Abstract: An electronic device includes a sensor layer including a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, a sensor driving circuit driving the sensor layer and operating in a first or second mode, and a main driving circuit controlling an operation of the sensor driving circuit. In the first mode, the sensor driving circuit outputs a plurality of first transmit signals to the plurality of first electrodes respectively, receives a plurality of first sensing signals from the plurality of second electrodes respectively, and outputs the plurality of first sensing signals to the main driving circuit. In the second mode, the sensor driving circuit outputs a plurality of second transmit signals to the plurality of first electrodes respectively, receives a plurality of second sensing signals from the plurality of second electrodes respectively, and provides the main driving circuit with a coordinate based on the plurality of second sensing signals.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a backlight data transmission method including: receiving, in response to a first vertical synchronization signal of a current image frame sent from a logic circuit board, an entire of backlight data sent from the logic circuit board during a first preset time period, where the entire backlight data includes backlight data corresponding to backlight regions, and duration of the first preset time period is longer than duration of the first vertical synchronization signal in an active level state during one period; and sending the entire backlight data to a backlight driving module during a second preset time period after the first preset time period, where a sum of the duration of the first preset time period and duration of the second preset time period is less than a period of the first vertical synchronization signal.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch display device including a panel driver configured to drive gate lines and data lines of a panel and drive and sense touch electrodes, and a timing controller configured to control a drive timing and an output of the panel driver, wherein the timing controller time-divisionally drives each frame period into a plurality of display operation periods and a plurality of touch operation periods such that each display operation period and each touch operation period alternate and, during at least one compensation period of a first compensation period adjacent to an immediately preceding touch operation period and a second compensation period adjacent to an immediately following touch operation period in each display operation period, compensates at least one of a data signal and a gate signal, which is to be supplied to a compensation area, according to a variation in state of a panel.

Abstract: A method of activating an asset tracker from an ultra-low power shipping mode to a motion detection mode. The method includes detecting an activation trigger activity including double-tapping on the housing of the asset tracker, mid-air gestures comprising orientation changes, touch sensing, optical sensing, and loss of proximity with a proximity object in the packaging of the asset container.

Abstract: A beverage dispenser and method are provided in which, upon failure of the primary user input device (30), an alternative user input device and/or alternative feedback device is activated to receive beverage selections and/or provide feedback.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and media for displaying interactive augmented reality presentations are provided. In some embodiments, a system comprises: a head mounted display comprising: a transparent display; a plurality of sensors; and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is programmed to: select a content display location of a plurality of predetermined content display locations to use to present content based at least in part on a location of the head mounted display within a current physical environment; and cause content to be presented by the head mounted display anchored at the selected content display location.

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: Low ground mass mitigation for pens includes sensing circuitry configured to transmit, during a first frame, a beacon signal on a first subset of sensing electrodes, the first subset being along a first axis of an input device, transmit, during a second frame, the beacon signal on a second subset of the sensing electrodes, the second subset being along the first axis and different from the first subset, and receive a pen signal transmitted responsive to the beacon signal. The processing circuitry is configured to detect a location of a capacitive pen using the pen signal.

Abstract: A touch controller, a touch screen device, and an operating method of the touch controller are provided. A touch controller, performing a touch sensing operation of sensing a touch of a touch panel in a touch sensing period, includes a first clock generator configured to generate a low frequency clock signal for calculating the touch sensing period, a second clock generator configured to generate a high frequency clock signal for performing the touch sensing operation, and a first calibration circuit configured to calibrate a frequency of the low frequency clock signal by using the high frequency clock signal.

Abstract: A tiling display apparatus comprises: a first display group including first timing controllers to receive a first input data enable signal from a first system chip, the first input data enable signal having a first delay; and a second display group including second timing controllers to receive a second input data enable signal from a second system chip, the second input data enable signal having a second delay, wherein the first timing controllers of the first display group and the second timing controllers of the second display group share input delay information about the first delay of the first input data enable signal and input delay information about the second delay of the second input data enable signal with each other, and each of the first timing controllers and the second timing controllers generate a common output data enable signal based on the shared input delay information.

Abstract: A method of activating an asset tracker from an ultra-low power shipping mode to a motion detection mode. The method includes detecting an activation trigger activity including double-tapping on the housing of the asset tracker, mid-air gestures comprising orientation changes, touch sensing, optical sensing, and loss of proximity with a proximity object in the packaging of the asset container.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, apparatuses, and storage media for mapping mouse models for computer mouses. A method according to the present disclosure may include: determining target information of a mouse model corresponding to the mouse in a virtual reality system, using the target information as initial target information; receiving movement data of the mouse in real time, the movement data including a movement distance and a movement direction of the mouse; updating the target information of the mouse model in the virtual reality system according to the movement data of the mouse; and displaying the mouse model at the updated target information in a virtual reality scene.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch state detection circuit which is connected to a capacitance-type touch sensor including sensor electrodes disposed in a planar manner and which detects a touch state of a user by executing a scan process that reads out and processes detection signals sequentially output from the sensor electrodes. The touch state detection circuit includes a setting circuit which sets a scan condition related to an execution frequency of the scan process or an execution period of the scan process, and a detection circuit which detects the touch state by executing the scan process under the scan condition set by the setting circuit. When a determination condition indicating a situation in which the scan condition is required to be changed is satisfied, the setting circuit changes and resets the scan condition, and the detection circuit detects the touch state under the scan condition reset by the setting circuit.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of manufacture for a modular seamless touchpad assembly comprising a seamless glass layer extending to a plurality of palm rest surfaces formed over a touchpad support bracket that extends across a top cover of a base chassis of an information handling system and including a touchpad printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and a haptic actuator array coupled between the touchpad PCBA and the touchpad support bracket for generating haptic user feedback. The touchpad support bracket is formed under the haptic actuator array to support the modular seamless touchpad assembly as an installable hardware module to modularly fit within a touchpad opening formed in the top cover of the base chassis and a connector port to operatively couple a haptic touchpad controller with a reciprocal connector in the touchpad opening such that the modular seamless touchpad assembly is testable via the connector port before installation.

Abstract: An input signal correction device for reducing power consumption is compatible with a variety of display panels, and includes an input circuit, extension/degeneration circuit, separation/recovery circuit and delay adjustment circuit operating at frequency f, demura circuit operating at frequency f/2, and adder circuit.

Abstract: A fingerprint sensing system comprising a plurality of conductive selection lines; a plurality of conductive read-out lines crossing the selection lines; selection circuitry controllable to provide a selection signal on at least one selected selection line in the plurality of selection lines; a plurality of pixel elements formed at intersections between the selection lines and the read-out lines; current providing circuitry coupled to the read-out lines and controllable to generate a current pulse in at least one of the read-out lines when reading out a sensing signal from each of the pixel elements.

Abstract: Systems and methods are described in which a light beam generated by a handheld device is used to point toward a selected object or location within a printed page containing visual content, for example displayed in a book or magazine. The object(s) and/or location being pointed at may be determined using a device camera pointed in the same direction as the beam coupled with computer vision methods to determine locations of camera-acquired images within a database of page-content templates. The database may include interactive sequences and/or scenarios associated with page objects and locations. Such interactive sequences may augment the visual content of a printed book to include audible elements, additional visual components, and/or haptic stimulation enacted by the handheld device. Systems and methods may provide simple and intuitive methods for human-machine interactions that may be particularly well-suited for children and other learners.

Abstract: A touch sensor including: a touch sensing area including driving electrodes and sensing electrodes; a driving signal generator which determines phases of driving signals based on a reference code and supplies the driving signals to the sensing electrodes, wherein the driving signals are sine waves; and a touch processor which receives sensing signals according to the driving signals from the sensing electrodes and determines a touch position based on the sensing signals and the reference code, wherein the driving signal generator controls the phases of the driving signals by updating the reference code at a predetermined time point.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for compensating the effect of a contact by a hand or other body part of a user with a touch screen while holding an input device on the strength of a capacitively coupled uplink signal provided to the input device by a host device, by detecting and/or discriminating the body touch and modifying at least one uplink channel parameter.

Abstract: A method for controlling a near eye display system, includes obtaining an eye movement of a user wearing the near eye display system using an eye tracking sensor of the near eye display system, determining a target area of a display of the near eye display system based on the eye movement of the user, the target area of the display being an area that the user is looking at, and controlling a brightness of the target area of the display of the near eye display system to cause a size of a pupil of the user to be in a predetermined range.