Abstract: Provided are a touch display control device and an information terminal device, which are arranged so that the noise resulting from the actions for activation and display on a display panel, and the noise caused by the actions of activation and detection on a touch sensor never affects each other, and are useful for suppressing the elicitation of the difference in brightness attributed to non-display in a display frame. The information terminal device includes: a display controller operable to change start timings of display and non-display periods in a cycle of a frame synchronizing signal of a display frame, in each cycle of the frame synchronizing signal or each sequence of cycles thereof; and a touch panel controller operable to perform the activation of a touch panel and a touch detection during the non-display period.

Abstract: A common touch panel controller is used for performing touch detection by driving both a touch panel superimposed on a display panel of a touch panel display portion for display, and a touch sensor superimposed on a touch key pattern of a touch key input portion for buttons. A control circuit capable of switching detection characteristics of a detection circuit common to the both in accordance with detection from the touch panel display portion and detection from the touch key input portion is adopted in the touch panel controller.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display pixel allocated at a matrix state in a display area, an image-reading device which detects strength of capacitive coupling by a dielectric material coming close to or making contact with the display area, and a control portion which controls each transistor of the image-reading device. The image-reading device includes a detection electrode which forms capacitance between the detection electrode and the dielectric material, a pre-charge gate line, a coupling pulse line, a readout gate line, a pre-charge line and a readout line. These lines supply a signal which drives the image-reading device. The image-reading device further includes a pre-charge transistor, an amplification transistor, a readout transistor, a compensation transistor, and a power-source switching transistor.

Abstract: A touch module and a touch panel comprising the same are provided. The touch panel comprises a substrate and a touch module disposed on the substrate. The touch module comprises a first conductive element, a second conductive element, and a dielectric element disposed between the first conductive element and the second conductive element, whereby the first conductive element are electrically insulated from the second conductive element. The dielectric element has a thickness equal to or less than 1 micrometer, and thereby it is beneficial to achieve miniaturization of the touch panel.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a display area where a plurality of pixel electrodes are arranged; drive electrodes provided so as to face the pixel electrodes; a control device for performing image display control; a touch detection electrode facing the drive electrodes; a touch detection unit for detecting a position of a proximity object; a wiring arranged in a frame area positioned outside the display area; and a plurality of selection switches for selecting the drive electrodes to be coupled to the wiring based on a selection signal of the control device. The control device supplies the display drive voltage and a touch drive signal to the same wiring at different times.

Abstract: Disclosed are a touch screen controller and a method for controlling the same.

Abstract: A digitizer system includes a sensing surface, a digitizer sensor that senses fingertip or stylus interaction on the sensing surface, digitizer circuitry that operates the digitizer sensor during an active mode of the digitizer circuitry, wherein the digitizer circuitry operates in one of a sleep mode and an active mode and a wake up circuit that operates during the sleep mode of the digitizer circuitry and triggers a switch from the sleep mode to the active mode. A second sensor operated independently from the digitizer sensor, senses fingertip or stylus touch interaction on the sensing surface during the sleep mode of the digitizer circuitry and provides input to the wake up circuit for triggering the digitizer circuitry in response to sensing the fingertip or stylus touch interaction.

Abstract: A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. The sensor controller operates both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes. During the transducer sensing mode, the controller determines a position of the transducer based on a signal received by the array of electrodes from the transducer, and also receives and decodes the digital data encoded in the received signal.

Abstract: A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. The sensor controller operates both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes. During the transducer sensing mode, the controller determines a position of the transducer based on a signal received by the array of electrodes from the transducer, and also receives and decodes the digital data encoded in the received signal.

Abstract: Described herein are capacitance sensing devices and methods for forming such devices. A capacitance sensing device includes a substrate and a plurality of electrodes disposed on an area of the substrate to form an active portion of the device. Each of the plurality of electrodes comprises at least one irregular edge formed along a non-linear path. The touch sensor also includes a first plurality of conductors disposed on the substrate. Each of the first plurality of conductors has an end electrically connected to one of the plurality of electrodes. The touch sensor can also include a second plurality of conductors that form a routing channel. Each of the second plurality of conductors has an end electrically connected to a second end of one of the first plurality of conductors. Each of the second plurality of conductors has an end electrically connected to a second end of one of the first plurality of conductors.

Abstract: A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. The sensor controller operates both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes. During the transducer sensing mode, the controller determines a position of the transducer based on a signal received by the array of electrodes from the transducer, and also receives and decodes the digital data encoded in the received signal.

Abstract: Touch screen user interfaces configured to detect a touch gesture for controlling software applications, computers, devices, machinery, and process environments. Such user interfaces can be manipulated by users and provide a wide range of uses with computer applications, assistance to the disabled, and control of electronic devices, machines, and processes. Enhancements can include velocity and pressure sensing capabilities. The touch screen can be realized with a transparent touch sensor array positioned over a visual display. The touch screen can be configured to measure a spatial distribution profile from a touch on the touch screen and recognize gestures based on dynamics among spatial pressure distribution profiles. In an example implementation, the gesture recognition may rely solely on dynamics of shape differences between hand contact patterns and omit the use of pressure, as the shape of the spatial distribution profile does not vary much by pressure.

Abstract: A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. The sensor controller operates both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes. During the transducer sensing mode, the controller determines a position of the transducer based on a signal received by the array of electrodes from the transducer, and also receives and decodes the digital data encoded in the received signal.

Abstract: An apparatus classifies touch events. The apparatus includes a touch sensitive surface configured to generate a touch event when an object touches the touch sensitive surface. The touch event entails a mechanical vibration upon contact with the surface. The apparatus includes a touch event detector configured to detect the onset of a touch, and a touch event classifier configured to classify the touch event to identify the object used for the touch event. The mechanical vibration is created via any one of finger parts including a tip, a pad, a fingernail, and a knuckle, each of which has a unique feature different from each other.

Abstract: A method for actuating a tactile interface layer for a device that defines a surface with a deformable region, comprising the steps of detecting a gesture of the user along the surface of the tactile interface layer that includes a movement of a finger of the user from a first location on the surface to a second location on the surface; interpreting the gesture as a command for the deformable region; and manipulating the deformable region of the surface based on the command.

Abstract: A capacitive touch screen panel includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrode serials arranged in parallel in a first direction, a plurality of second electrode serials arranged in parallel intersecting the first electrode serials, a plurality of first routing wires, a plurality of second routing wires and an insulation layer that electrically insulates the first electrode serials from the second electrode serials, wherein each of the first electrode serials includes a plurality of first electrode patterns and a plurality of first connection patterns, and wherein a first conductive layer of the first routing wire, a first conductive layer of the second routing wire, and the first connection patterns are formed in the same layer.

Abstract: A projected capacitive touch and force sensor capable of detecting multiple touches thereto and forces thereof is coupled with a digital device having multi-touch and force decoding capabilities. Once a touch has been established, a force thereof may be assigned to the touch based upon the magnitude of change of capacitance values determined during scans of the projected capacitive touch and force sensor. The touch forces applied to the touch sensor from the associated tracked touch points may be utilized in further determining three dimensional gesturing, e.g., X, Y and Z positions and forces, respectively.

Abstract: A touch sensitive optical control device comprising a set of light emitters 14, 22 and light detectors 18, 24 arranged relative to a touchable surface 30 such that light transmitted by the emitters is received by the detectors along multiple intersecting beams which pass transversely of the surface and touching the surface at a beam interrupts the light transmitted along the beam. Candidate touch points T1, T2, F1, F2 are defined at the intersections of interrupted beams and are confirmed or not as actual touch points by examining test beams 40, 42, 54, 56 near to or coincident with the candidate touch point.

Abstract: A touch sensor including a housing, a light guide mounted in the housing the light guide featuring an aperture through which light exits and enters the light guide, and an inner surface facing the interior of the housing, the sensor further includes two light emitters mounted in the housing for emitting light beams into the light guide that exit the aperture at diverging angles and a light receiver mounted in the housing for receiving reflected light beams entering the aperture at an angle of incidence different than the diverging angles.

Abstract: A touch display has a touch screen to display images and one or more infrared cameras to take images of objects contacting the touch screen. One or more calibration patterns are formed on the touch screen. In response, an automatic process takes place, with: producing an image of the touch screen by taking with each one of the group of infrared cameras a set of one or more images of the calibration patterns; determining geometric distortions of the images with relation to the formed one or more calibration patterns; and calculating calibration parameters configured to enable computational compensation of the determined geometric distortions. The calibration parameters are then stored.

Abstract: A control assembly for a motor vehicle is arranged so that a control action carried out by a finger is able to be detected. The control assembly includes a control device and a selection element, on which a finger is able to be positioned to make a selection. The selection element is arranged in a predetermined spatial way with respect to the control device either next to or directly next to the control device. The control device is formed to detect a position of the finger on the selection element and to differentiate the control action depending on the detected position.

Abstract: A system for detecting and locating a disturbance of a medium includes a medium for propagating bulk acoustic waves, a mechanism for emitting bulk acoustic waves in the medium, a mechanism for receiving the bulk acoustic waves after propagation thereof in the medium, configured to supply a reception signal from the acoustic waves received, and a mechanism for detecting and locating the disturbance in the medium from the reception signal. The medium includes a dermis layer of elastic material with a thickness locally deformable by the disturbance.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for changing a property of a stylus input to host electronic device. In response to a trigger event, a stylus palette is displayed on the screen of device in proximity to a stylus location. The location and orientation of the stylus palette may also depend on a user's palm position or the orientation of the device. This enables a property of the stylus to be selected in response to stylus interaction with the stylus palette. Very little stylus movement is required to make the selection due to the proximity of the palette. The trigger event may be, for example, a press of a button of the stylus, detection of a stylus position within a range of heights above the screen of the host electronic device, or detection of a stylus motion gesture such as a shake, tap, or twist.

Abstract: An example system includes a touch-sensitive device to detect a position and a force for an input event and generate input data indicative of the position and the force and a processor coupled to the touch-sensitive device. The processor receives the input data and generates digital ink data having a position based on the input data indicative of the position and having a digital ink characteristic based on the input data indicative of the force when the force for the input event is above a predetermined threshold. The processor also alters the position of a drawing cursor in response to a change in the position of the input event.

Abstract: The present disclosure describes an interactive display system, method and computer readable medium. In one embodiment, an interactive display surface having one or more computer generated patterns printed thereon may be utilized in conjunction with an electronic pen in order to identify the absolute position of the pen relative to the interactive display surface. In one embodiment, the absolute position of the electronic pen may be transmitted to a computer system and utilized to control one or more programs running on the computer system. In one embodiment, the visual output of the computer system may be superimposed upon the interactive display surface using one or more projectors. The computer generated patterns may have a predefined association with a control operation of the computer system such that placing the electronic pen in proximity to the associated generated pattern causes the computer system to execute the associated control operation.

Abstract: There is provided a display control apparatus including a display environment detection unit configured to detect a display environment of content, a clustering condition setting unit configured to set a clustering condition of the content based on the display environment, a clustering unit configured to execute clustering of the content based on the clustering condition, and a display control unit configured to display the content on a display unit based on a result of the clustering.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for controlling a display refresh rate of a display device are provided. The control method comprises: obtaining a display parameter of current display content of the display device; determining, based on the display parameter, whether a reduction condition of a display refresh rate is met, so as to obtain a first determination result; controlling the display device to reduce the display refresh rate from a first display refresh rate to a second display refresh rate, when the first determination result indicates that the reduction condition of the display refresh rate is met. The above schemes may collect automatically the display parameter of the current display content of the display device, and determine, depending on the display parameter, whether the display refresh rate needs to be reduced. When it is determined that the display refresh rate needs to be reduced, the display refresh rate will be automatically reduced.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed herein for adjusting the operation of a display based on ambient lighting conditions. One such apparatus includes a sensor input for receiving sensor data indicative of an ambient lighting condition, output logic and color gamut correction logic. The output logic is configured to simultaneously cause light sources of at least two colors to be illuminated to form each of at least three generated primary colors. The color gamut correction logic is configured to cause the output logic to adjust the output of at least one display light source for each of the at least three generated primary colors to change the saturation of each of the at least three generated primary colors based on the received ambient light sensor data.

Abstract: A mobile terminal includes a terminal body including a display unit formed on one surface thereof, a cover coupled to the terminal body such that it can be converted into a closed state in which the display is covered and an opened state in which the display unit is exposed, a signal generating unit configured to generate a state signal according to the closed state and the opened state, and a controller configured to control the display unit such that the display unit is activated in the opened state on the basis of the state signal.

Abstract: In a method of dynamic charge sharing for a display device, it is determined whether a current line of a data driver has polarity inverted from a preceding line. Charge sharing is performed globally, if it is determined that the current line is polarity inverted from the preceding line. It is further determined whether the current line and the preceding line are substantially different, if it is determined that the current line is not polarity inverted from the preceding line. Charge sharing is performed in groups if it is determined that the current line and the preceding line are substantially different; otherwise, no charge sharing is performed.

Abstract: An e-paper printing system comprising a set of electrodes comprising a number of electrodes to erase a portion of e-paper as the e-paper moves relative to the set of electrodes in which the set of electrodes causes a first electric field to be applied to the e-paper with a magnitude of the first electric field increasing at a first rate sufficiently high to cause the erasure of the portion of the e-paper, and causes a second electric field to be applied to the e-paper with a magnitude of the second electric field decreasing at a second rate that is sufficiently low to preserve the erasure of the portion of the e-paper.

Abstract: An OLED device includes a power detection unit for detecting a power detection signal when turning on, a test image generation unit for generating a test image signal when a selection unit selects the test image signal to transmit according to the power detection signal and a timing control unit drives an OLED panel according to the test image signal, a current-adjusting unit for adjusting and holding real-time current complying with a predetermined current if the current-adjusting unit detects that the real-time current of the OLED panel is lower than the predetermined current, and a normal image signal input terminal for inputting normal image signal to control the selection unit to transmit the normal image signal, and then the OLED panel displays a normal image according to normal image signal from the timing control unit and the hold real-time current complying with the predetermined current provided by the current-adjusting unit.

Abstract: A static electricity prevention circuit of a display device including: a driving circuit configured to drive a display unit that displays an image, at least one clock signal wire configured to transmit a clock signal to the driving circuit, at least one transistor electrically coupled to the dock signal wire, and at least one capacitor including a first electrode coupled to a source electrode and to a drain electrode of the transistor, and a second electrode configured to be maintained at a voltage,

Abstract: Disclosed is a liquid crystal display device and a driving method thereof for displaying an image, in which the polarity of a voltage applied to the liquid crystal element is inverted in a first frame period and a second frame period which are sequential. The voltage applied to the liquid crystal element is compensated in the case where images of the first frame period and the second frame period are judged as a still image as a result of comparison of the image of the first frame period with the image of the second frame period and the absolute value of the voltage applied to the liquid crystal element in the first frame period is different from that of the voltage applied to the liquid crystal element in the second frame period.

Abstract: An electrowetting display device includes a control system for changing a configuration of first, second and third fluids by applying a voltage level of a first voltage to a first electrode and by applying a voltage level of a second voltage to a second electrode. The voltage level of the first voltage is selected from a first plurality of voltage levels and the voltage level of the second voltage is selected from a second plurality of voltage levels, the second plurality of voltage levels comprising fewer voltage levels than the first plurality of voltage levels.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided that allow for the rapid creation of multiple novel views for applications. These multiple views may allow for not only stereo views but also for different viewpoints of a stereographic scene to be presented, or for a time progression of the stereo scene to be presented, where a viewpoint is altered with respect to time. The systems and methods may be employed to create the content for auto-stereographic displays or multiple view systems that use a plurality of novel views to display stereo media. Such displays or multiple view systems may include those employing parallax barriers or lenticular lenses.

Abstract: An image processing system generates a correspondence mapping between an imaging system and a directional rendering system using first and second images captured to include and first and second coded patterns displayed simultaneously in at least partially non-overlapping views.

Abstract: An electronic device and a music visualization method thereof are provided. The electronic device is configured to display music visualization in response to music and change the music visualization in response to music lyrics of the music. The music visualization method is applied to the electronic device to implement the operations.

Abstract: The present invention provides an image data generating method in which a combined image is not distorted at the boundary area between a left eye image and a right eye image even when the combined image has been compressed with lossy compression among three-dimensional image data generating methods in which a combined image is generated by combining a left eye image and a right eye image. The three-dimensional image data generating method includes a combined image generating step (SA2 or SA3) in which the combined image including a buffer region between the left eye image and the right eye image is generated while the left eye image and the right eye image are arranged, and an image date compressing step (SA4) in which the picture signal of the combined image generated in the combined image generating step (SA2 or SA3) is compressed with lossy compression.

Abstract: Provided are an apparatus and method for virtual makeup. The method for virtual makeup includes generating a virtual makeup history including pieces of information about a virtual makeup process, generating virtual makeup layers based on a plurality of related pieces of information among the pieces of information stored in the virtual makeup history, and generating a virtual makeup template by merging at least one of the virtual makeup layers. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the time taken for a virtual makeup operation.

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to provide a highly convenient and practically automated system for creation of highly-realistic menisci for CG characters. Creating the meniscus in the correct place and maintaining its correlation with moving eyes and eyelids was in the past difficult. The systems and methods disclosed provide a highly-realistic way to create and control such features. The systems and methods may create the meniscus in a procedural fashion, allowing the meniscus to properly track movements of character eyes and eyelids and to be animated in a highly-realistic fashion.

Abstract: A computer graphic editing or modeling system that automatically alters a computer graphic object based on a user sketch. The computer graphic object may be presented as an image space view of the object (proxy). The sketch is placed in proximity to some feature of the image space view. The system matches the sketch with the feature taking into account silhouettes, which may be derived by way of depth continuity and depth gradient similarity, of the object and matching the silhouette with the feature based on proximity and shape. The matched handle silhouette is transformed to associated handle vertices of a mesh of the graphic object. The system may then deform the mesh based on the user sketch by obtaining a dimensional relationship between the user sketch and the associated silhouette and applying the dimensional relationship to a region of interest, which includes the handle vertices.

Abstract: The present invention relates to annotating images. In an embodiment, the present invention enables users to create annotations corresponding to three-dimensional objects while viewing two-dimensional images. In one embodiment, this is achieved by projecting a selecting object onto a three-dimensional model created from a plurality of two-dimensional images. The selecting object is input by a user while viewing a first image corresponding to a portion of the three-dimensional model. A location corresponding to the projection on the three-dimensional model is determined, and content entered by the user while viewing the first image is associated with the location. The content is stored together with the location information to form an annotation. The annotation can be retrieved and displayed together with other images corresponding to the location.

Abstract: A collection of data stored in a computer-readable storage medium is provided, and a plurality of portions of the collection are associated with corresponding identifiers that are associated with positions of an object to be rendered. User selections of positions on the surface of the object are received. The portions associated with the user selected position are determined, and the portions are displayed at their respective position on the surface of the object. The selected portions can be displayed as being connected by graphical elements.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a tessellation are described. For tessellation, a tessellation unit may divide a domain into a plurality of portions, where at least one portion is a contiguous portion. The tessellation unit may output domain coordinates of primitives along diagonal strips within the contiguous portion to increase the likelihood that patch coordinates that correspond to the domain coordinates are stored in a reuse buffer.

Abstract: An observation information processing apparatus calculates, for each mesh, a support and a confidence. The observation information processing apparatus generates an adjacent mesh set by merging adjacent ones of the meshes. The observation information processing apparatus calculates, based on a support and a confidence of each mesh included in the adjacent mesh set, a confidence for each adjacent mesh, and sets the smallest one of the confidences calculated as a new confidence threshold value. The observation information processing apparatus detects and excludes meshes to be excluded from meshes included in the adjacent mesh set, based on the confidences and supports of the meshes included in the adjacent mesh set and the confidence threshold value.

Abstract: Various improvements may lead to reducing or avoiding artifacts in curved planar reformation imaging. The source of voxels used in projection rendering may be verified to be from the vessels rather than intervening anatomy. To make the check more rapid, a hierarchal data structure may be used. Rather than using the vessels, geometric forms fit to the vessels may be used. Processing with geometric forms may be more rapid than a fine mesh or surface. Since tubular structures have a predictable change over length, the geometric forms or the vessel data itself may be filtered with a monotonicity constraint. Instead of using planes for segments based on the lumen or center line, a convex hull around the tubular structures is formed for the curved planar reformation.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for depicting one or more objects are provided. The method includes determining a geolocation of one or more objects, determining a vector from the objects to a light source, applying shading to the objects according to the vector, determining shadows cast by the objects according to the vector, and depicting the objects in the geolocation with one or more of the applied shading and the cast shadows.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are shown that select a focus depth for digital light field image data that represents a scene having a plurality of objects at different focus depths, the selected focus depth corresponding to a layer of the digital light field image data at the selected focus depth, and display the layer of the digital light field image data by utilizing at least one spatial light modulator to present the layer of the digital light field image data at a focal length corresponding to the selected focus depth. A server is shown that communicates with at least one apparatus to facilitate performance of the method.

Abstract: A system is provided for panoptic visualization of a 3D representation of a complex system. The system includes a visualization engine configured to receive a digital 3D model of a complex system and produce a plurality of electronic document components including 2D images depicting elements of the complex system. The system also includes a data extractor configured to generate 2D derivatives of the 3D model, and communicate the 2D derivatives for inclusion in a panoptic visualization document collection. The data extractor may be configured to receive a document component including a 2D image depicting an element of the complex system, and extract from the 3D model, information identifying a spatial, design or functional relationship between the respective element and one or more other elements of the complex system. The data extractor may then be configured to provide the extracted information in metadata associated with the document component.