Abstract: A method includes entering, by a portable electronic device, a low-power condition and while in the low-power condition, detecting an input. In response to detecting the input, a cover image is displayed. An application image is progressively revealed along with movement of a gesture while reducing display of the cover image.

Abstract: A method for identifying a motion of interest of an individual. The method includes collecting, at a computer, motion sensor input data of motions of the individual from a motion sensor for an interval of time. The method further includes analyzing, using the computer, the motion sensor input data using an analysis application having a set of classified predetermined motions of interest. The analysis application classifies a movement captured during the interval of time as a motion corresponding to one of a plurality of pre-determined motions of interest based on shared relative attributes. The method further includes generating an output providing notice of an identified predetermined motion of interest to a monitoring system.

Abstract: An operation device has a resistive-film touch panel, a human detector, a vibrator, and a displacement adjustor. The human detector detects human presence near the device by using a human sensor. The vibrator vibrates a piezoelectric element previously provided at an edge of the touch panel when human presence is detected near the device, to set a predetermined point on the touch panel to which the resulting vibration conducts as a virtual touch point. The displacement adjustor adjusts a displacement by making a measured position value corresponding to the virtual touch point equal to a previously set reference position value corresponding to the touch point.

Abstract: An apparatus performs a biometric authentication by acquiring matching data detected at a time of a biometric authentication and including a matching biometric data, a manner of holding and a posture of a terminal. A processor performs a process including acquiring matching data detected at a time of a biometric authentication and including a matching biometric data, a manner of holding and a posture of the terminal, and performing a matching process. The matching process compares the matching data and registered data including registered biometric data related to manners of holding and postures of the terminal, to extract the registered data including the manner of holding and the posture similar to those included in the matching data, and judge a successful biometric authentication when a similarity of the registered biometric data included in the extracted registered data with respect to the matching biometric data is a threshold value or greater.

Abstract: A method for operating a real-time gesture based interactive system includes: obtaining a sequence of frames of data from an acquisition system; comparing successive frames of the data for portions that change between frames; determining whether any of the portions that changed are part of an interaction medium detected in the sequence of frames of data; defining a 3D interaction zone relative to an initial position of the part of the interaction medium detected in the sequence of frames of data; tracking a movement of the interaction medium to generate a plurality of 3D positions of the interaction medium; detecting movement of the interaction medium from inside to outside the 3D interaction zone at a boundary 3D position; shifting the 3D interaction zone relative to the boundary 3D position; computing a plurality of computed positions based on the 3D positions; and supplying the computed positions to control an application.

Abstract: A computer keyboard includes position sensors such as capacitive sensors on each of the keys for monitoring positions of fingertips on the keys. A processor receives an indication of contact of a finger on a surface of a key, including an identity of the key and an indication of a position of the contact on the surface. The processor also receives an indication of a motion gesture comprising displacement of the position of the contact on the surface of the key. Using the identity of the key and the indication of the motion gesture, an input from a human operator is determined.

Abstract: A trackpad device includes a top surface, a capacitive sensor operably coupled to the top surface, a resistive sensor disposed below the capacitive sensor and at least one controller operably coupled to the capacitive sensor and to the resistive sensor. The at least one controller and the capacitive sensor are configured to detect one or more objects on the top surface. The at least one controller and the resistive sensor are configured to detect the one or more objects on the top surface independent of the detection by the at least one controller and the capacitive sensor. The at least one controller is configured to determine locations of the one or more objects on the top surface using information from the detection by the at least one controller and capacitive sensor and information from the detection by the at least one controller and the resistive sensor.

Abstract: Certain embodiments herein relate to determining a type of input device from which user input is received. Input devices, such as keyboards, scanners, card readers, other keypad devices, etc., may send information to a computing device. The information may include one or more characters or signals, each of which may be received by the computing device after a delay. Such a delay may be analyzed to determine a source or type of user input device. A threshold time may be established such that an identification and number of characters received before the threshold time is reached may be used to determine the source or type of an input device. In example embodiments, a distinction between a bar code scanner and a keyboard, among other types of input devices used in a product shipping application, may be determined.

Abstract: A composer interface allows a user to provide input, such as text data, to the social networking system. To reduce the number of inputs for a user to provide to the social networking system, one or more phrase objects are presented to the user when providing input. A phrase object includes a group of objects that users have previously provided to the social networking system. The social networking system presents phrase objects to the user that match at least a portion of the received input. Context information associated with the input and associated with various phrase objects may be used to select the presented phrase objects. By selecting a presented phrase object, the user includes the selected phrase object in the input.

Abstract: An optical finger navigation (OFN) device for use in handheld portable devices is presented. The OFN device may include a light source, a sensor, a lens holder integrated with a light guide system and a molded lead frame. The lens holder may include a lens receiving region for receiving the lens, a light guide system for directing light emitted by the light source towards the navigation surface. The light guide system may include a slanted wall that may be coated with a light reflective material.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes a display unit, a detecting unit, and a control unit. The display unit stereoscopically displays a display object. The detecting unit detects a first object and a second object in a three-dimensional space where the display object is displayed. The control unit changes the display object when a case is detected in which the display object is located between the first object and the second object in the three-dimensional space.

Abstract: One-handed operation of a wearable computing device is provided. An indicator is displayed on a graphical user interface of a wearable computing device. A directional displacement of an interface device is determined, wherein the interface device is removably connected to a finger of a user of the wearable computing device. An association is made between the indicator and a graphical user interface object based, at least in part, on the directional displacement of the interface device. A graphical user interface is modified to visually indicate the association between the indicator and a graphical user interface object. In response to determining that a force exerted by a surface in contact with the interface device exceeds a threshold, a graphical user interface object is activated.

Abstract: A mouse configured to be used as a user interface with a computing device. The mouse may include an arm component, a body component coupled to a first part of the arm component, and a wheel component coupled to a second part of the arm component.

Abstract: Apparatus and methods of active stylus to host device data transmitting are described. One method receives, at a stylus, an indication that a host device is performing a first coordinate measurement operation to determine a coordinate of the stylus proximate to a capacitive sense array of the host device. The set of coordinate measurement operations includes a first measurement operation of a first set of electrodes of the capacitive sense array and a second measurement operation of a second set of electrodes of the capacitive sense array. While the host device is performing the set of coordinate measurement operations, the stylus transmits a data packet of stylus data to the host device. In particular, the stylus transmits a first bit of the data packet during the first measurement operation and transmits a second bit of the data packet during the second measurement operation.

Abstract: An electronic device: displays an electronic document; while displaying the electronic document, detects a first input from a stylus, including detecting an initial contact by the stylus on a touch-sensitive surface; determines a plurality of characteristics of the first input, including a tilt of the stylus; in accordance with a determination that the tilt meets one or more selection criteria for a first virtual drawing implement, selects the first virtual drawing implement for the stylus to emulate; in accordance with a determination that the tilt meets one or more selection criteria for a second virtual drawing implement, selects the second virtual drawing implement for the stylus to emulate; and, after selecting one of the first virtual drawing implement and the second virtual drawing implement for the stylus to emulate, generates a mark in the electronic document with the selected virtual drawing implement in response to detecting the first input.

Abstract: A knob simplified assembly and a knob controller for a vehicle including the knob assembly is provided. The knob assembly includes a cylindrical shaped body that has an aperture in a center thereof. A first touch panel is disposed at an exterior surface of the body and is configured to receive a touch input on the exterior surface. Additionally, a second touch panel is disposed at a side surface of the aperture and is configured to receive a touch input on the side surface.

Abstract: An active stylus includes a pen body defining an accommodation chamber and a through hole unit, a control device mounted in the accommodation chamber and including a circuit board capable of outputting a signal to a touch control device of a touch screen being touched by the active stylus and elastic conductive members electrically connected to the circuit board and exposed to the outside of the through hole unit, and a rotating barrel rotatably mounted on the pen body around the through hole unit and including control zones movable with the rotating barrel relative to the pen body to change the contact condition between the elastic conductive members and the pen body for causing the circuit board to output one of a series of control signals to the touch control device in executing a corresponding operating function.

Abstract: In a liquid crystal display panel including a touch panel and a front window, it is possible to reduce the reproduction cost of the touch panel, achieving a high yield in the reproduction of the touch panel. The touch panel and the front window are bonded together by a PET film and a UV curable resin. When air bubbles or other defects are found between the front window and the touch panel, the front window and the touch panel are detached by cutting the UV curable resin by a cutter blade, in order to reproduce the touch panel. The residue of the UV curable resin left on the PET film is removed by detaching the PET film from the touch panel. A tab in which the adhesive is not formed is provided in an end of the PET film, so that the PET film can be easily detached from the touch panel, starting from the tab.

Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for determining a valid touch event on a touch sensitive device. At least two touch events are received from a touch interface. The at least two touch events are combined if a time difference between each of the at least two touch events is less than a time threshold and a proximity between each of the at least two touch events is less than a proximity threshold. A valid touch event is determined if a combined pressure indicator of a combined touch event is greater than a pressure threshold.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a touch panel and an electronic device. The touch panel includes a transparent substrate, a first conductive micropattern and a second conductive micropattern. The first conductive micropattern defines multiple traces in a plurality of first cells. The second conductive micropattern defines multiple traces in a plurality of second cells. The first conductive micropattern covers the second conductive micropattern, and the first cell overlaps the second cell. The first cell, the second cell and a corresponding area of the substrate in them are as a combination cell. The integral light transmittances between at least part of the combination cells are inconsistent. The present invention can have a low visibility of micropattern and can reduce manufacturing costs.

Abstract: A circuit configuration for touch panel controller IC includes a substrate including electrode pins arranged along four border edges thereof for signal transmission, and a controller mounted on the substrate and surrounded by the electrode pins and including processing units arranged in one same direction in a parallel manner, electric contacts arranged in three rows at three sides around the processing units and respectively electrically connected to the electrode pins of the substrate by respective lead wires and steering wires respectively electrically connected between the processing units and the electric contacts. Arranging the processing units in one same direction in a parallel manner minimizes differences in environmental conditions in exposure graphic definition and etch rate, thereby obtaining better circuit component process uniformity, and thus, the variation among the processing units after fabrication can be insignificant and better sensing accuracy can be achieved.

Abstract: A stretchable display device, including a stretchable display panel to display images; and a window on a touch sensing layer, the window including a soft part and a plurality of hard parts attached on a surface of the soft part, the hard parts including an attachment portion attached to the soft part and a non-attachment portion not attached to the soft part.

Abstract: A display device, and a method of operating and manufacturing the display device may receive input light from an object to be scanned that is positioned in front of a display for displaying an image, and may perform scanning of the object to be scanned.

Abstract: Disclosed are a display device and a control method thereof. More particularly, disclosed is a method of providing various notification modes based on a folding angle of a foldable display device and a bending angle of a flexible display device.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof and a touch display device. The array substrate comprises multiple data lines, multiple gate lines and multiple thin film transistors. The data lines and the gate lines intersect with each other in different planes to divide the array substrate into multiple pixel units, in each of which a thin film transistor is provided, wherein the array substrate further comprises multiple first touch sensing electrodes and multiple second touch sensing electrodes. The first touch sensing electrodes are provided below active regions of the thin film transistors and also serve as metal shielding layers for blocking light emitted by a backlight source. The first touch sensing electrodes and the second touch sensing electrodes intersect with each other in different planes, and capacitances are formed at intersections of the first touch sensing electrodes and the second touch sensing electrodes.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include a device with an integrated acoustics function that includes a patterned touch screen cover, an acoustic thin film, a plurality of electrodes, and a substrate. In some embodiments, the substrate is coupled to the acoustic thin film and reduces heat loss from the acoustic thin film through the substrate. The acoustic thin film may be coupled to the patterned touch screen cover and conducts an oscillating electrical current provided by the plurality of electrodes, thereby acting as a nano-scale acoustic generator. In still some embodiments, the patterned touch screen cover provides an array of microspeakers and a viewing area, where the array of microspeakers is disposed around a perimeter of the patterned touch screen cover.

Abstract: The present invention is a coin device having a module containing a display screen a power source and a system board providing circuitry to link all of the components of the present invention. The display screen and internal circuitry are protected by an outer shell, which forms a protective casing around the coin. The outer shell may be made of any material, including conventional metals and alloys used in minting. The circuitry may or may not be detachable from the protective casing.

Abstract: A touch sensor integrated type display device includes a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines which are arranged to cross over each other, a plurality of pixel electrodes respectively disposed in areas defined by the crossing of the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, a plurality of touch electrodes serving as common electrodes, each of which overlaps some of the plurality of pixel electrodes in an active area, and a routing wire which is arranged on at least one side of each of first and second data lines related to the some pixel electrodes corresponding to each touch electrode serving as the common electrode in parallel with the first and second data lines. The routing wire is connected to the touch electrode serving as the common electrode.

Abstract: A display signal drive circuit is configured to output a display signal having a signal level based on a common voltage to a display panel. A touch detection signal drive circuit is configured to output a touch detection signal having a signal level based on the common voltage to a touch panel in case that a composite panel is an in-cell type, and is configured to output a touch detection signal having a signal level based on a voltage level other than the common voltage to the touch panel in case that the composite panel is an on-cell type.

Abstract: A smartphone includes a cover layer; an LCD panel which is located under the cover layer and includes a liquid crystal layer, and a first glass layer and a second glass layer between which the liquid crystal layer is placed, wherein at least a portion of a touch sensor which senses touch in a capacitive manner is located between the first glass layer and the second glass layer; a backlight unit which is located under the LCD panel; a pressure electrode which is located under the backlight unit; and a shielding member which is located under the pressure electrode.

Abstract: A display apparatus with a touch detection function, includes: a plurality of common drive electrodes disposed in parallel so as to extend in one direction; a display element displaying on the basis of a pixel signal and a display drive signal; a touch detection element detecting an external approaching object on the basis of a touch-detection drive signal; and a scan drive section performing first scan driving to apply the display drive signal to the plurality of common drive electrodes sequentially by time division and second scan driving having a scan speed different from a scan speed of the first scan driving to apply the touch-detection drive signal to the plurality of common drive electrodes sequentially by time division, wherein the scan drive section drives the common drive electrodes for each plurality of the electrodes in the first and the second scan driving.

Abstract: A hybrid optical-physical touch screen is provided herein. The touch screen includes: an electronic panel display; one or more optical sensors coupled to the electronic panel display and configured to determine, a spatial location of a physical object on an X-Y plane near the electronic panel display; a plurality of physical touch sensors coupled to the electronic panel display and configured to determine, a physical touch event between the physical object and the electronic panel display; and a processor configured to compare the determined spatial location of the physical object with the determined physical touch event between the physical object and the display at a same time, and determine, based on predefined parameters, whether an intentional physical touch event between the physical object and the electronic panel display has occurred.

Abstract: Sensor fusion algorithm techniques are described. In one or more embodiments, behaviors of a host device and accessory devices are controlled based upon an orientation of the host device and accessory devices, relative to one another. A combined spatial position and/or orientation for the host device may be obtained based on raw measurements that are obtained from at least two different types of sensors. In addition, a spatial position and/or orientation for an accessory device is ascertained using one or more sensors of the accessory device. An orientation (or position) of the accessory device relative to the host computing device may then be computed based on the combined spatial position/orientation for the host computing device and the ascertained spatial position/orientation for the accessory device. The relative orientation that is computed may then be used in various ways to control behaviors of the host computing device and/or accessory device.

Abstract: A touch system with track detecting function includes a touch pad for sequentially sensing a plurality of positions of an indication object at a plurality of moments in order to detect a track of the indication object on the touch pad, and a processor for continuously generating motion vectors according to the track of the indication object on the touch pad, for generating a candidate motion vector according to at least one motion vector, and for nonlinearly generating a target motion vector according to the candidate motion vector in order to move a target shown on a display panel. Each of the motion vectors represents a difference between a position of the indication object and a next position of the indication object.

Abstract: A touch screen driver and method for driving the same are disclosed. The touch screen driver includes a Tx driving circuit which sequentially supplies a pair of out-of-phase composed of a first driving signal and a second driving signal which has a phase difference of 180° with respect to the first driving signal and the second driving signal driving signals to Tx lines, wherein the first signal and the second signal are simultaneously supplied to the adjacent Tx lines, respectively; and an Rx driving circuit which samples a charge of the touch sensor received through the Rx lines coupled with the Tx lines and converts the sampled charge into digital data.

Abstract: Provided is a conversion method for key operations on a non-touch screen terminal unit, involving the steps of: detecting a click action on a target key on the terminal unit, and acquiring the ID information of the target key; searching position information corresponding to the ID information in a preset profile according to the ID information; and, generating a touch screen event at the position indicated by the position information on the display screen of the terminal unit. With the present method, application programs developed for touch screens can run on non-touch screen terminal units compatibly, and thereby the compatibility of the terminal units is improved.

Abstract: An embedded display panel and a terminal with touch function and a touch detection method are disclosed. The display panel includes an up substrate, a down substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the up substrate and the down substrate. In addition, a touch electrode layer is formed between the liquid crystal layer and the up substrate, and the touch electrode layer includes a plurality of electrodes arranged in a matrix. A driving selector is arranged between the up substrate and the down substrate, and each of the electrodes is connected to the corresponding driving selector via lead wires. A touch controller is arranged outside a space defined by the up substrate and the down substrate. The touch controller is connected to the driving selector via a signals selection line and a scanning signal line, and a number of the signal selection line and the scanning signal line is less than the number of the lead wires.

Abstract: An electronic device displays a user interface in a first display state. The device detects a first portion of a gesture on a touch-sensitive surface, including detecting intensity of a respective contact of the gesture. In response to detecting the first portion of the gesture, the device displays an intermediate display state between the first display state and a second display state. In response to detecting the end of the gesture: if intensity of the respective contact had reached a predefined intensity threshold prior to the end of the gesture, the device displays the second display state; otherwise, the device redisplays the first display state. After displaying an animated transition between a first display state and a second state, the device, optionally, detects an increase of the contact intensity. In response, the device displays a continuation of the animation in accordance with the increasing intensity of the respective contact.

Abstract: A touch display apparatus and an operation method of a touch apparatus thereof are provided. The operation method of the touch apparatus includes the following steps, namely, providing a touch capability regulating signal according to a plurality of image data in a column of an image frame; providing a touch driving signal to a first touch electrode in sequence according to a first clock signal and a second clock signal; changing at least one of an amplitude and a frequency of the first clock signal and the second clock signal according to the touch capability regulating signal.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reducing user distraction is provided herein. During operation a user device will show content for limited periods of time during a context where the user is not to be distracted. So for example, a police officer driving may only be able to look at the screen of his device for a first period of time (e.g., 3 seconds). After that period of time, the device will prevent further viewing (preferably by turning off the screen). After a second period of time (e.g., 10 seconds), the device will again allow the officer to look at the screen for the first period of time. When the device has determined that user distraction does not need to be prevented, the device will allow full access to the user.

Abstract: The various methods and devices described herein relate to devices which, in at least certain embodiments, may include one or more sensors for providing data relating to user activity and at least one processor for causing the device to respond based on the user activity which was determined, at least in part, through the sensors. The response by the device may include a change of state of the device, and the response may be automatically performed after the user activity is determined.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display, a touch panel, an input receiving module and a threshold value correcting module. The touch panel is configured to be superimposed on the display. The input receiving module is configured to receive an input through the touch panel. The threshold value correcting module is configured to correct a threshold value which determines whether or not a touch is input.

Abstract: A system and method for correcting non-linear tracking of objects that may change size when moving on a large touch sensor having a relatively large space between electrodes by dynamic compensating on-the-fly by constantly calculating the size of a finger as measured by the touch sensor, and then scaling that measured size so that look-up tables may be used to compensate for any size finger in the X and Y axes.

Abstract: A control method and device comprising a touch screen, the touch screen displaying at least one touch control zone for transmitting a command to a piece of equipment. The touch screen is continuously unlocked. The touch screen is in a passive state presenting a first display mode when no control zone has been touched by a person. On being touched, the touch screen is put into an active state imparting a second display mode thereto that is distinct from the first display mode. After the touch screen has passed from the passive state to the active state, all of the requested commands are validated jointly by operating validation means, the control device transmitting at least one signal to at least one piece of equipment in order to convey the commands and the touch screen then being placed in the passive state.

Abstract: A touch circuit, a display driver circuit, a touch display device, and a method of driving the same. After display driving is ended and before touch driving begins to be performed, touch driving and touch sensing are accurately performed through pre-setting driving without the influence of display driving that was ended already. An accurate touch sensing result without touch sensing noise is obtained.

Abstract: A touch screen system configured to detect a displacement of a cover sheet when pressure or force is applied to the cover sheet upper surface. A light source and photodetector are configured to be in optical communication by reflection of light from the light source from the lower surface of the cover sheet. A displacement of the coversheet changes the amount of reflected light that falls upon the detector. The detector signal can be used to measure the amount of displacement, as well as the time-evolution of the displacement. The touch-screen system can be interfaced with a touch-sensitive display unit to form a display system having both pressure-sensing capability and touch-sensing capability.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a touch device, and more particularly to a pattern of a capacitive touch device and a manufacturing method thereof. The pattern of the capacitive touch device comprises of a substrate, two adjacent first axial electrodes, a first axial conductive wire, and a pair of metal jumpers. The first axial conductive wire is disposed between the two adjacent first axial electrodes for connecting the two adjacent first axial electrodes. The pair of metallic metal jumpers is disposed on the connecting points of the two first axial electrodes and the first axial conductive wire. Accordingly, resistance caused by the connecting points of the two adjacent first axial electrodes and the first axial conductive wire can be reduced such that response speed of the pattern of the capacitive touch control device is increased.

Abstract: A display device with a touch screen and a method of driving the same are provided. In a method of driving a display device including a touch screen including a plurality of sensing electrode lines and driving electrode lines and operating as an electromagnetic touch mode or a capacitive touch mode according to an input touch signal, the method includes: determining the input touch signal, controlling whether to connect pairs of sensing electrode lines among the sensing electrode lines, and controlling whether to connect pairs of driving electrode lines among the driving electrode lines, according to the touch signal.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device includes: a display unit that has a plurality of scanning signal lines to which a scanning signal is applied; a shift register that has a plurality of transfer circuits configured in a plurality of stages that perform a shift operation for temporarily storing a shift signal that has been input and sequentially transmitting the stored shift signal to a subsequent stage in synchronization with a clock signal having a discontinued period, and outputs the scanning signal to a scanning signal line corresponding to a transfer circuit that maintains the shift signal; and a signal line that transmits a holding potential signal for maintaining a potential of the shift signal to a transfer circuit that maintains the shift signal in the discontinued period of the clock signal.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a touch detecting device includes: a first drive area and a second drive area each including drive electrodes and detection electrodes, the drive electrodes extending in a first direction, being arrayed in a second direction intersecting with the first direction, and being applied with a drive signal, the detection electrodes extending in the second direction, being arrayed in the first direction, and outputting a detection signal. Application of the drive signal to the drive electrodes in the second drive area is stopped at a timing to apply the drive signal to the drive electrodes arranged in a first predetermined area included in the first drive area, and application of the drive signal to the drive electrodes in the first drive area is stopped at a timing to apply the drive signal to a second predetermined area included in the second drive area.