Abstract: A touch-sensitive sheet member contains a body having predetermined hardness and a sheet shape and a sense-of-touch-representing unit that represents a sense of touch. The sense-of-touch-representing unit has a predetermined size and is arranged at positions of the body or at a predetermined position of the body. The touch-sensitive sheet member also contains a medium-supplying unit that supplies medium to the sense-of-touch-representing unit.

Abstract: A display device is disclosed. The device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels including a first pixel electrically connected to a first data line and a second pixel electrically connected to a second data line. The display device also includes a current path switch configured to electrically connect the first pixel to the second pixel during a voltage drop test operation and electrically disconnect the first pixel from the second pixel during an image display operation. The display device further includes a voltage drop detector electrically connected to an end of the first data line and an end of the second data line, the voltage drop detector being configured to apply a test voltage to the end of the first data line and measure a dropped test voltage at the end of the second data line. The display device additionally includes a line resistance calculator.

Abstract: Sliding and non-sliding touch input to an electronic device may be selected so that the motions associated with a character to input are intuitive and thus easy to remember. The motions for the contacts of the touch input may be selected ergonomically in a way enabling touch-typing, thus increasing user comfort for longer periods of use. Multiple repositionable finger contact regions are maintained on a contact surface in an arrangement that is easily accessible for the user's fingertips. Each available input character is associated with a unique finger contact or set of simultaneously-entered contacts, each contact being either sliding or non-sliding contact, and the sliding contacts having a direction associated with the character. One example touch surface is a touch screen. Another example touch surface is the table upon which the electronic device sets and thus separate from the electronic device and freeing space on the device for other use.

Abstract: The present specification relates to a display device executing a bending operation and a method of controlling therefor. A method of controlling a display device, comprising the steps of detecting a first bending input, which is detected when a flexible display unit is bending to a first direction on the basis of a first axis, executing a first operation based on the first bending input, detecting a second bending input while a state that the flexible display unit is not bent is maintained, and executing the first operation based on the second bending input, wherein the second bending input is detected by a combination of a first control input and a second control input, wherein the first control input corresponds to the first axis and the second control input corresponds to the first direction.

Abstract: A space-efficient substantially transparent mutual capacitance touch sensor panel can be created by forming columns made of a substantially transparent conductive material on one side of a first substantially transparent substrate, forming rows made of the substantially transparent conductive material on one side of a second substantially transparent substrate and bringing column connections down to the second substrate. The columns can be routed off-panel at an edge of the second substrate. In some examples, the first and second transparent substrates formed from polyethylene terephthalate (PET). In some examples, the substantially transparent conductive material formed from Indium Tin Oxide (ITO).

Abstract: A touch panel has a first zone, a second zone and a third zone. The first zone includes a first vertical distance, which is less than a first value and greater than a second value, from the surface of the planar display, and includes a center of the planer display. The second zone includes the first vertical distance and is located outside the first zone with respect to the two dimensional coordinates. The third zone includes a second vertical distance, which is greater than the first value, from the surface of the planar display. When the indicator directly enters the second zone from the third zone, the two dimensional coordinates of the indicator are invalid. The two dimensional coordinates of the indicator are valid coordinates, when the indicator directly enters the second zone from the third zone, or when the indicator directly enters the first zone from the third zone.

Abstract: Provided is a conversion method for key operations on a non-touch screen terminal unit, involving the steps of: detecting a click action on a target key on the terminal unit, and acquiring the ID information of the target key; searching position information corresponding to the ID information in a preset profile according to the ID information; and, generating a touch screen event at the position indicated by the position information on the display screen of the terminal unit. With the present method, application programs developed for touch screens can run on non-touch screen terminal units compatibly, and thereby the compatibility of the terminal units is improved.

Abstract: A display device includes a display unit which has a plurality of pixels and a plurality of driving lines for driving the plurality of pixels; a driving circuit which drives the plurality of pixels through the plurality of driving lines; and a control unit which adjusts a driving capability of the driving circuit according to the number of simultaneous driving lines of the driving circuit.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a memory in which input instructions, force level assessment instructions, and output instructions are stored, and further includes a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured through execution of the input instructions to obtain measurement data for a user interaction with a force-sensitive touch sensor, the measurement data being indicative of position information for the user interaction, amplitude information for the user interaction, and size information for the user interaction. The processor is further configured through execution of the force level assessment instructions to apply force level calibration data to the amplitude information and the size information in a force level assessment of the user interaction, the force level calibration data varying with user interaction size. The processor is further configured through execution of the output instructions to provide an output in accordance with the force level assessment.

Abstract: A comparator circuit includes a differential circuit unit which detects a difference between two input signals, a current supply unit which supplies a current to the differential circuit unit, and a control unit which detects an operation timing of the differential circuit unit and controls the current supplied to the differential circuit unit by the current supply unit according to a detection result thereof.

Abstract: A capacitive sensing device including a touch panel and a controller chip is provided. The touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes. The controller chip includes a plurality of input capacitors and a plurality of output resistors. The input capacitors are selectively coupled to signal inputs of the first electrodes and the second electrodes, respectively. The output resistors are respectively coupled to signal outputs of the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The input capacitors and the output resistors are configured to form bridge circuits to suppress the influence of mutual capacitance between the first electrodes and the second electrodes.

Abstract: Objects are to provide a display device in which images with higher quality are displayed by a reduction in afterimages of a previously displayed image, and to reduce power consumption of the display device. A pixel in the display device is initialized to suppress an afterimage due to the previous gray level of a display element. Specifically, a voltage applied to the display element for initialization and the time for applying the voltage are changed in accordance with the previous gray level of the display element. Initialization of the display element can prevent an afterimage of a previously displayed image.

Abstract: The patent application relates to a method of controlling a display device including display elements arranged in a matrix with n rows of display elements. The method includes: driving a first row of display elements, with a first output of a driving system being connected to the first row and disconnected from at least one further row of display elements.

Abstract: A method to drive a pixelated display of an electronic device arranged in sight of a user of the device. The method includes receiving a signal that encodes a display image, and controlling the pixelated display based on the signal to form the display image in addition to a latent image, the latent image being configured to illuminate an eye of the user with light of such characteristics as to be unnoticed by the user, but to reveal an orientation of the eye on reflection into a machine-vision system.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a display having a display screen that displays an image; an acquiring section that acquires information indicating a contact point which is a position where an operator is brought into contact with the display screen by a user; a display controller that makes the display screen display an image showing a designation point designated by the user; and a setting section that sets an operation mode by switching between a first operation mode in which a disposition of the designation point relative to the contact point is changeable and a second operation mode in which the designation point is moved in accordance with movement of the contact point so that the disposition changed in the first operation mode is maintained. The display controller controls display of the designation point in accordance with the operation mode set by the setting section.

Abstract: Embodiments related to gaze-assisted touchscreen inputs are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computing system may receive a gaze location signal indicative of a region of a user's gaze on a touchscreen, receive a touch signal indicative of a touch of the user on the touchscreen, and generate an input signal for the computing system based at least in part on the gaze location signal and the touch signal. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.

Abstract: A light source apparatus includes a light source, a detection unit configured to detect light emitted by the light source, a determination unit configured to determine a target brightness, and a control unit configured to periodically perform control of light emission from the light source, wherein the control unit divides one period of the control into a first period during which the light source is caused to emit light that is to be detected by the detection unit and a second period during which the light source is caused to emit light at the target brightness, and during the first period, drives the light source using a driving signal with a value smaller than a value during the second period, and the detection unit detects light emitted by the light source during the first period.

Abstract: A method and a mobile terminal for reporting a coordinate point of the touch screen. The method includes: the mobile terminal receiving a touch event of the touch screen; when two touch events are received simultaneously with the coordinate points of one touch event which is called as a first touch event including coordinate points belonging to a border region of the touch screen and all of the coordinate points of the other touch event which is called as a second touch event belonging to a non-border region of the touch screen, the mobile terminal determining a central coordinate point of the first touch event, correcting the central coordinate point to the border side of the touch screen nearest to the central coordinate point according to the second touch event; and taking the corrected coordinate point as a reported coordinate point.

Abstract: An information processing device includes: a display unit; a touch panel that is arranged overlapping the display unit, that detects contact by or proximity with an indication element, and that outputs detection results; and a control unit that displays all or a portion of an operation image on the display unit and, when a portion of the operation image is being displayed on the display unit and a drag operation is carried out that causes sliding of the contact point at which the indication element and touch panel are in proximity or contact, identifies the direction of movement and the amount of movement of the contact point that accompany the drag operation, and scrolls the display of the display unit by an amount that corresponds to the amount of movement that was identified and in the direction opposite to the direction of movement that was identified.

Abstract: A method of identifying a to-be-identified object is described. The to-be-identified object is independent of the electronic device and is placed within a predetermined distance from the electronic device. The method of identifying the to-be-identified object includes the electronic device acquiring status information of the to-be-identified object; the electronic device generating an operation instruction according to the status information of the to-be-identified object; and the electronic device operating according to the operation instruction. The identifying method and its electronic device are capable of enabling users to complete the executing of applications of the electronic device through operating the to-be-identified object, so as to improve experience and enjoyment of users.