Abstract: A touch pad is configured to receive input operations by objects including a finger and a stylus. The touch pad includes a touch detection surface serving as a position detection region for detecting the stylus. The touch pad includes an integrated circuit configured to: determine an operation state of the stylus based on a pen pressure value of the stylus; and switch between outputting coordinates indicating a position of the stylus and outputting coordinates indicating a position of the finger according to the determined operation state of the stylus.

Abstract: A sensor panel is overlaid on a display apparatus and connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen in an active region of the display apparatus. The sensor panel includes first electrodes that extend in a first direction. The sensor panel also includes second electrodes that extend in a second direction. The first electrodes include first and second outer electrodes that are located at the outermost edges of the first electrodes and first inner electrodes disposed between the first and second outer electrodes. A width of at least one of the first and second outer electrodes in the second direction is smaller than a width of each of the first inner electrodes in the second direction.

Abstract: Provided is a board assembly including a first board including a first signal line group including signal lines extended in a first direction and lined up in a direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a second board including a second signal line group including signal lines extended in a second direction and lined up in a direction orthogonal to the second direction. The first board and the second board are fixed such that the signal lines included in the first signal line group and the second signal line group are connected in line, and the second board includes an additional signal line separated from the second signal line group in a thickness direction of the second board and extended across a second connection terminal group including a plurality of connection terminals connected to the second signal line group or the first signal line group.

Abstract: A sensor includes sensor electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and routing lines connecting the sensor electrodes to a sensor controller. In the second direction, a first group of sensor electrodes on a first side of the sensor is connected to routing lines at a first end in the first direction, a second group of sensor electrodes on a second side of the sensor opposite to the first side of the sensor is connected to routing lines at a second end in the first direction, and a third sensor electrode between the first group and the second group includes a first sub-electrode connected to one of the routing lines at the first end in the first direction, and a second sub-electrode connected to one of the routing lines at the second end in the first direction.

Abstract: A system includes a pen and a pen position detection apparatus. The pen includes a signal transmitter that transmits a pen signal, a signal receiver that receives a vibration control signal, and a haptic element that is activated in response to the vibration control signal. The pen position detection apparatus is configured to detect the pen signal to derive a pen position, detect occurrence of an event that a drawing line indicated by a series of derived pen positions crosses or comes into contact with a predetermined line segment, and transmit the vibration control signal to activate the haptic element in response to the detection of the occurrence of the event.

Abstract: Provided is an active pen used with electronic equipment including a touch sensor that is of a capacitive system and that includes sensor electrodes, the active pen including a receiving circuit that receives an uplink signal from the electronic equipment, a transmitting circuit that transmits a downlink signal to the electronic equipment, an attendant function circuit that performs an attendant function different from reception of the uplink signal and transmission of the downlink signal, and a controller that controls operation of the receiving circuit, the transmitting circuit, or the attendant function circuit according to a plurality of kinds of operation modes including a normal mode and a low power consumption mode.

Abstract: A sensor controller includes an obtaining section configured to obtain a position signal indicating a position of an electronic pen from a pen sensor configured to detect the position of the electronic pen. The sensor controller includes a pen pressure calculating section configured to calculate a pen pressure value regarding a pen pressure of the electronic pen on the pen sensor on the basis of a change in a signal level of the position signal obtained by the obtaining section.

Abstract: A pen sensor for use in detecting an active pen with capacitive coupling. The pen sensor includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a plurality of first sensor electrodes and a plurality of first dummy patterns. The second layer includes a plurality of second sensor electrodes and a plurality of second dummy patterns. The first dummy patterns and the second dummy patterns are overlaid with each other when viewed from above the pen sensor. The first dummy patterns of the first layer are insulated from each other. The second dummy patterns of the second layer are insulated from each other.

Abstract: A position detection device includes first and second sensor electrodes that are adjacent to each other, connection wires connected to the respective sensor electrodes and including first and second connection wires connected to the first and second sensor electrodes, respectively, a sensor controller connected to the connection wires, and a first extension line; and a second extension line. Some of the plurality of connection wires, including the first connection wire, extend at regular intervals in a first region. The connection wires, including the second connection wire, are arranged to extend at regular intervals in a second region different from the first region. The first extension line extends along the second connection wire in the second region and is electrically connected to the first sensor electrode. The second extension line extends along the first connection wire in the first region and is electrically connected to the second sensor electrode.

Abstract: A touch pad is configured to receive input operations using objects including a finger and a stylus. The touch pad includes a touch screen including a touch detection surface that serves as a button and as a position detection region for detecting positions of the objects. The touch pad includes an integrated circuit having an object detection function of detecting the positions of the objects on the touch detection surface and a button function of detecting a press state of the button based on a force applied to the touch detection surface. The touch pad includes a button function stop unit configured to cause, according to an operation state of the stylus or according to a setting related to an input operation of the stylus, the integrated circuit to stop outputting a button press state value indicative of the press state detected by the button function.

Abstract: Provided is an evaluation method for an electronic pen by an evaluation system including a planar sensor and a movement mechanism, the evaluation method including disposing the planar sensor such that a direction of a third axis orthogonal to each of a first axis and a second axis in a three-dimensional machine coordinate system defined for controlling driving of the movement mechanism is orthogonal to a sensor coordinate plane formed by a first axis and a second axis of a two-dimensional sensor coordinate system defined in the planar sensor, performing angle adjustment by causing an orientation of a machine coordinate plane to correspond with an orientation of the sensor coordinate plane by rotating the planar sensor disposed, with a direction normal to the planar sensor being an axis of rotation, and performing position adjustment by causing a sensor reference point to correspond with a machine reference point.

Abstract: A method performed by a sensor controller detects coordinates of a pen including one or more electrodes that transmit a signal. The method includes a first scanning step of performing an operation of detecting a signal transmitted from an electrode in contact with a panel surface at each of three or more first reference positions at which signal levels can be detected, from the signal detected in a sensor electrode group included in a first range, among plural juxtaposed reference positions. The method includes a second scanning step of performing an operation of detecting a signal transmitted from an electrode not in contact with the panel surface at each of three or more second reference positions at which signal levels can be detected, from the signal detected in a sensor electrode group included in a second range greater than the first range, among the plural reference positions.

Abstract: Provided is a sensor including sensor electrodes disposed from a first end to a second end in a first direction in a touch surface, terminals that are each disposed for a corresponding one of sets of sensor electrodes among the sensor electrodes and connected to a sensor controller, and routing lines that connect each of the sensor electrodes to one of the terminals corresponding to one of the sensor electrodes. An interconnect resistance per unit length of each of the sensor electrodes becomes lower continuously or in a stepwise manner, according to an interconnect distance from a portion connecting with one of the routing lines corresponding to one of the sensor electrodes, and a difference in the interconnect resistances between any two sensor electrodes among the sensor electrodes is smaller than a case in which an interconnect resistance per unit length in each of the routing lines is constant.

Abstract: A sensor is provided for detecting a pen signal transmitted from a pen. The sensor includes a touch sensor, flexible printed circuit (FPC) connector terminals, and a detection pattern. The touch sensor has linear electrodes, which form a position detection area and are configured to respectively detect the pen signal. The FPC connector terminals are connected to the linear electrodes, respectively, via routing traces arranged outside the position detection area. The detection pattern is arranged in a region outside the position detection area, near the FPC connector terminals, and is configured to detect the pen signal.

Abstract: Disclosed is a sensor panel connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen. The sensor panel includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged adjacent to each other along a first direction. The plurality of first electrodes include at least one outside electrode located at an end in the first direction of the plurality of first electrodes, wherein the at least one outside electrode is a solid conductor. The plurality of first electrodes include at least one inside electrode that is different from the at least one outside electrode, wherein the inside electrode is a mesh conductor.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method executed by a device that is configured to be able to detect a pointed position of a stylus on an operation plane being superimposed on a displaying part. The method includes receiving feedback information relating to a display position of a predetermined pattern on the displaying part from a host processor, updating at least some of plural position calibration values stored in a correction table that stores therein the position calibration value for each of plural positions arranged on the operation plane, on a basis of the received feedback information, detecting a tentative pointed position of the stylus, reading the position calibration value that corresponds to the tentative pointed position from the correction table and deriving an output position by correcting the tentative pointed position on a basis of the position calibration value, and reporting the output position to the host processor.

Abstract: A position detecting device includes a sensor panel having a first receiving electrode, a first transmitting electrode disposed so as to perpendicularly intersect the first receiving electrode, a second transmitting electrode disposed so as to extend in a direction parallel with the first transmitting electrode, and a second receiving electrode disposed so as to perpendicularly intersect the second transmitting electrode, a first sensor controller configured to detect a position on the sensor panel on a basis of signals detected by the first transmitting electrode and the first receiving electrode, generate electrode information related to the detection, and transmit the electrode information, and a second sensor controller configured to, on a basis of the electrode information, make a setting for processing of detecting a position on the sensor panel on a basis of signals detected from the second transmitting electrode and the second receiving electrode.

Abstract: Provided is a pen sensor for use in detecting an active pen. The pen sensor includes a first layer including a group of first sensor electrodes and a group of first dummy patterns, and a second layer including a group of second sensor electrodes and a group of second dummy patterns. The first dummy patterns and the second dummy patterns are overlaid with each other when viewed from above the pen sensor.

Abstract: A method performed by a sensor controller detects coordinates of a pen including one or more electrodes that transmit a signal. The method includes a first scanning step of performing an operation of detecting a signal transmitted from an electrode in contact with a panel surface at each of three or more first reference positions at which signal levels can be detected, from the signal detected in a sensor electrode group included in a first range, among plural juxtaposed reference positions. The method includes a second scanning step of performing an operation of detecting a signal transmitted from an electrode not in contact with the panel surface at each of three or more second reference positions at which signal levels can be detected, from the signal detected in a sensor electrode group included in a second range greater than the first range, among the plural reference positions.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes a display panel that includes a plurality of pixel electrodes each provided in a corresponding one of a plurality of pixels, and a common electrode shared by the plurality of pixels. The touch sensor also includes a touch panel that detects a position of at least either a finger or a pen. The display panel and the touch panel are superimposed on each other in a vertical direction. The common electrode includes a conductor-area-reduction portion that reduces an area of the common electrode.