Patents Assigned to Wacom Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 11977690
    Abstract: An electronic pen includes a cylindrical housing including an opening on one end of the housing in an axial direction of the housing, a core body attached inside of the housing such that an end of the core body protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, and a signal generation circuit which, in operation, generates a signal that is transmitted from the core body. The core body includes a core rod that is conductive and a protection member. The core rod includes a front portion that protrudes from the opening on the one end of the housing, a back portion, and an intermediate portion between the front portion and the back portion. The intermediate portion has a tapered shape narrowing from the front portion toward the back portion. The core rod receives the signal from the signal generation circuit. The protection member covers a side surface of the intermediate portion of the core rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Hashimoto, Shinya Aoki, Noboru Yamaguchi
  • Patent number: 11977701
    Abstract: A sensor panel includes a detection area and is coupleable to an integrated circuit (IC) for detecting a position of an active stylus in the detection area. The sensor panel includes a plurality of first electrodes which are elongated and extending along a first direction in the detection area, wherein the plurality of first electrodes are arrayed along a second direction that is transverse to the first direction; a plurality of first routing traces associated respectively with the first electrodes and connected respectively to the first electrodes; and a plurality of first terminals associated respectively with the first routing traces and connecting the first routing traces to the IC. The first routing traces include extension lines formed in an area farther distanced from the first terminals along the second direction, than locations of junctions between the first routing traces and the first electrodes relative to the first terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 11977710
    Abstract: A position detection sensor includes a base made of a flexible material. The base includes a terminal section having a plurality of terminal conductors disposed on a first surface of the base. The base includes a sensor pattern section including a plurality of electrode conductors arranged in predetermined patterns in an area that does not overlap with the terminal section on the first surface of the base. End portions of the plurality of electrode conductors are positioned so as to be connectable to corresponding ones of the terminal conductors in the terminal section. The first surface of the base includes a region of the terminal section, a region of the sensor pattern section, and a bendable region between these two regions. Each of the plurality of electrode conductors, which is electrically connected to each of the plurality of terminal conductors, is disposed so as to be extensible in the bendable region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11977693
    Abstract: A position indicator that is used with a position detection device including a position detection sensor, the position indicator including a first function module and a second function module. The first function module includes a core body that, in operation, is brought into contact with an input surface for position detection in the position detection sensor, and a position detection signal transmission circuit, in operation, that transmits a position detection signal to the position detection sensor. The second function module includes a first function circuit that, in operation, generates characteristic selection information corresponding to a characteristic of the core body or a characteristic of the input surface and transmits the characteristic selection information, or a second function circuit that, in operation, generates a stimulus corresponding to the characteristic selection information such that a user who is holding the position indicator audibly or tactilely perceives the stimulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Nobutaka Ide, Koji Yano, Takahiko Hoen, Mu-Tzu Chen, Tadakuni Tsubota
  • Patent number: 11977689
    Abstract: Input of various kinds of information to an image processing device by use of a foot part of a user is enabled in order not to cause a difference between an image that changes and a feeling with respect to the motion of the body of the user. Position indicators are disposed at a sole back part of a foot-part position indicating instrument. A foot-part position detecting device receives a position indication signal from the position indicators, detects whether the foot-part position indicating instrument makes forward movement that is movement in the extension direction of a line extended in a direction from a heel-side part toward a toe-side part or makes backward movement that is movement in the extension direction of a line extended in a direction from the toe-side part toward the heel-side part, and indicates the forward movement and the backward movement to the image processing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: So Kato, Tatsunosuke Tobita
  • Patent number: 11972079
    Abstract: An active pen is provided, which facilitates avoiding complex computation for phase acquisition on the side of a sensor integrated circuit configured to receive downlink signals from active pens, and allows for generating carrier waves for the downlink signals using a simple configuration, namely, a frequency dividing circuit, while reducing a difference in unused time in one time slot between the active pens. An active pen 2 is configured to transmit one or more symbol values in one time slot, and includes a frequency dividing circuit 43 configured to frequency-divide a reference clock with a frequency division ratio based on each of a plurality of frequencies different from each other, to thereby generate a plurality of carrier waves having frequencies different from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masayuki Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11971929
    Abstract: A record including an original document and a modification to the original document is created. Metadata associated with the modification to the original document is generated. The modification in stored in a data store. Creation and registration of a decentralized identifier (DID) document for the modification is requested based on the generated metadata. Modified document metadata is generated which includes a document hash and the created DID document for the modification. Recordation of the modification in a blockchain transaction, creation and registration of a DID document for the modified document, and generation of verifiable credentials for the modification are requested. The generated verifiable credentials for the modification are stored and a quick response (QR) code for the DID document for the modification is generated. A visual representation of the modification and the QR code for the modification are added to the original document, generating a sealed document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joss Daniel Giffard-Burley, Avinav Khanal, Novi Rahman
  • Patent number: 11960664
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen which communicates with a position detection sensor through electromagnetic induction, including a coil, a columnar magnetic core including a through hole in an axial direction of the magnetic core, a capacitor constituting a resonant circuit together with the coil, and a rod-shaped core body inserted through the through hole of the magnetic core, in which the magnetic core includes a front portion, a back portion, and a middle portion interposed between the front portion and the back portion, an outside diameter of the middle portion is smaller than an outside diameter of the front portion of the magnetic core and an outside diameter of the back portion of the magnetic core, and the coil is wound around the middle portion of the magnetic core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshiharu Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11954284
    Abstract: Provided is a position detection circuit that uses a touch sensor of a capacitance type including sensor electrodes to detect a first position indicated by a first indicator that communicates with the touch sensor to indicate the first position and a second position indicated by a second indicator that indicates the second position without communicating with the touch sensor, the position detection circuit including a first detection circuit that detects a touch of the second indicator to an input surface arranged on the touch sensor, a second detection circuit that detects the first indicator when proximity information indicating a proximity of the first indicator to the touch sensor is equal to or greater than a threshold, and a changing circuit that changes the threshold to a larger value when the first detection circuit detects the touch compared to when the first detection circuit does not detect the touch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yoshio Nomura
  • Patent number: 11940301
    Abstract: Provided is a position indicator of an electromagnetic induction type including a position indicator cartridge housed in a hollow portion of a housing, in which the position indicator cartridge includes a first resonant circuit including a first coil wound around a magnetic core arranged on one end of the position indicator cartridge in an axial direction of the position indicator cartridge and a first capacitor, a second coil that is independent of the position indicator cartridge provided outside of the position indicator cartridge, at a position where the second coil, in operation, is magnetically coupled to the first coil of the position indicator cartridge, and a switch turned on and off by an operation portion provided outside of the position indicator cartridge, the operation portion, in operation, receiving an operation of a user, and a closed circuit including the second coil is formed when the switch is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Masamitsu Ito
  • Patent number: 11941186
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including a rod-shaped core body having conductivity, a pen pressure transmitter which is connected to the core body and has conductivity and which, in operation, transmits a pen pressure applied to the core body to a pen pressure detector, and a signal transmitter which, in operation, generates a signal to be transmitted from the core body, in which the pen pressure transmitter includes a shock-absorbing mechanism which, in operation, when the pen pressure applied to the core body has a predetermined value or more, absorbs the pen pressure, and the signal from the signal transmitter, in operation, is supplied to the core body through the pen pressure transmitter and transmitted to an outside of the electronic pen through the core body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryuto Sakamoto, Shinya Aoki
  • Patent number: 11941194
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen cartridge that is replaceable and constitutes an electronic pen by being attached to a cylindrical outer housing having a hollow portion inside, the electronic pen cartridge including an inner housing that is cylindrical, a circuit board housed in the inner housing, a pen pressure detector provided in the inner housing on a side of the inner housing adjacent to a pen tip, a core body that is rod-shaped and presses the pen pressure detector, and a coil provided at a position closer to the pen tip than the inner housing and having a first end and a second end connected to the circuit board, in which at least the coil is covered with a sealing portion made of resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryoji Kamiyama
  • Patent number: 11941183
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a sensor electrode group; and a touch integrated circuit coupled to the sensor electrode group for executing touch detection and configured to generate frame data indicative of a detection level of each of two-dimensional positions in the sensor electrode group. The touch integrated circuit is connected to an external processor different from the touch integrated circuit via a first bus. The touch integrated circuit supplies the frame data to the external processor via the first bus. The external processor feeds determination data resulting from performing predetermined processing on the frame data back to the touch integrated circuit. The touch integrated circuit performs an operation based on the determination data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideyuki Komatsu, Kazuhiro Miyoshi, Shigeyuki Sano
  • Patent number: 11941188
    Abstract: Provided is an electronic pen including an electronic pen main part including a first sealing member that covers circumference of a tip side of the electronic pen main part and a second sealing member disposed along an outer edge of the electronic pen main part at a position separate from a tip toward a rear end side of the electronic pen main part, and an inside body that is tubular and has an inner wall surface with which the first sealing member and the second sealing member come into contact through insertion of the tip side of the electronic pen main part into the inside body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Mamoru Ogata, Takenori Kaneda, Kenichi Ninomiya, Takayuki Arai, Kohei Tanaka
  • Patent number: 11934592
    Abstract: A position indicator that indicates a position is disclosed. The position indicator includes a casing of an electronic pen, a position indicating part, a tracker, and a grip part configured to be gripped by a user. The position indicating part is disposed at one end of the casing. The position indicating part, in operation, indicates the position. The tracker, in operation, causes an external device to detect the position in a three-dimensional space. The grip part is orthogonal to the casing of the electronic pen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Munakata, Hiroshi Tamano, Yuanhao Chen
  • Patent number: 11928477
    Abstract: A host system includes a device driver with application-specific settings for a hosted application. Input data is generated by one or more tablet devices at a client computer system. A host-side data transfer application receives the input data and forwards it to the host-side driver, which sends the input data to the hosted application. The tablet data sent to the hosted application is configured according to application-specific settings of the host-side driver, which may support multiple application programming interfaces. A dedicated driver-to-driver connection may also be used to transmit data between client-side and host-side drivers. In another aspect, a host sends an identifier of a hosted application currently in use to a client-side driver, which uses that identifier to look up and apply application-specific settings to tablet data sent to the hosted application. This can eliminate the need for a host-side driver while still allowing application-specific settings for hosted applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Joseph Vaughn Sliger, Kenton Jay Loftus, Jarrod Dunnihoo, Konrad Wilhelm Pollmann
  • Patent number: 11921951
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixel electrodes each provided in a corresponding one of a plurality of pixels, and a common electrode shared by the plurality of pixels. The touch sensor also includes a touch panel that detects a position of at least either a finger or a pen. The display panel and the touch panel are superimposed on each other in a vertical direction. The common electrode includes a conductor-area-reduction portion that reduces an area of the common electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jun Kadowaki
  • Patent number: 11921965
    Abstract: An information processing system includes: an information processing apparatus; and a position indicator configured to input position information to the information processing apparatus. The position indicator includes: a first sensor configured to detect a movement amount of a fingertip of a user, a second sensor configured to detect a tilt of the position indicator, and a transmission section configured to transmit data indicative of the movement amount detected by the first sensor and of the tilt detected by the second sensor. The information processing apparatus includes: a reception section configured to receive the data transmitted from the position indicator, and a first processor configured to control a movement of a display object displayed on a display screen on the basis of the tilt and the movement amount indicated by the data received by the reception section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Naoto Onoda
  • Patent number: 11921938
    Abstract: A stylus includes a first sensor configured to receive a first receive signal from a touch sensor of a device, and a second sensor configured to receive a second receive signal from the touch sensor of the device. The stylus includes an amplifier coupled to the first and second sensors and configured to produce a third signal by amplifying the difference between the first receive signal and the second receive signal. The stylus includes a controller configured to decode information encoded in the first receive signal and the second receive signal by processing the third signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Thomas Bell
  • Patent number: 11914834
    Abstract: A sensor includes a first substrate on a back side of a display panel, a first coil extending in a first direction at a predetermined angle between 0 and 90 degrees with respect to a long-side direction of the first substrate and including a first long-side portion provided with first and second end portions, a second coil including a second long-side portion extending in a second direction, a first leader line including a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to the first end portion, and the second end is connected to wiring on a second substrate arranged to extend at a right angle toward the outside of the sensor from one side of the first substrate, and a second leader line including first end connected to the end portion and a second end connected to the wiring on the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuanhao Chen, Yoshihisa Sugiyama, Akira Ito