Abstract: A touch-sensitive apparatus includes a light-transmissive panel having a front surface, an opposite rear surface, and a side edge connecting the front and rear surfaces, and a light-transmissive sheet laminated over the front surface of the light-transmissive panel. The light-transmissive sheet has a portion extending beyond the side edge of the light-transmissive panel to cover a light emitter and detector. The touch-sensitive apparatus further includes a shielding element on a lower surface of the light-transmissive sheet, the shielding element covering at least said light emitter and detector, and the shielding element blocking light having a wavelength range in which the light emitter outputs light. The lower surface of the light-transmissive sheet is in optical contact with the front surface of the light-transmissive panel.

Abstract: A current corresponding to the difference between an input signal voltage and an output signal voltage is generated as an amplification acceleration current. The amplification acceleration current is sent to an output node of a current mirror, which drives a transistor in an output amplifier stage, and therefore added to a current to drive the transistor in the output amplifier stage.

Abstract: A wearable sensor for tracking articulated body parts is described such as a wrist-worn device which enables 3D tracking of fingers and optionally also the arm and hand without the need to wear a glove or markers on the hand. In an embodiment a camera captures images of an articulated part of a body of a wearer of the device and an articulated model of the body part is tracked in real time to enable gesture-based control of a separate computing device such as a smart phone, laptop computer or other computing device. In examples the device has a structured illumination source and a diffuse illumination source for illuminating the articulated body part.

Abstract: The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective sub-frame periods in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The sub-frame period corresponding to the ON and OFF periods respectively for first and second pixels of two mutually adjacent pixels is referred to as an ON/OFF adjacent period. The apparatus provides, when causing the first and second pixels to form tones adjacent to each other, a plurality of the ON/OFF adjacent periods each being 1.0 ms or less separately from each other in the one frame period.

Abstract: Detecting a touch input force is disclosed. A signal to be used to propagate a propagating signal through a propagating medium with a surface is sent. The propagating signal that has been disturbed by a touch input with an amount of force on the surface is received. The received signal is processed to determine an identifier associated with the amount of force.

Abstract: The liquid crystal drive apparatus controls application of a first or second voltage to each pixel of a liquid crystal element in respective multiple sub-frame periods included in one frame period to cause that pixel to form a tone. The sub-frame period where the first voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an ON period, and the sub-frame period where the second voltage is applied to the pixel is referred to as an OFF period. The apparatus provide, when causing the pixel to form the tone using the ON period, multiple ON period sets separately from each other in the one frame period. Each ON period set includes one or more ON periods. The apparatus sets a temporal interval between temporal centers of the respective ON period sets to 60% or less of the one frame period or to 5.0 ms or less.

Abstract: In one aspect, a modular sensing apparatus will be described. The modular sensing apparatus includes a flexible substrate and multiple sensors. The flexible substrate is reconfigurable into different shapes that conform to differently shaped structures. The multiple sensors are positioned on the substrate. Various embodiments relate to software, devices and/or systems that involve or communicate with the modular sensing apparatus.

Abstract: This disclosure relates to touch sensors for display devices having a double routing wire structure. The touch sensor includes a plurality of first touch electrode serials and a plurality of second touch electrode serials electrically insulated from each other; a plurality of first routing wires, each of which is respectively connected with at least one of both ends of each of the plurality of first touch electrode serials; a plurality of second routing wires, each of which is respectively connected with each of the plurality of second touch electrode serials; and at least one of a first jumping wire and a second jumping wire, wherein the first jumping wire connects the first routing wire with a first pad, and the second jumping wire connects the second routing wire with a second pad.

Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for a maximum speed criterion for a velocity gesture. The apparatus includes an input sensor, a processor, and a memory. The apparatus also includes a detection module that detects fulfillment of velocity gesture criteria on the input sensor in communication with the processor. The velocity gesture criteria may include a movement below a maximum speed. The apparatus also includes an initiation module that initiates a velocity gesture function in response to the detection module detecting fulfillment of the velocity gesture criteria.

Abstract: A thermoelectric display including an array of thermoelectric devices is used to provide output to a user in the form of thermal feedback. The thermal feedback may be used to provide navigation cues to the user to enable eyes-free navigation. The thermal feedback may be used to provide target acquisition cues to enable the user to accurately target a contact point on a touchscreen. The thermal feedback may be used to convey an emotive aspect of a message to the user. The thermal feedback may be used to identify to the user a caller associated with an incoming call. The thermoelectric display may be, alternatively or additionally, used to provide input to another device, such as a mobile device to which the thermoelectric display is operatively coupled.

Abstract: The present technology enables a user wearing a head-mounted display having a display section provided in front of the eyes of the user to directly check a state in front of the user. A head-mounted display includes: a display section; a casing supporting the display section in front of eyes of a user; and an optical system supported by the casing, the optical system allowing the user to view an image of an object disposed in a rear of the display section as viewed from the user.

Abstract: The disclosure provides an array substrate and a method for forming the same, a method for detecting a touch-control operation of a touch-control display apparatus. The array substrate includes: a self-capacitance touch-control layer, which also serves as a common electrode layer; the self-capacitance touch-control layer includes multiple first electrodes and multiple second electrodes, where the first electrodes are smaller in area than the second electrodes; the multiple first electrodes form multiple electrode groups each of which includes at least two of the first electrodes, where the electrode groups and the second electrodes are same in external shape. Accordingly, touch resolution and touch sensitivity of the array substrate may both reach a high level.

Abstract: A touch controller on a touch sensitive device configured to generate a dynamic demodulation waveform so as to minimize the effects on a signal to noise ratio caused by a tonal noise is disclosed. The demodulation waveform can be turned off for finite durations so as to minimize the probability that a transitional voltage of the tonal noise source is included in the demodulation result.

Abstract: An OLED display assembly includes a DC-DC power source driver chip and an OLED display panel. The DC-DC power source driver chip is provided with a soft-start circuit including a first time-delay circuit, a first anti-surge circuit and a second anti-surge circuit. The first time-delay circuit is configured to disable the first anti-surge circuit and enable the second anti-surge circuit at an initialization stage, delay a voltage applied to an output end of the first time-delay circuit, and after the end of the initialization stage, enable the first anti-surge circuit and disable the second anti-surge circuit. The first anti-surge circuit is configured to control, after the end of the initialization stage, a voltage applied to the first input end of the OLED display panel. The second anti-surge circuit is configured to control, at the initialization stage, a voltage applied to the first input end of the OLED display panel.

Abstract: An information processing terminal includes a plurality of displays, each displaying an application screen, and control means. The control means determines a display on which a new application is to be started from the plurality of displays on the basis of the amount of the resources consumed by the information processing terminal.

Abstract: Electrode portions located on both ends are set to detection electrode portions, ground electrode portions are set on the inside thereof, and a plurality of central electrode portions are set to driving detection portions. A coordinate position of a finger can be obtained based on an output difference between the detection electrode portions, and a vertical distance can be obtained based on an output sum. When the vertical distance of the finger is shorter than a first threshold, switching is performed so that an interval between the detection electrode portions is shortened, and when the finger approaches, a touch detection mode is set.

Abstract: Apparatus and method are provided that are capable of controlling a display in response to reliable detection of a sliding movement operation of a pointer (e.g., a user's finger) that passes through an end of a display region. The apparatus and method utilize a position detection sensor, which is superposed on the display and configured to detect the pointer's position discretely and successively at a predetermined time interval. Based on a first position detected by the position detection sensor and a second position detected, at the predetermined time interval since the detection of the first position, by the position detection sensor, which together indicate a moving operation of the pointer, it is determined whether the moving operation of the pointer has crossed an end of the display region. If it is so determined, a passed end position of the display region is calculated based on the first and second positions.

Abstract: A pixel structure, a driving method of the pixel structure, an organic light emitting display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel structure includes N light emitting devices, pixel compensation circuits connected with the light emitting devices in one-to-one correspondence, one potential conversion circuit, and one voltage input control circuit. The pixel compensation circuits are connected to the same potential conversion circuit and the same voltage input control circuit, so that pixel compensation circuits share one potential conversion circuit and one voltage input control circuit, the occupation area of the pixel compensation circuits in pixel regions can be reduced, so that the aperture ratio of each pixel region is improved.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present disclosure describes an electronic display. The electronic display includes a display driver that write image frames to pixels of the electronic display with a first refresh rate or a second refresh rate, in which the second refresh rate is less than the first refresh rate. Additionally, the electronic display includes a timing controller that receives image frames from an image source, in which one or more of the image frames are configured to be displayed on the display panel to play video content; determines a capture rate of the video content based at least in part on a cadence with which the image frames are received, in which the capture rate describes a rate at which each of the one or more image frames was captured by an image sensor; and instructs the display driver to write the one or more of the image frames at the second refresh when the second refresh rate is an integer multiple of the capture rate.

Abstract: Provided herein is a matrix switching type touch panel comprising a plurality of touch pads disposed in a visible area on a substrate in a dot matrix format, the touch pads spaced from one another, and a plurality of signal lines disposed in a space between the touch pads, each signal line connecting a touch pad and a touch driving circuit of a invisible area, wherein the matrix switching type touch panel comprises: unit electrodes made of a transparent electroconductive material and disposed within a visible area on the substrate; touch pad areas each determined in an area corresponding to each touch pad; signal line areas each determined in an area corresponding to each signal line; and bridges electrically connecting the plurality of unit electrodes disposed in each touch pad area and each signal line area, configuring touch pads and signal lines.