Patents Examined by Nelson C Lam
  • Patent number: 10180761
    Abstract: Provided is a touch-panel-equipped display device that is capable of detecting a touch on a side surface of a case (1) at a high accuracy by a simple controlling operation, without any hardware such as expensive sensors being provided additionally. In the touch-panel-equipped display device, a side surface electrode part can be electrically connected by capacitive coupling with a Y-direction electrode part. A change in capacitive coupling when the side surface electrode part is touched by a finger or the like, therefore, is reflected in a sense signal acquired by the Y-direction electrode part. In other words, in the touch-panel-equipped display device, a touch on the side surface electrode part can be detected using the sense signal. The touch-panel-equipped display device, therefore, is capable of detecting a touch on the side surface electrode part by using hardware and signal processing for touch detection in a conventional touch panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Hisashi Watanabe, Tomohiro Kimura, Jean Mugiraneza, Yasuhiro Sugita