Patents Issued in January 12, 2017
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Publication number: 20170010709Abstract: Provided are a double-sided transparent conductive film which has blocking resistance and a low reflectance, and is inhibited from scattering reflected light to exhibit good visibility; a roll thereof; and a touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: NITTO DENKO CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki HASHIMOTO, Katsunori TAKADA, Kazuhiro IKAI, Shinya HIRAOKA, Hiroki KURAMOTO, Naoki TSUNO, Toru UMEMOTO, Hiroyuki TAKAO
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Publication number: 20170010710Abstract: Disclosed is a touch window including a substrate, and an electrode layer on the substrate. A retardation difference is 0.2% or less depending on an incident angle of light in the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Hyun Soo KIM, In Seok KANG, June ROH, Dong Mug SEONG, Jun Phill EOM, Jun LEE
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Publication number: 20170010711Abstract: An electronic device includes a touch panel having a detection region and a transparent electrode sheet disposed in such a manner that at least a part of the transparent electrode sheet overlaps the detection region of the touch panel and including a transparent sheet, an operation electrode, and a detection electrode. The operation electrode and the detection electrode are made of a transparent conductive material and are disposed on the transparent sheet. The operation electrode is located outside the detection region in a state where the transparent electrode sheet overlaps the touch panel. The detection electrode is electrically connected to the operation electrode and is located inside the detection region in the state where the transparent electrode sheet overlaps the touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: DENSO WAVE INCORPORATEDInventor: Wataru SUGIYAMA
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Publication number: 20170010712Abstract: A thin touch panel is provided. A touch panel with a simple structure is provided. The number of components of a touch panel is reduced. Each of a pair of wirings of a touch sensor is positioned closer to a substrate supporting light-emitting elements than a common electrode is, and includes a portion positioned between two adjacent pixel electrodes in a plan view. Furthermore, an island-like structure body with an inverse tapered shape is provided over each of the pair of wirings. A conductive layer in an electrically floating state is provided over the structure body. Each conductive layer has a portion overlapping with one of the pair of wirings. Moreover, the conductive layer and the common electrode are formed using the same conductive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Kensuke YOSHIZUMI, Hideaki SHISHIDO, Kazunori WATANABE
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Publication number: 20170010713Abstract: A capacitive sensor includes an insulator substrate, a detecting electrode formed on one face of the insulator substrate by arranging a first electric wire to provide a plurality of first annular portions, and a driving electrode formed on the other face of the insulator substrate by arranging a second electric wire to provide a plurality of second annular portions. In a region where the detecting electrode and the driving electrode of the insulator substrate are overlapped with each other as seen in a plan view, the second electric wire is arranged such that a plurality of corner portions of the second annular portion are contained within the first annular portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventor: Koji Shinoda
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Publication number: 20170010714Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch panel capable of detecting a capacitive touch input of a finger of a human body or a touch input tool having conduction characteristics similar to those of the finger, and more particularly, to a structure of a touch panel having a high resolution so as to detect a touch input tool having a diameter smaller than a unit pi. In a touch panel having a high resolution according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to maintain high touch sensitivity while minimizing a change in structures of touch patterns depending on a size or a purpose of the touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventor: Sung Ho LEE
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Publication number: 20170010715Abstract: The present invention relates to a touch panel capable of detecting a capacitive touch input of a finger of a human body or a touch input tool having conduction characteristics similar to those of the finger, and more particularly, to a structure of a touch panel having a high resolution so as to detect a touch input tool having a diameter smaller than a unit pi. In a touch panel having a high resolution according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to maintain high touch sensitivity while minimizing a change in structures of touch patterns depending on a size or a purpose of the touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventor: Sung Ho LEE
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Publication number: 20170010716Abstract: A series of degree-of-approach data of the same object generated over a plurality of cycles of a detection operation is averaged in filter processing of the filter processing unit, and accordingly, the degree-of-approach data after averaging is acquired. Therefore, even in a case in which the degree-of-approach data is temporarily greatly changed due to an influence of noise, such a temporary change in the degree-of-approach data after averaging is suppressed. Further, response characteristics of a filter in the filter processing of the filter unit are changed according to a noise level which is detected by a noise detection unit. Accordingly, since appropriate filter processing according to the noise level is performed on the degree-of-approach data, the degree-of-approach data in which the influence of noise is effectively reduced is obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Satoshi NAKAJIMA, Satoshi HAYASAKA, Hayato MIYAGAWA, Kohei KITAGAWA
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Publication number: 20170010717Abstract: A touch screen controller for cancelling an offset capacitance of a capacitive touch screen panel includes a code generator configured to generate a time-invariant digital code and a time-variant digital code during an offset cancellation time. A switched-capacitor array converts the time-invariant digital code and the time-variant digital code into an amount of electric charges corresponding to the offset capacitance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 4, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: BUM SOO KIM, JUN CHUL PARK, HYUN KYU OUH, CHA DONG KIM, SAN HO BYUN, JIN CHUL LEE, YOON KYUNG CHOI
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Publication number: 20170010718Abstract: An image display device comprising a capacitive touch switch that performs switching by detecting a finger based on a change in capacitance that is caused when the finger comes close to a panel, wherein the touch switch comprises the panel, a substrate on which an electrode for detecting capacitance is mounted, and a conductive member corresponding to the electrode, and the conductive member is provided between the panel and the electrode, and is fixed by being interposed between the panel and the electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventor: Kuniaki MATSUI
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Publication number: 20170010719Abstract: A pressure sensing input equipment includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, a first substrate, and a pressure sensing chip. The first substrate is disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes first pressure sensing electrodes and first axial touch sensing electrodes. The first pressure sensing electrodes and the first axial touch sensing electrodes are alternately arranged and insulated from each other and do not overlap. The first pressure sensing electrodes are applied for detecting pressure magnitude. The first pressure sensing electrodes include a first end part and a second end part. The pressure sensing chip is electrically connected to the pressure sensing electrodes, and the pressure sensing chip determines the pressure magnitude by detecting, the resistance variation of the pressure sensing electrodes after pressured.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Feng Chen, Jiayou He, Liuyun Fang
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Publication number: 20170010720Abstract: In a second-conductive-sheet for a touch-panel, a plurality of upper-detection-electrodes disposed in a detection region and a plurality of second terminal wiring portions disposed in a peripheral wiring region to electrically connect the upper-detection-electrodes to second terminal portions and are formed. Each of the upper-detection-electrodes is made of a mesh-patterned first metal mesh having intersecting thin conductive metal wires, and each of the second terminal wiring portions is made of a mesh-patterned second metal mesh having intersecting thin conductive metal wires made of the same material as the thin conductive metal wires constituting each of the upper detection electrodes. The wire width of the first metal mesh is set to be equal to or less than 5 ?m, and the extension direction of the thin conductive metal wires constituting the first metal mesh and the second metal mesh is inclined with respect to a bending line direction of a bent portion of a second-resin-film.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Masaya NAKAYAMA
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Publication number: 20170010721Abstract: A method for measuring a capacitance value of a capacitive sensor uses an integration process. For the integration process, the sensor is connected to an integration capacitor having a known capacitance value greater than the capacitance value of the sensor and a voltage UCI of the integration capacitor is measured by an A/D converter after a number IZ of executed integration cycles of the integration process. The method includes carrying out the integration process until the number IZ of executed integration cycles has reached the number N of integration cycles to be executed, adding a voltage value UCI (N) of the integration capacitor, which is determined by the A/D converter, to the total voltage value Utotal, increasing the number N, and repeating until the number N exceeds a predetermined value. The final total voltage value Utotal is indicative of the capacitance value of the capacitive sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: Leopold Kostal GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Uwe Borgmann, Carl Christian Lexow
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Publication number: 20170010722Abstract: The formation of metal traces in the border areas of a touch sensor panel to provide improved reliability, better noise rejection, and lower manufacturing costs is disclosed. The metal traces can be coupled to rows on the touch sensor panel in an interleaved manner, so that any two successive rows can be coupled to metal traces in border areas on opposite sides of the touch sensor panel. In addition, by utilizing the full width available in the border areas in some embodiments, the metal traces can be formed from higher resistivity metal, which can reduce manufacturing costs and improve trace reliability. The wider traces can also provide better noise immunity from noise sources such as an LCD by providing a larger fixed-potential surface area and by more effectively coupling the drive lines to the fixed potential.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Martin Paul GRUNTHANER, Lili HUANG
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Publication number: 20170010723Abstract: Several techniques for driving a force sensor to reduce common mode offset are disclosed. The force sensor can include at least one set of individual strain sensitive structures formed on or in a surface of a substrate. Each set of individual strain sensitive structures can include one or more strain sensitive structures. At least one external resistor is operably connected in series between a first output of one or more transmitter channels and at least one set of strain sensitive structures. The external resistor(s) effectively increases the resistances of the strain sensitive structures to reduce the common mode offset. Additionally or alternatively, one or more signal generators may be connected to one or more transmitter channels. Each signal generator is configured to produce one or more signals that is/are designed to reduce common mode offset.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: John Stephen Smith, Manu Agarwal, Christian M. Sauer
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Publication number: 20170010724Abstract: The invention provides a liquid crystal display device with touch-sensing function and a conductive layer structure thereof. Multiple first electrode patterns of the conductive layer structure are arranged around multiple second electrode patterns; each of the multiple first electrode patterns includes a first sub-electrode pattern and a second sub-electrode pattern, a first side of the first sub-electrode pattern near the second sub-electrode pattern and a second side of the second sub-electrode pattern near the first sub-electrode pattern each are disposed with a right angle structure, and the first side and the second side are meshed with each other to thereby make the first electrode pattern and the second sub-electrode pattern together define a rectangular shape. The invention can improve the touch precision of the edge region of a self-capacitor touch panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chang CAO, Yuzheng CAI, Gonghua ZOU
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Publication number: 20170010725Abstract: A touch display panel structure includes a display panel and a first metal mesh. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel units, and the pixel units respectively have a first length along a horizontal direction. The first metal mesh is disposed on the display panel. The first metal mesh includes a plurality of first metal mesh units, and the first metal mesh units respectively have a second length along the horizontal direction. The second length is about 4.15 to about 5.2 times the first length.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Chun-Chi CHEN, Shang-Yu HUANG, Chen-You CHEN
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Publication number: 20170010726Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch device. The touch device includes a touch panel and an external circuit. The touch panel is configured to detect touch operations. The external circuit is configured to drive the touch panel. A plurality of connection structures extend from edges of the touch panel towards the external circuit. The plurality of connection structures are electrically conductive and are electrically coupled to the external circuit. The connection structures are configured to transmit touch signals from the touch panel to the external circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: CHI-HSIEN HUANG, CHEN-HSING HUANG, YI-FAN CHANG, TSUNG-JU HU
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Publication number: 20170010727Abstract: A mobile terminal is disclosed. A mobile terminal according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a sensing unit including at least one of a touch sensor and a pressure sensor, a display unit and a controller, the controller configured to display an execution screen of a first application on the display unit, the controller configured to control a predetermined function of the first application according to a change of a value of a first input signal received via the display unit in a state that the execution screen of the first application is displayed. In this case, the value of the first input signal is based on at least one of the area of a region of the display unit corresponding to the first input signal and pressure putting on the region of the display unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Youjin JEON, Byoungzoo JEONG, Suyoung LEE, Juhyun LEE, Jeyeol LEE
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Publication number: 20170010728Abstract: According to one embodiment, a sensor-equipped display device includes a drive electrode, a detection electrode including a first electrode and a second electrode disposed such that a gap is formed between the first electrode and the drive electrode and a gap is formed between the second electrode and the drive electrode, both of which change corresponding to a pressing force applied to the first and second electrodes, a driver configured to write a write signal to the drive electrode to produce a sensor signal, and a detector. The detector detects a position and a pressing force of an object on the basis of a change in a first capacitance between the first electrode and the drive electrode and a change in a second capacitance between the second electrode and the drive electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Hayato Kurasawa, Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Hiroshi Mizuhashi
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Publication number: 20170010729Abstract: A detection method for enhanced 3D detection module includes a plurality of touch units configured to sense positions of touch points, a plurality of pressure-sensitive units configured to sense pressing forces and a signal processing circuit, the detection method including: providing a touch scanning pulse to the plurality of touch units and providing a pressure scanning pulse to at least two of the pressure-sensitive units; generating touch signals by the plurality of touch units in response to the touch scanning pulse sensing the positions of the touch points and generating a superimposed pressure signal by the at least two of the pressure-sensitive units in response to the pressure scanning pulse sensing the pressing forces; and determining a position and a pressing force value of at least one touch point by the signal processing circuit according to the superimposed pressure signal and the touch signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Chih-Cheng Chuang, Tai-Shih Cheng, Shuo-Wen Wang
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Publication number: 20170010730Abstract: A touch display module having a pressure detection mechanism is provided. The touch display module includes a 3-D (three-dimensional) sensor and a 3-D controller. The 3-D sensor includes touch units and at least one pressure sensing unit. The 3-D controller includes a driver and a driving pulse processor. The driver provides a pressure scan pulse to the pressure sensing unit and a touch scan pulse to the touch units in combination with the driving pulse processor. The present disclosure further provides a driving method corresponding to the touch display module having the pressure detection mechanism including steps of: providing pressure scan pulses to the pressure sensing unit by the driver in combination with the driving pulse processor and providing touch scan pulses to the touch units in combination of the driving pulse processor by the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Chih-Cheng Chuang, Tai-Shih Cheng, Shao Li
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Publication number: 20170010731Abstract: The present invention provides a gate driving circuit and a driving method thereof, a display device, which relates to the field of display technology. The gate driving circuit may comprise a plurality of mutually cascaded shift register units and a pre-charging unit, the gate row drive scanning and touch control scanning of the plurality of mutually cascaded shift register units are performed alternately. By additionally arranging a pre-charging unit connected with the corresponding first stage of shift register unit when the gate row drive scanning is performed again after the touch control scanning is accomplished, the first stage of shift register unit can be pre-charged during the touch control scanning.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2014Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Yuanbo Zhang, Jiayang Zhao, Seungwoo Han, Xiangxiang Zou
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Publication number: 20170010732Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure are related to a method for determining a touch pressure level on a touchscreen, comprising: detecting a touch event by the touchscreen; obtaining data relating to features associated with the touch event comprising a capacitance value, a touch area, and/or a touch duration; and determining a touch pressure level based on one or more of the features.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Marc Bosch Ruiz, Galit Hofree, Robert Scott Tartz, Robyn Teresa Oliver, Jonathan Karl Kies, Virginia Walker Keating
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Publication number: 20170010733Abstract: A user-wearable device (UWD) worn by a user of a touchscreen may provide kinematic data of the UWD and/or identification data of the user to a processor that operates the touchscreen. Such data may allow the processor to perform a number of user-touchscreen interactions, such as displaying user-specific windows or menus, processing user-manipulation of displayed objects, and determining which hand of a user performs a touch event, just to name a few examples.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Michel Pahud, Kenneth P. Hinckley, William Buxton, Eyal Ofek, Andrew M. Webb
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Publication number: 20170010734Abstract: The invention provides a pixel structure, a transparent touch display screen and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The transparent touch display screen includes a plurality of rows and columns of pixel structures arranged in an array, and each pixel structure includes a display region provided with an organic electroluminescent device and a transparent region provided side by side with the display region. A first and a second touch capacitor electrodes made of a transparent conductive material are respectively provided in every two adjacent transparent regions in the same row, every two adjacent first touch capacitor electrodes in the same row are electrically connected with each other by a first connection line extending in the row direction, every two adjacent second touch capacitor electrodes in the same column are electrically connected with each other by a second connection line passing through the display region in the column direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Libin LIU, Can ZHANG
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Publication number: 20170010735Abstract: There is provided displaying a user interface during a power outage. A touchscreen comprises a lower layer comprising an electronic paper display and an upper layer comprising a transparent display. The touch screen may be arranged in a frequency converter and a drive system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Zhongliang Hu, Markku Jokinen, Petri Schroderus, Mikko Tamminen
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Publication number: 20170010736Abstract: Provided is a metal nanowire-containing transparent conductive film that can efficiently inhibit scattering of external light at a display screen such as a touch panel, and improve black floating prevention (photopic contrast) and electrode pattern non-visibility. Also provided are a method for producing the transparent conductive film, an information input device including the transparent conductive film, and an electronic device including the transparent conductive film. The transparent conductive film includes one or more metal nanowires and the number of metal nanowire bundle structures present in the transparent conductive film is 3 or fewer per each rectangular area region of 30 ?m in height and 40 ?m in width of the transparent conductive film.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Applicant: Dexerials CorporationInventors: Ryosuke IWATA, Yasuhisa ISHII, Mikihisa MIZUNO, Shinobu HARA
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Publication number: 20170010737Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch display panel and a driving method thereof The touch display panel includes a common electrode layer including a first common electrode and a second common electrode spaced apart from each other, the touch display panel further comprises a touch signal source, a switch layer and a common wire, each display cycle of the touch display panel comprises a display stage and a touch stage, the touch signal source can provide a touch signal to the first common electrode in the touch stage, the common wire is connected to a common voltage output terminal, the second common electrode is electrically connected to the common wire, and the switch layer comprises a first switch element for electrically connecting the first common electrode with the common wire in the display stage, and disconnecting the first common electrode from the common wire in the touch stage.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Yingming LIU, Xue DONG, Hailin XUE, Cheng LI, Haisheng WANG, Fuqiang LI, Xiaoliang DING, Wei LIU, Jun FAN
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Publication number: 20170010738Abstract: A touch detection device and a display device with a touch detection function include: a substrate; a touch detection electrode that is arranged on a plane parallel with the substrate, and that includes a plurality of wires arranged at intervals from one another; and a conductive layer that has a sheet resistance value larger than that of the wires, and that is in contact with and overlaps the wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Hayato KURASAWA, Koji ISHIZAKI
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Publication number: 20170010739Abstract: A display device with a touch detection function includes a substrate, pixel electrodes arranged in a matrix in a display region on a plane parallel to the substrate, a display function layer having a function to display the image in the display region, drive electrodes provided facing the pixel electrodes, touch detection electrodes that form electrostatic capacitance between there and the drive electrodes, a control unit that generates a control signal to switch between a display operation period for applying a display signal between the pixel and drive electrodes and a display stop period for stopping the display operation. The control unit generates first and second control signals respectively having a first frequency and a second frequency that is different from the first frequency, and has first and second operation modes respectively including a period controlled by the first control signal and a period controlled by the second control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Daisuke ITO, Koji SHIGEHIRO, Nobuhiko YOKOO
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Publication number: 20170010740Abstract: The present invention discloses a display device with a three-dimensional input module, and the device includes a pressure sensor, a display module having a position input function, and a common controller. The pressure sensor is used for detecting pressing force values of multiple points in Z direction. The display module having the position input function is disposed on one side of the pressure sensor and used for detecting press positions of multiple points in X direction and Y direction and displaying. The common controller generates pixel-scanning pulses and touch-scanning pulses for the display module having the position input function, and generates pressure-scanning pulses for the pressure sensor to detect multiple input positions and multiple pressing force values corresponding to the multiple input positions. The display device with the three-dimensional input module has advantages of simple hardware design and better noise immunity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Chih-Cheng Chuang, Tai-Shih Cheng, Xiaoxian He
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Publication number: 20170010741Abstract: A touch panel includes a cover plate, a first adhesive component and a second adhesive component. The first adhesive component which is adhered underneath the cover plate, includes a plurality of first pattered sensing lines. The second adhesive component which is adhered underneath the first adhesive component, includes a plurality of second pattered sensing lines. The first pattered sensing lines and second pattered sensing lines are electrically insulated from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Liang-Yi Chang, Chien-Hung Kuan, Renqing Peng, Jiachun Li
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Publication number: 20170010742Abstract: A touch control display panel and a touch control display device are provided. The touch control display panel comprises a substrate having a first extending direction and a second extending direction; and at least one force sensing bridge including a first sensing resistor, a second sensing resistor, a third sensing resistor, and a fourth sensing resistor. The first sensing resistor has a longer extending length in the first extending direction than in the second extending direction. The second sensing resistor has a longer extending length in the second extending direction than in the first extending direction. The third sensing resistor has a longer extending length in the first extending direction than in the second extending direction. The fourth sensing resistor has a longer extending length in the second extending direction than in the first extending direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: LIANG LIU, FENG LU, SHAOLONG MA, QIJUN YAO, XINGYAO ZHOU
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Publication number: 20170010743Abstract: An input device with switchable sensor configurations. In one embodiment, the input device can switch between a sensor configuration in which each of its sensor elements is enabled to sense input and a sensor configuration in which only a subset of its sensor elements are enabled to sense input. In another embodiment, the input device can switch between a sensor configuration in which each of its sensor elements is enabled to sense input and a sensor configuration in which one or more groupings of its sensor elements are enabled to collectively sense input. In a further embodiment, the input device can operate in a detection mode that switches between sensor configurations to determine a position of an input.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Joseph R. FISHER, JR., Erturk D. KOCALAR, Rishabh BHARGAVA, Lakshman RATHNAM
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Publication number: 20170010744Abstract: A multi-stimulus controller for a multi-touch sensor is formed on a single integrated circuit (single-chip). The multi-stimulus controller includes a transmit oscillator, a transmit signal section that generates a plurality of drive signals based on a frequency of the transmit oscillator, a plurality of transmit channels that transmit the drive signals simultaneously to drive the multi-touch sensor, a receive channel that receives a sense signal resulting from the driving of the multi-touch sensor, a receive oscillator, and a demodulation section that demodulates the received sense signal based on a frequency of the receive oscillator to obtain sensing results, the demodulation section including a demodulator and a vector operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Steven Porter HOTELLING, Christoph Horst KRAH, Marduke YOUSEFPOR, Thomas James WILSON
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Publication number: 20170010745Abstract: A touch control display panel, a touch control display device and a touch control display panel driving method are provided. The touch control display panel comprises a first substrate; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate; a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first substrate, a plurality of second electrodes disposed in a gap between two first electrodes and electrically insulated from the first electrodes, wherein the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are disposed in a same layer; a third electrode disposed on the second substrate, wherein an orthogonal projection of the third electrode on the first substrate is at least overlapped with an orthogonal projection of the second electrodes on the first substrate; and at least one controlling unit connected to the first electrodes, the second electrodes and the third electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: LIANG LIU, YUANHANG LI, ZUOYIN LI, YIHUA ZHU, SHOUJIN CAI, FENG LU, QIJUN YAO
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Publication number: 20170010746Abstract: A touch panel having a transparent capacitive sensing medium configured to detect multiple touches or near touches that occur at the same time and at distinct locations in the plane of the touch panel and to produce distinct signals representative of the location of the touches on the plane of the touch panel for each of the multiple touches is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Steve HOTELLING, Joshua A. STRICKON, Brian Q. HUPPI
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Publication number: 20170010747Abstract: A display device with a touch sensor having a display function and a touch sensor function is provided. The display device includes a first substrate including a pixel electrode; a first electrode along a first direction; and a second substrate including a second electrode that includes patterns of electrodes along a second direction crossing the first direction and that faces the first electrode and the pixel electrode, wherein upon the display function being activated, the pixel electrode is supplied with a pixel signal, and the second electrode is supplied with common voltage, and upon the touch sensor function being activated, the first electrode is applied with a first signal and the second electrode is configured to receive the first signal to be a second signal as a touch detecting signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Naosuke FURUTANI, Hayato KURASAWA, Makoto HAYASHI
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Publication number: 20170010748Abstract: An input device is disclosed. The input device includes a movable touch pad capable of detecting an object in close proximity thereto so as to generate a first control signal. The input device also includes a movement indicator capable of detecting the movements of the movable touch pad so as to generate one or more distinct second control signals. The control signals being used to perform actions in an electronic device operatively coupled to the input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Stephen Paul ZADESKY, Stephen Brian LYNCH, Brett William DEGNER
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Publication number: 20170010749Abstract: An input device is disclosed. The input device includes a movable touch pad capable of detecting an object in close proximity thereto so as to generate a first control signal. The input device also includes a movement indicator capable of detecting the movements of the movable touch pad so as to generate one or more distinct second control signals. The control signals being used to perform actions in an electronic device operatively coupled to the input device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Stephen Paul ZADESKY, Stephen Brian LYNCH, Brett William DEGNER
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Publication number: 20170010750Abstract: A multi-touch sensor panel is disclosed that can include a glass subassembly having a plurality of column traces of substantially transparent conductive material that can be formed on the back side, wherein the glass subassembly can also act as a cover that can be touched on the front side. Row traces of the same or different substantially transparent conductive material can then be located near the column traces, and a layer of dielectric material can be coupled between the column traces and the row traces. The row and column traces can be oriented to cross over each other at crossover locations separated by the dielectric material, and the crossover locations can form mutual capacitance sensors for detecting one or more touches on the front side of the glass subassembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Steven P. HOTELLING, Brian R. LAND, Mark Arthur HAMBLIN, Tang Yew TAN
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Publication number: 20170010751Abstract: Various embodiments for detecting and rejecting false, unintended rotations of rotary inputs of electronic devices are disclosed herein. In one example, an electronic device is provided with an optical detector that measures the distance between the electronic device and the wearer's forearm or hand, and when the distance is smaller than a threshold distance, the turns of the rotary input are false, unintended turns. In another example, a crown of a rotary input includes a plurality of capacitive sensors that detects the presence of a wearer's finger, which when absent, the turns of the rotary input are false turns. In another example, deflections or positions of a shaft of the rotary input are measured and if the deflections/positions indicate an upward force on the rotary input (which are likely caused by the wearer's forearm or hand), the turns of the rotary input are false turns. Other embodiments are described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2014Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Anna-Katrina Shedletsky, Christopher M. Werner, Colin M. Ely, Samuel Weiss
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Publication number: 20170010752Abstract: A display device which can achieve compatibility between the simplicity of the configuration or control of electronic equipment and the maintaining of its high operability includes: a display panel and a touch panel arranged on a front surface side of the display panel as viewed from a viewer. The touch panel includes one transparent substrate and a conductive pattern disposed on the substrate. A plurality of detection areas in each of which a touch position can be detected are provided in the touch panel. A non-detection area in which the touch position is not detected is provided between two detection areas next to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Masaki KUBO, Shigeyuki NISHITANI
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Publication number: 20170010753Abstract: Method and apparatus are provided for detecting hovering commands by a device with a display. In one embodiment, a method for detecting hovering commands by a device with a display comprises detecting a sequence of shadows from a hovering object by one or more light sensors of the device, where the sequence of shadows causes changes in light conditions on the display of the device, determining a leakage current corresponding to changes of light conditions by a controller of the device, determining an action performed by a user based on the changes of light conditions on the display by the controller of the device, determining a hovering command based on the action performed by the controller of the device, and executing the hovering command by the controller of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Dong Won LEE, Ye Seon LEE, Jae Ho KIM, Jae Hyeong KIM
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Publication number: 20170010754Abstract: Apparatus and methods are provided for converting a display into a touch display. One or more optical sensors are arranged proximate the display. A processor receives a signal from the optical sensor(s) and, based on the signal, executes instructions for: (i) determining a distance between a pointer device and a surface of the display signal; (ii) determining a position of the pointer device on the surface of the display; (iii) when the distance is less than a threshold detection distance and greater than a threshold touch distance, providing an indication on the display that the position of the pointer device has been determined; and (iv) when the distance is less than the threshold touch distance, taking an action indicative of contact between the pointer device and the surface of the display.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Vojta Kresl, Christopher N. Elsbree, Russell L. Agrusa, Paulo G. De Barros, Petr Altman
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Publication number: 20170010755Abstract: An acoustic touch apparatus is provided that includes a substrate capable of propagating surface acoustic waves, such as Rayleigh-type or Love-type waves. The substrate has a front surface, a back surface, and a curved connecting surface formed between the front surface and the back surface. The apparatus also includes at least one acoustic wave transducer and at least one reflective array, the acoustic wave transducer and the reflective array behind the back surface of the substrate. The acoustic wave transducer is capable of transmitting or receiving surface acoustic waves to or from the reflective array. The reflective array is capable of acoustically coupling the surface acoustic waves to propagate from the back surface and across the front surface via the curved connecting surface. Various types of acoustic touch apparatus with edge sensitive touch functions can be provided, according to specific embodiments.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Yoshikazu TANAKA, Ting GAO, Joel C. Kent, Jeffrey T. HALLER, Daniel H. Scharff, Timothy O. Avery
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Publication number: 20170010756Abstract: Organizations may comprise a variety of resources that are assigned to various organizational units, and allocated for various projects or tasks. A user who wishes to understand the organizational structure of the resources may examine information sources, such as resource manifests and resource access logs, and interpret such information with the user's knowledge of the organization, but may fail to achieve a comprehensive, accurate, and up-to-date understanding of the organization. Instead, interactions among users and resources may be monitored to infer organizational structure; assignment of resources to organizational units; relationships among resources; and usages arising within such resource relationships. Based on such inferences, an interactive visual map may be automatically generated that depicts the arrangement of the organization and the interrelationships of the resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Christian Liensberger, James Eldon Tillinghast, Mark Wade Heninger, Christina Storm, Chairy Chiu Ying Cheung
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Publication number: 20170010757Abstract: Provided are graphical user interface “baskets” that hold collections of windows on a large display (or collection (or array) of small displays) and confine respective windows into a particular screen region (that is, basket) as if that screen region (that is, basket) were the entire display. In one example, the basket layout(s) and window layout(s) may be saved. In another example, multiple windows may be organized/managed such that a “maximize” of a window does not take up the entire large display.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Matthew E. BROOMHALL, Fabrizio N. CALDAS, Christopher R. DOTSON, Michael R. SPANO
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Publication number: 20170010758Abstract: Mechanisms for rendering on an output device, such as a display. An actuator module is associated with a rendering rendered on an output device. If the actuator module is activated, the application itself is summoned and/or augmented so that application output is rendered on the output device. The application output is specific to the prior state of the rendering on the output devise. Thus, one user that activates the actuator module in one context may have a completely different experience that a user that activates the actuator module in another context, as the augmentation of the application is appropriate and matched to the current rendering context. The principles apply even across different applications. Thus, the actuator module may become a ubiquitous button that may be used by any user to enrich any application appropriate to the current context of that application.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2015Publication date: January 12, 2017Inventors: Vijay Mital, Darryl E. Rubin