Abstract: A pixel structure including a pixel array is disclosed. The pixel array includes a plurality of pixels, each including a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, and a third sub-pixel. The pixel array also includes a plurality of pixel dots, each including a plurality of sub-pixels from two adjacent rows of sub-pixels in the pixel array, wherein any two of the adjacent rows of sub-pixels in the pixel array are shared by each other. A first pixel dot includes a first sub-pixel and a plurality of surrounding sub-pixels adjacent to the first sub-pixel, wherein at least one or more of the surrounding sub-pixels and the first sub-pixel are shared by each other. In addition, the first pixel dot includes at least four sub-pixels including at least one first sub-pixel, one second sub-pixel, and one third sub-pixel.

Abstract: A portable terminal and a method for protecting a displayed object on a screen of a portable terminal are provided. The method includes detecting an input on the screen; forming an area corresponding to a position of the detected input; and displaying a part of an object corresponding to the formed area differently from another part of the object in an area outside of the formed area.

Abstract: A finger operated control device includes at least one finger portion that covers at least 30% of a surface area of skin around a distal phalanx of a finger and piezoelectric sensors coupled to the finger portion and having a plurality of electrodes, where at least two of the electrodes are separated by a material with piezoelectric properties. The at least one finger portion may be thimble shaped and may be made of polymer. The at least one finger portion may be a piezoelectric polymer or polyvinylidene fluoride. A distance between at least 50% of the electrodes may be between 0.1 and 5 mm or between 0.5 and 2 mm. A number of electrodes may be between 5 and 2000 or between 20 and 200. The finger operated control device may also include a computing device coupled to the finger portion using at least a wireless and/or wired connection.

Abstract: The present invention provides a pixel array which comprises a plurality of pixel units, each of the plurality of pixel units comprises a plurality of sub-pixels having different colors, wherein, a horizontal-to-vertical ratio of each sub-pixel is in a range of 1:2 to 1:1. The present invention further provides a driving method of a pixel array, a display panel including the pixel array, and a display device including the display panel.

Abstract: An information input device including a touch panel configured to be provided with a touch sensor that detects a position at which a sensing object is brought close to a sensing surface. In this information input device, the touch sensor has a scanning electrode and a detecting electrode that is opposed to the scanning electrode with the intermediary of a dielectric substance, and is a capacitive sensor whose electrostatic capacitance changes if the sensing object is brought close to the detecting electrode. Furthermore, a slit is formed in a surface of the detecting electrode opposed to the scanning electrode.

Abstract: Described herein is a structure for supporting a touchpad, including: a frame body having an upper and lower surfaces and an opening, in which the opening including a main edge and an adjacent side edge, wherein the side edge has an indention; a supporting component for supporting the touchpad in the opening, wherein the supporting component has a connecting and an opposite distal ends, and the connecting end connects to a connecting element, which connects to the lower surface adjacent to the main edge, and the supporting component extends toward the upper surface formed an angle with the upper surface, and has a protruding part corresponding to the indention and fitting in the indention; a blocking member disposed on the frame body and blocking the indention; wherein the protruding part is blocked by the blocking member so as to make the distal end lower than the upper surface.

Abstract: A mouse with an adjustable sensing module is revealed. The mouse includes a mouse body with a round opening on a bottom surface thereof, a rotatable outer ring set on the round opening of the mouse body, a rotatable inner ring mounted in the outer ring, and a disk having a sensing module and vertically moveable in the inner ring. The disk is driven to move vertically relative to the inner ring for adjusting height of the sensing module relative to the working surface when the inner ring is rotated an angle clockwise or counterclockwise relative to the outer ring. The angle of the sensing module relative to a computer screen is adjusted when the outer ring is rotated an angle relative to the round opening of the mouse body and the inner ring together with the disk is rotated the angle along with the outer ring.

Abstract: The stereoscopic image display device includes: an observer position measuring unit which measures the observing position of the observer; an image processing unit which calculates the relative position of the observing position of the observer and the stereoscopic display panel, calculates the luminance adjustment amount suited for stereoscopic image display for the relative position, and performs luminance adjustment processing on the image data according to the luminance adjustment amount; and a stereoscopic display panel unit which projects the image data on which the luminance adjustment processing is performed to the right eye and the left eye of the observer via the stereoscopic display panel.

Abstract: A touch sensitive device includes a plurality of sense electrodes arranged in a pattern to receive charge from drive electrodes. The pattern of sense electrodes has extreme portions having worst case charge transfer times, wherein the worst case charge transfer time at multiple extreme portions is substantially equal.

Abstract: A backlit device includes an outer layer, an adhesive layer, and a light guide configured to transmit light from a light source. The adhesive layer is positioned between the outer layer and the light guide. The outer layer includes a plurality of outer layer segments and at least one opening positioned between the outer layer segments where light from the light guide can pass through and provide backlighting. The adhesive layer includes a plurality of adhesive material segments. Each adhesive material segment is individually positioned between an outer layer segment and the light guide such that the perimeter of an outer layer segment surrounds the perimeter of the respective adhesive material segment. Through this arrangement, the adhesive material segments do not divert or block light passing through the opening in the outer layer.

Abstract: A flexible display device includes a flexible display panel, a first sensor, a second sensor, and at least one control unit. The flexible display panel is bendable about an axis that divides the flexible display panel into a first portion and a second portion. The first sensor is configured to sense first spatial information of the first portion. The second sensor is configured to sense second spatial information of the second portion. The at least one control unit is configured to: determine bending information of the flexible display unit based on the first spatial information and the second spatial information; select an application according to the bending information; process image information through the application to generate image data; and drive the flexible display panel with the image data.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch sensor device. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a flexible touch sensor device. A touch sensor device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first touch sensing region and a second touch sensing region, wherein each of the first touch sensing region and the second touch sensing region includes a plurality of first touch electrodes and a plurality of second touch electrodes, a first connection portion connecting two adjacent first touch electrodes among the plurality of first touch electrodes, and a second connection portion connecting two adjacent second touch electrodes among the plurality of second touch electrodes, wherein an extending direction of the first connection portion positioned at the first touch sensing region is different from an extending direction of the first connection portion positioned at the second touch sensing region.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for digital signal processing (DSP) techniques for generally improving a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of capacitive touch sensors.

Abstract: A processing system, including: a sensor module that: receives, in a first sensing modality, first resulting signals from electrodes in a sensing region; and receives, in a second sensing modality, second resulting signals from a subset of receiver electrodes; and receiver hardware channels that process the second resulting signals, where the number of receiver electrodes exceeds the number of hardware channels; and a determination module that: measures a first plurality of capacitive changes based on the first resulting signals; determines, based on the first plurality of capacitive changes, the section of the sensing region in which an input object is located; selects the subset of the receiver electrodes corresponding to the section; measures a second plurality of capacitive changes based on the second resulting signals; and determines a position of the input object within the section based on the second plurality of capacitive changes.

Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: displaying, on a display device, visual information represented via electronic ink, wherein the electronic ink comprises a plurality of particles; modifying, using a processor, the display device to increase visibility of the electronic ink; wherein said modifying is performed using at least one of the plurality of particles. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for vehicle systems. An example system for a vehicle, includes a head-up display, and a central unit connected to the head-up display, wherein the head-up display is configured to project an image onto a front windshield of the vehicle or onto a separate combiner, wherein the central unit is configured to send image data to the connected head-up display to be displayed, to ascertain a position of the user's eyes, to output a symbol within the image data, to ascertain a first virtual point and a second virtual point in a surrounding of the vehicle based on a recorded image of the surrounding and/or a current position of the vehicle, and to position the symbol such that a starting point of the symbol overlaps the first virtual point and an end point of the symbol overlaps the second virtual point in a view of the user.

Abstract: An information input device including a touch panel configured to be provided with a touch sensor that detects a position at which a sensing object is brought close to a sensing surface. In this information input device, the touch sensor has a scanning electrode and a detecting electrode that is opposed to the scanning electrode with the intermediary of a dielectric substance, and is a capacitive sensor whose electrostatic capacitance changes if the sensing object is brought close to the detecting electrode. Furthermore, a slit is formed in a surface of the detecting electrode opposed to the scanning electrode.

Abstract: A touch window may include a substrate, and an electrode part on the substrate to detect a position. The electrode part includes a first sub-pattern, a second sub-pattern adjacent to the first sub-pattern, a first electrode layer on the first sub-pattern, and a second electrode layer on the second sub-pattern. Another touch window includes a substrate, and an electrode part on the substrate to detect a position, the electrode part includes a first sub-pattern, a second sub-pattern adjacent to the first sub-pattern, an electrode layer on the first sub-pattern, a first anti-reflective layer on the first sub-pattern, and a second anti-reflective layer on the second sub-pattern.

Abstract: A computing device includes a display having a striped polarizer, the striped polarizer includes a set of sub-areas having a first polarization interspersed between another set of sub-areas having a second polarization. The sub-areas are arranged to provide an alternating polarization across a dimension of the display. The computing device may be configured to receive information specifying a privacy display mode, select a privacy display mode based upon the received information, receive input display data configured to represent information for display, generate, in response to selecting the privacy display mode, output display data by inverting a first portion of pixels in the input display data which are associated with a first polarization, and not inverting a second portion of pixels in the input display data which are associated with a second polarization, and provide the output display data to a display.

Abstract: A touch sensitive device includes a plurality of sense electrodes arranged in a pattern to receive charge from drive electrodes. The pattern of sense electrodes has extreme portions having worst case charge transfer times, wherein the worst case charge transfer time at multiple extreme portions is substantially equal.