Abstract: A touch panel system includes electronic pens and a touch panel. In the touch panel, a touch sensor detects a touch position that each of the electronic pens touches. A signal control device controls the touch sensor so as to transmit a reference signal indicating reference timing to the touching electronic pen, and to receive a response signal from the electronic pen. In each of the electronic pens, a reception electrode receives the reference signal from the touch panel. A timing generation circuit generates the response signal having a delay period of a predetermined value from the reference timing. A transmission electrode transmits the response signal to the touch panel through the touch sensor. The signal control device identifies the touching electronic pen, based on the delay period of the response signal received from each of electronic pens.

Abstract: A detection device includes a plurality of transmitter electrodes that are provided in a predetermined area, a plurality of receiver electrodes that are provided in the predetermined area and that each intersect with the plurality of transmitter electrodes, a transmitter that is connected to the plurality of transmitter electrodes, a receiver that is connected to the plurality of receiver electrodes, detection electrodes that are provided outside the predetermined area and that are connected to at least one of the transmitter and the receiver, and an operation detector configured to detect an operation of a user based on a reception result of the receiver.

Abstract: A control apparatus includes a picture providing unit configured to provide a picture for allowing a user to operate, and an operation detector configured to detect operation of the user performed on the picture. In addition, the control apparatus includes a biological information detector configured to detect biological information of the user that is different from the operation of the user, and a controller configured to change the picture depending on the biological information.

Abstract: An input device includes a touch sensor and a position detection unit. The touch sensor detects touch operations and output a detection value for each of detection regions. The position detection unit detects touch positions touched in the touch operations, based on the detection values from the touch sensor. The position detection unit performs emphasizing conversion process for converting the detection values of a target detection region to emphasize difference in detection values between the target detection region and neighboring regions which are the detection regions within a predetermined range around the target detection region. The target detection region is a detection region to be subjected to the emphasizing conversion process. The position detection unit detects the touch positions based on the converted detection value obtained by the emphasizing conversion process.

Abstract: In an input device, first electrodes are arranged on a first transparent substrate, and second electrodes are arranged on a second transparent substrate coupled to the first transparent with second electrodes intersecting with first electrodes. A control unit detects electrostatic capacitance. The first transparent substrate includes a first joint region where the no first electrodes are arranged and a plurality of regions into which a whole region of the first transparent substrate is segmented by the first joint region. The second transparent substrate includes a second joint region where no second electrodes are arranged and a plurality of regions into which a whole region of the second transparent substrate is segmented by the second joint region. On the coupled transparent substrates, the first and second joint regions are arranged such that the first joint region and the second joint region do not overlap with each other partially or wholly.

Abstract: An input device includes a plurality of touch panels and a position calculation unit. Each touch panel detects a touch operation and outputs detection values. The position calculation unit calculates the touch position touched in the touch operation, based on the detection values from the touch panels. The touch panels are joined together via a joint portion. In response to a touch operation of touching a joint region of the joint portion, the position calculation unit calculates the touch position in the joint region based on the detection values in the touch panels adjacent to each other across the touched joint region.

Abstract: An input device for a touch screen includes: a supporter placed on a touch surface of a touch screen device; operation keys supported by the supporter and an operation thereon by a user is detected on the touch screen device side; and a conductor for input device identification that is conductible with a user's body and indicates an area in which the operation by the user is detected. In particular, the operation keys each have a conductor for body touch that comes in contact with the user's body when the user performs an operation. The conductor for body touch is electrically connected to a conductor for input device identification.

Abstract: In a touch table system having a touch table apparatus provided with a touch panel main body in a tabletop and a PC connected to the touch table apparatus, the touch table apparatus has a touch position detector detecting a touch position within a touch detection area. A touch position converter converts a coordinate of a touch position into a coordinate of a screen area of the PC, the touch position being obtained in an operation is set for each user within the touch detection area.

Abstract: Touch positions can be detected with a high accuracy. A receiver receives a charge-discharge current signal of a receiving electrode in response to a drive (pulse) signal applied to a transmission electrode, and outputs a level signal of each electrode intersection. The receiver includes an IV converter that converts the charge-discharge current signal to a voltage signal. A conversion characteristic of the IV converter is set such that phases of amplitude of the voltage signal corresponding to a leading edge and a trailing edge of a pulse wave of the drive signal substantially match each other, and phases of amplitude of the voltage signal corresponding to the trailing edge of the pulse wave and a leading edge of a succeeding pulse wave substantially match each other.

Abstract: In a touch panel device comprising a panel main body (4) including a grid array of transmission electrodes (2) and reception electrodes (3) and defining a touch surface (51), the transmission electrodes are connected to a transmission unit (5) for sequentially applying a drive signal to the transmission electrodes. A time constant element is connected to each transmission electrode via the corresponding lead wire to adjust an overall time constant of the transmission electrode, the time constant of each time constant element being selected to be greater as the length of the lead wire for the corresponding transmission electrode increases.

Abstract: A touch screen device has a screen main body including parallel transmitting electrodes and parallel receiving electrodes disposed in a grid shape; a transmitter sequentially selecting the transmitting electrodes and applying a drive signal; a receiver sequentially selecting the receiving electrodes, receiving a response signal output from the receiving electrode in response to the drive signal, and outputting detection data at each electrode intersection; a controller obtaining a touch position based on the detection data at each electrode intersection output from the receiver; and a reference signal generator outputting a reference signal for synchronized detection. The transmitter generates the drive signal from the reference signal. The receiver uses the reference signal to perform synchronized detection of a signal based on the response signal from the receiving electrode and generates the detection data.

Abstract: A touch screen device includes a screen main body comprising a plurality of transmitting electrodes and a plurality of receiving electrodes and disposed in front of a plasma display panel; a transmitter sequentially selecting the transmitting electrodes and applying a drive signal to the selected transmitting electrodes; a receiver sequentially selecting the receiving electrodes, receiving a response signal output from each of the receiving electrodes in response to the drive signal, and outputting detection data at each electrode intersection; a discharge detector detecting discharge of each of the scanning electrodes of the plasma display panel; and a controller that obtains a touch position based on detection data of the discharge detector at each electrode intersection acquired from the response signals from the receiving electrodes positioned distant from the discharging scanning electrodes.

Abstract: A reception signal processor of a touch screen device receives a response signal output from receiving electrodes that have responded to a driving signal applied to transmitting electrodes and outputting detection data of each electrode intersection. The reception signal processor includes an integrator and a monitor. The integrator integrates a signal obtained by performing a predetermined process on an output signal from the receiving electrodes, and the monitor outputs a reset signal when an integrated value of the integrator reaches a predetermined threshold value. The integrator resets the integrated value to zero in response to the reset signal from the monitor. In particular, a smoother that smoothes a signal is provided before the integrator, and the integrator integrates the signal that has been smoothed by the smoother.

Abstract: A touch screen device includes a panel disposed in a front surface of a plasma display panel and having a plurality of transmitting electrodes and receiving electrodes intersecting in a grid pattern; a transmitter that applies a driving signal to the transmitting electrodes; and a receiver receiving a response signal and outputs detection data for each intersection between electrodes, the response signal being output from the receiving electrodes in response to the driving signal applied to the transmitting electrodes. A controller obtains a touch position based on detection data for each intersection, the data being output from the receiver; and a maintenance discharge detector detects a maintenance discharge period of the plasma display panel. The controller, based on a detection result of the maintenance discharge detector, obtains the touch position based on the detection data for each intersection during a period excluding the maintenance discharge period.

Abstract: An image sensor comprises, a substrate, a plurality of photoelectric converters mounted on the substrate, for each of which a photoelectric conversion layer is formed of an organic compound layer and is sandwiched between an anode and a cathode so as to perform photoelectric conversion based on incident light, drive circuits for detecting output provided by a signal current generated by the photoelectric converters and for reading signal charges, and a wiring for electrically connecting the photoelectric converters and the drive circuits, wherein, for the plurality of the photoelectric converters that form one read pixels, the size of a photoelectric conversion area differs in accordance with a sensitivity of each of the plurality of photoelectric converters.

Abstract: Provided is a touch screen system that includes a transmitter, a plurality of electronic pens, and a controller. The transmitter applies to transmitting electrodes a pen-synchronization pulse signal for synchronizing transmission and reception of a pen identification signal between the electronic pens and a receiver. The electronic pens transmit, to receiving electrodes, a pen identification signal in accordance with detection of the pen-synchronization pulse signal of the transmitting electrodes at the time of a touch operation. The controller determines the electronic pen that has performed a touch operation based on the pen identification signal that is received by the receiver via the receiving electrodes.

Abstract: A panel main body comprises a plurality of transmitting electrodes provided in parallel to one another and a plurality of receiving electrodes provided in parallel to one another, and the transmitting electrodes and the receiving electrodes being disposed in a grid shape. A transmitter applies pulse signals to the transmitting electrodes, and a receiver receives output signals from the receiving electrodes in response to the pulse signals applied to the transmitting electrodes and outputs level signals at electrode intersections of the transmitting electrodes and the receiving electrodes. A controller detects a touch position based on the level signals output from the receiver. The controller also controls a number of pulses of a pulse signal that the transmitter applies to each transmitting electrode while the receiver receives an output signal from each receiving electrode.

Abstract: In a touch panel device comprising a panel main body (4) including a grid array of transmission electrodes (2) and reception electrodes (3) and defining a touch surface (51), the transmission electrodes are connected to a transmission unit (5) for sequentially applying a drive signal to the transmission electrodes. A time constant element is connected to each transmission electrode via the corresponding lead wire to adjust an overall time constant of the transmission electrode, the time constant of each time constant element being selected to be greater as the length of the lead wire for the corresponding transmission electrode increases.

Abstract: A touch screen device has a panel body that is provided with a plurality of first electrodes arranged parallel with respect to each other, and a plurality of second electrodes arranged parallel with respect to each other, such that the first electrodes and the second electrodes form a grid-shaped pattern. The apparatus also has a controller that detects a touch operation from a side of the panel body based on variations of signals of an endmost electrode, of the first electrodes or of the second electrodes, that is closest to an edge of the panel body and an electrode adjacent to the endmost electrode.

Abstract: Touch positions can be detected with a high accuracy. A receiver receives a charge-discharge current signal of a receiving electrode in response to a drive (pulse) signal applied to a transmission electrode, and outputs a level signal of each electrode intersection. The receiver includes an IV converter that converts the charge-discharge current signal to a voltage signal. A conversion characteristic of the IV converter is set such that phases of amplitude of the voltage signal corresponding to a leading edge and a trailing edge of a pulse wave of the drive signal substantially match each other, and phases of amplitude of the voltage signal corresponding to the trailing edge of the pulse wave and a leading edge of a succeeding pulse wave substantially match each other.