Abstract: A baseline unit for use in a sensor system, the sensor system comprising N force sensors which output N sensor signals, respectively, where N?2, the baseline unit configured to: monitor measures of gradients of the respective sensor signals; and, in dependence upon the measures of the gradients, control a stored baseline setting to control how a baseline signal for at least one of said sensor signals is calculated using a baseline-calculation method, the baseline-calculation method configured by the currently-stored baseline setting.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a housing, a core body having a front end that protrudes from an opening in a side of the housing, and a coupling member housing one or more components of the electronic pen. The housing includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion separated in an axial direction of the housing. The first housing portion includes an opening arranged such that the front end of the core body protrudes outside while the first housing portion is electrically separated from the core body. A protrusion portion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the coupling member electrically separates the first and second housing portions. One side of the cylindrical coupling member in the axial direction with respect to the protrusion portion is fitted to the first housing portion, and another side in the axial direction is fitted to the second housing portion.

Abstract: A touch sensor device includes a first panel, a second panel, and a drive-sense circuit (DSC). The first panel that includes first electrodes arranged in a first direction and second electrodes arranged in a second direction. The second panel includes third electrodes arranged in a third direction and fourth electrodes arranged in a fourth direction. The DSC is operably coupled via a single line to a coupling of a first electrode of the first electrodes and a first electrode of the third electrodes. The DSC is configured to provide the signal, which is generated based on a reference signal, via the single line to the coupling and simultaneously to sense the signal via the single line. The DSC generates a digital signal representative of the at least one electrical characteristic associated with the first electrode of the first electrodes and/or the first electrode of the third electrodes.

Abstract: A control device comprising a housing assembly, at least one button, and a controller. The housing assembly comprises a front surface including plurality of button zones each comprising a tactile switch and a plurality of touch sensors. The at least one button is adapted to attach to the housing assembly over at least one of the button zones such that a projection extending from a rear surface of the button is aligned with the tactile switch in the at least one of the button zones. The controller determines which button zone and which location of the button zone is actuated in response to receiving signals from at least one of the tactile switches and at least one of the touch sensors.

Abstract: The present invention provides a touch sensitive processing method for detecting a liquid line when a touch panel half submerged in conductive liquid, wherein the touch panel comprises multiple parallel first electrodes and multiple parallel second electrodes, the touch sensitive processing method comprising: determining whether a liquid line piece group touches two sides of the touch panel if the liquid line piece group does exists; calculating two averaged values of sensing information with regard to two parts of the touch panel separated by the liquid line piece group if it touches two sides of the touch panel; determining a part of the touch panel having a larger averaged value is above the conductive liquid and another part of the touch panel is below the conductive liquid; and determining a liquid line according to a surface between the part above the conductive liquid and the liquid line piece group.

Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include determining, by at least one physical processor of a haptic device, driving signal data. The haptic device comprises a first haptic actuator exhibiting a first frequency response characteristic, and a second haptic actuator exhibiting a second frequency response characteristic different from the first frequency response characteristic. The processor may also generate first and second driving signals by applying first and second pre-processing functions to the driving signal data, respectively. The second pre-processing function is different from the first pre-processing function and the second driving signal is different from the first driving signal. The processor may also drive the first and second haptic actuators by supplying the first and second driving signals to the first and second haptic actuators, respectively. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.

Abstract: An input accepting device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. In a case in which a detected value of electrostatic capacity detected by an electrostatic sensor is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, the processor accepts operation due to contact of an operator. In a case in which a state, in which the detected value of the electrostatic capacity detected by the electrostatic sensor is greater than or equal to a second threshold value, continues for a first time period, the processor determines that there is contact by the operator. In a case in which it is determined that there is contact by the operator, the processor sets the first threshold value to a value that is greater than or equal to the second threshold value based on the detected value detected by the electrostatic sensor.

Abstract: A wiring structure includes a plurality of first connection lines disposed in a first wiring layer and extending respectively from first ones of the plurality of first electrical contacts to first ones of the plurality of second electrical contacts, the first connection lines not intersecting each other; and a plurality of second connection lines disposed in a second wiring layer and extending respectively from second ones of the plurality of first electrical contacts to second ones of the plurality of second electrical contacts, the second connection lines not intersecting each other. An orthographic projection of any one of the first connection lines onto a plane parallel to the first and second wiring layers does not intersect an orthographic projection of any one of the second connection lines onto the plane.

Abstract: A display and input device includes a display device, a contactless position detector, and a controller. The display device displays an operable object on a screen. The contactless position detector detects a position of a contactless touch operation performed on a spatial object, predefined at a position corresponding to the operable object separated from the screen by a predetermined distance. The controller includes a processor, and detects, when the processor executes a control program, a position shift of the contactless touch operation with respect to a center of the spatial object, when the position of the contactless touch operation detected by the contactless position detector is in the spatial object, and corrects the position of the spatial object by making the center of the spatial object coincide with the position of the contactless touch operation, on a basis of the detected position shift.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a display panel including a first substrate and a second substrate disposed on the first substrate. Each of the first substrate and the second substrate includes a curved surface. The second substrate has a display surface including a first region and a second region with different curvatures. The display panel outputs a first light in the first region, having a first normal brightness in a normal view angle and a first oblique brightness in an oblique view angle, and a second light, having a second normal brightness in the normal view angle and a second oblique brightness in the oblique view angle. A ratio of a difference between the first normal brightness and the second normal brightness to the first normal brightness is less than a ratio of a difference between the first oblique brightness and the second oblique brightness to the first oblique brightness.

Abstract: An information processing device includes a transmission terminal configured to transmit an input signal and a plurality of reception terminals configured to receive information output from the transmission terminal as a signal. A signal received by one of the plurality of reception terminals is configured to be able to interact with signals received by the other reception terminals.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a floating touch display device which includes a capacitive touch panel, a display device, an interval layer, and an optical-lens structure. The capacitive touch panel is configured to provide a floating touch surface at a floating height above a first surface. The display device includes a second surface, and the display device is configured to provide a display image from the second surface. The optical-lens structure is disposed between the capacitive touch panel and the display device. The interval layer is disposed between the second surface and the optical-lens structure, and a first optical distance is between the second surface and the optical-lens structure. The optical-lens structure is configured to image the display image on the floating touch surface at a second optical distance, and the first optical distance is equal to the second optical distance.

Abstract: A macro-mini actuation mechanism for pneumatic pouches is provided which involves stacking smaller proximal pouches (proximal layer) underneath larger distal pouches (distal layer). The proximal layer of smaller pouches is the contact area with e.g. a (human) body. Macro-mini pneumatic actuation of pouches for wearable haptic displays allows for the control of contact area of pneumatic pouches and the ability to cover large areas while maintaining a fast-dynamic response and higher spatial resolutions. This stacked pouch concept allows for pressure/force feedback to a user—something which cannot be rendered by vibrotactile actuators alone. Control of effective pouch height may also allow a potential wearable haptic display to better conform to the human body. A pressure-based display with stacked pouches could allow for larger tolerances between the display and the human body without sacrificing contact area, allowing better fit across users.

Abstract: A system to measure latency in displaying a key tap event corresponding to a touchscreen keyboard is disclosed. The system includes a text input module, configured to capture pre-defined text for latency measurement. The system includes a keyboard selection module, configured to select a virtual keyboard for the latency measurement with respect to the pre-defined text. The system includes a keyboard configuration module, configured to capture positional details of each text character of the pre-defined text with respect to registered virtual keyboard. The execution module, configured to execute the key tap event for each of the text character of the pre-defined text for latency measurement, to measure time gap of each text character of the pre-defined text between the key tap event and corresponding text display event and also configured to calculate average latency measurement of the pre-defined text from a measured time gap for each of the character.

Abstract: A charge compensation circuit is disclosed that provides amplified charge cancellation. A touch controller is disclosed that includes such a charge compensation circuit and may realize improved immunity to baseline capacitance signals that are much larger than a change in capacitance due to proximity of an object. Such a charge compensation circuit may include a capacitor, a driver circuit arranged to apply a pulsed voltage signal to the capacitor, and a current conveyor having a programmable gain and arranged to amplify an initial charge generated by the capacitor in response to the pulsed voltage signal and provide an amplified charge to an output of the charge cancellation circuit.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection device includes: photodiodes; a light source; a detection circuit configured to detect detection signals output from the photodiodes; and an exposure period adjusting circuit configured to determine an exposure period of the photodiodes. A relation between an output value output from the detection circuit and the exposure period comprises a linear region and a saturated region, and a gradient of the output value with respect to the exposure period in the saturated region is smaller than a gradient of the output value with respect to the exposure period in the linear region. The exposure period adjusting circuit is configured to determine the exposure period based on a first output value output from the detection circuit in a first exposure period, a second output value output from the detection circuit in a second exposure period, and a reference output value set in advance.

Abstract: A tactile representation device is provided. The tactile representation device includes a substrate and a semiconductor temperature control assembly disposed on the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of deformable regions and a plurality of node regions that are alternately disposed in a first direction, wherein the deformable regions are deformable but the node regions are not deformable. The semiconductor temperature control assembly includes a plurality of semiconductor temperature control units. Each of the semiconductor temperature control units includes a hot terminal electrode, a P-side electrode, an N-side electrode, a P-type semiconductor, and an N-type semiconductor. Each of the hot terminal electrodes is disposed in each of the deformable regions, and each of the P-side electrodes and each of the N-side electrodes are disposed in each of the node regions.

Abstract: There is provided a capacitive touch device including a touch panel and a control chip. The touch panel includes a detection electrode configured to form a self-capacitor. The control chip includes an emulation circuit and a subtraction circuit. The emulation circuit is configured to output a reference signal. The subtraction circuit is coupled to the emulation circuit and the detection electrode, subtracts the reference signal outputted by the emulation circuit from a detected signal outputted by the detection electrode to output a differential detected signal, and identifies a touch event according to an amplified differential detected signal so as to improve the touch sensitivity.

Abstract: A touch sensor panel according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, in which a touch window area includes a first number of consecutive first electrodes in a first direction among the plurality of first electrodes and a second number of consecutive second electrodes in a second direction with respect to the first number of first electrodes, respectively, and a pair of a predetermined first electrode among the first electrodes included in the touch window area and a predetermined second electrode among the second electrodes do not exist in other window areas other than the touch window area.

Abstract: A bow for a musical instrument is provided where the bow includes a bowstick having a proximal end configured to be grasped by a user and a distal end remote from the proximal end, the distal end being provided with a stylus configured for use with a capacitive touch screen. The stylus may include a touch screen contact portion for contacting a touch screen and a bow attachment portion for attachment to a bow of a musical instrument. The stylus allows a musician using the bow to interact with a touchscreen device without having to release the bow.