Abstract: A display device having an optical sensing frame, including a display panel; at least one waveguide unit arranged at two adjacent sides of the display panel, the waveguide unit having a stacked structure, the stacked structure including a light-emitting layer, and a light-receiving layer to receive reflected light, and a plurality of retroreflectors arranged at opposing sides of the waveguide unit.

Abstract: A touch panel display device includes a liquid crystal panel to display an image by regulating transmittance of light supplied from a back light unit, and a touch sensing part provided on upper edges of the liquid crystal panel in order to detect a position touched by a user or an object. The touch sensing part includes infrared lamps to generate and emit infrared light, infrared light reflecting tubes mounted with the infrared lamps, and image sensors to sense the infrared light output from the light output regions of the infrared light reflecting tubes. Each of the infrared light reflecting tubes has light output regions and non-output regions evenly formed at a surface facing an upper surface of the liquid crystal panel so that the infrared light emitted from the infrared lamps is evenly irradiated on the upper surface of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A touch type display device includes: a flat panel display module; a plurality of infrared light emitting units disposed on a portion or on the entirety of the edge of the flat panel display module; an infrared camera disposed on at least two corners of the flat panel display module; and a band pass filter allowing light of a certain wavelength band in light emitted from the infrared light emitting units to pass therethrough so as to be supplied to the infrared camera.

Abstract: Provided are a multi-touch system and a driving method thereof. The method includes, extracting using a digital processor a touch frequency and at least one angle associated with at least one touch from image information captured by each of at least two cameras, selecting a touch mode on the basis of sum value of the touch frequencies extracted from the image information captured by the cameras, and performing a touch function corresponding to the selected touch mode using a user interface.

Abstract: A display device capable of simplifying the structure and improving the reliability is disclosed. The display device includes an LCD module having a top case formed of metal, a glass substrate arranged on the LCD module, an infrared ray emitting module arranged to face three side surfaces of the LCD module and having a first magnet for first fixing to the top case, and a pair of infrared ray detection units arranged at corner ends of a side surface of the LCD module where the infrared ray emitting module is not arranged and having a second magnet for the first fixing to the top case.

Abstract: An infrared sensor module, a touch sensing method thereof, and an auto calibration method applied to the same are disclosed, the touch sensing method includes turning on the infrared sensor module which includes a sensor block with a light receiving region and is arranged to be perpendicular to a surface of a display panel, the light receiving region being divided into m×n blocks (where, each of m and n is a natural number of two or more) arranged in m rows by n columns, each of the blocks having a plurality of light receiving pixels arranged in a row direction, scanning optical signals of each block, selecting the block having maximum output optical signals with respect to the blocks of each column, and summing the optical signals of the light receiving pixels of the block selected from the column.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for precisely judging the number of touches. The method includes a step A of reading a touch sensing signal sensed by an ith infrared ray sensor module located at an ith corner (i being a natural number not exceeding 3) of a touch panel, a step B of defining a portion of the touch sensing signal having a signal intensity lower than a predetermined touch recognition threshold signal as a touch recognition signal corresponding to the touches, and a step C of, when the touch recognition signal is recognized as representing one touch and the length of the overall section of the touch recognition signal is within a critical range as a result of analysis of the touch recognition signal, finally judging whether or not the touch recognition signal is recognized as one touch or two touches through re-analysis of the touch recognition signal.

Abstract: A display device having a multi-touch recognition function includes an integration module having a plurality of cameras integrated at an edge of a display panel; a look-up-table of a plurality of compensation angles in an range of about 0 to about 90 degrees corresponding to each of the plurality of cameras; and processor that detects a touch area using at least first and second images captured by the plurality of cameras, respectively, and compensates the detected touch area with one of the plurality of compensation angles.

Abstract: A display device having an optical sensing frame, including a display panel; at least one waveguide unit arranged at two adjacent sides of the display panel, the waveguide unit having a stacked structure, the stacked structure including a light-emitting layer, and a light-receiving layer to receive reflected light, and a plurality of retroreflectors arranged at opposing sides of the waveguide unit.

Abstract: An assembly includes a display panel having four corners, an optical sensing frame having at least three optical modules mounted adjacent a surface of the display panel, where the optical modules are located at the corners of the display panel and optical reflectors extending substantially along an entire length of each of four sides of the display panel, an optical sensing frame controller driving the optical sensing frame, and a display panel controller on a single circuit board with the optical sensing frame controller.

Abstract: An optical sensing unit, a display module and a display device using the same, the optical sensing unit uses the surface of a flat display panel as a touch surface and includes an infrared sensor module provided at a corner of the flat display panel.

Abstract: A touch type display device includes: a flat panel display module; a plurality of infrared light emitting units disposed on a portion or on the entirety of the edge of the flat panel display module; an infrared camera disposed on at least two corners of the flat panel display module; and a band pass filter allowing light of a certain wavelength band in light emitted from the infrared light emitting units to pass therethrough so as to be supplied to the infrared camera.

Abstract: A display device capable of simplifying the structure and improving the reliability is disclosed. The display device includes an LCD module having a top case formed of metal, a glass substrate arranged on the LCD module, an infrared ray emitting module arranged to face three side surfaces of the LCD module and having a first magnet for first fixing to the top case, and a pair of infrared ray detection units arranged at corner ends of a side surface of the LCD module where the infrared ray emitting module is not arranged and having a second magnet for the first fixing to the top case.

Abstract: Provided are a multi-touch system and a driving method thereof. The method includes, extracting using a digital processor a touch frequency and at least one angle associated with at least one touch from image information captured by each of at least two cameras, selecting a touch mode on the basis of sum value of the touch frequencies extracted from the image information captured by the cameras, and performing a touch function corresponding to the selected touch mode using a user interface.

Abstract: There are provided a liquid crystal display (LCD) to which infrared rays (IR) light sources are applied and a multi-touch system using the same. The LCD to which IR light sources are applied includes a back light in which a plurality of lamp light sources and a plurality of IR light sources are repeatedly arranged in column and row directions, a diffusion plate and a plurality of optical sheets arranged on the back light, and an LCD panel provided on the back light to display an image using light incident from the back light.

Abstract: A touch panel display device includes a liquid crystal panel to display an image by regulating transmittance of light supplied from a back light unit, and a touch sensing part provided on upper edges of the liquid crystal panel in order to detect a position touched by a user or an object. The touch sensing part includes infrared lamps to generate and emit infrared light, infrared light reflecting tubes mounted with the infrared lamps, and image sensors to sense the infrared light output from the light output regions of the infrared light reflecting tubes. Each of the infrared light reflecting tubes has light output regions and non-output regions evenly formed at a surface facing an upper surface of the liquid crystal panel so that the infrared light emitted from the infrared lamps is evenly irradiated on the upper surface of the liquid crystal panel.

Abstract: A display module including a touch panel configured to be touched so as to input information, a liquid crystal display panel disposed below the touch panel and configured to display the information to be touched on the touch panel, a plurality of emitting light units configured to emit infrared light formed in at least two sides of the touch panel, a plurality of image sensors disposed below the liquid crystal panel and configured to detect infrared rays redirected through the liquid crystal panel towards the image sensors based on a touching of the touch panel, and a controller configured to determine a portion of the touch panel that is touched based on signals received from the plurality of image sensors.

Abstract: A display device having a multi-touch recognition function includes an integration module having a plurality of cameras integrated at an edge of a display panel; and a processor that detects a touch area using at least first and second images captured by the plurality of cameras, respectively.

Abstract: A display device having a multi-touch recognition function includes an integration module having a plurality of cameras integrated at an edge of a display panel; a look-up-table of a plurality of compensation angles in an range of about 0 to about 90 degrees corresponding to each of the plurality of cameras; and processor that detects a touch area using at least first and second images captured by the plurality of cameras, respectively, and compensates the detected touch area with one of the plurality of compensation angles.