Abstract: Provided is a multimodal graphical user interface. The multimodal graphical user interface includes a menu with at least one menu item, wherein the at least one menu item is displayed as command name along with a unique hand shape, wherein the at least one menu item is configured to receive a combination of cursor and selection gesture input.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving circuit, which includes a switch, a driver unit, a fault detection circuit, and a processor. The switch is coupled between a power terminal and an anode of a light emitting diode (LED) of a light source. The driver unit is coupled between a cathode of the LED and a ground for generating a driving current according to a control signal. The fault detection circuit operatively detects whether the cathode of the LED is shorted and generate a fault signal when detected that the cathode of the LED is shorted. The processor initiates a fault detection period, during which the processor turns off the switch and the driver unit causes the cathode of the LED to be floating while activates the fault detection circuit to detect whether the cathode of the LED is shorted.

Abstract: For one disclosed embodiment, an apparatus includes a first housing and a touch input device supported by the first housing. The touch input device includes a first touch surface layer, a second touch surface layer, and a touch sensor disposed between the first touch surface layer and the second touch surface layer. The touch sensor is configured to detect a first touch input associated with the first touch surface layer and a second touch input associated with the second touch surface layer.

Abstract: An apparatus including: an first electrode arrangement including a plurality of electrodes configured for use in detecting a location of a user input; a second electrode arrangement configured for use in detecting strain; and an inter-electrode layer extending between the first electrode arrangement and the second electrode arrangement.

Abstract: A method for customizing operation of a digitizer system operated with an electronic device is described, the electronic device including software applications. The method includes operating the digitizer system in a first mode of operation, the first mode of operation defined by a plurality of operating parameters, receiving instructions for adjusting one or more operating parameters of the digitizer system, wherein the instructions are defined by a software application, the software application operative to receive input from the digitizer system, and updating operation of the digitizer system responsive to the instructions defined by the software applications.

Abstract: A touch sensing device includes a touch screen coupled with a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels arranged in a matrix form, and a touch sensing circuit which supplies a driving signal to lines of the touch screen and senses a touch input. The touch sensing circuit detects an optimum sensing time, in which changes in a voltage change of the gate lines are maintained within a previously determined allowable range, in a touch screen drive period in which data is not written to the pixels of the display panel. The touch sensing circuit supplies the driving signal to the lines of the touch screen only in the optimum sensing time of the touch screen drive period.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a touch sensible organic light emitting device. The organic light emitting device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention comprises: a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; an organic light emitting element connected to the thin film transistor and receiving a data voltage; a plurality of encapsulation thin films disposed on the organic light emitting element, and encapsulating the thin film transistor and the organic light emitting element; a planarization layer disposed on the encapsulation thin film; and a touch sensor disposed on the planarization layer.

Abstract: Display devices and methods for detecting user-intended touch input are provided. An example display device includes a touch-sensitive display. Further, the display device includes an impact sensor attached to the touch-sensitive display and configured to generate a signal representative of an impact of the touch-sensitive display. The display device also includes a computing device configured to receive the signal. The computing device is also configured to detect a peak of the signal. Further, the computing device is configured to determine whether a rising edge of a magnitude of the peak detected signal meet predetermined criteria. The computing device is also configured to indicate detection of user-intended touch in response to determining that the predetermined criteria are met.

Abstract: An electronic device including a touch display panel, a panel touch control unit, and an image adjustment unit is provided. The panel touch control unit is electronically connected to the touch display panel. The image adjustment unit is electronically connected to the touch display panel. In operation, the touch display panel has a content display region and a touch menu region with adjustable sizes. The panel touch control unit adjusts the size of the touch menu region according to a received touch signal. The touch display panel contacts an object to be pressed and generates a touch signal according to a contact area. The image adjustment unit adjusts the size of the content display region according to an adjustment signal generated by the panel touch control unit.

Abstract: An adaptive sensing apparatus, including: a sensor array, having N sensing points, wherein N is a positive integer; a driver unit, coupled with the sensor array; and a control unit, coupled with the driver unit; wherein the control unit has at least one adaptive sampling modes for controlling the driver unit to drive the sensor array and derive M sensed data, wherein M is a positive integer and M<N.

Abstract: An apparatus having a processing device for calibrating a touch-sensor device with calibration capacitors is described. Methods of calibrating the touch-sensor device using the same are also described. Processing device and multiple calibration capacitors are disposed on an integrated circuit (IC) die substrate. The processing device includes a measurement circuit to be coupled to a touch-sensor device and a switching circuit to selectively couple the calibration capacitors to the measurement circuit. The processing device is configured to calibrate the touch-sensor device by applying one or more capacitance touch values from one or more of the calibration capacitors using the switching circuit. The one or more capacitance touch values simulate a touch on the touch-sensor device.

Abstract: A system and method for sample rate adaption. The system and method provide for information derived from sampling at a first rate to be applied or processed at a second rate where the first and second rates differ in frequency and phase. The information is adapted from the first rate to the second rate. Then phase differences including phase introduced as by-product of adapting the frequencies are reduced by phase adaption.

Abstract: A mobile terminal device includes an electrostatic touch panel, a resistive touch panel, a memory, and a processor connected to the memory. The processor acquires a touch coordinate detected on at least one of the electrostatic touch panel and the resistive touch panel and determines a touch mode including the presence or absence of strong touch at equal to or higher than a predetermined pressure based on the acquired touch coordinate. Then, the processor specifies a touch coordinate at which the strong touch is made when a touch mode with the strong touch is determined and the touch coordinate is detected on each of the electrostatic touch panel and the resistive touch panel.

Abstract: A touch sensing device including digital filter is provided. The touch sensing device includes a touch panel and a touch sensor configured to sensing a touch through the touch panel. The touch sensor includes a plurality of sensing units connected to the touch panel through a plurality of sensing lines. Each of the plurality of sensing units includes a digital filter configured to generate a valid filtered value at a time and invalid filtered value at other times by performing an operation on a plurality of input digital samples and a plurality of filter coefficients.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a variable focus lens unit that includes a first substrate including a first electrode, a second substrate including a second electrode, and a variable focus layer that is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate; a display unit including a display region that displays an image via the variable focus lens unit; a drive electrode that is arranged in the display unit or at a position opposed to the display region, and divided into a plurality of pieces; and a touch detection unit configured to detect a position of a proximity object using one of the first electrode and the second electrode as a touch detection electrode based on change in capacitance with respect to the drive electrode.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for providing enhanced touch sensing. One system providing enhanced touch sensing includes a multi-mode touch screen and a processor configured to apply at least one test signal to a sense element of the multi-mode touch screen, detect at least one return signal from the sense element, and then determine a relative position of an object corresponding to the at least one return signal, the multi-mode touch screen being capable of sensing the first object using first and second detection modes. One multi-mode touch screen comprises a multi-mode multi-touch touch screen. One processor is configured to apply an adaptive test signal to a sense element of a touch screen.

Abstract: A touch screen protector for a portable electronic device has a front face that includes a touch screen portion and a declining outer perimeter. The touch screen protector includes: a glass sheet having front and back sides that corresponds in size to the touch screen portion; a conformable perimeter portion that corresponds to the declining outer perimeter of the front face of the portable electronic device; and an adhesive provided along at least a portion of the conformable perimeter portion facing the portable electronic device and having adhesive strength enabling repeated removal and reattachment. The touch screen portion allows a capacitive value on the touch screen portion when touched on the glass sheet.

Abstract: A method for determining the location of a touch input in an application window on an interactive surface of a display device is described. The application window comprises a canvas configured to display at least a portion of a user interface. The method comprises the following steps. A first location of the touch input associated with a first coordinate space is determined. The first coordinate space is associated with the interactive surface. The touch input is used to emulate a mouse event. A second location of the touch input associated with a second coordinate space is determined in response to the emulated mouse event. The second coordinate space is associated with the user interface. At least one offset parameter is calculated, correlating the first coordinate space with the second coordinate space.

Abstract: The present invention provides an optical touch system configured to determine an object region according to a brightness information acquired by a brightness sensing unit and to identify a block information of objects within the object region according to an image information acquired by an image sensing unit. The present invention further provides an objection detection method for an optical touch system.

Abstract: The present invention provides a light guide for an electronically addressable display (such as an LCD) that mixes optical signals from a plurality of emitters, and mixes these signals to produce, for positions on the display, position-unique signals. A stylus or other receiving device may determine its position relative to the electronically addressable display by analyzing the position-unique signals.

Abstract: A multi-touch recognizing device for distinguishing an illusion from an actually touched position and an illusion position by using an inclination angle measuring method, minimizing time for measuring a touch position, and more accurately measuring the position is provided.

Abstract: A spatial input device includes a light beam scanner, a photodetector, and a controller. The light beam scanner is configured to emit light beams toward a spatially projected image while two-dimensionally scanning the light beams. The photodetector is configured to detect the light beams that have been reflected by an input object within a detection range. The detection range extends inward of the spatial input device relative to the image. The controller is configured to count a scan line number indicative of a number of the light beams that have been detected by the photodetector, and to detect a depth position of the input object based on the scan line number.

Abstract: Method and device for touch identification, and a touch screen are provided. The method includes: performing an axial scanning on a touch screen, and when a touch region is detected, recording scanning axes with scanning rays shielded; corresponding to the detected touch region, according to axial directions, obtaining sets of intersections of the scanning axes with scanning rays shielded; calculating a confidence level for each of the intersection in each set of intersections; and performing a coordinate fusion to all the sets of intersections which correspond to the touch region based on the confidence levels to obtain positions of the touch region. The device includes a scanning record unit, an intersection unit, a calculation unit and a coordinate fusion unit. In the present disclosure, an effective touch region on a touch screen may be better identified.

Abstract: A coordinate detecting device, which is used in a system including a display section including a display surface, two optical sensor units disposed at one side of the display section and including light emitting and receiving surfaces, and optical reflection members disposed at other three sides of the display section, includes adjustment units adjusting the respective light emitting and receiving surfaces of the optical sensor units where the reflection light is irradiated and received, and impact absorption units absorbing impact applied to the respective optical sensor units.

Abstract: A system for providing awareness of an interactive surface is disclosed. The system may include a processor that is communicatively linked to an interactive surface. The processor may determine a position and a velocity of an object that is within range of the interactive surface based on one or more of media content, vibrations, air movement, sounds and, global positioning data associated with the object. Additionally, the processor may determine if the object has a trajectory that would cause the object to collide with the interactive surface based on the information associated with the object. If the processor determines that the object has a trajectory that would cause the object to collide with the interactive surface, the processor can generate a notification.

Abstract: A semiconductor device for use in a touch panel is capable of uniquely identifying the touched coordinates over the touch panel. When a multi-touch state is detected over the touch panel by a self-capacitance method, the semiconductor device isolates the multiple touch electrodes found to be in the touch state and has these electrodes identified by a mutual capacitance method.

Abstract: An embodiment of a capacitive sensor array may comprise a first set of sensor electrodes each comprising one or more large subelements and a second set of sensor electrodes each comprising one or more small subelements. In one embodiment, each of the small subelements may be smaller than any of the large subelements, and the first set of sensor electrodes and the second set of sensor electrodes are formed from a single layer of conductive material. In one embodiment, the surface area of the capacitive sensor array may be divisible into a grid of N×M unit cells, wherein each of the N×M unit cells contains one of the large subelements and k of the small subelements, where k is greater than or equal to 2.

Abstract: A capacitive in-cell touch screen panel and a display apparatus are disclosed in present disclosure. At least one touch control inducting electrode is disposed on the color film substrate and at least one touch control driving electrode is disposed on the TFT array substrate. Each of the touch control driving electrodes overlaps with multiple sets of gate lines in the TFT array substrate, respectively, and each of the touch control driving electrodes comprises touch control driving sub-electrodes disposed along the row direction and a driving control unit is disposed at the connection of each of the touch control driving sub-electrodes and each set of gate lines.

Abstract: A touch panel includes dummy electrodes, disposed in a transmit electrode layer or a receive electrode layer whichever is below an isolation layer. In one embodiment, an anti-reflective layer includes at least one composite refractive-index three-layer structure. In another embodiment, the receive electrode layer is disposed below the isolation layer, and the receive electrode layer and the dummy electrodes are electrically coupled to a same electric potential.

Abstract: Compact touch sensors for touch sensitive devices and processes for forming the touch sensors are disclosed. The touch sensor structure can include a substrate, one or more underlying layers disposed on the substrate, one or more blocking layers disposed on the substrate or on one or more underlying layers, and one or more patterned layers disposed on the underlying layers or blocking layers. The one or more blocking layers can be configured to block underlying layers from exposure to certain wavelengths of light or from penetration of a laser beam that can cause damage. Additionally, the one or more underlying layers can be multi-functional, including the ability to block one or more light sources.

Abstract: The electronic device has a display section with a display surface; and a touch panel that is provided while being superimposed on the display section and that can detect an area occupied by an indicator in which the occupied area is on a predetermined plane which is approximately parallel to and spaced apart by a predetermined distance from the display surface of the display section. When flattening of the area occupied by the indicator is smaller than a threshold value in which the occupied area is on the predetermined plane spaced apart from the display surface of the display section by a predetermined distance, coordinates of the center of the area are made valid. When the flattening is greater than the threshold value, the coordinates of the center of the area are made invalid.

Abstract: A sensor electrode (31) provided between an insulating substrate (21) and a counter electrode (27) is electrically connected to a grid-shaped metal bridge (35) via an insulating layer.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes controlling a touch sensor of a device. The control of the touch sensor includes a first processing cycle executed by the controller that comprises acquisition of touch-sensor signals from the touch sensor; a second processing cycle executed by the controller that comprises pre-processing of the touch-sensor signals; and a third processing cycle executed by the controller that comprises processing of the touch-sensor signals to determine whether a touch or proximity input has occurred with respect to the touch sensor. If the touch or proximity input has occurred with respect to the touch sensor, a location of the touch or proximity input is determined. The method also includes controlling other sensors of the device. The control of the other sensors includes one or more fourth processing cycles executed by the controller concurrently with the first processing cycle or the second processing cycle.

Abstract: Techniques for providing multi-user multi-touch projected capacitive touch sensors are disclosed herein. Some embodiments may include a touch sensor including a touch substrate with a touch surface, a sensing array, and a controller. The sensing array may be configured to provide sense signals indicating a first touch and a second touch occurring concurrently on the touch surface of the touch substrate. The controller may be configured to receive the sense signals from the sensing array and based on the sense signals, determine whether the first touch and the second touch share at least one anti-ghost. In response to determining that the first touch and the second touch share the at least one anti-ghost, the controller may be configured associate the first touch and the second touch with a common touch entity, such as an individual person.

Abstract: A photosensitive film having a provisional support and a photocurable resin layer, wherein the photocurable resin layer contains a white inorganic pigment, a monomer, a binder and a photopolymerization initiator, the photocurable resin layer has a thickness of from 1 to 40 ?m, and the photocurable resin layer has a content of the white inorganic pigment of from 30 to 50% by mass is capable of providing a white decorative layer that is good in brightness, whiteness, reticulation, adhesion, development residue and unevenness, in a high yield.

Abstract: A manufacturing method of a touch panel includes the steps of providing a substrate, forming a first conductive film on the substrate, forming a first mask on the first conductive film, etching the first conductive film to form electrode portions and lower intersect portions of the touch panel, forming an insulating film made of a negative resist on the first conductive film, and forming a contact hole above the electrode portion by removing the insulating film. The steps further include forming a second conductive film on the insulating film, forming a second mask on the second conductive film, etching the second conductive film to form an upper intersect portion connected between two adjacent electrode portions via the contact hole and intersecting with the lower intersect portion, and forming protective film on the second conductive film.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method of fabricating a capacitive touch pane where a plurality of groups of first conductive patterns are formed along a first direction, a plurality of groups of second conductive patterns are formed along a second direction, and a plurality of connection components are formed on a substrate. Each of the first conductive patterns is electrically connected to another adjacent first conductive pattern in the same group by each of the connection components and each of the plurality of groups of the second conductive patterns is interlaced with and insulated from each of the plurality of groups of the first conductive patterns. A plurality of curved insulation mounds are formed to cover the first connection components. A plurality of bridge components are formed to electrically connect each of the second conductive patterns with another adjacent second conductive pattern in the same group.

Abstract: Provided are systems and methods for configuring a portable computer for transient use by a plurality of guests at a selected location. According to some embodiments, the system and methods include displaying a first selection of content on a display screen of the portable computer, initiating a first session responsive to a first guest accessing the portable computer via a user interface of the portable computer, creating a first guest profile responsive to the first session being initiated, displaying a second selection of content on the display screen during the first session, the second selection of content comprising more available content than the first selection of content, terminating the first session responsive to one of a termination action taken by the first guest and expiration of a time-out period, and erasing history of the first session on the portable computer responsive to termination of the first session.

Abstract: A display control system for a multi-layer display system including at least one multi-layer display unit. A multi-layer display unit includes multiple stacked or overlapped display layers each adapted to render display elements thereon for viewing through the uppermost display layer. The level of difficulty for a user to view an overlapped image differs depending on the color, brightness or type of images (for example text-on-text) being displayed and also the layer in which the image is being displayed and whether the image is currently active. At least any overlapping portion of display elements from different display layers are adjusted (automatically or by a user) in order to improve the viewing experience for a viewer. Types of adjustment possible include moving the images within their display layer or to an alternative display layer or altering their visual properties (such as color, brightness, contrast, etc.).

Abstract: A user interface for a mobile computing device includes three distinct display areas, one for presentation of an image and one or more interactive elements, a second for display of a linearly scrollable sequence of content elements, each of which is associated with a corresponding one of the interactive elements, and a third for display of soft keys, each of which corresponds to a respective one of the interactive elements. The soft keys and the interactive elements are responsive to user input so as to cause the image displayed in the first display area to feature prominently a portion thereof corresponding to the interactive element associated with the user input and the content element displayed within the second display area to be that associated with the same interactive element.

Abstract: A system for controlling a treatment device generates a graphical interface that visually prompts a user in a step-wise fashion to use the treatment device to perform a process of forming a pattern of lesions that extends both circumferentially and axially in different levels in a body region. The graphical interface displays for the user a visual record of the progress of the process from start to finish and guides the user so that so that individual lesions desired within a given level are all formed, and that a given level of lesions is not skipped.

Abstract: Systems and methods for providing efficient and focused visualization of data are provided herein. An exemplary method may include determining a default view layout for a user, the default view layout including representations of table records for the user, the default view layout and representations are selected based upon a table record count for the user, generating a graphical user interface having the selected default view layout, and providing the graphical user interface to a display device.

Abstract: Synchronizing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) operation includes receiving operation information of the GUI operation performed on a first machine. The operation information includes object information and action information. The object information is in a first language and indicates a GUI object to which the GUI operation is directed. The action information indicates an action performed by the GUI operation on the GUI object. The object information in the first language is converted to object information in a second language. A GUI object in a GUI displayed on a second machine is identified according to the object information in the second language. The action indicated by the action information is performed on the identified GUI object.

Abstract: A tool-tip presentation system for multimedia files. The tool-tip presentation system can be configured to respond to proximity events associated with a selected entry in a list of multimedia files such as screen captured images or complete audio files. Based upon the selected entry, a corresponding multimedia sample such as a thumbnail image of a screen captured image or an audio sample of the audio file can be retrieved and presented as a tool-tip. In particular, the tool-tip can be displayed in a position which is proximate to the selected entry. In this way, one who interacts with the list of multimedia files need not load each complete multimedia file in the list in order to determine the contents of the multimedia file. Rather, the multimedia sample in the tool-tip can suffice.

Abstract: Exemplary embodiments disclose enabling a user to invoke a function via a shortcut key in a multi-window computing environment by a software component executing on the computer. The exemplary embodiments include displaying, by a software component executing on a processor of a computer, a menu that lists functions invoked in different windows by the shortcut key; receiving a user entered selection of a priority for each of the functions to create a ranked menu of functions for the shortcut key; and responsive to detecting an entering of the shortcut key via a keyboard by a user, selectively invoking one of functions listed in the shortcut key menu regardless of which window is currently active based on the priority of the functions and a number of times the shortcut key is entered.

Abstract: A request is sent from a client device to a host device hosting an application capable of providing a split window view of content. Generation of a split window associated with execution of the application on the host device may include at least two split windows. Information regarding the split windows may be sent from the host device to the client device over the communication network. The client device may then use information regarding a first split window to generate an image display corresponding to the first split window. In addition, the client device may process the information regarding a second split window to stitch an image display corresponding to the second split window to the image display corresponding to the first split window. As such, upon scrolling of the display of the client device, the image display corresponding to the second split window may be displayed.

Abstract: The instant invention comprises an apparatus, system, method, and tangible interactive mobile device storage medium, for creating, displaying, storing, modifying, performing adaptive learning routines, and multitasking; utilizing Cascade Windows™ on a display in an interactive mobile device GUI (Graphical User Interface) system; where the Cascade Windows created and displayed by The Cascade Software™ Technology Invention arranges the active interface of various mobile smartphone/device systems into adjustable dimension windows opened on the mobile device screen simultaneously so that multitasking is more efficient and effortless. This process and option of cascading various system and/or application windows simultaneously, creates a powerful tool for the user and a culminating technical effect that allows the user to go back in time, and view on the display various screen configurations ranked high in importance by the user and the machine, which occurred over a specific time interval in the past.

Abstract: The general field of the invention is that of methods for displaying the steps of a mission or of a flight plan of an aircraft on a screen of a display device. The different steps of the method are displayed in a first graphical window comprising a time scale or “timeline”, the different steps being displayed opposite the schedule corresponding to their accomplishment. This window can be associated with a cartographic view of the flight plan. It can comprise a “magnifier” function.

Abstract: An exemplary method includes a media service provider system 1) detecting a request for information about a media program, 2) providing, for display on a display screen in response to the request, an information view for the media program that includes the information about the media program, 3) providing, for display in the information view, a first user-selectable icon associated with one or more options for accessing the media program by way of a first media distribution channel, and 4) providing, for display in the information view, a second user-selectable icon positioned adjacent to the first user-selectable icon and associated with one or more options for accessing the media program by way of a second media distribution channel that is different from the first media distribution channel. Corresponding systems and methods are also described.

Abstract: A pointer tool in a touch-screen display is disclosed. The method includes activating a pointer tool in a touch screen display in response to contact with an area of the touch screen and persisting the displaying of the pointer tool in the touch screen display after the contact with the touch screen is removed. Once editing data is received, the pointer tool is removed from the touch screen display.