Abstract: A sensor system includes first sensor electrode groups and a first integrated circuit, and second sensor electrode groups and a second integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit and the second integrated circuit are controlled such that a first uplink signal, which is transmitted from the first integrated circuit via the first sensor electrode groups, and a second uplink signal, which is transmitted from the second integrated circuit via the second sensor electrode groups, are not transmitted at the same time.

Abstract: Electronic equipment includes a touch sensor including a plurality of electrodes arranged in a plane shape and separated from each other in an array direction, a differential amplifier that amplifies a difference between a positive-side signal and a negative-side signal selectively output from the plurality of electrodes and that outputs the difference, a position detection unit that detects a touch position in a sensor area that is formed by the touch sensor, based on an output signal from the differential amplifier, and a conductive part that is a part made of a conductive material or contains a conductive material and that is arranged to partially overlap the sensor area in plan view. The conductive part is arranged such that an outermost end point thereof in the array direction is positioned on one of the plurality of electrodes.

Abstract: A sensor is provided for detecting a pen signal transmitted from a pen. The sensor includes a touch sensor, flexible printed circuit (FPC) connector terminals, and a detection pattern. The touch sensor has linear electrodes, which form a position detection area and are configured to respectively detect the pen signal. The FPC connector terminals are connected to the linear electrodes, respectively, via routing traces arranged outside the position detection area. The detection pattern is arranged in a region outside the position detection area, near the FPC connector terminals, and is configured to detect the pen signal.

Abstract: A position detection device includes a first sensor electrode and a second sensor electrode adjacent to the first sensor electrode, first and second connection wires connected to the first and second sensor electrodes, respectively, a sensor controller connected to the connection wires, and a first extension line; and a second extension line. Some of the plurality of connection wires, including the first connection wire, extend at regular intervals in a first region. The connection wires, including the second connection wire, are arranged to extend at regular intervals in a second region different from the first region. The first extension line extends along the second connection wire in the second region and is electrically connected to the first sensor electrode. The second extension line extends along the first connection wire in the first region and is electrically connected to the second sensor electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a system for a touch pad used by both a finger and a pen to input operations to a computer. The system includes a sensor electrode group, an integrated circuit, and a memory storing a device driver. The sensor electrode group is configured to be placed over a touch surface that is different from a display surface of the computer. The integrated circuit uses the sensor electrode group to detect a touch position on the touch surface where the finger is in contact and a pen position on the touch surface where the pen is in contact and supplies the detected touch position and pen position to the device driver. The device driver is configured to convert the touch position into relative coordinates when the device driver receives the touch position, and convert the pen position into absolute coordinates when the device driver receives the pen position.

Abstract: A sensor panel is overlaid on a display apparatus and connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen in an active region of the display apparatus. The sensor panel includes first electrodes that extend in a first direction. The sensor panel also includes second electrodes that extend in a second direction. The first electrodes include first and second outer electrodes that are located at the outermost edges of the first electrodes and first inner electrodes disposed between the first and second outer electrodes. A width of at least one of the first and second outer electrodes in the second direction is smaller than a width of each of the first inner electrodes in the second direction.

Abstract: A sensor is provided for detecting a pen signal transmitted from a pen. The sensor includes a touch sensor, flexible printed circuit (FPC) connector terminals, and a detection pattern. The touch sensor has linear electrodes, which form a position detection area and are configured to respectively detect the pen signal. The FPC connector terminals are connected to the linear electrodes, respectively, via routing traces arranged outside the position detection area. The detection pattern is arranged in a region outside the position detection area, near the FPC connector terminals, and is configured to detect the pen signal.

Abstract: A cover film used together with a pen sensor including a plurality of sensor electrodes, and a sensor controller which detects a position of an active pen in reference to a distribution of signal levels each corresponding to an amount of electric charge induced in an individual one of the plurality of sensor electrodes by a pen signal transmitted from a pen tip electrode disposed at a tip of the active pen. The cover film includes a conductive resin that covers an effective area formed by the sensor electrodes for detection of the position of the active pen and that includes a substantially uniform resistance component at least within a range of the effective area. The cover film is arranged, without via a cover glass, on an upper surface of a sensor electrode group including the plurality of sensor electrodes.

Abstract: Provided is a system for a touch pad used by both a finger and a pen to input operations to a computer. The system includes a sensor electrode group, an integrated circuit, and a memory storing a device driver. The sensor electrode group is configured to be placed over a touch surface that is different from a display surface of the computer. The integrated circuit uses the sensor electrode group to detect a touch position on the touch surface where the finger is in contact and a pen position on the touch surface where the pen is in contact and supplies the detected touch position and pen position to the device driver. The device driver is configured to convert the touch position into relative coordinates when the device driver receives the touch position, and convert the pen position into absolute coordinates when the device driver receives the pen position.

Abstract: A position detection device includes sensor electrodes including a first sensor electrode and a second sensor electrode that are adjacent to each other, connection wires connected to the respective sensor electrodes and including first and second connection wires connected to the first and second sensor electrodes, respectively, a sensor controller connected to the connection wires, and a first extension line; and a second extension line. Some of the plurality of connection wires, including the first connection wire, extend at regular intervals in a first region. The connection wires, including the second connection wire, are arranged to extend at regular intervals in a second region different from the first region. The first extension line extends along the second connection wire in the second region and is electrically connected to the first sensor electrode. The second extension line extends along the first connection wire in the first region and is electrically connected to the second sensor electrode.

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.

Abstract: A touch pad is configured to receive input operations using objects including a finger and a stylus. The touch pad includes a touch screen including a touch detection surface that serves as a button and as a position detection region for detecting positions of the objects. The touch pad includes an integrated circuit having an object detection function of detecting the positions of the objects on the touch detection surface and a button function of detecting a press state of the button based on a force applied to the touch detection surface. The touch pad includes a button function stop unit configured to cause, according to an operation state of the stylus or according to a setting related to an input operation of the stylus, the integrated circuit to stop outputting a button press state value indicative of the press state detected by the button function.

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.

Abstract: A sensor panel is provided which is coupleable to a sensor controller for detecting the position of an active stylus in a detection area of the sensor panel. The detection area includes a plurality of linear electrodes extending in an x direction and arrayed in a y direction transverse to the x direction, and a plurality of routing traces associated respectively with the linear electrodes and connected respectively to the linear electrodes. The sensor panel includes a plurality of FPC (flexible printed circuit) connection terminals associated respectively with the routing traces and connecting the routing traces to the sensor controller. The routing traces have respective routing lines connected at an angle, which is not zero degrees, respectively to trunk lines that are directly connected to the corresponding linear electrodes. The trunk lines of the linear routing traces have substantially equal lengths.

Abstract: A touch pad is configured to receive input operations using objects including a finger and a stylus. The touch pad includes a touch screen including a touch detection surface that serves as a button and as a position detection region for detecting positions of the objects. The touch pad includes an integrated circuit having an object detection function of detecting the positions of the objects on the touch detection surface and a button function of detecting a press state of the button based on a force applied to the touch detection surface. The touch pad includes a button function stop unit configured to cause, according to an operation state of the stylus or according to a setting related to an input operation of the stylus, the integrated circuit to stop outputting a button press state value indicative of the press state detected by the button function.

Abstract: A sensor panel is overlaid on a display apparatus and connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen in an active region of the display apparatus. The sensor panel includes first electrodes that extend in a first direction. The sensor panel also includes second electrodes that extend in a second direction. The first electrodes include first and second outer electrodes that are located at the outermost edges of the first electrodes and first inner electrodes disposed between the first and second outer electrodes. A width of at least one of the first and second outer electrodes in the second direction is smaller than a width of each of the first inner electrodes in the second direction.

Abstract: A sensor panel is overlaid on a display apparatus and connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen in an active region of the display apparatus. The sensor panel includes first electrodes that extend in a first direction. The sensor panel also includes second electrodes that extend in a second direction. The first electrodes include first and second outer electrodes that are located at the outermost edges of the first electrodes and first inner electrodes disposed between the first and second outer electrodes. A width of at least one of the first and second outer electrodes in the second direction is smaller than a width of each of the first inner electrodes in the second direction.

Abstract: A method performed by a sensor controller detects coordinates of a pen including one or more electrodes that transmit a signal. The method includes a first scanning step of performing an operation of detecting a signal transmitted from an electrode in contact with a panel surface at each of three or more first reference positions at which signal levels can be detected, from the signal detected in a sensor electrode group included in a first range, among plural juxtaposed reference positions. The method includes a second scanning step of performing an operation of detecting a signal transmitted from an electrode not in contact with the panel surface at each of three or more second reference positions at which signal levels can be detected, from the signal detected in a sensor electrode group included in a second range greater than the first range, among the plural reference positions.

Abstract: A sensor is provided for detecting a pen signal transmitted from a pen. The sensor includes a touch sensor, flexible printed circuit (FPC) connector terminals, and a detection pattern. The touch sensor has linear electrodes, which form a position detection area and are configured to respectively detect the pen signal. The FPC connector terminals are connected to the linear electrodes, respectively, via routing traces arranged outside the position detection area. The detection pattern is arranged in a region outside the position detection area, near the FPC connector terminals, and is configured to detect the pen signal.

Abstract: A sensor system includes first sensor electrode groups and a first integrated circuit, and second sensor electrode groups and a second integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit and the second integrated circuit are controlled such that a first uplink signal, which is transmitted from the first integrated circuit via the first sensor electrode groups, and a second uplink signal, which is transmitted from the second integrated circuit via the second sensor electrode groups, are not transmitted at the same time.