation information corresponding to an operation of a pointing device. The output outputs an image to be displayed on a display. The controller sets a plurality of divisional areas on a screen of the display in accordance with a resolution of the display, and moves a mouse pointer in units of a divisional area of the plurality of divisional areas in accordance with the operation information. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029105 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF TEXT INPUT AND PROVIDING SPELLING SUBSTITUTION - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. The device is structured to identify and output representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input. The device is additionally structured to identify and output representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a known spelling substitution particular to a language active on the handheld electronic device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029106 | Control Unit, Input Apparatus and Method for an Information and Communication System - The invention relates to the controlling of functions of an information and communication system in a vehicle by means of physical keys. A control unit for an information and communication system of a vehicle is equipped for receiving a sequence of sensor signals of different proximity sensors of corresponding different mechanical function keys, to which corresponding first functions are assigned. The control unit is further equipped for detecting a swiping event over the mechanical function keys, wherein a swiping event comprises the fact that the sequence of sensor signals corresponds to the sensor signals of proximity sensors of corresponding adjacent mechanical function keys. The control unit is further equipped for assigning corresponding second functions to the mechanical function keys when a swiping event is detected. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029107 | AUTOMATED PERCEPTUAL QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF TOUCHSCREEN DEVICES - Methods and systems may provide for receiving a video of an interaction with a touch screen, using a computer vision process to identify a gesture in the video, and determining a response time of the touch screen with respect to the gesture. Moreover, a display area update percentage can be tracked subsequent to a response of the touch screen to the gesture, wherein a frame rate determination may be conducted for the touch screen based on the display area update percentage. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029108 | TOUCH PANEL, TOUCH SENSOR AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A touch sensor, a method for manufacturing same and a touch panel having the touch sensor are disclosed. The sensor may include a touch sensing layer and an auto-stereoscopic image generating structure. In particular, the touch sensing layer may act as a substrate for the auto-stereoscopic image generating structure to be directly formed on, such that the thickness of the touch sensor can be further reduced. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029109 | REMOTE CONTROLLER WITH TOUCH PANEL - A remote controller with touch panel comprises a case, a circuit board, a power supply, and signal emitter. The circuit board, the power supply, and the signal emitter are accommodated in the case. The touch panel comprises a cover lens, and a carbon nanotube film is located on an inner surface of the cover lens. A number of touching and sensing electrodes are electrically connected to the carbon nanotube to supply signals. The carbon nanotube film comprises a plurality of carbon nanotubes oriented along the same direction. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029110 | Symbol-Oriented Touch Screen Device - Disclosed is a symbol-oriented touch screen device including a displaying means, a touch control panel, a symbol shape storing means, and a hardware processing means. The touch control panel is coupled to the display means for detecting a sliding trace. The symbol shape storing means is electrically connected to the displaying means and the touch control pane, and stores a symbol shape data in accordance with a page. The hardware processing means, electrically connected to the touch control panel and the symbol shape data storing means, includes a trace recognizing unit and a responding unit. The trace recognizing unit is for recognizing the sliding trace and for generating a recognized result while the sliding trace is matched with the symbol shape data. The responding unit is for performing a dialing action, an answering action, an inquiring action, and a controlling action in accordance with the recognized result. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029111 | FIELD ANALYSIS FOR FLEXIBLE COMPUTER INPUTS - Field analyses for flexible computer inputs are methods for analyzing contact or multi-touch events, specifically to update a system of input elements, e.g. the arrangement of virtual keys or touch zones or gesture-based systems. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029112 | TOUCH SENSOR - A touch sensor (200) for a mobile device is disclosed which includes an acoustic port, and a loudspeaker operable to output audio through the acoustic port. The touch sensor is operable to generate a user input signal in response to the acoustic port being at least partially sealed. Partially sealing the acoustic port changes the acoustic load of the loudspeaker. The touch sensor may replace one or more hardware buttons on mobile devices such as mobile phones including smart phones. A method of operation of a touch sensor is also disclosed. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029113 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - An electronic device includes: a touchscreen having a front touchscreen region and at least one side touchscreen region, the side touchscreen region being integrally formed with the front touchscreen region; and a body to which the touchscreen is attached. In one such electronic device, an application program corresponding to a side icon on the side touchscreen region is configured to be displayed on the front touchscreen region when the side icon is moved to an activation icon on the side touchscreen region by a drag-and-drop operation. In another such electronic device, an application program corresponding to a side icon on the side touchscreen region is configured to be displayed on the front touchscreen region when the side icon is moved to the front touchscreen region by a drag-and-drop operation. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029114 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION METHOD FOR SAME - An electronic device includes a display member rotatably coupled to a base member. A touch-sensitive screen is located on a working surface of the base member. The touch-sensitive screen displays a virtual keyboard, and maps a first set of key values to the virtual keyboard based on a default language. A data receiving module receives data input by a user via the virtual keyboard. A human-computer interaction method is also disclosed. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029115 | Method, Apparatus and Computer-Readable Storage Means for Adjusting at Least One Parameter - The present invention concerns a method, an apparatus and a computer-readable storage means for adjusting at least one parameter, which can be used for enhancing the user experience of adjusting parameters, especially of adjusting parameters in common audio software through a system of assignable rotary encoders with capacitive-sensing knob caps and a parameter type aware software. In particular, the present invention ensures that parameters of (audio) software can be adjusted quickly, without diverting a user's attention from actual tasks. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029116 | TOUCH SENSOR INTEGRATED TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch sensor integrated type display device is discussed. The display device has an active area, and a bezel area disposed at outside of the active area and including a gate driving circuit, the display device comprising a plurality of first electrodes each having the same size, and arranged in the active area in a first direction and a second direction which cross each other; and a plurality of second electrodes arranged in the active area in the second direction and alternately disposed between immediately adjacent pairs of the plurality of first electrodes arranged along the second direction, wherein the plurality of first electrodes include a plurality of first outer electrodes that are disposed at an outermost area of the active area, and at least one of the plurality of first outer electrodes has a portion that is extended into the bezel area. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029117 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION METHOD FOR SAME - An electronic device includes a display member rotatably coupled to a base member. A touchpad is located on a working surface of the base member. The touchpad includes a first touch area, a second touch area, and a third touch area. When the first touch area detects a palm touch gesture, the first touch area is disabled from sensing and recognizing any touch gestures and the second touch area and the third touch area are enabled to sense and recognize touch gestures. A human-computer interaction method is also disclosed. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029118 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH MODULE, CAPACITIVE IN-CELL TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present invention discloses a capacitive touch module, a capacitive in-cell touch screen panel and a display device, in which an integrally connected common electrode layer in an array substrate is split to form touch sensing electrodes and touch driving electrodes which are insulated from each other; and the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes are subjected to time-sharing drive to achieve the touch function and the display function. Moreover, each touch sensing electrode includes a plurality of touch sensing sub-electrodes; each touch driving electrode includes a plurality of touch driving sub-electrodes; and opposing sides of adjacent touch sensing sub-electrodes and touch driving sub-electrodes are broken lines. Therefore, the opposing area between the adjacent touch driving electrodes and the adjacent touch sensing electrodes can be increased, and hence the mutual capacitance between the touch driving electrodes and the touch sensing electrodes within the unit area can be increased, and consequently the sensing sensitivity of the touch screen in the touch-control process can be improved. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029119 | SHOCK TOUCH PROTECTION OF A MOBILE DEVICE - A mobile device ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150029120 | MICROSCOPE WITH WIRELESS RADIO INTERFACE AND MICROSCOPE SYSTEM - A microscope has a microscope control unit including at least one radio system having a wireless radio interface. The at least one radio system of the microscope control unit comprises: at least one first radio system configured to furnish at least one first radio characteristic and at least one second radio system configured to furnish at least one second radio characteristic, at least one radio system configured to furnish a first and a second radio characteristic in a predetermined time cycle, or both. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029121 | SLIDE UNLOCKING METHOD FOR TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE UNDER SCREEN LOCKING STATE - A slide unlocking method for a touchscreen device under a screen locking state is provided. The method includes steps of: sampling a track generated by the sliding of a user's finger on a touchscreen, and sequentially acquiring a plurality of sampling points; acquiring a first sampling point and a last sampling point of the track, and calculating a transverse sliding distance and a longitudinal sliding distance of the finger on the touchscreen; and unlocking the touchscreen when the transverse sliding distance is greater than or equal to a first preset distance and the longitudinal sliding distance is less than or equal to a second preset distance; otherwise, keeping the screen in the lock state. In this way, the present invention increases the degrees of freedom of a user's operation, so that a user can conveniently perform unlocking in a special usage scenario. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029122 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - This electronic device includes: a manipulation unit ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150029123 | USER INTERFACE SYSTEM - A user interface system of one embodiment includes a layer defining a surface; a substrate supporting the layer and at least partially defining a cavity; a displacement coupled to the cavity that expands the cavity, thereby deforming a particular region of the surface; and a touch sensor coupled to the substrate and adapted to sense a user touch proximate the particular region of the surface. The layer and the substrate are connected at an attachment point, and the location of the attachment point relative to the layer, substrate, and cavity at least partially defines the shape of the deformed particular region of the surface. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029124 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EYES-FREE OPERATION OF TOUCH SURFACE - A tactile positioning device includes a film attached to a touch surface of a portable electronic device. The film includes at least a first tactile unit used as a positioning reference point of a key on the touch surface, and at least a second tactile unit being a linear tactile unit for defining an operating route or an operating range. The tactile feedbacks provided by the first tactile unit and the second tactile unit enable a user to sense a position of the key which is positioned by the first tactile unit and the operating route or the operating range defined by the second tactile unit, so as to operate the portable electronic device without having to look at the touch surface. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029125 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING A HAPTIC EFFECT ASSOCIATED WITH A GRAPHICAL SIMULATION OR VIRTUAL TAG - A system includes a display configured to display a graphical simulation, a computer configured to run a software program designed to display the graphical simulation on the display, and a stylus constructed and arranged to be manipulated by a user of the system in at least two dimensions to affect the graphical simulation. The stylus includes an actuator configured to output a haptic effect to the user upon receiving a control signal from the computer. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029126 | USER INTERFACE SYSTEM - Disclosed is a user interface system that includes a sheet that defines a surface and at least partially defines a fluid vessel arranged underneath the surface, a volume of fluid within the fluid vessel, a displacement device that influences the volume of the fluid within the fluid vessel to expand and contract at least a portion of the fluid vessel, thereby deforming a particular region of the surface, and a sensor system that is configured to receive a user input on the surface with a first sensitivity and configured to receive a user input substantially proximal to the particular region of the surface at with second sensitivity higher than the first sensitivity. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029127 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DUAL-DIFFERENTIAL SENSING - A method and device for dual-differential sensing is disclosed. The sensing information can be generated from signals provided by a sensing device with a plurality of sensors. Each value of the sensing information corresponds to signals of three sensors, respectively. The sensing device is flexible and configured on a display. The noise effect of the display on the signal of each sensor corresponds to the distance between the display and the sensor. Besides, the noise effect of the display on each value of the sensing information corresponds to the distances between the display and the three sensors, respectively. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029128 | FACE DETECTION WITH TRANSCAPACITIVE SENSING - A processing system configured to detect large objects includes a sensor module with sensor circuitry coupled to transmitter electrodes and receiver electrodes, and configured to transmit transmitter signals with the transmitter electrode and receive resulting signals with the receiver electrodes, the resulting signals including effects corresponding to transmitter signals. The processing system further includes a determination module configured to determine a transition condition is present using a capacitive image, based on the resulting signals, having capacitive pixel values, and operate in large object mode based on the transition condition being present. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029129 | Oncell Single-Layer Touch Sensor - In one embodiment, a touch sensor includes multiple first electrodes along a first direction. Each of the first electrodes includes multiple first conductive regions. The touch sensor also includes multiple second electrodes along a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the second electrodes includes one second conductive region. The one second conductive region of each of the second electrodes are interdigitated with one of the first conductive regions of each of the first electrodes. The first and second conductive regions are disposed on a layer on or within a display stack including one or more layers. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029130 | Voltage Driven Self-Capacitance Measurement - In one embodiment, a method includes substantially simultaneously applying a pre-determined voltage to a sense electrode and a corresponding drive electrode of a touch sensor. The application of the pre-determined voltage providing a measurement current at a capacitance including the sense electrode. The method also includes determining a difference between the measurement current at the capacitance and a reference value; and determining whether a proximity input to the touch sensor has occurred based at least in part on the difference. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029131 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR RECOGNIZING MULTIPLE FINGERS ON CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANELS AND DETECTING TOUCH POSITIONS - A method is provided for recognizing touches by at least a finger on a touch panel and determining positions of the touches by analyzing a change in capacitance of electrodes of the touch panel. The change in capacitance is represented as at least an array. A digital signal processing unit and a touch panel that implement the method are also provided. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029132 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTIVE PRESSURE LEVEL - A method for compensating electromagnetic inductive pressure level of an electromagnetic pen is disclosed. First of all, an electromagnetic pen is provided on a touch panel, wherein the touch panel has a sensor layer and at least one sensor coil on a transparent substrate, the sensor coil is located on the peripheral region of the transparent substrate and around the sensor layer. Then the coordinates of the electromagnetic pen are calculated via the sensor layer and a pressure level value is calculated via a frequency of the electromagnetic pen. Next a pressure level compensation value is obtained from a pressure level compensation value table. Finally, a compensated pressure level value is obtained by adding the pressure level value and the pressure level compensation value. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029133 | METHOD FOR COMPENSATING ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTIVE PRESSURE LEVEL - A method for compensating electromagnetic inductive pressure level of an electromagnetic pen is disclosed. First of all, an electromagnetic pen is provided on a touch panel, wherein the touch panel has a sensor layer and at least one sensor coil on a transparent substrate, the sensor coil is located on the peripheral region of the transparent substrate and around the sensor layer. Then a signal amplitude of the electromagnetic pen is calculated and a pressure level value is calculated via a frequency of the electromagnetic pen. Next distances between the sensor coil and the electromagnetic pen are calculated to obtain the location of the electromagnetic pen. Then a pressure level compensation value is obtained from a pressure level compensation value table. Finally, a compensated pressure level value is obtained by adding the pressure level value and the pressure level compensation value. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029134 | DRIVING AND SENSING METHOD FOR SINGLE-LAYER MUTUAL CAPACITIVE MULTI-TOUCH SCREEN - A driving and sensing method for a single-layer mutual capacitive multi-touch screen includes inputting a first driving signal to a plurality of touch sensing electrodes along a first direction and receiving a first sensing signal corresponding to the first driving signal along the first direction; and inputting a second driving signal to the plurality of touch sensing electrodes along a second direction and receiving a second sensing signal corresponding to the second driving signal along the second direction; wherein the second direction is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The plurality of touch sensing electrodes are disposed in the single-layer mutual capacitive multi-touch screen, and each of the plurality of touch sensing electrodes includes at least one driving area and at least one receiving area, wherein all driving areas and receiving areas are located in a same layer of the single-layer mutual capacitive multi-touch screen. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029135 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL, FLAT PANEL DISPLAY APPARATUS INTEGRATED WITH THE TOUCH SCREEN PANEL, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A touch screen panel, a flat panel display apparatus integrated touch screen panel, and a method of manufacturing the same. The touch screen panel includes: first touch detection patterns extending in a first direction and spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and second touch detection patterns extending in the second direction and spaced apart from each other in the first direction. Each of the first touch detection patterns includes a first transparent conductive pattern and a first edge conductive pattern surrounding an edge of the first transparent conductive pattern, and each of the second touch detection patterns includes a second transparent conductive pattern and a second edge conductive pattern surrounding an edge of the second transparent conductive pattern. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029136 | SUPERHETERODYNE PEN STIMULUS SIGNAL RECEIVER - A superheterodyne stylus signal receiver for detecting a stylus stimulation signal from a stylus is provided. The stylus signal receiver can be configured to convert the touch signal into an intermediate frequency signal having a frequency that is less than that of the touch signal. In some examples, a hardware-implemented I-phase demodulator can be used to convert the touch signal into the intermediate frequency signal. The receiver can be further configured to perform IQ demodulation on the intermediate frequency signal at the intermediate frequency signal's lower frequency. In some examples, the IQ demodulation can be performed in firmware. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029137 | NOISE COMPENSATING TOUCH PANEL AND TOUCH DEVICE THEREOF - A noise compensating touch panel includes a touch module and a signal compensating module. The touch module includes transmission electrodes and sensing electrodes. The signal compensating module has a first input, a second input and an output. The signal compensating module couples to the touch module. The transmission electrodes receive scanning voltage signals sequentially. When the scanning voltage signals sense the touching by object at crossover points of a first transmission electrode and the sensing electrodes, the sensing electrodes provide sensing signals. The sensing signals include the value of a first parasitical capacitor. The second transmission electrode senses the value of a second parasitical capacitor which the second transmission electrode isn't touched by object when the second transmission electrode receives the scanning voltage signals. Then the second transmission electrode provides compensating signals. Signal compensating module receives the sensing signals and the compensating signals separately. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029138 | METHOD OF RECOGNIZING TOUCH - The disclosure relates to a method for recognizing touch. A first value T | 2015-01-29 |
20150029139 | TOUCH PAD - A touch pad includes detection means for outputting a variable with respect to an operation surface, and control means for recognizing an operation finger candidate. In a case of one operation finger candidate, when a touch area exceeds a first threshold value, the control means determines the operation finger candidate to be an operation valid target finger. When a touch area does not exceed the first threshold value, the control means determines the operation finger candidate to be an operation invalid target finger. In a case of plural operation finger candidates, when a touch area exceeds a second threshold value indicating an area smaller than the first threshold value, the control means determines the operation finger candidate to be an operation valid target finger. When a touch area does not exceed the second threshold value, the control means determines the operation finger candidate to be an operation invalid target finger. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029140 | PORTABLE DISPLAY DEVICE - A portable display device that includes a casing, a pico-projection module, a first display screen, and a touch module is provided. The pico-projection module is located in the casing and capable of providing a first image light beam. The first display screen is located on the casing, and the pico-projection module is configured to project the first image light beam onto the first display screen. The touch module is located on the first display screen. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029141 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING HOVER SENSING - Disclosed herein is a touch sensing apparatus capable of supporting hover sensing, including: a plurality of capacitance-voltage converters (C-V converters) outputting different voltage values depending on a change in capacitance of each of the sensing electrodes; a plurality of integrators integrating output voltages of each of the C-V converters; a first multiplexer multiplexing outputs of the plurality of integrators; a second multiplexer multiplexing the outputs of the plurality of integrators; a first differential amplification unit for touch sensing receiving an output of the first multiplexer and an output of the second multiplexer; a second differential amplification unit for hover sensing receiving the output of the first multiplexer and the output of the second multiplexer; and a control unit sensing a touch event or a hover event, thereby removing a common noise to accurately sense both the touch event and the hover event. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029142 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF - A touch screen panel includes a substrate, first sensing patterns, second sensing patterns, and an insulating layer. The first sensing patterns may be configured to include a plurality of first sensing cells separated from one another as independent patterns. The second sensing patterns may be configured to include a plurality of second sensing cells formed on the substrate. The insulating layer may be interposed between the first and second connecting patterns at intersection portions of the first connecting patterns and the second connecting patterns. The insulating layer may be an island-shaped independent pattern at each intersection portion. End portions of each first connecting pattern may electrically connect adjacent first sensing cells. A width of a first region of each first connecting pattern may be wider than that of a second region. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029143 | FLEXIBLE TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND FLEXIBLE DISPLAY DEVICE WITH THE SAME - A flexible touch screen panel includes a window substrate, a polarizing functional layer, sensing patterns and sensing lines. The window substrate is flexible. The polarizing functional layer is attached on a first surface of the window substrate, and is divided into an active area and an inactive area positioned outside of the active area. The sensing patterns are formed in the active area on a first surface of the polarizing functional layer. The sensing lines are formed in the inactive area on the first surface of the polarizing functional layer, and are connected to the sensing patterns. In the touch screen panel, the polarizing functional layer has a laminated structure in which a polarizer and a retardation compensation film are attached on the first surface of the window substrate. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029144 | DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device is disclosed which includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate; a plurality of touch electrodes formed in a fixed area of the first substrate; touch lines connected to the touch electrodes; and a driver disposed in an edge of the first substrate and configured to apply a voltage to the touch lines. The touch lines connected to the touch electrodes have the same resistance value. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029145 | Method, Apparatus and Computer-Readable Storage Means for Adjusting at Least Two Parameters - The present invention concerns a method, an apparatus and a computer-readable storage means for adjusting at least one parameter, which can be used for enhancing the user experience of adjusting parameters, especially of adjusting parameters in common audio software through a system of assignable rotary encoders with capacitive-sensing knob caps and a parameter type aware software. The invention especially enables a quick adjustment of several parameters by use of rotary encoders. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029146 | CAPACITIVE TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE WITH MULTI-TOUCHSCREENS - The general field of the invention is that of devices with touchscreen of the capacitive type comprising two matrix touch pads connected to an electronic assembly comprising emission and receiving means. The emission means generate a plurality of emission signals at various frequencies. A period equal to the inverse of the said frequency being associated with each frequency, the values of the frequencies are such that there exist a plurality of integer numbers each associated with a frequency and with a period such that the product of each integer number with the associated period is a constant product. The receiving means comprise a synchronous amplitude demodulation arranged in such a manner as to perform the multiplication of the received signal by a plurality of periodic functions representative of each frequency, the multiplied signals obtained being integrated over an identical period of time corresponding to the said constant product, each signal thus integrated being representative of a received signal at a single given frequency. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029147 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING PATTERN OF SENSING CHANNELS IN TOUCH PANEL - A method for designing a pattern of sensing channels is provided. The method is applied to a touch panel including a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of sections of sensing channels. The electrodes are connected to a plurality of sensors for the touch panel via the sections of sensing channels. According to a minimum sensing channel width, a minimum sensing channel gap, a maximum distribution width and lengths of the sections of sensing channels, a set of rules are established. According to the set of rules, a programming process is utilized to determine respective widths of the sections of sensing channels. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029148 | CAPACITIVE IN-CELL TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to a capacitive in-cell touch screen panel and a display device in which first touch detecting electrodes and second touch detecting electrodes insulated with each other are provided on a substrate; the first touch detecting electrodes are located between the substrate and the black matrix, the second touch detecting electrodes are located on a side of the black matrix away from the substrate. Because the first touch detecting electrodes and the second touch detecting electrodes are provided on the substrate away from the TFT array substrate, it is possible to avoid mutual interference between touch signals and display signals in the TFT array substrate, thereby not only ensuring the quality of pictures on a liquid crystal display but also enhancing reliability of touch operations. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029149 | Apparatus and Method for Navigating on a Touch Sensitive Screen Thereof - The present invention relates to a method and apparatus ( | 2015-01-29 |
20150029150 | TOUCH WINDOW AND TOUCH DEVICE THE SAME - Disclosed is a touch window. The touch window includes a substrate in which an active area and an unactive area are defined; and a sensing electrode on the active area to sense a position, wherein the active area includes a first active area; and a second active area adjacent to the first active area and driven in a driving scheme different from a driving scheme for the first active area. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029151 | FINGER TOUCH SENSING WITH A DIGITIZER SYSTEM - A method for multi-touch detection on a grid based capacitive sensor includes transmitting consecutively a first and then a second sequence of a Golay pair of sequences on a first driver line of a grid based capacitive sensor and transmitting the first and then the second sequence of a Golay pair of sequences on a second driver line, at a predefined delay with respect to transmission on the first driver line. Output on a receiver line of the grid based capacitive sensor is sampled and output originating from the first driver line is separated from output originating from the second driver line. The presence of an input object is detected responsive to the output as separated. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029152 | TOUCH SENSOR CONTACT INFORMATION - Apparatus and methods are disclosed for simultaneously tracking multiple finger and palm contacts as hands approach, touch, and slide across a proximity-sensing, multi-touch surface. Identification and classification of intuitive hand configurations and motions enables unprecedented integration of typing, resting, pointing, scrolling, 3D manipulation, and handwriting into a versatile, ergonomic computer input device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029153 | ELECTRICALLY CONDUCTIVE DEVICE TO BE APPLIED TO A PORTION OF A GLOVE FOR USE WITH TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE - A device is removeably attachable to a fingertip portion of a glove worn on a hand of a user for use with a touch screen device. The device includes a conductive film layer and an adhesive layer secured to the conductive film layer. The adhesive layer is removeably attachable to the glove, and the conductive film layer is capable of contacting the touch screen device. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029154 | TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE FOR VEHICLE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A touch display device for a vehicle and a driving method thereof are provided. The touch display device includes a touch panel that displays an image and an image irradiation unit that provides the image to the touch panel. In addition, a lighting unit radiates infrared rays to the touch panel and an image capturing unit captures an image that corresponds to a touch on the touch panel An emergency button unit that includes at least one emergency button is activated on the touch panel during an emergency mode. A controller is configured to activate the emergency mode by sensing a failure of one of the touch panel, the image irradiation unit, the lighting unit, and the image capturing unit. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029155 | TOUCH DISPLAY APPARATUS OF VEHICLE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - A touch display apparatus of a vehicle includes: a touch panel including a display area for displaying an image and a button area for displaying a button; an ultrasonic wave generator irradiating an airborne ultra sound wave to the button area so that the button area is deformed to a shape of three dimensional button; an image irradiator irradiating the image to the touch panel; and an image capturer capturing the button area in order to determine whether the three dimensional button is touched. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029156 | TOUCH POINT RECOGNITION METHOD OF TOUCH SCREEN AND SYSTEM PERFORMING THE SAME - A touch point recognition method of a touch screen includes touching a palm on one surface of a screen and sensing a palm area from the other surface of the screen. Finger touch areas are extracted from the sensed palm area by using a bandpass filter, a finger area is extracted from the palm area by using an image processing filter, and a palm center area is extracted from the palm area by using a lowpass filter. The finger touch areas are grouped based on the finger area, and a finger touch area, which is distant from the center area in the group of the finger touch areas, is recognized as an actual touch area. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029157 | OPTICAL SENSING TYPE BUILT IN TOUCH CONTROL SCREEN PANEL AND A DISPLAY DEVICE - An optical sensing type built in touch control screen panel and a display device are provided. The optical sensing type built in touch control screen panel includes an array substrate having a plurality of pixel units arranged in a matrix. The array substrate has touch control scanning lines between adjacent rows of the pixel units. The array substrate has touch control reading lines between adjacent columns of the pixel units. The array substrate has a photosensitive transistor and a touch control switch unit in a region defined by the touch control scanning lines and the touch control reading lines; the photosensitive transistor has a drain connected with the touch control switch unit, the touch control switch unit is connected with the touch control scanning line and the touch control reading line, respectively, so as to control ON OFF between the drain of the photosensitive transistor and the touch control reading line. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029158 | SENSING DEVICE AND METHOD OF SENSING A LIGHT BY USING THE SAME - In a sensing device and a method for sending a light by using the same, the sensing device includes: a lower panel; an upper panel facing the lower panel; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the lower panel and the upper panel; an infrared ray sensor formed in at least one of the lower panel and the upper panel; and a visible ray sensor formed in at least one of the lower panel and the upper panel. The sensing device simultaneously includes the infrared ray sensor and the visible ray sensor such that a touch sensing function or an image sensing function having high reliability may be realized. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029159 | System And Method For Using Signals Resulting From Signal Transmission In A Touch Sensor - In an embodiment, a system includes a controller coupled to a first set of electrodes. The first set of electrodes are substantially arranged along a first axis. The controller is configured to send a first set of signals through a transmission medium to a first set of electrodes and receive a second set of signals. The impedance of the transmission medium is different than the impedance of the first set of electrodes. The second set of signals include characteristics resulting from effects on the first set of signals from the first set of electrodes and the transmission medium. The controller is configured to change, in response to analyzing the second set of signals, one or more of the following: an impedance of the controller and a voltage associated with the controller. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029160 | Paper Medium, Input Device, and Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Medium for Input Device - A paper medium includes a form and a mark. The mark is disposed in an information correspondence position. The information correspondence position is a specified position that corresponds to a form information item. The information correspondence position is the same position on each one of a plurality of forms in a case where the form information item is the same on each one of the plurality of the forms. The information correspondence position is a different position on each one of a plurality of forms in a case where the form information item is different on each one of the plurality of the forms. The form information item is specified information that is related to the form. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029161 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR IMPLEMENTING DUAL TIP FUNCTIONALITY IN A STYLUS DEVICE - In some embodiments, a stylus device includes two switch mechanisms, one disposed at the stylus tip portion and the other disposed at the stylus end portion. The stylus device also includes a wireless transceiver that allows the stylus device to communicate back to an electronic host device (e.g., an electronic tablet) in response to a user contacting the surface of a host device with the stylus tip portion or the stylus end portion. This enables, for example, a wide range of dual stylus device functions for electronic tablet applications. For example, the stylus device can be used to write and/or draw with the stylus tip portion and then can be flipped to the stylus end portion to erase as a user would generally do with a conventional pencil on paper. In another example, the stylus device can include a marker color tip on the stylus tip portion and a color blender on the stylus end portion. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029162 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING UNIVERSAL STYLUS DEVICE WITH FUNCTIONALITIES - A method can include receiving a signal representing a first touch event and receiving a signal representing a first end portion of a stylus device being activated. Based on receiving the signal representing the first touch event and based on receiving the signal representing the first end portion of the stylus device being activated, a signal can be sent such that a graphical user interface (GUI) is modified according to a first functionality. A signal representing a second touch event and a signal representing a second end portion of the stylus device being activated can also be received. Based on receiving the signal representing the second touch event and based on receiving the signal representing the second end portion of the stylus device being activated, a signal can be sent such that the GUI is modified according to a second functionality. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029163 | STYLUS HAVING A DEFORMABLE TIP AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - A stylus has a body portion and a tip portion coupled to an end of the body portion. The body portion defines a first cross-sectional area and is configured to be engaged by a user. The tip portion has a first end disposed adjacent to the body portion and having the first cross-sectional area, and a second end defining a second cross-sectional area different from the first cross-sectional area. The tip portion is formed from a flexible material that elastically deforms when placed in contact with a touch sensitive display to define an engagement surface that is input to the touch sensitive display. The engagement surface has a first size when the stylus is in a first configuration and a second size different from the first size when the stylus is in a second configuration. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029164 | ATTACHABLE ACCESSORY AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER RECORDING OF WRITING - An accessory for digitally recording writing on a surface includes an accessory body, a sensing panel, a gyroscope, an accelerating sensor, and a processor. The accessory body is fastened to a pen. The sensing panel is located on the accessory body to sense being held in a hand. The gyroscope can determine an inclination angle shift of the body relative to a predefined writing plane. The accelerating sensor can detect an offset of the body within the predefined writing plane. The processor can simulate the writing according to the inclination angle shift and the offset and record and display the writing. | 2015-01-29 |
20150029165 | INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM AND PEN TOOL THEREFOR - A pen tool comprises an elongate body, a tip adjacent one end the body, and a filtered reflector disposed on the body, the filtered reflector comprising a reflecting portion and at least one filtering element, the at least one filtering element configured to permit illumination emitted at a selected wavelength to pass therethrough and impinge on the reflecting portion and to permit illumination at the selected wavelength that is reflected by the reflecting portion to exit the filtered reflector. | 2015-01-29 |