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 panel connected to a sensor controller for detecting the position of an active stylus in a detection area includes a plurality of linear electrodes extending in an x direction in the detection area and arrayed in the detection area in a y direction transverse to the x direction, a plurality of routing traces associated respectively with the linear electrodes and connected respectively to the linear electrodes, and a plurality of FPC 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 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 controller is provided, to be connected to a sensor electrode group configuring a surface. The sensor controller supplies a determined AC signal to one or more AC signal transmission electrodes that form part of a plurality of sensor electrodes included in the sensor electrode group, and the sensor controller transmits, from cancellation signal transmission electrode(s) different from the AC signal transmission electrodes, a cancellation signal configured to prevent a signal transmitted from the AC signal transmission electrodes from appearing in a ground terminal of a detection circuit of the stylus. The sensor controller thusly configured may facilitate preventing a situation in which the stylus cannot detect an uplink signal and facilitate preventing the uplink signal from affecting the operation of another apparatus such as a display apparatus.

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: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a display device including a display screen, a communication circuit which, in operation, exchanges information with plural portable terminals, and a control circuit connected to the display device and the communication circuit, in which the display screen includes a display area having a plurality of partial display areas in a plurality of separate regions of the display screen, each of the partial display areas being associated with a different one of the portable terminals, and the control circuit, in operation, displays, in each partial display area of the partial display areas, information communicated via the communication circuit with the one of the portable terminals associated with the partial display area.

Abstract: An information processing system includes an information processing device, a food material stock managing device disposed in a food material storage device, and a meal condition detecting device. The information processing device includes a display device including a display screen, a first communicating circuit that communicates with a portable terminal of a target person, a second communicating circuit that communicates with the food material stock managing device, a third communicating circuit that communicates with the meal condition detecting device, a processor, and a memory storing instructions that cause the information processing device to generate information regarding proposed food to be provided to the target person based on information obtained from the first, second, and third communicating circuits, and display the information regarding the proposed food to be provided to the target person on the display screen of the display device.

Abstract: A sensor panel connected to a sensor controller for detecting the position of an active stylus in a detection area includes a plurality of linear electrodes extending in an x direction in the detection area and arrayed in the detection area in a y direction transverse to the x direction, a plurality of routing traces associated respectively with the linear electrodes and connected respectively to the linear electrodes, and a plurality of FPC 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 device comprises an integrated circuit and a sensor panel. The sensor panel includes: a plurality of first linear electrodes disposed in a detection region; a plurality of first routing traces; a plurality of first terminals disposed along one edge of the sensor panel parallel to a second direction; and a first guard trace extending and disposed on one side of the plurality of first routing traces farther away from the detection region. A first trace is one of the plurality of first routing traces connected to a first electrode that is a first linear electrode disposed farthest away from the plurality of first terminals among the plurality of first linear electrodes. A separation distance between the first trace and the first guard trace is not constant in the second direction in a first region adjacent to the detection region in the second direction. In the first region, the first guard trace has a portion intersecting a first direction.

Abstract: A sensor controller is provided, to be connected to a sensor electrode group configuring a surface. The sensor controller supplies a determined AC signal to one or more AC signal transmission electrodes that form part of a plurality of sensor electrodes included in the sensor electrode group, and the sensor controller transmits, from cancellation signal transmission electrode(s) different from the AC signal transmission electrodes, a cancellation signal configured to prevent a signal transmitted from the AC signal transmission electrodes from appearing in a ground terminal of a detection circuit of the stylus. The sensor controller thusly configured may facilitate preventing a situation in which the stylus cannot detect an uplink signal and facilitate preventing the uplink signal from affecting the operation of another apparatus such as a display apparatus.

Abstract: A sensor controller is provided, to be connected to a sensor electrode group configuring a surface. The sensor controller supplies a determined AC signal to one or more AC signal transmission electrodes that form part of a plurality of sensor electrodes included in the sensor electrode group, and the sensor controller transmits, from cancellation signal transmission electrode(s) different from the AC signal transmission electrodes, a cancellation signal configured to prevent a signal transmitted from the AC signal transmission electrodes from appearing in a ground terminal of a detection circuit of the stylus. The sensor controller thusly configured may facilitate preventing a situation in which the stylus cannot detect an uplink signal and facilitate preventing the uplink signal from affecting the operation of another apparatus such as a display apparatus.

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 device comprises an integrated circuit and a sensor panel. The sensor panel includes: a plurality of first linear electrodes disposed in a detection region; a plurality of first routing traces; a plurality of first terminals disposed along one edge of the sensor panel parallel to a second direction; and a first guard trace extending and disposed on one side of the plurality of first routing traces farther away from the detection region. A first trace is one of the plurality of first routing traces connected to a first electrode that is a first linear electrode disposed farthest away from the plurality of first terminals among the plurality of first linear electrodes. A separation distance between the first trace and the first guard trace is not constant in the second direction in a first region adjacent to the detection region in the second direction. In the first region, the first guard trace has a portion intersecting a first 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 sensor panel includes: a plurality of first linear electrodes disposed in a detection region; a plurality of first routing traces; a plurality of first terminals disposed along one edge of the sensor panel parallel to a second direction; and a first guard trace extending and disposed on one side of the plurality of first routing traces farther away from the detection region. A first trace is one of the plurality of first routing traces connected to a first electrode that is a first linear electrode disposed farthest away from the plurality of first terminals among the plurality of first linear electrodes. A separation distance between the first trace and the first guard trace is not constant in the second direction in a first region adjacent to the detection region in the second direction. In the first region, the first guard trace has a portion intersecting a first direction.

Abstract: A periphery monitoring device includes: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a peripheral image captured by an imaging unit that is provided in a vehicle and captures an image of a periphery of the vehicle, and an indicator image that is capable of being superimposed on the peripheral image and serves as an operation indicator of a driver when the driver performs a driving operation of the vehicle; and an image processing unit configured to change the indicator image from a first predetermined height to a second predetermined height and display a transition of the change.

Abstract: The device is provided with an image acquisition unit for acquiring a peripheral image of a vehicle, the peripheral image being captured by an image pickup device provided to the vehicle; a display device for displaying the peripheral image, the display device being provided inside a vehicle cabin; and an indicator line output unit for causing an indicator line as a guide for a driver during a driving operation to be displayed superimposed on the peripheral image, at least one of a shadow portion and a side surface portion adjacent to the indicator line being added to the indicator line.

Abstract: A sensor panel includes: a plurality of first linear electrodes disposed in a detection region; a plurality of first routing traces; a plurality of first terminals disposed along one edge of the sensor panel parallel to a second direction; and a first guard trace extending and disposed on one side of the plurality of first routing traces farther away from the detection region. A first trace is one of the plurality of first routing traces connected to a first electrode that is a first linear electrode disposed farthest away from the plurality of first terminals among the plurality of first linear electrodes. A separation distance between the first trace and the first guard trace is not constant in the second direction in a first region adjacent to the detection region in the second direction. In the first region, the first guard trace has a portion intersecting a first direction.

Abstract: A sensor panel connected to a sensor controller for detecting the position of an active stylus in a detection area includes a plurality of linear electrodes extending in an x direction in the detection area and arrayed in the detection area in a y direction transverse to the x direction, a plurality of routing traces associated respectively with the linear electrodes and connected respectively to the linear electrodes, and a plurality of FPC 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.