Abstract: A display system input device includes a touch pad having a touch surface, direction keys formed on the touch surface and divided into a plurality of sections, and a switch installed on a bottom surface of the touch pad. At least one signal among a drag signal, a tap signal, and a click signal is generated using at least one among the touch pad, the direction keys, and the switch.

Abstract: A semiconductor device having a dielectric layer with improved electrical characteristics and associated methods, the semiconductor device including a lower metal layer, a dielectric layer, and an upper metal layer sequentially disposed on a semiconductor substrate and an insertion layer disposed between the dielectric layer and at least one of the lower metal layer and the upper metal layer, wherein the dielectric layer includes a metal oxide film and the insertion layer includes a metallic material film.

Abstract: Provided is a touch pad input method and input device. The touch pad input method includes touching a first point of a touch surface of a touch pad, touching a second point of the touch surface, and operating a direction key based on a relative position of the first point and the second point.

Abstract: A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including: preparing a semiconductor substrate including a mold layer and a support layer disposed on the mold layer; forming multiple holes that pass through the mold layer and the support layer; forming multiple bottom electrodes in the holes; exposing at least a portion of the bottom electrodes by removing at least a portion of the mold layer; removing a portion of the bottom electrodes from an exposed surface of the bottom electrodes; and sequentially forming a dielectric layer and a top electrode layer on the bottom electrodes.

Abstract: A method of driving an electronic device easily and accurately controls a pointer displayed on a screen of the electronic device. The method of driving an electronic device including an input unit into which information is input by a touch and a screen display unit on which a pointer is displayed in response to the touch includes: a first step of moving the pointer from a point at which the touch is applied to the input unit first in an arbitrary direction in which drag of the pointer is performed; a second step of stopping the movement of the pointer when the drag is stopped; and a third step of additionally moving the pointer in a direction, which is directed from the point at which the touch is applied first to a point to which pressing pressure is applied, in response to pressing pressure when the drag is stopped.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a touch screen panel and a portable electronic apparatus having the same. The touch screen panel includes: a cover layer having an outer surface touched by a touch unit and an inner surface, which is an opposite surface to the outer surface; a first scattering layer formed on an inner surface of the cover layer to scatter light passing through the cover layer; an electrode pattern spaced apart from the first scattering layer and formed as a predetermined fine pattern so that capacitance around a touch point at which the touch unit touches the outer surface is changed; and a second scattering layer formed between the first scattering layer and the electrode pattern to scatter light.

Abstract: Disclosed herein a sensor package for a touch panel and a method of manufacturing the same, the sensor package for the touch panel including: a printed circuit board; a sensor formed over the printed circuit board so as to be spaced apart from the printed circuit board; printed circuit board side connecting pads formed on one surface of the printed circuit board; sensor side connecting pads formed on one surface of the sensor and formed to face the printed circuit board side connecting pads; a first insulating layer formed between the printed circuit board side connecting pads on one surface of the printed circuit board; and a second insulating layer formed between the printed circuit board side connecting pad and the sensor side connecting pad and including conductive balls.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a touch panel and a method for manufacturing the same, the touch panel including: a transparent substrate; a photosensitive ink layer patterned on the transparent substrate and having electric conductivity; and electrode patterns formed at corresponding positions on the patterned photosensitive ink layer, and the method including: preparing a transparent substrate; coating a photosensitive ink having electric conductivity on the transparent substrate to form a photosensitive ink layer; patterning the photosensitive ink layer; and forming electrode patterns on the patterned photosensitive ink layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a touch panel and a method for manufacturing the same, the touch panel, including: a transparent substrate; first sensing electrodes formed in a first direction on one surface of the transparent substrate to sense a change in capacitance at the time of inputting a touch; second sensing electrodes disposed in the first direction on a surface, which is in parallel spaced from the surface on which the first sensing electrodes are formed, alternately with the first sensing electrodes, to sense a change in capacitance at the time of inputting a touch; and driving electrodes formed in a second direction crossing the first direction on the other surface of the transparent substrate, so that sensing sensibility can improved by including a multiple-layered sensing electrode layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a button structure for electronic products. The button structure includes a push button, a restoring means, and an opposite sidewall. The push button is configured such that a plurality of contacts is provided along the circumference thereof. The restoring means includes a central shaft, which is provided in the central portion of the push button. The opposite sidewall is spaced apart from the contacts, and is configured to surround the push button, and is configured such that sensors for generating their corresponding signals are provided on the opposite sidewall at respective locations opposite those of the contacts.

Abstract: A method of forming a metal thin film can reduce leakage current while improving electric properties by improving step coverage of a device. The method of forming a metal thin film includes supplying a metal precursor including chlorine, purging byproducts produced after the supplying of the metal precursor by injecting a purge gas, supplying a reactant to allow the reactant and the metal precursor to react with each other to form a thin film layer, and purging the byproducts produced after the reaction by injecting a purge gas, wherein before the supplying of the metal precursor, the method further includes supplying a reactant to be adsorbed on a treated product.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel. The touch panel 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention includes an electrode pattern 110 formed of a combination of unit patterns 113 in which an intersecting region 117 in which sides 115 intersect each other and a width of the side 115 in the intersecting region 117 is smaller than a width of the side 115 outside the intersecting region 117.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel, including: a transparent substrate having a first refractive index; a high refractive index layer formed on one surface of the transparent substrate and having a second refractive index higher than the first refractive index; a low refractive index layer formed on the other surface of the transparent substrate and having a third refractive index lower than the first refractive index; and a metal electrode formed on an exposed surface of the low refractive index layer.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel. The touch panel 100 according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is configured to include a transparent substrate 105 that is partitioned into an active region A and a bezel region B disposed at an edge of the active region A, an electrode pattern 110 formed in the active region A, an electrode wiring 120 formed in the bezel region B so as to be connected with the electrode pattern 110, and a display 130 outputting specific light to the bezel region B.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel. The touch panel includes an electrode pattern that is formed of a combination of unit patterns having protrusions and recessed notches along each side of the electrode pattern.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel, including: a window; a transparent substrate having electrode patterns and electrode wirings formed thereon, the electrode wirings being connected to the electrode patterns; a sealing part formed along an edge of one surface of the window and an edge of one surface of the transparent substrate; and a first adhesive layer attaching one surface of the window and one surface of the transparent substrate to each other, the first adhesive layer being surrounded by the sealing part.

Abstract: Provided are methods for changing a display range in an electronic device having a touchscreen. The method for changing a display range in an electronic device includes: detecting a plurality of touches; determining a plurality of regions in consideration of a plurality of touch points; and changing a display range of at least one region of the plurality of regions in consideration of change in a distance between the plurality of touch points.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel, including: a transparent substrate; an electrode formed in a mesh pattern on the transparent substrate; and a wiring formed in a wavy pattern on the transparent substrate and connected to the electrode, the wiring having curve shape of first peaks and second peaks alternately continuing along a longitudinal direction.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel, including a transparent substrate on which a wiring array is formed; a first connector formed on an end of the wiring array; a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) on which a circuit terminal is formed; and a second connector formed on the circuit terminal and bonded to the first connector, in which a protrusion is formed on one of the first connector and the second connector and a groove is formed on the other one, thereby easily aligning the wiring array and the FPCB with each other and increasing the connection reliability therebetween.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch panel including: a transparent substrate; an electrode formed on the transparent substrate; and a visibility reducing layer having a width smaller than that of the electrode and interposed between the electrode and the transparent substrate.