Abstract: A resistive touch panel includes an ITO layer, a glass layer, and an insulation layer sandwiched between the ITO layer and the glass layer. The ITO layer is cut into a continuous zigzag-shaped ITO strip by a number of first and second etched lines which are equidistantly spaced and arranged in an alternate fashion. The ITO strip is connected between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The glass layer includes an ITO covering portion and a peripheral output bus surrounding the ITO covering portion. The resistance touch panel defines a Cartesian coordinate system for locating a touch point thereon, each touch point spatially corresponding to a given position on the ITO strip, the power supply generates a given voltage at given position of the ITO strip, the output bus transmits a signal associated with the voltage to an outside processor. A related electronic device is also provided.

Abstract: An apparatus capable of erasing content includes a touch display unit, a time calculating time, a storage unit, an area detecting unit, a control unit, and an erasing unit. The touch display unit determines a first touched place of a touch operation applied by an input apparatus on the touch display unit, a touch area of the first touched place, and a touch trace of the touch operation according to changing of touch coordinates. The control unit activates the time calculating unit to calculate a time duration of the touch operation when the size of the touch area is larger than the predetermined area size, and generates an erasing signal when the touch trace matches a predetermined trace pattern. The erasing unit erases content covered by the touch trace on the touch display unit in response to the erasing signal. A related method is also provided.

Abstract: An image projection system includes a projector connected to a host computer to display images on a projection screen, an image capture device, and an operation pen. The operation pen emits a laser beam and has buttons. The image capturing device captures a photo with a point part of the projected image on which the laser beam falls. The host computer compares the photo with the image being supplied by the host computer to determine the point part being pointed by the laser beam, receives wireless control signals from the operation pen, and executes actions of buttons of the operation pen.

Abstract: An electronic paper (E-paper) display device includes a first substrate comprising at least one side wall having a high reflectance film coated thereon, an E-paper layer, and a second substrate. A light source installed beside and facing the at least one sidewall of the first substrate, the light source being configured for illuminating the E-paper layer with some of the light from the light source directly illuminating the E-paper layer and some of the light from the light source illuminating the E-paper layer via the reflection of the high reflectance film.

Abstract: A remote control including a base defined an opening is provide. The base includes a circuit board, an infrared emitted tube, a transparent touch screen panel locating corresponding to the opening; a light guide plate adhered to the touch screen panel; a plurality of LEDs fixed to one end of the light guide plate; and alphanumeric characters of keys set between the light guide plate and the touch screen panel.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a main body and at least one wireless touch panel. Each wireless touch panel includes a touch-sensitive module, a processing module, a wireless energy receiving module, and a first wireless communication module. The wireless energy receiving module receives electromagnetic energy from the main body and converts the received electromagnetic energy into electric energy to power other function modules of the wireless touch panel. The touch-sensitive module produces touch signals in response to a user's touch operations, and the first wireless communication module sends the touch signals to the main body to activate corresponding functions of the electronic device. The first wireless communication module also receives wireless control signals from the main body, and the processing module activates functions of the wireless touch panel in response to the wireless control signals.

Abstract: A method for extracting feature of signatures includes the following steps. Sense touch input of a handwritten signature by a user on a handwritten input unit. Generate associated with the user's touch input of the handwritten signature. Detect coordinates of each of touched points of the handwritten signature of the user according to the generated signals. Select feature points from the touched points. Obtain coordinates of the feature points of the handwritten signature. Combine the selected feature points and the coordinates thereof to obtain signature features of the handwritten signature of the user. And store the extracted signature features of the handwritten signature of the user in a storage unit. A signature feature extraction system using the method is also provided.

Abstract: A resistive touch panel includes an ITO layer, a glass layer, and an insulation layer sandwiched between the ITO layer and the glass layer. The ITO layer is cut into a continuous zigzag-shaped ITO strip by a number of first and second etched lines which are equidistantly spaced and arranged in an alternate fashion. The ITO strip is connected between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The glass layer includes an ITO covering portion and a peripheral output bus surrounding the ITO covering portion. The resistance touch panel defines a Cartesian coordinate system for locating a touch point thereon, each touch point spatially corresponding to a given position on the ITO strip, the power supply generates a given voltage at given position of the ITO strip, the output bus transmits a signal associated with the voltage to an outside processor. A related electronic device is also provided.

Abstract: A curved display panel includes a top polarizer, a curved top glass plate, a color filter, a liquid-crystal layer, a thin-film transistor layer including an array of thin-film transistors, a curved bottom glass plate, and a bottom polarizer. The color filter, the liquid-crystal layer, and the thin-film transistor array are sandwiched between the curved top glass plate and the curved bottom glass plate. The top polarizer is located on an opposite surface of the curved top glass plate to the color filter, and the bottom polarizer is located at an opposite surface of the curved bottom glass plate to the thin-film transistor layer. The disclosure also discloses a method for forming a curved display panel.

Abstract: An E-paper display device an transparent upper substrate and a plurality of transparent and paralleled column electrodes attached on the upper substrate; a lower substrate and a plurality of parallel row electrodes attached on the lower substrate; and an electrophoretic medium arranged between the column electrodes and the row electrodes. The electrophoretic medium is brought to different optical states via controlling electric voltages between the column electrodes and the row electrodes. The E-paper display device is thinner, cheaper, and lighter than a E-paper display device employing a TFT pixel electrode.

Abstract: A solar battery includes a substrate, a solar panel arranged on the substrate, a positive electrode with a protruding positive electrode contact and a negative electrode with a protruding negative electrode contact arranged on the substrate, and a receiving recess. The receiving recess is defined between the solar panel and at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The receiving recess fittingly receives a positive electrode contact and/or a negative electrode contact of another similar solar battery, thus enabling the positive electrode contact of the another similar solar battery to be selectively and electrically connected to one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode of the another similar solar battery, and enabling or disabling the negative electrode contact of the another similar solar battery to be electrically connected to the negative electrode of the another similar solar battery.

Abstract: An electromagnetic input device includes a handheld magnetized stylus, an electromagnetic input panel including an induction layer, a controller, and a storage device. The induction layer includes a plurality of closed-loop inductor coils which output an induced current when experiencing the magnetic flux of the stylus. The storage device stores a pre-determined table recording mapping relationship between location coordinates of the stylus on the electromagnetic input panel in each of the inductor coils, and intensities of the corresponding induced current generated therein. The controller determines which inductor coil generates the induced current, and the intensity of the induced current, and further determines the location of the stylus on the electromagnetic input panel based upon determined inductor coil which generates the induced current and the intensity of the induced current generated therein, and the pre-determined table.

Abstract: A display device includes a display layer, a control unit, a color sensor and a light guide plate (LGP) arranged on the display layer. A light emitting module includes three light emitters configured for emitting red, green and blue light, into the LGP through the lateral surface. The control unit determines whether the detected intensities of the red, green and blue light components in the ambient light are in a predetermined proportion, and to turn on the corresponding light emitters to compensate the red, green or blue light so as to maintain the intensities of the red, green and blue light components in the ambient light to be in the predetermined proportion.

Abstract: A color filter includes a transparent substrate including a plurality of pixel areas, each of the pixel areas includes a plurality of filter areas and at least one transparent area. And a plurality of filter units are formed on the respective filter areas, the transparent area of the transparent substrate is free of filter units formed thereon. The ambient light that passes through the transparent area twice are not filtered. Finally, the light entering to user's eyes include red light filtered by the red sub-pixel unit, the green sub-pixel unit and the blue sub-pixel unit, and light doesn't be filtered. The brightness of light entering to user's eyes is enhanced.

Abstract: A reflective display device includes a housing, a reflective display unit, an auxiliary display unit, a power supply, a wireless transceiver, a lighting unit, a light sensing unit, a light source control module, an identifying module, and a display control module. The power supply supplies power to the reflective display device and converts ambient light into electrical power and stores the electrical power. The wireless transceiver receives information transmitted from the electronic device. The lighting unit is fixed to the housing and illuminates the reflective display unit. The light sensing unit detects brightness of ambient light. The light source control module turns on/off the lighting unit. The identifying module identifies the type of the information. The display control module selectively controls the information to be displayed on the reflective display or the auxiliary display unit according to the type of the information.

Abstract: A touch display device includes an interferometric modulator display panel and a processor. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units. The pixel units each includes a fixed mirror including a reflective surface, at least one spacer, a transmovable mirror and at least one sensor. The at least one spacer is arranged between the fixed mirror and the movable mirror, the movable mirror is spaced an adjustable distance from the fixed mirror, and the movable mirror reflects a first portion of incident light and to allow a second portion of the incident light to pass therethrough. The at least one pressure sensor is fixed on the movable mirror and senses depression of the movable mirror caused by a touch thereon. The processor determines the touch position according to the generating signals from the sensors.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a color filter includes steps of applying transparent photosensitive material on a transparent flexible substrate, having a plurality of recesses on the photosensitive material to form the photosensitive material into a plurality of banks on the transparent flexible substrate, the banks cooperatively defining a plurality of pixel accommodation rooms. Curing the banks and disposing color ink into the pixel accommodation rooms, at last curing the color ink. The light transmittance ability of the color filter can be effectively improved by forming transparent banks instead of a black-matrix on the substrate. A related display is also provided.

Abstract: A display device includes a display layer and a light guide plate (LGP) arranged on the display layer. A transparent plate is arranged between the LGP and the display layer, and the transparent plate houses a array of IR sensors. An IR source is arranged on the lateral surface of the LGP, and a scanning mirror is arranged on the lateral surface of the LGP. The IR sensors sense the IR light beams and determine whether a strength of the sensed IR light beams is decreased to below a predetermined threshold value, caused by a touch by a user, on the transparent plate at a location of said IR sensor, and send a signal associated with the touch to the control unit, the control unit is configured to receive the signal and determine the touch point according to the location of said IR sensor.

Abstract: A display device includes a display layer and a light guide plate (LGP) arranged on the display layer. The LGP includes a first surface facing away from the display layer, an opposite second surface, and a lateral surface between the first and second surfaces, the lateral surface having a light incident portion. A light source and a scanning mirror are arranged on the lateral surface of the LGP. The light source configured to emit a light beam toward the scanning mirror, the scanning mirror being reciprocally rotatable about a rotating axis at a given frequency, the scanning mirror configured to reflect and direct the light beam from the light source to enter into the LGP through the light incident portion.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a solar power module for generating power and inputting information, a power management module for extracting and storing power from the solar power module, a detection unit for detect an electrical parameter variation of the solar power module and generating a detection signal corresponding to the electrical parameter, and an information processing unit for receiving the detection signal from the detection unit and executing a command corresponding to the detection signal. The solar power module has multiple solar power generation units for generating power and inputting information, and the solar power generation unit has multiple solar power generation subunits. The electrical parameter variation is generated from the solar power generation subunit when light absorbed by the solar power generation unit changes.