Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, and an input sensing part disposed on the display panel. The input sensing part includes a first main electrode, a first sub-electrode adjacent to the first main electrode, a second main electrode and insulated from the first main electrode and the first sub-electrode, the second main electrode overlapping the first main electrode and the first sub-electrode, a second sub-electrode adjacent to the second main electrode, and insulated from the first main electrode and the first sub-electrode, the second sub-electrode overlapping the first main electrode and the first sub-electrode, a first group of switches selectively connecting a transmission line and one of the first main electrode and the first sub-electrode with each other, and a second group of switches selectively connecting a receiving line and one of the second main electrode and the second sub-electrode with each other.

Abstract: A control surface has a first area configured to accept a first operation performed with an object for enabling a first function of the controlled device, a second area configured to accept a second operation performed with the object for enabling a second function of the controlled device, and a third area located between the first and second areas. A processing device is configured to: enable the third area to accept the first operation in a case where it is determined that an object contacts or approaches the first area; enable the third area to accept the second operation in a case where it is determined that the object contacts or approaches the second area; and disable acceptance of the first operation and the second operation in a case where it is determined that the objects contacts or approaches the third area prior to the first and second areas.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel which displays an image, a touch sensor which senses a touch, a display controller which drives the display panel, and a touch controller which drives the touch sensor. The display controller transfers a timing signal representing a timing of a display operation to the touch controller, and provides display driving information to the touch controller by modulating the timing signal in a blank period of a frame period.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to enable users to interact with user terminals having a touch screen interface without requiring the user to physically contact a surface of the touch screen interface.

Abstract: An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a housing, extended to be long, including a first end part having an opening of a first diameter and a second end part having an opening of a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter; a first internal structure which includes a third end part located between the first end part and the second end part and a fourth end part located between the third end part and the second end part, and which is arranged in a first space of the housing between the first end part and the second end part; a pen tip part which includes a dielectric tip extending outwardly from the inside of the housing through the first end part, and which is mounted on the third end part of the first internal structure; a printed circuit board mounted on the first internal structure between the third end part and the fourth end part; a second internal structure which includes a fifth end part engaged with the fourth end part and a sixth end part exposed to the outside

Abstract: An input device includes an operation unit to receive an operation, the operation unit including a magnetic member having a magnetic property, at least one load detection unit to detect a load on the operation unit and detect the load according to capacitance between a pair of conductors, a substrate on which an electrode as one of the pair of conductors of the load detection unit is arranged, and a drive unit including a coil to generate a magnetic field for driving the magnetic member. The coil is arranged on the substrate.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes a base, first sensing electrode columns (FSECs), and second sensing electrode columns (SSECs). The base includes a sensing region (SR) including a rounded corner (RC), and a non-SR outside the SR. The FSECs extend in a direction on the base, each FSEC among the FSECs including first sensing electrodes (FSEs), each FSE among the FSEs including sub-electrodes. The SSECs are alternately disposed with the FSECs on the base, each SSEC among the SSECs including second sensing electrodes (SSEs). Sub-electrodes of one of adjacent FSEs among the FSEs are electrically connected to respective sub-electrodes of another of the adjacent FSEs. A sub-electrode closest to the RC among the sub-electrodes includes a rounded edge (RE) corresponding to the RC. A SSE closest to the RC among the SSEs includes a RE corresponding to the RC, and a protrusion part protruding toward the sub-electrode including the RE.

Abstract: An input device includes a display substrate and a stack of display layers disposed on the display substrate, the stack of display layers including a conductive layer. The input device further includes at least one capacitive sensing layer in the stack of display layers and a multitude of capacitive sensing electrodes disposed in the at least one capacitive sensing layer, and configured for capacitance sensing. The input device also includes a processing system configured to selectively drive the multitude of capacitive sensing electrodes to emit a first sensing signal while balancing a total current induced in the conductive layer, caused by an electromagnetic emission associated with the first sensing signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch circuit, a touch display device, and a touch driving method, and more specifically, to a touch circuit, a touch display device, and a touch driving method for simply configuring a system for transmitting signals between a touch display device and a stylus by uniformly arranging intervals between touch driving periods in a touch frame.

Abstract: The present invention relates to touch sensor detector systems and methods incorporating an interpolated variable impedance touch sensor array and specifically to such systems and methods for gesture recognition and associating a UI element with the recognized gesture. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a variable impedance array (VIA) system for receiving a gesture that includes: a plurality of physical VIA columns connected by interlinked impedance columns; a plurality of physical VIA rows connected by interlinked impedance rows; and a processor configured to interpolate a location and/or pressure of the gesture in the physical columns and rows from an electrical signal from a plurality of column drive sources (connected to the plurality of physical VIA columns through the interlinked impedance columns) sensed at a plurality of row sense sinks (connected to the plurality of physical VIA rows through the interlinked impedance rows).

Abstract: The present disclosure is related to a touch technology field and provides a backlight module and a touch display device using the backlight module. The backlight module includes a substrate, plural driving electrode lines, plural receiving electrode lines, and plural light sources. The driving electrode lines are disposed on the substrate. The receiving electrode lines are disposed on the substrate, in which the receiving electrode lines and the driving electrode lines define plural light source regions on the substrate. The lights sources are disposed in the light source regions, in which each of the light source regions includes at least one of the light sources. The touch display device includes the backlight module and a display panel. The backlight module is configured to provide backlight light. The display panel is disposed on the backlight module to use the backlight light to display images.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic pen sensing apparatus including an electronic pen sensor disposed at the upper part or the lower part of a display, a heterogeneous sensor disposed at the lower part of the display, a processor electrically connected to the electronic pen sensor, the processor being configured to output a driving signal to the electronic pen sensor, to calculate coordinate information of the electronic pen based on a sensing signal sensed by the electronic pen sensor, wherein the electronic pen sensor is not disposed in a first area corresponding to the heterogeneous sensor, and the processor calculates first coordinate information of the electronic pen based on a first sensing signal sensed by the electronic pen sensor in the case in which the electronic pen is located in a second area.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a touch display device, a touch circuit, and a pen sensing method, allows various pen protocols to be adaptively set, thereby sensing various types of pens or sensing a pen by using various pen protocols.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes: a receiver that receives tag information transmitted from an electronic tag transmitter; a transmitter that transmits a position detection signal for detecting an instruction position in a sensor of a position detection apparatus to the position detection apparatus; and a control circuit that controls the transmitter to transmit the tag information to the position detection apparatus along with the position detection signal when the receiver receives the tag information. The position detection apparatus receives a signal transmitted from the electronic pen, the signal including the tag information and the position detection signal from the electronic tag transmitter, and stores information of the position instructed by the electronic pen detected by the detection circuit in a storage device in association with the tag information from the electronic pen received by the sensor.

Abstract: A light source module having a light emitting surface is provided. The light source module includes at least one substrate, at least one circuit layer, and at least one light emitting element. The at least one circuit layer is disposed on at least one surface of the at least one substrate, and the at least one circuit layer includes at least one circuit. An orthogonal projection of the at least one circuit onto the light emitting surface forms a circuit region, and a coverage rate of the circuit region on the light emitting surface is less than 50%. The at least one light emitting element is disposed on the at least one surface of the at least one substrate and is connected to the at least one circuit layer. In addition, a touch device having the light source module is also provided.

Abstract: Techniques for gesture-based device connections are described. For example, a method may comprise receiving video data corresponding to motion of a first computing device, receiving sensor data corresponding to motion of the first computing device, comparing, by a processor, the video data and the sensor data to one or more gesture models, and initiating establishment of a wireless connection between the first computing device and a second computing device if the video data and sensor data correspond to gesture models for the same gesture. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Techniques for gesture-based device connections are described. For example, a method may comprise receiving video data corresponding to motion of a first computing device, receiving sensor data corresponding to motion of the first computing device, comparing, by a processor, the video data and the sensor data to one or more gesture models, and initiating establishment of a wireless connection between the first computing device and a second computing device if the video data and sensor data correspond to gesture models for the same gesture. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for transmitting and receiving a signal, a processor chip, an active stylus, and a touch screen. The method for transmitting a signal includes: acquiring, based on detected pressure information, codes representing pressure information and used to detect tip positions, where the code includes n code bits, n being an integer greater than 1; generating n coded signals respectively corresponding to the n code bits; and transmitting each coded signal in the coded signals at the preset first or second frequency or prohibiting transmission of each coded signal in the coded signals, where the first frequency, the second frequency and prohibited transmission of the n coded signals relate to the pressure information.

Abstract: Provided is a display device. The display device comprises a functional layer in which a plurality of pixel areas are defined and which includes at least one coil to which an AC signal is applied and an input sensor configured to sense an input from an external source and disposed on the functional layer. The input sensor comprises a first conductive layer including a first sensing loop extending in a first direction, a sensing insulation layer disposed on the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer disposed on the sensing insulation layer and including a second sensing loop extending in a second direction crossing the first direction.

Abstract: A method and a device for interacting with a touch sensitive surface includes a trigger and a contact point area associated with the touch sensitive surface; wherein the trigger is adapted to activate and/or deactivate one or more dynamic contact points defined within or adjacent to the contact point area to simulate one or more touch action of the touch sensitive surface.