Abstract: An electronic device is provided that includes a display unit including a first region and a second region and a control unit configured to receive a first touch stroke through the first region, to receive a second touch stroke through the second region, to generate a third touch stroke corresponding to the first and second touch strokes when a relationship between the first and second touch strokes satisfies to a predetermined condition, and to perform an operation corresponding to the third touch stroke.

Abstract: A method and system utilizing both coordinate stroke data and associated pressure information for improved handwriting recognition. The method and system can also be applied to all types of handwriting-based data entry applications and also to user authentication. The digitizer pad used in the computer system gives both spatial information and associated pressure data when a stroke is being drawn thereon, e.g., by a stylus. Pressure information can be used to differentiate between different character sets and can also be used to adjust any display attribute, such as character font size, font selection, color, italic, bold, underline, shadow, language, etc.

Abstract: A device and computer program product for determining a level of cleanliness of a multi-touch screen display, characterizing objects that make contact with the screen, and initiating a specific maintenance action on the screen, based on screen cleanliness and the object(s) characterization(s). A screen diagnostic and maintenance (SDM) utility initiates a number of procedures to determine the type of object(s) and a set of characteristics of object(s) that make contact with the touch screen. Based on the results of the procedures, the SDM utility characterizes/identifies the object(s). In addition, the SDM utility initiates maintenance screen check(s) based on information stored in maintenance configuration file(s). Based on the results of the maintenance check(s), configuration file(s) data and type and characterization of the object(s) that have made contact with the screen, the SDM utility determines the type of maintenance that is performed and the timing/schedule of the maintenance action(s).

Abstract: A method of displaying information in a mobile terminal having a touch screen is provided. The method includes determining whether a touch input is generated by a touch screen, determining whether the touch area moves, calculating a movement direction of the touch area by extracting a value of the touch area movement, determining a current mode according to the calculated movement direction of the touch area, executing a function of the current mode corresponding to the extracted value of the touch area movement, and displaying, while executing the function of the current mode, at least one of a displacement value generated by executing the function of the current mode and a current mode icon indicating the current mode. Accordingly, when displaying information according to a touch input, changes of information may be displayed distinctively, and thereby user convenience may be improved.

Abstract: A product comprises a sheet, which is transparent to visible radiation, and a coding pattern, which comprises scattering dots arranged on the sheet to code information, the scattering dots being arranged to diffusely scatter radiation incident thereon, the coding pattern further comprising reflecting dots arranged on the sheet in correspondence with the scattering dots, the reflecting dots being arranged to specularly reflect radiation incident thereon.

Abstract: The information input device is an information input device which identifies, as a touch gesture, a touch input from a user and includes: a touch sensor; and an input processing unit which identifies the touch input as the touch gesture using contact positions for identification among contact positions through which the touch input has been given to the touch sensor and which have been detected sequentially at different times within a predetermined period. The contact positions for identification excludes a contact position that is detected after a total number of contact positions detected after a start of the touch input reaches a predetermined number and that falls within a predetermined region.

Abstract: A touch barrier panel having a touch sensing capability and a 3-dimensional image display capability is disposed on a display panel such that manufacturing cost may be reduced and the thickness thereof is relatively thin. Also, the negative liquid crystal that is not affected by the vertical electric field is used such that a mode change speed and response speed may be improved.

Abstract: A touch display includes a display panel, a plurality of sensing electrodes and a driving circuit module. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. The plurality of sensing electrodes are stacked with the display panel and are used for detecting a touch input and generating a sensing signal in response to the touch input. The driving circuit module is electrically coupled to the display panel and the plurality of sensing electrodes, for controlling the pixels of the display panel according to an image data, and generating a touch signal for indicating whether the touch display is touched or not in response to the image data and the sensing signal.

Abstract: A touch sensing system comprising a set of touch surfaces in a touch panel including a population of touch surfaces; and at least one touch alert generator separately alerting for touch on each of, and both of, at least first and second touch surfaces from among the population of touch surfaces, wherein the alert generator is operative to determine capacitance of said first touch surface, determine touch object capacitance of said first and second touch surfaces, and compute a difference between the two capacitances, thereby to generate an approximation for touch object capacitance of said second touch surface.

Abstract: A coordinate measurement system including a coordinate indicating apparatus and a coordinate measurement apparatus for determining a position of a contact object including the coordinate indicating apparatus. The coordinate measurement apparatus includes a channel electrode unit including one or more electrodes, wherein capacitance of each of the one or more electrodes or capacitance between the one or more electrodes is changed based on a change in the position of the contact object, and a controller for applying an electrical signal to the channel electrode unit or measuring a reception signal input to the channel electrode unit. The coordinate indicating apparatus includes a conductive tip for forming capacitance with the one or more electrodes of the channel electrode unit, and a resonant circuit unit for generating identification information of the coordinate indicating apparatus, wherein the resonant circuit unit is connected to the conductive tip.

Abstract: An information processing device includes an input device including a plurality of touch pads configured to each detect a touch to a detection surface so as to output an operation signal independently of each other, and a control part configured to output a first control signal based on an operation signal if the operation signal is inputted through one of the plurality of touch pads, and to output a second control signal that is different from the first control signal based on the combination of a plurality of operation signals if the plurality of operation signals are inputted through the plurality of touch pads.

Abstract: A method for processing a function corresponding to a multi-touch in an electronic device is provided. In the method, data is displayed in one or more formats. A first touch is detected. If a second touch is detected with the first touch being maintained, a function corresponding to a multi-touch operation is performed. The function corresponding to the displayed data type and the second touch is performed based on coordinates of the first touch.

Abstract: A touch panel includes optically transparent upper conductive layers arranged in a predetermined direction and optically transparent lower conductive layers facing the upper conductive layers with a predetermined gap. One conductive layer of each of the upper conductive layers and each of the lower conductive layers has substantially a strip shape elongating in a longitudinal direction. The one conductive layer includes an optically transparent resin and metal filaments which are dispersed in the resin and which elongate in the longitudinal direction. In this touch panel, the conductive layer has a stable resistance, hence detecting a position accurately.

Abstract: A coordinates measurement system for measuring positions of a finger and a coordinates indication device other than the finger is provided, which determines the touched position of an object such as a stylus pen, while using a single touch screen.

Abstract: A power-saving sensing module includes a light source, a first and a second sensor, a first and a second detection unit, and a controller. The first sensor detects a touch of an external object to generate a first sensing signal corresponding to the touch. The first detection unit generates a touch signal corresponding to the first sensing signal. The second sensor senses a second sensing signal corresponding to the external object in response to the light ray. When the touch signal is greater than a touch threshold value, the second detection unit outputs a displacement signal corresponding to the second sensing signal. The controller outputs a control signal in response to the touch signal of the first detection unit and the touch threshold value, so that the second detection unit operates at a dormant state or a sensing state in response to the control signal.

Abstract: In an optical touch panel including a first group of light emitting and receiving packages and a second group of light emitting and receiving packages provided on a display surface at opposite sides to each other, each of the light emitting and receiving packages is formed by one light emitting element and one light receiving element vertically arranged above the display surface. The light emitting element of each light emitting and receiving package of the first group opposes the light receiving element of one light emitting and receiving package of the second group, and the light emitting element of each light emitting and receiving package of the second group opposes the light receiving element of one light emitting and receiving package of the first group.

Abstract: Problems exist in areas such as image visibility, endurance of the device, precision, miniaturization, and electric power consumption in an information device having a conventional resistive film method or optical method pen input function. Both EL elements and photoelectric conversion elements are arranged in each pixel of a display device in an information device of the present invention having a pen input function. Information input is performed by the input of light to the photoelectric conversion elements in accordance with a pen that reflects light by a pen tip. An information device with a pen input function, capable of displaying a clear image without loss of brightness in the displayed image, having superior endurance, capable of being miniaturized, and having good precision can thus be obtained.

Abstract: A touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a light transmissive panel, an illumination arrangement and a detection arrangement. The illumination arrangement is configured to couple light into the panel via an incoupling site such that the light propagates by total internal reflection in opposite top and bottom surfaces of the panel and such that an object touching the top or bottom surface causes a change in the propagating light. The detection arrangement comprises a light detector arranged to detect the change in the propagating light. A compact and robust incoupling site is defined by a sheet-like micro-structured surface portion which is fixedly arranged on one of the top and bottom surfaces and configured to transmit light having an angle of incidence that enables light propagation by TIR inside the panel.

Abstract: A touch display device including a display module and a touch module is provided. The touch module is disposed above the display module and includes a transparent cover, a touch electrode layer and a phase retardation protection layer. The display module is configured to provide an image light. The touch-sensing layer is disposed on the transparent cover and between the display module and the transparent cover. The phase retardation protection layer covers the touch-sensing layer. A polarization direction of the image light provided by the display module is changed after passing through the phase retardation protection layer. A touch display device including a phase retardation planarization layer is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining an acoustic response attributed to a location of an impact, in particular a touch event, on a surface of an object including at least one transducer comprising the steps of: Injecting a predetermined acoustic bending wave by the transducer at the transducer position (5a, 5b), Sensing a bending wave parameter at a secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position, determining the acoustic response based on the sensed bending wave parameter and properties of the predetermined acoustic bending wave effectively as if the injection took place at the at least one secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position and the sensing took place at the transducer position based on reciprocity principles, and determining the acoustic response attributed to at least one location (9) on the surface different to the at least one secondary location (11) on the surface different to the transducer position based on at le

Abstract: Position and orientation of a stylus with respect to a sensing surface of a host electronic device are provided by sensing first and second electromagnetic fields at a sensing surface, the first and second electromagnetic fields varying in strength in response to stylus orientation, and determining the orientation from a difference in sensed field strength between the first and second electromagnetic fields. The first and second electromagnetic fields may be produced by proximal and distal electromagnetic transmitters of the stylus. The orientation may be used, for example, to control the response of a computer drawing application executed on the host electronic device.

Abstract: A capacitive stylus includes: a hollow stylus stick; a soft touch member made of conductive plastic or rubber in the form of a hollow housing, the soft touch member having a domed touch end; a connection collar assembled with an end section of the stylus stick, the connection collar and the soft touch member together defining an internal space; a support member disposed in the internal space, the support member being made of a rubber material with hardness greater than that of the soft touch member; and a rest seat assembled with the support member, the support member being spaced from the soft touch member by a gap and formed with a multi-support structure facing the soft touch member. In operation, the soft touch member can keep a proper softness without being over-deformed or collapsed.

Abstract: A display unit includes: a display section; and a barrier section including a plurality of first electrodes, one or a plurality of second electrodes, and a liquid crystal layer, the first electrodes and the second electrodes being disposed in different layers or a same layer to face each other, the liquid crystal layer being disposed outside the first electrodes and the second electrodes, in which the electrodes, the second electrodes, and the liquid crystal layer configure a plurality of liquid crystal barriers extending in a first direction and being arranged side by side in a second direction, each of arrangement regions of the first electrodes has a plurality of sub-regions extending in the first direction and being arranged side by side in the second direction, and each of the first electrodes includes a plurality of slits or a plurality of first branch portions belonging to each of the sub-regions.

Abstract: This display device has a demultiplexer (501) formed on a liquid crystal panel, the demultiplexer including three switching elements SW1 to SW3 for time-division drive, which are connected to video signal lines SL1 to SL3. Here, the number of switching control signal lines for transmitting switching control signals GS1 to GS6 to be provided to switching elements coupled to the video signal lines is six, which is twice the number of time divisions, and switching control signals (e.g., GS1 and GS4) with the same timing are individually transmitted by two switching control signal lines, so that the number of switching elements to be coupled to the switching control signal lines as loads can be halved, resulting in reduced waveform rounding of the control signals.

Abstract: A panel control device includes a scalar and a timing controller. The scalar transmits an image data for forming a display image. The scalar keeps the timing controller in a normal display mode or switches the timing controller to a self-refresh mode according to a state of the display image. The timing controller includes a memory and a self-refresh unit, wherein when the timing controller switches to the self-refresh mode, the self-refresh unit performs a compression procedure to progressively compress the image data and generate a plurality of first interval data accordingly. When the compression procedure ends, the self-refresh unit stores one of the plurality of first interval data to the memory as a compression data, and the timing controller continuously outputs the compression data from the memory.

Abstract: A display with a pixel circuit for driving a current-driven emissive element includes a feedback capacitor in series between the emissive element and a programming node of the pixel circuit. During driving, variations in the operating voltage of the emissive element due to variations in the current conveyed through the emissive element by a driving transistor are accounted for. The feedback capacitor generates voltage adjustments at the programming node that correspond to the variations at the emissive element, and thus reduces variations in light emission. A reset capacitor connected to a select line is selectively connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor and resets the driving transistor prior to programming. The select line adjusts the voltage on the gate terminal to reset the driving transistor by the capacitive coupling of the select line to the gate terminal created by the reset capacitor.

Abstract: An organic light emitting display device capable of improving display quality and a driving method of the organic light emitting display device are provided. The organic light emitting display device includes pixel circuits and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) each in pixel regions defined by scan lines and data lines, and a switching unit in one of the pixel regions and coupled between one of the pixel circuits and a plurality of the OLEDs from different ones of the pixel regions. The driving method includes charging pixel circuits with voltages corresponding to data signals, and alternately coupling each of the pixel circuits to different ones of a plurality of organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) from different pixel regions defined by scan lines and data lines.

Abstract: Provided is a malfunction prevention circuit for a COG-form source driver integrated circuit with a power sequence in which a low voltage is applied after a high voltage is applied. The malfunction prevention circuit includes: a level shifter configured to process an input signal using the low voltage and output a control signal using the high voltage; and an initialization circuit configured to initialize the control signal to a constant voltage while an initialization signal is enabled. The initialization signal is enabled during a predetermined time from the time at which the low voltage starts to be applied at the initial stage of the power sequence.

Abstract: This application is directed to driving methods for electrophoretic displays. The driving methods comprise applying different voltages selected from multiple voltage levels, to pixel electrodes and optionally also to the common electrodes. In one embodiment, the different voltages are selected from a group consisting of 0V, at least two levels of positive voltage and at least two levels of negative voltage. The driving method is also suitable for a color display device.

Abstract: An apparatus for providing a dimensional display such as a 3D effect without special-purpose glasses. The apparatus includes a foreground display assembly including a first planar display element with a front surface and an opposite back surface. Additionally, the apparatus includes a background display assembly including: (a) a second planar display element spaced apart from and parallel to the first planar display element; and (b) a light source backlighting a back surface of the second planar display element. The first and second display elements are emissive display units and concurrently display frames of a foreground image stream and corresponding frames of a background image stream. The first display element may be a transparent LCD panel, and the output light from the front surface of the second display element provides backlighting for the first display element such that foreground images are backlit by output light of the second display element.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a computer-based method includes receiving image data of a real world layout. The image data reflects the real world layout across three dimensions (e.g., vertical, horizontal, and orthogonal). Each of the three dimensions has an image range with a beginning and an end. The real world layout has inventory of products distributed across the three dimensions. The computer-based method further includes comparing a 3D model of a planned layout of the environment to the received image data. The 3D model represents the planned layout across the three dimensions. The computer-based method further includes determining whether results of the comparison reach a first particular threshold, and if so, then output a pertinent indication, alert, or the like.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display (LCD) system, which includes an LCD device. The LCD device includes: a display mode setting module utilized to set display modes of the LCD device. The display mode includes at least a multi-3D-image display mode, the display mode setting module electrically coupled to the control module. The control module is utilized to control the scan driving module and the data driving module according to the display modes.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, a related system and a related processing device for visualizing a user of a virtual environment in the virtual environment. The method of the present invention includes the step of generating a 3-dimensional user depth representation of the user to be visualized, based on at least one generated video stream of the user. In addition a texture of the user is determined based on the at least one generated video stream of the user. A subsequent step is generating a 3-dimensional user visualization by applying said texture onto said user depth representation and parenting said 3-dimensional user visualization onto a 3-dimensional host visualization.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided which displays an object (body) on a flexible display screen in accordance with a three-dimensional shape of the display screen by utilizing the flexibility of the display screen. An electronic device including a display portion which includes a flexible display device displaying an object on a display screen; a detection portion detecting positional data of a given part of the display screen; and an arithmetic portion calculating a three-dimensional shape of the display screen on the basis of the positional data and computing motion of the object to make the object move according to a given law in accordance with the calculated three-dimensional shape of the display screen.

Abstract: An image processing method to remove aliasing and an image processing apparatus thereof are provided. The image processing method includes receiving data information of a polygonal image, determining a position of an interpolation vertex on an exterior of vertexes of the polygonal image using the data information of the polygonal image, interpolating a space between the polygonal image and a polygon constructed by the interpolating vertex, and outputting an interpolated polygonal image according to the interpolated space. Accordingly, when complex polygons are displayed or the image size changes, the aliasing can be removed. Further, because the interpolating process is applied to primitives instead of a whole image to overcome the aliasing, the amount of calculations decreases.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for zippering meshes of primitives. The technique involves identifying a first vertex associated with a first mesh boundary and having a first position and identifying a second vertex that is proximate to the first vertex and associated with a second mesh boundary, where the second vertex has a second position. The technique further involves determining a third position based on the first position, the second position, and a zippering strength factor, where the third position is located in a region between the first position and the second position. Filially, the technique involves moving the first vertex to the third position.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for smoothing boundaries associated with meshes of primitives. The technique involves receiving a mesh of primitives that has a mesh boundary and an initial surface, identifying a first vertex associated with the mesh boundary and having a first location, and identifying a second vertex having a second location and a third vertex having a third location. Both the second vertex and third vertex are proximate to the first vertex. The technique further involves determining a fourth location based on the second location and the third location, projecting the fourth location onto the initial surface to determine a fifth location, and moving the first vertex to the fifth location.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for merging intersecting meshes of primitives. The technique involves determining an intersection boundary that is defined by an intersection between a first mesh of primitives and a second mesh of primitives. The technique further involves determining that a first plurality of primitives included in the first mesh of primitives and a second plurality of primitives included in the second mesh of primitives are proximate to the intersection boundary. The technique further involves removing the first plurality of primitives to form a first mesh boundary associated with the first mesh and removing the second plurality of primitives to form a second mesh boundary associated with the second mesh. Finally, the technique involves connecting a first plurality of vertices associated with the first mesh boundary to a second plurality of vertices associated with the second mesh boundary to form a joined boundary.

Abstract: At least one of parallax images for left and right eyes to be fusionally displayed to perform stereopsis using binocular parallax is generated at low resolution or low sharpness of such a degree that a subject in the parallax image is observable as a stereoscopic image when an observer observes the subject in an observation mode in which the two fusionally displayed parallax images are stereoscopically viewable, and also of such a degree that the subject is recognizable as a plane image when an observer observes the subject in an observation mode in which the two fusionally displayed parallax images are not stereoscopically viewable.

Abstract: A map rendering device includes: a texture creation unit 4 for creating a texture; a 3-D topographic relief polygon creation unit 8 for creating a 3-D topographic relief polygon; and a rendering unit 11 for performing 3-D map relief rendering by mapping the texture to the 3-D topographic relief polygon; and the texture creation unit includes: a texture generation unit 5 for generating only one texture for a rendering area; a coordinate transformation unit 6 for transforming map data that are vector data represented in a map coordinate system into the data in a pixel coordinate system of the texture; and a texture rendering unit 7 for creating the texture to be mapped to the 3-D topographic relief polygon by performing 2-D rendering of the map data transformed into the pixel coordinate system.

Abstract: A stereoscopic apparel try-on method is provided. The method includes steps of: obtaining a pair of human body images of a user taken at different visual angles; constructing a human body stereoscopic model according to the pair of human body images; querying an apparel database for a stereoscopic apparel model having a size matching a size of the human body stereoscopic model; and generating a stereoscopic apparel try-on result image according to the human body stereoscopic model and the stereoscopic apparel model.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for displaying data, such as 3D models, having spatial coordinates. In one aspect, a height map and color map are generated from the data. In another aspect, material classification is applied to surfaces within a 3D model. Based on the 3D model, the height map, the color map, and the material classification, haptic responses are generated on a haptic device. In another aspect, a 3D user interface (UI) data model comprising model definitions is derived from the 3D models. The 3D model is updated with video data. In another aspect, user controls are provided to navigate a point of view through the 3D model to determine which portions of the 3D model are displayed.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for mesh refinement. The technique involves receiving a mesh including a plurality of triangles. The technique further involves processing the mesh to generate a refined mesh by performing an edge flip operation on the mesh, performing an edge split operation on the mesh, and performing an edge collapse operation on the mesh.

Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including a display control unit configured to display, on a display unit, at least one of a plurality of images in which an imaging range of one image overlaps at least a part of an imaging range of another image based on a user operation, and a control unit configured to, in a state in which the user operation has been performed, perform control to display a target image to be displayed, and area information indicating an overlapping area where the target image and an image other than the target image overlap.

Abstract: Analytical functions to be applied to business intelligence data may be sequentially selected from a set of chips, each corresponding to a different function. A function associated with a selected chip may be applied to the business intelligence data and the selected chip may be added to an analysis path with other selected chips in a sequential order of selection. A result, which may include at least two selectable data points, may be displayed. Once a data point selection is made, the selection may be used to limit the functions associated with subsequently displayed chips to the selected data points. The chips listed in the analysis path may be used to change prior data point selections, the changes of which may be automatically propagated to any subsequently selected chips as indicated in the analysis path.

Abstract: View definitions are created for deterministic performance analysis in real-time computing systems, and can then be used to present views for analyzing outliers that occur during run-time execution. Trace data created by a real-time application is compared to a set of view definitions to determine whether the trace data matches the view definition. If so, then related records from the trace are gathered according to specifications in the matched view definition, and calculations (such as elapsed time) can then be performed using the related records. A view definition may be created by prompting a user for selection of parameters to be programmatically inserted into a markup language document. A capability may be provided whereby a user can receive additional information (which is extracted from the trace data, according to specifications in the matched view definition) upon a user gesture such as hovering a selection means over a displayed view.

Abstract: To display patient information, a computing device receives a set of diagnostic values for a patient, a processor of the computing device compares the set of diagnostic values with a set of predetermined normal values, and a video image is displayed having a graphical depiction of the diagnostic values in comparison to the related normal values. The related set of normal values is displayed at a predetermined region of the video image and the set of diagnostic values is displayed on the video image in relation to the certain region of the normal values. Varying levels of relative health of the patient are indicated according the placement of an icon relative to areas of the graphical depiction of the diagnostic values. The video image is a plurality of concentric circles with the diagnostic values being displayed relatively closer to a center of the display in response to the diagnostic values being relatively closer to the values of the related normal values.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a data block processing method and system, a front end display device, and aback end processing device. The method includes: when a user intends to move a data block in a data graph from a first location to a second location, obtaining, by a front end display device, location information of the second location; sending relocation request information to a back end processing device; receiving display instruction information sent from the back end processing device; and displaying the data block corresponding to the identifier of the data block, at the second location in the data graph according to the display instruction information. With the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the efficiency of data processing in a data graph can be improved effectively.

Abstract: A user interface that allows administrators of a virtualized computing environment to easily navigate to and/or search for specific objects, determine relationships between selected objects, and have visibility into the health status of objects in the virtualized computing environment. Objects within a column may be displayed with names, displayed as bars, or aggregated into groups based on the number of objects in the column. Also, in some embodiments, when a user selects one object, objects in other columns that are related to the selected object may be visually distinguished from the other objects, allowing an administrator to easily navigate to related objects.

Abstract: An image related information obtaining unit that obtains information relating to a predetermined image as image related information, a keyword generating unit that generates a keyword based on the image related information obtained by the image related information obtaining unit, and a display text string candidate generating unit that generates, as a display text string candidate, a text string serving as a candidate for display, using one or more of the keywords generated by the keyword generating unit.