Patents Issued in September 15, 2016
  • Publication number: 20160266648
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method being performed in a computerized system incorporating a processing unit, a memory, a display and a depth camera, the computer-implemented method involving: acquiring a depth image of a user using the depth camera; determining a spatial position of a point cloud corresponding to the user using the acquired depth image of the user; determining at least a portion of the point cloud corresponding to the user located within a virtual operation area; generating a virtual shadow of the user using the determined portion of the point cloud corresponding to the user located within the virtual operation area; displaying the generated virtual shadow of the user on the display; and using the displayed virtual shadow of the user for detecting a user interaction event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Jun Shingu, Akira Ichiboshi, Patrick Chiu, Sven Kratz
  • Publication number: 20160266649
    Abstract: An electronic system includes a control unit, configured to identify a first sensor reading for capturing a gesture directed at a display interface using a first range profile; identify a second sensor reading for capturing the gesture directed at the display interface using a second range profile; calculate a blended position indicator based on the first sensor reading, the second sensor reading, or a combination thereof; and a communication interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to communicate the blended position indicator by generating a cursor at the blended position indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Rongrong Wang, Anton Treskunov
  • Publication number: 20160266650
    Abstract: A computer system comprises a hardware interface, a computer-memory device, an update engine, and a posture-recognition engine. The hardware interface is configured to receive depth video of an environment from a camera. The computer-memory device stores a background model of the environment preservable over a reboot of the computer system, the background model including a plurality of trusted coordinates derived from the depth video. The update engine is configured to update the background model, including moving a trusted coordinate to greater depth if an observed pixel is behind the trusted coordinate over a first duration, but retaining the trusted coordinate if the observed pixel depth is in front of the trusted coordinate over the first duration. The posture-recognition engine is configured to recognize posture of a user in front of a background portion of the video, which is bounded by the trusted coordinates of the background model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Casey Meekhof, Robert M. Craig, Craig Peeper, Patrick O. Cook, Ketan Dalal, Vladimir Tankovich, Anton Rakovchuk
  • Publication number: 20160266651
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a control application enables mobile control of output devices, such as speakers. In operation, the control application receives visual data from a mobile device and one or more cameras that track motions associated with the mobile device. Based on the location of the mobile device and an angle of interest indicated by the visual data transmitted from the mobile device, the control application selects one or more output devices. The control application then processes the visual data provided by the cameras in order to identify and extract gestures and transmit associated control signals to the selected output devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Vallabha HAMPIHOLI
  • Publication number: 20160266652
    Abstract: Provided is a mobile terminal including: a main body; a display unit that is arranged to the main body and to which screen information is output; a sensing unit that senses a gesture that is applied to a region outside of the main body; and a controller that performs a function associated with at least one portion of the screen information that is output to the display unit if a predetermined-type gesture is applied to the region outside of the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Hyuna SON, Jaeo PARK, Jangik LEE, Yurim KIM, Woocheol CHUNG
  • Publication number: 20160266653
    Abstract: Disclosed are a gesture control method, device and system, during gesture control, a gesture control center identifies a gesture for a controlled device, and transmits manipulation information corresponding to an identified gesture to the controlled device; and the controlled device performs a corresponding operation according to received manipulation information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Haijun Liu, Lidong Lin, Yunjun Zhou, Zheng Huang, Chuanyang Miao
  • Publication number: 20160266654
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer program product for: associating an item in media content with a spatial location, receiving a user input corresponding to the spatial location and in response to receiving the user input, providing contextual information relating to the item, wherein the contextual information is dependent upon a previous occurrence of the item within the media content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Arto Lehtiniemi, Lasse Laaksonen, Miikka Vilermo, Mikko Tammi
  • Publication number: 20160266655
    Abstract: A method for activating an actuator of a motor vehicle, a device configured to carry out the method, and a computer program product. The method includes the detection of a gesture with the aid of a gesture-sensitive device and the activation of the actuator in response to the detected gesture. The actuator is activated only when the detected gesture is being validated. This has the advantage that erroneously recognized gestures are prevented from resulting in false activations of actuators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Andreas Heyl
  • Publication number: 20160266656
    Abstract: Gesture generated commands are input into a computer by use of a system including a hand movable input device having a hand-holdable housing for the effecting of a gesture by a user; and sensor apparatus for sensing predetermined motions of the housing with respect to a biaxial system and for transmitting signals corresponding to sensed motions of the housing, to a computer; signal interpretation software for interpreting signals from the sensor apparatus as being gesture-generated and for emitting a predetermined command to the computer corresponding to the gesture; non-visual display apparatus including one or more tactile output device; and a computer program for operating the non-visual display apparatus so as to provide to a user information relating to a combination of hand motions corresponding to a command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: TACTILE WORLD LTD.
    Inventors: Igor KARASIN, Vsevolod MINKOVICH, Gavriel KARASIN
  • Publication number: 20160266657
    Abstract: A keyboard lifting structure includes a base, a cover frame covering the base and providing multiple openings, key caps coupled to the base by respective linking mechanisms, driving devices disposed in the base at one side relative to the respective key caps with respective slides thereof respectively abutted against the linking mechanisms of the key caps, and a lifting mechanism disposed between the cover frame and the base for lifting or lowering the cover frame relative to the base and simultaneously causing the driving devices to move the key caps upwardly out of the cover frame or downwardly into the inside of the respective openings of the cover frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Po-Hsin LI
  • Publication number: 20160266658
    Abstract: A keyboard and a method of controlling the same are provided. The keyboard includes a base, a plurality of keys, a plurality of key chips and a controller. The base has a plurality of connecting portions. Each key is detachably connected to one of the connecting portions. Each key chip is correspondingly disposed on one of the keys and has a corresponding key code. The controller is disposed on the base. The controller outputs an inquiring code to each key chip, and each key chip determines whether the key code thereof corresponds to the inquiring code. The key chip which has the corresponded key code feedbacks a press state of the corresponding key to the controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: YAO-JEN CHANG
  • Publication number: 20160266659
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for improving word prediction in an electronic device. User input of one or more characters is received via a capacitive physical keyboard having a plurality of input members. Concurrently, the device determines the location of a non-typing digit, such as the user's finger or a stylus. Word prediction candidates are generated and weighted, and candidates that have subsequent characters associated with the input member proximal to the location of the non-typing digit are given more weight. The word prediction candidates are displayed, a second user input is then received comprising a selection of one of the candidates, and the device displays the selected word prediction candidate on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jerome Pasquero, Donald Somerset McCulloch Mckenzie
  • Publication number: 20160266660
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving information associated with a content item, designating a first bead apparatus (716) to be associated with a first content item segment of the content item, the first content item segment being identified by a first content item segment identifier, causing display of a visual representation of the first content item segment identifier by the first bead apparatus (726), designating a second bead apparatus (712) to be associated with a second content item segment of the content item, the second content item segment being identified by a second content item segment identifier, causing display of a visual representation of the second content item segment identifier by the second bead apparatus (722), receiving information indicative of a selection input of the second bead apparatus, and causing rendering of the second content item segment based, at least in part, on the selection input (734).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Antti Johannes ERONEN, Arto Juhani LEHTINIEMI, Juha ARRASVUORI, Jukka HOLM
  • Publication number: 20160266661
    Abstract: A method for driving user interface elements on a graphical display of a mobile device based upon spatial motion input applied to a sensor unit. Motion data, which is generated by one or more motion sensors on board the sensor unit and corresponds to the spatial motion input applied to the sensor unit, is received on a data processor of the mobile device. A filter is applied to the received motion data to minimize rapid fluctuations therein. Velocity values and position values are generated based on a discrete integration of the filtered motion data. A balance between acceleration and deceleration of the sensor unit is detected, based upon an evaluation of the velocity values from a beginning of the spatial motion input and velocity values during deceleration. A deceleration response is output to the graphical display to correspond to the detected balance between acceleration and deceleration of the sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: NILS FORSBLOM, ANGELO SCANDALIATO
  • Publication number: 20160266662
    Abstract: A system is described herein for monitoring the movement of one or more magnet sources located external to a device using the vector data from one or more magnetic vector sensors incorporated in the device to determine a position and/or to communicate information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Larry W. Fullerton, Mark D. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20160266663
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an active stylus includes a transmitter configured to transmit electrical signals to a device through a touch sensor of the device. The active stylus also includes a receiver configured to receive electrical signals from the device through the touch sensor of the device. Furthermore, the active stylus includes a controller configured to determine a strength of an electrical signal received by the receiver from the touch sensor of the device and instruct the transmitter to transmit electrical signals to the device at a voltage based at least on the determined strength of the electrical signal received by the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Eivind Holsen
  • Publication number: 20160266664
    Abstract: An apparatus that has a touchscreen, is configured to determine a response to a contact by a hand with a region of the touchscreen, and includes a first means for determining a location of a graphical projection of a digital pen onto the touchscreen, a second means for determining, via an ultrasonic wave, a first angle between a first line along an edge of the touchscreen and a second line along the graphical projection, a third means for determining a distance between the touchscreen and the digital pen, and a fourth means for determining, from the distance, the response to the contact by the hand with the region defined by the location and the first angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Niccolo PADOVANI, Gilad BORNSTEIN, Nathan ALTMAN
  • Publication number: 20160266665
    Abstract: A multi-purpose writing device comprises a device main body including a pressure or snap engageable cap, a writing tip adapted to contact without damaging a touch screen and an inner erasable ink vessel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Koici TSCHANG
  • Publication number: 20160266666
    Abstract: The present invention contemplates a calligraphy stylus for writing on a touch sensitive screen. The stylus comprises an elongated pen shaped handle having a first end for making a mark on a touch sensitive screen and an opposite end for providing balance for the pen. The stylus includes a plurality of hair like conductive filaments such as metal fixed together at a first or writing end of the handle to form a brush like structure. This brush like structure has one or two vertical cuts or spaces to define two or three segments and are analogous to the spaces between teeth in a comb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Noman Ahmed Shah, Imran Ahmed Shah, Kamran Ahmed Shah
  • Publication number: 20160266667
    Abstract: Provided are a touch pen and a touch pen system with a compact and low-cost configuration when an erase function is installed therein. The touch pen system includes a capacitive touch panel; a touch pen having a pen tip for specifying an arbitrary position on the touch panel and a pen rear end portion formed with a predetermined conductive pattern; predetermined pattern detection mechanism that detects contact of the predetermined conductive pattern with the touch panel; and an erase implementation mechanism that implements an erase function when the predetermined conductive pattern is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Limin Xiao, Qian Wang
  • Publication number: 20160266668
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrically conductive film characterized by being able to undergo elastic deformation, having little residual strain rate and exhibiting stress relaxation properties. More specifically, the present invention relates to an electrically conductive film wherein the stress relaxation rate (R) and the residual strain rate (alpha), as measured in a prescribed extension-restoration test, are as follows: 20%?R?95% and 0%???3%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tomoaki SAWADA, Shingo YOSHIOKA, Takatoshi ABE
  • Publication number: 20160266669
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are described for using a touch screen device to control an external display. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises a touch screen to receive user touch input and display images; a processor communicatively coupled to the touch screen; a wireless session management module to establish and maintain a wireless display connection with an extended screen responsive to commands from the processor; and the processor to execute a process responsive to the user touch input to transform the touch screen or a portion thereof to a remote control touchpad device usable to provide control functions for content displayed on the extended screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: TRI T. KHUONG, CHANDRASEKARAN SAKTHIVEL, KAMALAKAR V. PAWAR
  • Publication number: 20160266670
    Abstract: A touch device is provided. The touch device includes a first insulating layer, a first sensing electrode layer, a second insulating layer, and a second sensing electrode layer. The first sensing electrode layer is located on the first insulating layer. The second insulating layer is located on the first sensing electrode layer. The second sensing electrode layer is located on the second insulating layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Sin-An CHEN, Chih-Chia CHANG
  • Publication number: 20160266671
    Abstract: The objective is to provide a cover glass having edge surfaces and a through-hole, formed with high external dimensional precision. The cover glass has a unit substrate comprising glass, and a resinforced portion containing a resin material provided on the edge surfaces of the unit substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Shinichiro TAKAHASHI, Akiyoshi UCHIDA, Shinichi SAKANO, Minoru NAKANISHI, Shinsuke NAKAZAWA, Satoshi EMORI
  • Publication number: 20160266672
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing the display area of an electronic display of an article include maximizing the contiguous area of the display, on one or more surfaces of the article, on which text or images may be presented to a user, and/or to minimize the area of a border of the display that is viewable to the user. Optimization techniques may include bending portions of the display, and/or minimizing the footprint of the display border by particularly configuring the electrical connections to the display elements. These optimization techniques may be applied to rigid electronic displays, to statically-flexed displays, or to dynamically flexible displays, as well as to other rigid, statically-flexed, or dynamically flexible electronic sheets of individual electronic elements, such as lighting arrays, solar cell arrays, sensor arrays, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Philippe Inagaki, Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema
  • Publication number: 20160266673
    Abstract: A touch panel includes capacitive sensing electrodes and a touch controller operates in a first operating mode to detect a touch location on the touch panel. In a second operating mode, the touch controller transmits a modulated data signal through the touch panel to an active stylus. Each electrode is driven by a line driver circuit. A control circuit selectively actuates first ones of the line driver circuits to pass the modulated data signal to corresponding first ones of the electrodes which do not pass through a region of the touch panel associated with the location of the detected touch. Simultaneously, the control circuit selectively actuates second ones of the line driver circuits, different from said first ones of the line driver circuits, to ground corresponding second ones of the electrodes which do pass through the region of the touch panel associated with the location of the detected touch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
    Inventors: Leonard Dinu, Eng Jye Ng, Kien Beng Tan
  • Publication number: 20160266674
    Abstract: In a method of input sensing and exclusion, an input is detected within a sensing region of an input device. It is determined that the input is along an edge of the input device. It is then determined whether the input satisfies exclusion criteria. Responsive to satisfaction of the exclusion criteria, the input is excluded from consideration as valid input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Donald R. SCHROPP, JR.
  • Publication number: 20160266675
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel and a display device are provided, and the in-cell touch panel includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate arranged oppositely to each other; a conductive layer which is provided on a side, facing the lower substrate, of the upper substrate or on a side, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate, and comprises a plurality of hollowed-out regions arranged in a matrix form; a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes insulated from the conductive layer and arranged in a layer in which the conductive layer is provided, each of the hollowed-out regions being provided therein with at least one of the self-capacitance electrodes; and a plurality of conductive wires respectively electrically connected with the self-capacitance electrodes. This in-cell touch panel can reduce the number of the conductive wires, so as to facilitate a narrow frame design and reduce the occurrence possibility of a larger touch blind area to a certain extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Shengji YANG, Xue DONG, Haisheng WANG, Hailin XUE, Yingming LIU, Weijie ZHAO, Xiaoliang DING, Hongjuan LIU, Changfeng LI
  • Publication number: 20160266676
    Abstract: A method for driving an in-cell touch panel, a drive device and a display device are disclosed. The driving method includes: in a touch period, applying touch detection signals to self-capacitance electrodes, receiving feedback touch sensing signals, and determine a possible touch area provided with at least one self-capacitance electrode according to the variation of the touch sensing signals compared with the touch detection signals; subsequently, taking at least a portion of self-capacitance electrodes in the touch area as a first touch electrode, taking a self-capacitance electrode adjacent to the first touch electrode as a second touch electrode, and determining an accurate touch position according to the principle of the different amount of projection fields between the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes. The driving method can improve the touch detection accuracy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Haisheng WANG, Xue DONG, Yingming LIU, Xiaoliang DING, Shengji YANG, Weijie ZHAO, Hongjuan LIU, Tao REN
  • Publication number: 20160266677
    Abstract: An in-cell touch panel and a display device are provided, and the in-cell touch panel includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate arranged oppositely to each other; a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes arranged in a same layer and insulated from each other at a side, facing the lower substrate, of the upper substrate or a side, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate; a shielding electrode provided at a side, facing the lower substrate, of each of the self-capacitance electrodes, which is insulated from the shielding electrode; and an insulating layer arranged between each of the self-capacitance electrodes and the shielding electrode. Such an in-cell touch panel may isolate the touch detection signals applied to the self-capacitance electrodes from the display signals, so as to avoid mutual interference therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Yingming LIU, Xue DONG, Hailin XUE, Haisheng WANG, Weijie ZHAO, Shengji YANG, Xiaoliang DING, Hongjuan LIU
  • Publication number: 20160266678
    Abstract: A capacitive touch panel, a method of determining touch position thereof and a display device are disclosed. The capacitive touch panel comprises a first substrate and a second substrate opposed to each other, the first substrate being provided with a black matrix. The black matrix is formed of a first metal touch electrode layer provided on a side of the first substrate away from the second substrate and a second metal touch electrode layer provided on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate; and the first metal touch electrode layer comprises a plurality of first touch electrode lines, and the second metal touch electrode layer comprises a plurality of second touch electrode lines intersecting with the first touch electrode lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Wenlong WANG, Tao MA, Yinhu HUANG
  • Publication number: 20160266679
    Abstract: A multi-chip touch architecture for scalability can include one or more touch controller application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and one or more switching circuits coupled between the one or more touch controller ASICs and the touch sensor panel. The number of touch controller ASICs and switching circuits can be scaled based on the size of the touch sensor panel. The touch controller ASICs can include an interface for data transfer between the touch controller ASICs to allow for parallel processing of an image of touch by more than one touch controller ASIC. The touch controller ASIC can also include a memory directly accessible by more than one processing circuit (e.g., hardware accelerators), and circuitry to dynamically adjust the coupling between portions (e.g., banks) of memory and inputs of the one or more processing circuits to minimize data transfer and improve processing speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Shahrooz SHAHPARNIA, Vivek PANT, Christoph H. KRAH
  • Publication number: 20160266680
    Abstract: This present invention provides a chip scale sensing chip package, comprising a sensing chip having a first top surface and a first bottom surface opposite to each other, a touch plate having a second top surface and a second bottom surface opposite to each other, formed above the sensing chip, and a color layer, sandwiched between the sensing chip and the touch plate, wherein the sensing chip comprises a sensing device formed nearby the first top surface and a plurality of conductive pads formed nearby the first top surface and adjacent to the sensing device, a plurality of through silicon vias exposing their corresponding conductive pads formed on the first bottom surface, a plurality of conductive structures formed on the first bottom surface, and a re-distribution layer overlaying the first bottom surface and each through silicon via to electrically connect each conductive pad and each conductive structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Shu-Ming CHANG, Yu-Lung HUANG, Tsang-Yu LIU, Yen-Shih HO
  • Publication number: 20160266681
    Abstract: A display input device includes: a display panel that displays an operation image; a touch panel portion that is used to detect the coordinates of a fingertip and the coordinates of an actual touch position in a close state in which the fingertip approaches the surface; and a control portion that recognizes an operation image operated by recognizing the touch position, that determines, based on the position of the fingertip in the close state and the track of the fingertip in the close state, whether or not in the close state, the fingertip is in a swing state in which the fingertip swings and that enlarges and displays, on the display panel, the operation image below the track when the fingertip is determined to be in the swing state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Yuichi NINOMIYA
  • Publication number: 20160266682
    Abstract: An input device may include various sensor electrodes that detect positional information of an input object in a sensing region of the input device. The input device may include a first sensor electrode that detects a first change in a first variable capacitance in response to a deflection of a conductive layer by the input object. The input device may include a second sensor electrode that detects a second change in a second variable capacitance in response to the deflection of the conductive layer by the input object. The first change in the first variable capacitance and the second change in the second variable capacitance may determine an acquired force image of the input force. An adjusted force image may be determined from the acquired force image using the positional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Chih-Yin Fu, Xuming Zeng, Richard Schediwy, Doug Krumpelman, Hsiao-Lan Hsu, Chieh-Feng Tu
  • Publication number: 20160266683
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a display stack including a number of layers. The layers include a cover layer and one or more other layers. The device also includes a touch sensor disposed on a surface of a particular layer of the plurality of layers of the display stack. The touch sensor includes a number of first electrodes oriented along a first direction. Each of the first electrodes includes a plurality of first conductive regions. The touch sensor also includes a number of second electrodes oriented along a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction. Each of the second electrodes includes a second conductive region. The second conductive region of each of the second electrodes being interdigitated with a respective adjacent first conductive region of multiple first electrodes of the plurality of first electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Matthew TREND, Gareth JONES
  • Publication number: 20160266684
    Abstract: A display device with an integrated touch screen including a display panel including electrodes divided into a plurality of block type groups and a plurality of data lines; a display driver IC configured to apply a common voltage to the electrodes when a driving mode of the panel is a display driving mode, sequentially apply a touch scan signal to each block type group when the driving mode of the panel is a touch driving mode, and apply a data signal to the data lines associated with a corresponding block type group when the touch scan signal is applied to the corresponding block type group; and a touch IC configured to generate the touch scan signal and apply the touch scan signal to the display driver IC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Junghan LEE, Sungchul KIM
  • Publication number: 20160266685
    Abstract: The tactile sense presentation device, capable of effectively presenting a tactile sense (a sense of texture) on a touch panel, includes: a supporting substrate; a plurality of X-electrodes and Y-electrodes extended in parallel to each other on the supporting substrate; and driving circuits (X-electrode driving circuit, Y-electrode driving circuit) which apply a first-frequency voltage signal to the X-electrode corresponding to information regarding a target region inputted from outside among the plurality of X-electrodes, and applies a second-frequency voltage signal to the Y-electrode corresponding to information regarding the target region inputted from outside among the plurality of Y-electrodes to generate electric beat oscillation in the target region by an absolute value of a difference between the first and second frequencies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hiroshi HAGA, Jiro YANASE, Daisuke SUGIMOTO
  • Publication number: 20160266686
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic apparatus including: a first sensor having a first indication input surface for detecting a position indicated by an indicating object; a second sensor having a second indication input surface for detecting the indicating object, the second indication input surface being disposed adjacent to the first indication input surface of the first sensor in a direction along a surface direction of the first indication input surface; and a controller which, in operation, controls a scan operation for detecting the position indicated by the indicating object in the first indication input surface of the first sensor when the indicating object is detected in the second sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Takeshi Kobori
  • Publication number: 20160266687
    Abstract: A touch sensor includes a touch panel including driving lines, sensing lines, node capacitors between neighboring or overlapping driving lines and sensing lines, and a sensing unit electrically connected to the sensing lines and configured to sense a capacitance from the touch panel. The sensing unit includes an input resistor having a first terminal connected to at least one of the sensing lines, a first amplifier including (i) input terminals respectively connected to a second terminal of the input resistor and a first power supply and (ii) a first output terminal, a feedback resistor having a first terminal connected to the first input terminal of the first amplifier, and a feedback amplifier having an input terminal connected to the first output terminal of the first amplifier and an output terminal connected to a second terminal of the feedback resistor. The gain of the feedback amplifier is less than 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Hak Soo KIM
  • Publication number: 20160266688
    Abstract: A pixel circuit and a display apparatus, the pixel circuit comprises a pixel compensation module a light emitting module and a touch detection module. By integrating the pixel compensation module and the touch detection module into the pixel circuit, and making the pixel compensation module and the touch detection module share data voltage lines and scan signal lines, a number of signal lines can be reduced, so that a size of space between pixels can be decreased greatly and a cost of an IC is also reduced, which can achieve a higher pixel density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicants: BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Shengji Yang, Haisheng Wang, Jingbo Xu
  • Publication number: 20160266689
    Abstract: Provided is a pixel circuit, a display panel and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit comprises a pixel compensation module, a light emitting module and a touch detection module; the pixel compensation module comprises first to fifth switch units, a pixel driving unit and an energy storage unit; and the touch detection module comprises a detection sub-module and an output sub-module. In the pixel circuit provided by the present disclosure, a pixel compensation module and a touch detection module are integrated, and the pixel compensation module and the touch detection module share a data voltage and scan signal lines. As such, it is possible to reduce the number of signal lines, such that the pitch of pixels is dramatically reduced and IC cost is decreased, achieving higher pixel density.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Shengji YANG
  • Publication number: 20160266690
    Abstract: A display device, including a display panel that displays an image; a flexible printed circuit board including an attaching part attached to one end of the display panel and a curved part extending from the attaching part and not overlapping with the display panel; a window assembly on an upper surface of the display panel; an adhesive part between the window assembly and the display panel to couple the display panel and the window assembly; and a compensating part not overlapping with the display panel, overlapping with the curved part, and on a same layer as the attaching part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hyeong-Cheol AHN, Won-il LEE, Byughoon CHAE
  • Publication number: 20160266691
    Abstract: A flexible display device includes display panel, a touch panel including a touch sensor and a second touch sensor intersecting the first touch sensor, in which the first touch sensor includes first sensor parts, each of the first sensor parts including first conductive lines, and a first crossing part connecting two adjacent first sensor parts, the first crossing part including second conductive lines, and the second touch sensor includes second sensor parts, each of the second sensor parts including third conductive lines, and a second crossing part including fourth conductive lines disposed between the second conductive lines, and a first connection electrode connecting the third conductive lines to the fourth conductive lines and insulated from the second conductive lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hyoungwook JANG, Jeonghoon BANG, Soonsung AHN
  • Publication number: 20160266692
    Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a reflector sheet disposed under a display panel and a digitizer disposed under the reflector sheet. The digitizer may include a first circuit layer including a conductive circuit pattern arranged in a first direction, a second circuit layer including a conductive circuit pattern arranged in a second direction, and an insulating layer electrically isolating the first circuit layer and the second circuit layer. The digitizer further includes at least one dummy circuit pattern formed on at least one of the first circuit layer or the second circuit layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Che Uk PARK
  • Publication number: 20160266693
    Abstract: Improvement of visual uniformity of an integrated touch screen display is provided. A touch screen can include common electrodes separated by gaps in a Vcom layer. To improve visual non-uniformity in the display resulting from the gaps, a first set of semi-transparent dummy features (primary-dummy features) can be formed on a second layer at the locations of the gaps, and a second set of dummy features (supplementary-dummy features) can also be formed on the second layer or another layer to mitigate low spatial resolution of the primary-dummy features and/or non-uniform spacing of the primary-dummy features. In some examples, holes or slits can be formed in the Vcom layer at areas of the supplementary-dummy features to further improve visual uniformity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Yu Cheng CHEN, Abbas JAMSHIDI-ROUDBARI, Hiroshi OSAWA, Shang-Chih LIN, Shih-Chang CHANG, Shin-Hung YEH, Ting-Kuo CHANG, Majid GHARGHI, Keitaro YAMASHITA
  • Publication number: 20160266694
    Abstract: A high-sensitivity in-cell touch display device has a common voltage and sensing electrode layer including a plurality of common voltage and sensing electrodes, each corresponding to at least one pixel electrode. A touch circuit is provided with a touch-dedicated power supply circuit, and a common voltage and sensing electrode is used as a common node of the touch circuit and a display circuit, so that there is no current loop between the touch circuit and the display circuit. Reflection electrodes are further provided to reduce parasitic capacitance between the common voltage and sensing electrodes and to improve the sensing distance. The display operation and the touch sensing operation can be performed on different areas in parallel to increase respective efficiencies of the display and touch sensing operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Hsiang-Yu LEE, Shang CHIN, Ping-Tsun LIN
  • Publication number: 20160266695
    Abstract: Disclosed is a fingerprint-sensing display capable of sensing a fingerprint on a display screen. The display apparatus having an image scanning function includes an optical amplification cover, one side of which forms a display surface, including a transparent optical amplification layer configured to amplify an optical pattern generated by a fingerprint of a user in contact with the display surface and a cover window for reinforcement, a thin film transistor (TFT) array configured to drive a plurality of pixels forming an image, and an optical sensor array disposed between the optical amplification cover and the TFT array and configured to sense the optical pattern amplified by the optical amplification cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventors: Byung Seong Bae, Jong Uk Kim, Jae Heung Kim, Chang Sup Shim, Ga Won Choi, Ho Sik Jeon, Woo Young Choi, Jun Suk Lee, So Hyun Jeong, Ju An Yoon, Sang A Oh
  • Publication number: 20160266696
    Abstract: A semiconductor device having a novel data input and output panel with high definition is provided. A method for driving the semiconductor device having the novel data input and output panel with high definition is provided. The data input and output panel includes, over a substrate, proximity sensors, signal lines electrically connected to the proximity sensors, and pixels electrically connected to the signal lines. The signal lines can supply image signals to the pixels, can supply control signals to the proximity sensors, and can be supplied with sensing signals from the proximity sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Inventor: Yasuhiko TAKEMURA
  • Publication number: 20160266697
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for driving a touch display apparatus and the touch display apparatus, wherein the quality of the screen display of the touch display apparatus is ensured, by controlling a backlight to be turned on during a first time phase of a time unit, controlling the backlight to be turned off during a second time phase of the time unit, and transmitting, by the chip, a touch driving signal to the touch driving electrodes during a third time phase of the time unit, wherein there is a first relationship between the second time phase and the third time phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongfei CHENG, Yuxin ZHANG