Patents Issued in May 12, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160132110
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for detecting the handling of at least one object, the device including a deformable enclosure, to which are attached at least one sensor for the detection of a grasping of objects and at least one wireless radio transmitter, the sensor being able to provide either one from among a first signal for detection of the grasping of an object and a second signal for detection of the absence of grasping of an object. The invention is characterized in that the transmitter includes first means for wireless radio transmission of a third signal, allowing determination of a localization of the enclosure towards a receiver remote from the deformable enclosure, as well as second means for wireless radio transmission of the first or second signal towards said receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: BLINKSIGHT
    Inventors: Stéphane MUTZ, Matthieu MUTZ
  • Publication number: 20160132111
    Abstract: A 3D input system and an angle encoder are disclosed. The 3D input system comprises a computing device and one or more position sensing gloves. The position sensing glove comprises a plurality of angle encoders each installed thereon at a location about a finger joint. An inertial measurement unit (IMU) is installed on the glove. A firmware uses data from the angle encoders and IMU to calculate fingertip positions in a 3D space. The firmware generates keystrokes on a virtual keyboard based on the fingertip positions. The angle encoder comprises a first and a second components rotatable with respect to each other, and an encoder pattern comprising codewords for indicating the angle between the first and second components. The encoder pattern comprises a set of base encoder channels coded with a conventional Gray code, and a set of Booster channels for improving the resolution of angle measurement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew William LOWE, Vahid DEHGHANIAN
  • Publication number: 20160132112
    Abstract: A suspension component for coupling a touch panel to a substrate in a haptic touch panel assembly. The suspension component includes a flexible connector that extends between a first end adapted for attachment to the touch panel and a second end adapted for attachment to the substrate. The flexible connector includes a concave section, an axial side wall, and a mobility gap and is shaped to allow the touch panel to move with respect to the substrate with three or more degrees of freedom, thereby facilitating more accurate and dynamic haptic feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel R. Vander Sluis, Jay W. Hotchkiss
  • Publication number: 20160132113
    Abstract: A haptic touch panel assembly for a vehicle. The haptic touch panel assembly includes a haptic touch panel, a support substrate, and a suspension component to couple the haptic touch panel to the support substrate. More accurate and dynamic haptic feedback for various vehicle interior components may be provided through the use of a suspension component that allows for three or more degrees of freedom movement or two or more haptic actuators that facilitate movement in two or more different directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Jay W. Hotchkiss, Daniel R. Vander Sluis
  • Publication number: 20160132114
    Abstract: A system is provided that modifies a haptic effect experienced at a user input element. The system sends a haptic instruction and a haptic effect definition to a peripheral device. The system further receives user input data including a position of the user input element, or a force applied to the user input element. The system further modifies the haptic effect definition based on the received user input data. The system further sends a new haptic instruction and the modified haptic effect definition to the peripheral device. The system further causes a haptic output device to modify a haptic effect based on the modified haptic effect definition at the user input element of the peripheral device in response to the new haptic instruction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: William RIHN
  • Publication number: 20160132115
    Abstract: The electronic apparatus is provided with: a visual sense display unit which displays an operation screen; a touch coordinate detection unit which detects an operation content done on displayed objects; and a tactual sense presenting unit which presents a tactual sense. The electronic apparatus includes: a tactual sense presentation control module which presents a tactual sense corresponding to the displayed objects on the operation screen via the tactual sense presenting unit; an operation content acquiring module which detects whether or not a temporal change in the touch position detected on the displayed object by the touch coordinate detection unit is equal to or less than a preset threshold value and that state continues for a preset time or longer; and a sense stimulus information output control module which outputs to outside sense stimulus information corresponding to the displayed object when that state continues for the prescribed time or longer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: NLT TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi HAGA, Yuji YAMAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20160132116
    Abstract: An advanced haptic gamepad is provided. A controller having a plurality of surfaces, and a haptic output device located within its housing and coupled to an isolated deformable region disposed at one of the plurality of surfaces is provided. The isolated deformable region expands and contracts in response to the haptic output device. In addition, a controller having a plurality of isolated surface regions, and a plurality of haptic output devices located within its housing and coupled to respective isolated surface regions is provided. Each of the isolated surface regions is configured to provide localized haptic effects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Danny GRANT, Jean Francois DIONNE, Aaron KAPELUS, Razmik MOUSAKHANIAN, Jamal SABOUNE, William RIHN
  • Publication number: 20160132117
    Abstract: An electronic device 100 according to one embodiment includes: a panel 101; vibrators 102 that vibrates the panel 101; and a vibration controller 109 that controls the vibrators 102 so that when positions of the panel 101 are simultaneously touched by the user, a vibration at a first touch position of the touch positions is greater than a vibration of a second touch position of the touch positions. The vibrators 102 include a first and a second vibrator 102. Where a distance between first touch position and the first vibrator 102 is equal to a distance between second touch position and the first vibrator 102, a transfer characteristic of vibration of the panel 101 between the first vibrator 102 and the first touch position is different from a transfer characteristic of vibration of the panel 101 between the first vibrator 102 and the second touch position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Yusuke ADACHI, Yoshifumi HIROSE
  • Publication number: 20160132118
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for controlling haptic feedback of an input tool for a mobile terminal. The method includes detecting, by the mobile terminal, a hovering of the input tool over an object displayed on a touch screen display of the mobile terminal; identifying a property of the object; and transmitting, to the input tool, a control signal for haptic feedback corresponding to the property of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Jin-Hyoung PARK, Ju-Youn LEE, Sang-Hyup LEE
  • Publication number: 20160132119
    Abstract: A multidirectional button, key, or menu for use in a user interface of a computing device (10). An object of the user interface may include a software keyboard (14) on a display screen (16) comprised of multidirectional buttons, keys, or menus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Will John Temple
  • Publication number: 20160132120
    Abstract: A vending machine includes a camera, a display, and a computer. The computer is coupled to the camera and the display. The computer includes a processor, a storage module and a motion detector. The motion detector can detect a movement of an image captured by the camera. The processor can start to record the image into the storage module when the movement of the image is detected, and can also prompt a message on the display when the movement of the image is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: XIAN-JUN FAN, JIE LI, YE-QUN LIU, YUN-LUNG CHEN
  • Publication number: 20160132121
    Abstract: An input device includes: a memory configured to store a length of a finger; and a processor configured to obtain a depth image that includes a hand and has pixel values corresponding to a distance from a camera to subjects including the hand, detect a hand area that corresponds to the hand from among the subjects, from the depth image, identify a tip end of the hand area and a base of the finger, identify a first three-dimensional position that corresponds to the tip end and a second three-dimensional position that corresponds to the base, based on the pixel values of the depth image, identify a direction from the second three-dimensional position to the first three-dimensional position, calculate a third three-dimensional position that corresponds to a fingertip of the finger based on the direction and the length, and generate an input signal according to the third three-dimensional position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventor: Taichi MURASE
  • Publication number: 20160132122
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a feedback system for control or input gestures in a medical environment, which includes a presence detector which generates a threshold and acquires detection data which describe whether a medical input gesture reaches and/or crosses the threshold; and the extent to which the gesture has passed the threshold; and a computer which is connected to the presence detector and triggers a sterility-preserving response to a positive detection by the presence detector including information how dangerous the situation is becoming with regard to non-sterility. The invention also relates to a medical image display system comprising such a feedback system and to a method of providing sterility-preserving feedback with respect to control or input gestures in a medical system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Steinle, Nils Frielinghaus, Christoffer Hamilton
  • Publication number: 20160132123
    Abstract: A method comprising causing display of content information on an apparatus, determining that at least one reduced interaction criteria has been satisfied to enter a reduced interaction mode, determining that a hand is gripping the apparatus in a manner that is consistent with a use grip, and causing display of, at least part, of the content information based, at least in part, on the determination that the hand is gripping the apparatus in a manner that is consistent with the use grip is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Martin JANSKY, Timo-Pekka VILJAMAA, Erkko ANTTILA, Jokko KORHONEN
  • Publication number: 20160132124
    Abstract: A hand region (Rh) of an operator is detected from a captured image, and positions of a palm center (Po) and a wrist center (Wo) are determined, and origin coordinates (Cho) and a direction of an coordinate axis (Chu) of a hand coordinate system are calculated. A shape of the hand in the hand region (Rh) is detected using the hand coordinate system, and a shape feature quantity (D14) of the hand is calculated. Further, a movement feature quantity (D15f) of a finger is calculated based on the shape feature quantity (D14) of the hand. Gesture determination is made based on the calculated feature quantities. Since the gesture determination is made taking into consideration the differences in the angle of the hand placed in the operation region, and the direction in which the hand is moved, misrecognition of the operation can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yudai NAKAMURA, Nobuhiko YAMAGISHI, Tomonori FUKUTA, Yoshiaki KUSUNOKI
  • Publication number: 20160132125
    Abstract: Precise analysis and description of movement and gestures by a human or other object are carried out by a computing device assisted by camera and distance sensors. The same gestures and movements of an object in different locations and in different orientations may be identified according to coordinates and offsets applied to coordinates, and gesture-making areas projected so as to surround the object. The techniques can accurately identify actions of movements of the human or other object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: JEN-HSIUNG CHARNG, MING-CHUAN KAO, SHIH-HUNG CHIOU, CHIH-YU CHEN, HSIUNG-YI YANG
  • Publication number: 20160132126
    Abstract: A system for information transmission in a motor vehicle and methods of operation are disclosed. A steering wheel, a dashboard with a cover, a dashboard display area with a dashboard display, and a display device arranged in the area of a windshield are provided in a passenger compartment of the motor vehicle. The system is designed for gesture recognition and comprises a gesture recognition unit with at least one gesture recognition sensor. The gesture recognition sensor is configured to detect movements in a perceivable gesture area. The gesture recognition sensor is arranged in the viewing direction of a vehicle driver, behind the steering wheel, under the cover in the dashboard display area. The dashboard display and the display device are designed for the representation of interactive menus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Alexander van Laack, Bertrand Stelandre, Stephan Preussler, Matthias Koch
  • Publication number: 20160132127
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising the steps of: acquiring first information on an action performed or a form made by a user and second information on the user's fingernails or toenails, wherein the second information is visual information; and determining the user's input by determining a first element of the user's input on the basis of the first information and determining a second element of the input on the basis of the second information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Sung Jae HWANG
  • Publication number: 20160132128
    Abstract: Example apparatus and methods concern improved input of radicals. Example apparatus and methods facilitate more efficiently inputting Chinese radicals using a touch screen. One example method includes displaying a labeled soft key on a touch screen device. The label may represent all or a portion of a radical. The example method includes accepting a touch input associated with the soft key and then taking an action based on the label and the touch input. The action may include inputting a radical or updating the display on the touch screen. Updating the display may facilitate iterative and intuitive progress through radical construction leading to radical selection and input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Mingyang Xie, Chiwei Che, XiXi Chen, Byron Changuion, Jacky Chen
  • Publication number: 20160132129
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a type error revising method. According to the present invention, a new and innovative error revising method is provided, which does not require inconvenient action of inputting deletion function key like backspace or moving a cursor by the mouse control or finger touch. The type error revising method of the present invention comprises steps of; a user inputs revision target word or character substring in the current cursor location; the user's revision intention is determined automatically or according to user's input of revision command; and one or more words or character substrings input before the revision target word or character substring are replaced by the revision target word or character substring. In the present invention, the replaced one or more words or character substrings are selected through a correlation calculation with the revision target word or character substring or substring thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Min Chul KIM
  • Publication number: 20160132130
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a system that facilitates control of the display direction of content on a device. During operation, the system receives, by a client computing device, a first command to lock a state of a display for the device. The system sets a current display state to a locked state. In response to receiving a second command to terminate the first command, the system sets the current display state to a state that is the display state prior to receiving the first command. The system detects a change in a position of the device. In response to determining that the current display state is an unlocked state, the system changes a display direction for content displayed on the device. In response to determining that the current display state is the locked state, the system refrains from changing the display direction for content displayed on the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Alibaba Group Holding Limited
    Inventor: Yaran Lu
  • Publication number: 20160132131
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor configured to implement an execution screen area which is larger than a size of a display of the electronic device and comprises at least one object, and a display module configured to display, on a display of the electronic device, a display area which is at least a part of the implemented execution screen area. The processor determines a location of the at least one object based on a direction to which the electronic device faces and an attribute of the at least one object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Woo Jung HAN, Seung Hwan HONG, So Ra KIM, Seo Young YOON
  • Publication number: 20160132132
    Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting temporary virtual button on device screen. In an aspect, a temporary button or button window appears on screen after a user shakes, taps, or knocks a device lightly. In another aspect, the property of temporary button is automatically rearranged according to device location, device pointing direction, ongoing program at device, or a time period. A temporary button or button window only shows up for a short period of time and is arranged to be editable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Chian Chiu Li
  • Publication number: 20160132133
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an extension key, electronic equipment and a control method. The extension key includes a shell, a stroke lever, a dome spring, a key body, a vibrating reed and a reset spring. The shell is provided with a sound output hole and a key surface hole; the dome spring is arranged above a first rotating arm; the key body is elastically supported by the dome spring and key surface stretches out of the key surface hole; the vibrating reed is arranged above a second rotating arm; when key body is pressed, the dome spring may deform instantaneously and stroke the first rotating arm, so that the second rotating arm strokes the vibrating reed; and when the press on key body is removed, the dome spring jacks the key body to reset, and the reset spring rotates the stroke lever to reset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Xiaoxian Wang
  • Publication number: 20160132134
    Abstract: Provided is a selection unit for selecting different states or functions of an aircraft system, comprising: a manually operable selection element, the selection element comprising a first display indicating the actual selection state of the selection element, with each selection state of the selection element representing a different state or function of the aircraft system, wherein said selection element is additionally designed and configured for a dynamic electronic selection of the actual selection state based on an external signal input, and a second display co-located with the selection element, the second display visualizing the actual state of the aircraft system depending on the actual selection state of the selection element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Dreyer, Matthias Oberhauser
  • Publication number: 20160132135
    Abstract: A position pointer is provided for use with a position detection sensor, capable of achieving power saving. The position pointer includes: a first electrode configured to receive an AC signal from a position detection sensor; a transmission signal production circuit configured to produce a position signal, based on which the position detection sensor detects a position of the position pointer; a second electrode different from the first electrode and configured to transmit the position signal to the position detection sensor; a signal detection circuit configured to detect whether or not the AC signal from the position detection sensor is received through the first electrode; and a transmission controlling circuit configured to control transmission of the position signal through the second electrode to the position detection sensor in response to an output from the signal detection circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Yasuo Oda, Masaki Yagi, Yoshihisa Sugiyama
  • Publication number: 20160132136
    Abstract: A digital pen includes: a light emitting section; a writing section which has a tip part and transmits light emitted from the light emitting section; and a main body section which supports the writing section in a displaceable manner, detects a pressing on the writing section and causes the light emitting section to emit light. The writing section includes a support member supported by the main body section, and an elastic member which has the tip part and is held by the support member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Nobuyuki Otsuki, Daigo Yamano, Tsuyoshi Arai, Yohei Sakai, Sei Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20160132137
    Abstract: Systems are described for transmitting and receiving signals in an active stylus for a capacitive touch sensor, for which the systems have at least one circuit for receiving a current from an electrode and for transmitting a voltage onto the electrode. The systems include components for receiving the current in a receiving mode, a switch, and a switchmode power supply circuit having at least a transformer and a diode, for which the diode is coupled to the transformer. In a transmission mode, there is means for electrically isolating at least some of the components configured for receiving the current in the receiving mode from the voltage formed across the stray capacitance. In the receiving mode, there is a means for electrically isolating at least some of the components configured for receiving the current in the receiving mode from an inductance of the transformer in the switchmode power supply circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: Perceptive Pixel, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Westhues, Jefferson Y. Han
  • Publication number: 20160132138
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for finger gestures. In one aspect there is provided a method, which may include detecting a first finger gesture proximate to or making contact with a slider element presented on a user interface; detecting a second finger gesture proximate to or making contact with the user interface, the second finger gesture detected during a time period comprising a time when the first finger is proximate to or making contact with the slider; and changing a resolution of the slider from a first resolution value to a second resolution value, when the second finger gesture is detected. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Thomas Angermayer
  • Publication number: 20160132139
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method and apparatus for implementing a virtual mouse. In one embodiment, the functions implemented include activating the virtual mouse, determining a location of a cursor icon associated with the virtual mouse, and deactivating the virtual mouse. In various embodiments, the position of virtual mouse is determined by a processor based upon an orientation or position of a finger touching a touchscreen and a measured or calculated pressure applied by the finger to the touchscreen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Junchen Du, Bo Zhou, Ning Bi, Joon Mo Koh, Jun Hyung Kwon, Homayoun Dowlat, Suhail Jalil
  • Publication number: 20160132140
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of display, discloses a touch display device and a driving method for the same, which can improve the report rate of the touch display device. The driving method for the touch display device includes: setting a display period to at least comprise two sub-display periods and a touch period to at least include two sub-touch periods, and arranging the sub-display periods and the sub-touch periods so that there is one sub-touch period interleaved between two adjacent sub-display periods; by means of a control signal, controlling the touch display device to enter the sub-touch periods from the sub-display periods, and controlling the touch display device to send out a touch signal; and by means of the control signal and a driving signal, controlling the touch display device to enter the sub-display periods from the sub-touch periods, and thus enabling the touch display device to display a display picture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Xiaoliang DING, Xue DONG, Haisheng WANG, Hao ZHANG, Weijie ZHAO, Xiaobo XIE
  • Publication number: 20160132141
    Abstract: Provided herein is a method for producing a hybrid transparent electrode, the method including filling grooves of a substrate with a conductive metal ink composition; filling the grooves with residue conductive metal ink composition that remains on a surface of the substrate as the grooves are being filled with the conductive metal ink composition to form an electrode pattern; and forming a conductive layer including a conductive material on the electrode pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Kwang-Choon CHUNG, In-Sook YI, Ji Hoon YOO, Joonki SEONG, Dae sang HAN
  • Publication number: 20160132142
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for forming a touch panel, at least comprising the following steps. Step S1: a patterned first electrode layer is formed on a cover lens. A display region and a non-display region are defined on the cover lens, and the patterned first electrode layer is formed within the display region; step S2: a shielding layer is formed on the cover lens and disposed within the non-display region; step S3: an insulating layer is then formed on the shielding layer and on the patterned first electrode layer, a plurality of via holes are formed on the insulating layer, thereby exposing parts of the patterned first electrode layer; and step S4: a patterned second electrode layer is formed on the insulating layer within the non-display region, and the patterned second electrode layer is electrically connected to the patterned first electrode layer through the via holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Tsung-Ke Chiu, Shunqing Su, Zhuanyuan Zhang, Yan Lin
  • Publication number: 20160132143
    Abstract: An optical touch module and a touch detecting method thereof are provided. The optical touch module includes a plurality of sensing components, at least one carrier component and a control unit. The sensing components are configured to sense a touch object located on a touch plane. The carrier component carries and rotates at least one of the sensing components to change sensing directions of the sensing components relative to the touch plane. The control unit is coupled to the sensing components and the carrier component and divides the touch plane into a plurality of regions based on the sensing components. The control unit controls the rotation of the carrier component to change the sensing direction of the at least one sensing component, such that the sensing components sense the regions. The control unit calculates a coordinate of the touch object according to sensing results of the sensing components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Yu-Yen Chen
  • Publication number: 20160132144
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a touch screen, a display device and manufacturing method thereof being usable for realizing 3D display. The touch screen comprises: an upper substrate and a lower substrate cell-assembled; and liquid crystal, filled between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, wherein the upper substrate comprises: an upper transparent substrate and a transparent conductive layer disposed on the upper transparent substrate, i.e. on a side of the upper transparent substrate facing the lower substrate; the lower substrate comprises: a lower transparent substrate and a first sensing electrode layer, an insulating layer and a second sensing electrode layer sequentially disposed on the lower transparent substrate, i.e.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Jun LONG, Junguo LIU, Hao WU, Rui LI
  • Publication number: 20160132145
    Abstract: A touchscreen display device may include a capacitive sensor disposed adjacent to a top surface of the display device, and a resistive sensor disposed below the capacitive sensor. A backlight may selectively illuminate a pattern on an inner side of the top surface of the display device, so that the pattern is visible from outside the display device when the backlight is activated, and is not visible when the back light is not activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Fourie, Amy Lai Wong, Ken Foo
  • Publication number: 20160132146
    Abstract: Electrically-conductive articles are prepared to have electrically-conductive metallic grids and electrically-conductive metallic connectors (BUS lines) on one or both supporting sides of a transparent substrate. The electrically-conductive metallic connectors are designed with one metallic main wire that comprises two or more adjacent metallic micro-wires in bundled patterns. These bundled patterns and metallic micro-wires are designed with specific dimensions and configurations to provide optimal fidelity (or correspondence) to the mask image used to provide such patterns. The electrically-conductive articles can be prepared using various manufacturing technologies and can be used as parts of various electronic devices including touch screen devices. The electrically-conductive metallic grids and connectors can be prepared and designed using various technologies that are amenable to obtaining very fine lines in predetermined patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Ronald Steven COK, James Edward SUTTON
  • Publication number: 20160132147
    Abstract: There is provided a capacitive touch system including a touch panel, a plurality of amplification units, a plurality of anti-aliasing filters and a control unit. The touch panel includes a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes configured to form inductive capacitance. The amplification units have a high-pass cutoff frequency. The anti-aliasing filters have a low-pass cutoff frequency. The control unit is configured to control the high-pass cutoff frequency and the low-pass cutoff frequency to form an equivalent bandpass filter in a frequency scanning interval and adjust a center frequency of the equivalent bandpass filter to correspond to a plurality of predetermined driving frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: WOOI-KIP LIM
  • Publication number: 20160132148
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display is disclosed. In one aspect, the OLED display includes a display substrate including a display area configured to display an image and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The OLED display also includes a thin film display layer formed over the display substrate in the display area and a shielding electrode formed over the entire surface of the thin film display layer. The OLED display further includes an encapsulation substrate formed over the display substrate and a touch electrode layer interposed between the encapsulation substrate and the thin film display layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Kwan Young Han, Sang Kook Kim
  • Publication number: 20160132149
    Abstract: Provided is a driving control unit (93) which performs control to switch high and low of correlation of code sequences output by driving signal generation units (4a to 4d) according to a detection distance which is a distance between a surface of a touch panel (2) and an object to be detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Yusuke KANAZAWA
  • Publication number: 20160132150
    Abstract: An apparatus including a first plurality of first conductive lines; and a first meandering interconnect supported in a spaced relationship from a deformable substrate, wherein the first meandering interconnect includes a first multiplicity of meandering conductive lines each of which is electrically connected to one of the first plurality of first conductive lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2013
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Darryl COTTON, Mark ALLEN, Piers ANDREW
  • Publication number: 20160132151
    Abstract: A pressure detection and display apparatus can provide good visibility even if a person wears polarized sunglasses. The pressure detection and display apparatus includes a piezoelectric sensor having upper electrode, lower electrode, and a piezoelectric layer interposed between the upper electrode and the lower electrode a polarization plate disposed under the lower electrode, and a display member disposed under the polarization plate. The piezoelectric layer is made of a retardation plate. The piezoelectric sensor and the polarization plate are arranged such that the absorption axis of the piezoelectric layer defines an angle of 20 degrees to 70 degrees relative to the slow phase axis of the polarization plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Yuji WATAZU
  • Publication number: 20160132152
    Abstract: Provided is a touch detection device, including: a determining unit configured to determine a region of a conductive object based on measurement of a self-capacitance of each of a plurality of electrodes arranged to intersect with each other; and a detecting unit configured to detect the conductive object based on measurement of a mutual capacitance of, among the plurality of electrodes, an electrode corresponding to the region of the conductive object determined by the determining unit, without measuring a mutual capacitance of an electrode outside of the region of the conductive object determined by the determining unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Tomoaki Tanaka, Kunihisa Nakao
  • Publication number: 20160132153
    Abstract: A mesh electrode, a sensing device and an electrode layer are provided, in which the sensing device includes the mesh electrode. The mesh electrode is formed by a plurality of grid lines intersecting and connected to each other. The grid line has a bottom surface and a cross-section, and the cross-section is perpendicular to the bottom surface and has at least one curved portion. The electrode layer includes a plurality of conducting lines. The conducting lines have at least three line widths or at least three spaces. An appearing probability of each line width may be identical in the electrode layer. An appearing probability of each space may be identical in the electrode layer. The conducting line has a bottom surface and a cross-section, and the cross-section is perpendicular to the bottom surface and has at least one curved portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Heng-Tien Lin, Chun-Ting Liu, Shu-Yi Chang, Su-Tsai Lu, Kuo-Hua Tseng, Sheng-Feng Chung, Chen-Kun Chen
  • Publication number: 20160132154
    Abstract: A high-sensitivity self-capacitance in-cell touch display panel device includes a sensing electrode layer having plural sensing electrodes, a display control circuit, a touch sensing control circuit, and an amplifier with gain greater than zero. The display control circuit is powered by a first power source and connected to a first ground. The touch sensing control circuit is coupled to the sensing electrodes for performing a touch sensing. The touch sensing control circuit is powered by a second power source and connected to a second ground, wherein the first power source and the first ground are different from the second power source and the second ground. The amplifier is connected to the touch sensing control circuit and a common voltage layer. The touch sensing control circuit applies a sensing signal sensed by at least one sensing electrode to the amplifier for being amplified and applied to the common voltage layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN
  • Publication number: 20160132155
    Abstract: A high-sensitivity mutual-capacitance in-cell touch display panel device includes plural receiving sensing electrodes, a display control circuit, a touch sensing control circuit, and a touch signal driving circuit. The display control circuit is powered by a first power source and connected to a first ground. The touch sensing control circuit is coupled to the plural receiving sensing electrodes. The touch sensing control circuit is powered by a second power source and connected to a second ground, wherein the first power source and the first ground are different from the second power source and the second ground. The touch signal driving circuit is connected to the touch sensing control circuit and a common voltage layer. The touch sensing control circuit applies a touch signal to the touch signal driving circuit to generate a transmitting signal for being applied to the common voltage layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN
  • Publication number: 20160132156
    Abstract: An electronic device and method for processing an input are provided. The electronic device includes a digitizer pad formed by a single channel and a digitizer pad controller configured to supply a current to the digitizer pad, sense a change in at least one of a frequency and a phase of an electromagnetic field corresponding to a pressure intensity applied by a tip of an external input device, and determine data related to the pressure intensity applied by the external input device based on the change in the at least one of the frequency and the phase of the sensed electromagnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Sungchul PARK
  • Publication number: 20160132157
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch technology, and more particularly to a touch device and a fabrication method thereof. The touch device comprises a sensing area and a peripheral area. The touch device further comprises a sensing electrode layer, a shading layer, a signal transmission line layer, and a conductive layer. The sensing electrode layer extends from the sensing area to the peripheral area. The shading layer is disposed on the peripheral area to overlay the sensing electrode layer and has a through hole to expose a portion of the sensing electrode layer. The signal transmission line layer is disposed on the shading layer and does not cover the through hole. The conductive layer fills the through hole and electrically connects the sensing electrode layer. In addition, a fabrication, method of a touch device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Yuh-Wen Lee, Hsiang-Lung Hsia, Yanjun Xie, Feng Chen, Fengming Lin, Xianbin Xu, Keming Ruan
  • Publication number: 20160132158
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a plurality of pixels on a substrate, a sealing thin film on the substrate, and a plurality of sensing electrodes on the sealing thin film, each of the sensing electrodes having a mesh structure, the mesh structures of the sensing electrodes and the pixels overlapping different portions of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventor: Hyoung-Wook JANG
  • Publication number: 20160132159
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a lateral-electric-field liquid crystal display device includes a light-emitting display layer including OLEDs and a driving circuit controlling light emission of the OLEDs, a moisture impermeable film provided to be laminated on the light-emitting display layer to prevent infiltration of moisture into the light-emitting display layer, an optical substrate provided separately from the moisture impermeable film and subjecting light from the light-emitting display region to optical processing, a first touch electrode group serving as one electrode group of touch electrodes and provided on a back surface of the optical substrate, and an extraction electrode group formed to be laminated on the moisture impermeable film, the extraction electrode group and the optical substrate have an overlapping part in plan view, and electrodes of the first touch electrode group being electrically connected to electrodes of the extraction electrode group in the overlapping part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Yoshiro AOKI, Takashi NAKAMURA, Masahiro TADA, Hirotaka HAYASHI, Makoto SHIBUSAWA, Yutaka UMEDA, Miyuki ISHIKAWA