Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for interacting with an electronic and/or computer device comprising a command interface provided with capacitive sensors disposed in order to detect command objects, where said process comprises steps of: (i) searching (40) for objects described as contact in contact with the command interface surface; (ii) searching (41) for objects described as hovering at a distance from said command interface; and (iii) executing a command described as combined (43) when at least one contact object is present in at least one predefined contact area and at least one hovering object is present in at least one predefined hovering area, where said combined command (43) takes into consideration at least some information concerning said at least one hovering object. The invention also relates to a command interface and a device implementing the process.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an OLED touch panel, comprising: a substrate; a cathode and an anode, arranged on the substrate, wherein the cathode comprise a plurality of sub-cathodes; and at least one touch driving electrode, arranged on a same layer as the anode and separated from the anode, wherein the touch driving electrode is disposed to be intersected with the sub-cathodes; wherein the OLED touch panel is configured to, at a displaying phase, apply a driving signal for displaying on the cathode or the anode, so as to drive an OLED device, and applying, at a touching phase, a driving signal for touching on the touch driving electrode, so that at least a part of the sub-cathodes are operated as touch sensing electrodes, to output a touch sensing signal. The present disclosure also provides a display apparatus comprising the above OLED touch panel and a method for driving the same. The present disclosure uses the anode and cathode layer of the OLED device as an electrode layer of the touch sensor.

Abstract: An electronic device includes a transmit module and a receive module connected, respectively, to touch pad transmit and receive electrodes. The receive module includes a non-linear voltage-to-current converter, a pre-charge voltage generator, and an integrator. Mutual capacitance between the transmit and receive electrodes is Cm. The transmit module alternates between first and second states of, respectively, charging and discharging the transmit electrode. The receive electrode and the pre-charge voltage generator provide a control voltage to the voltage-to-current converter. The control voltage depends on the mutual capacitance, the state of the transmit module, and a pre-charge voltage provided by the pre-charge voltage generator. The voltage-to-current converter provides a charge current dependent on the first voltage to the integrator. The integrator determines a value for the mutual capacitance based on the charge current.

Abstract: An operation apparatus includes a detector that detects contact of a plurality of operating fingers on an operating surface, an area calculator that calculates an area of a detection region in the operating surface where the operating fingers have been detected, and a determiner that, after a state in which two operating fingers are detected has changed to a state in which one operating finger is detected, obtains a sum of areas of two detection regions where the two operating fingers are detected and an area of one detection region where the one operating finger is detected from the surface area calculator, and determines that an operation made by the two operating fingers is continuing when a continuation condition, in which the area of the one detection region is greater than or equal to the sum of the areas of the two detection regions, is established.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display device with a touch detection function includes: a display unit; a detecting unit; and a control unit that controls an operation timing of the display unit and the detecting unit. The control unit performs display processing and touch detection processing alternately a plurality of times in a display period of an image of one frame, the display processing being processing of performing control on the electric charge, the touch detection processing being processing of performing the touch detection. The control unit varies a length of a first period, a length of a second period, or both in display periods of images of two frames that are displayed consecutively, the first period being a period in which the display processing is performed once, the second period being a period in which the touch detection processing is performed once.

Abstract: A touch display panel includes a substrate, a sensing electrode layer, a metal layer and an active unit layer. The sensing electrode layer is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of sensing electrodes separated from one another and arranged in an array. The metal layer is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of signal lines. One signal line is used for transmitting a signal between one sensing electrode and a driving circuit. The active unit layer is disposed on the substrate and is located between the sensing electrode layer and the metal layer.

Abstract: Provided is a touch panel system capable of minimizing the possibility of a stylus pen failing to detect a synchronization signal. A touch panel controller (4) in the touch panel system generates a preparation signal including a high state and a low state that acts as a reference for adjusting the reception sensitivity of the synchronization signal in the stylus pen, and outputs the preparation signal to the touch panel earlier than the timing at which to output the synchronization signal to the touch panel.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, and pixels arranged in a matrix form, a touch screen which is embedded in the display panel or is installed on the display panel, a data driving circuit supplying a data voltage to the data lines, a gate driving circuit supplying a gate pulse to the gate lines, and a touch sensing circuit which supplies a driving signal to lines of the touch screen and senses a touch input. The gate driving circuit alternately drives pull-down transistors connected in parallel to one gate line. The gate driving circuit drives one of the pull-down transistors or simultaneously drives the pull-down transistors during a drive period of the touch screen.

Abstract: A tunable sensing device includes a substrate, a deformable dielectric unit and a tunable member. The dielectric unit is disposed on the substrate and is formed with a receiving space. The tunable member is received in the receiving space and has a stiffness tunable by an external electric field or an external magnetic field.

Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a plurality of sensing electrodes arranged in a touch active area, a charge pump circuit for generating an output voltage based on an input voltage and at least one clock signal, a clock signal generator for generating the clock signal, and a touch driver for generating touch driving signals by using the output voltage and applying the touch driving signals to the sensing electrodes. In the touch screen panel, the clock signal and the touch driving signals are synchronized with each other.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for recognizing a touch drag gesture on a curved screen are provided.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a shift register unit, its driving method, a gate driver circuit and a display device. The shift register unit includes a pull-up circuit configured to pull up a potential at the pull-up node PU in accordance with a starting signal from a starting signal input end, a pull-down circuit configured to pull down the potential at the pull-up node in accordance with a resetting signal from a resetting signal input end, a first capacitor configured to bootstrap the potential at the pull-up node at a pull-up stage, a first noise reduction circuit configured to perform noise reduction on a signal from the output end of the shift register unit at a pull-down stage and a compensation circuit configured to compensate for the potential at the pull-up node at a touch stage in accordance with a touch switch signal from a touch switch end.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for sensing touch. The device for sensing touch includes: a plurality of electrodes; and a sensing circuit connected with the plurality of electrodes by a plurality of output channels, which is provided so as to correspond to the plurality of electrodes, respectively, and configured to sense a variation of capacitance of the plurality of electrodes from the plurality of output channels, in which the sensing circuit simultaneously senses output data output from a first output channel, a second output channel, a third output channel, and a fourth output channel among the plurality of output channels, the second output channel is adjacent to the first output channel, and the fourth output channel is adjacent to the third output channel, and the first to fourth output channels are connected to an input terminal of a comparing unit including a first input node and a second input node.

Abstract: Disclosed is a touch sensitive display device, including: a display panel configured to display an image according to received image data; a touch sensing unit configured to generate touch sensing signals in response to a touch; a data analyzing unit configured to determine a noise period from the image data; and a touch control unit configured to set a sensing period that is outside the noise period, and to calculate a touch position based on the touch sensing signals corresponding to the sensing period and not to the noise period.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a processor configured to obtain, using the first sensor, location information corresponding to an active area of the display, in response to contact between an external object and the display, obtain, using the second sensor, pressure information corresponding to a pressure applied to the display resulting from the contact between the external object and the display, and determine a validity of the location information based on whether the pressure information satisfies a designated condition.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a method and circuit for driving touch sensors and a display device using the same. A method of driving touch sensors includes supplying a touch sensor driving signal to the touch sensors or an amplifier and sensing a touch input during a touch input sensing portion and measuring current noise received through the touch sensors without the touch sensor driving signal during a noise measurement portion.

Abstract: A virtual touchscreen for mobile devices provides a touchscreen area displaced to a side of the display to eliminate problems of a finger blocking the display during normal touchscreen operation. The virtual touchscreen may be monitored by a sensor system looking edgewise from a housing of the mobile device employing as few as two displaced photodetectors and a correspondingly oriented light source constrained to sensitivity within a narrow fan-shaped light-sensing plane. Extraction of the spatial location of a finger touch within this touchscreen area may be performed by a model of reflected light signals of a finger in different locations calibrated to environmental parameters of finger reflectivity and background reflectivity by a simple calibration process.

Abstract: A computer-implemented technique is described herein for customizing user experience on a per-user basis. In some implementations, the technique involves: collecting feedback information from a user pertaining to the user's interaction with a program feature; determining a modification to be made to the program feature based on the feedback information; making the modification; notifying the user of the modification; and receiving the user's post-modification assessment of the modification. The technique enables a program provider to quickly modify program features in an automated manner, with no (or reduced) effort by human developers, and at consequent reduced cost. In addition, the technique improves the users' experience with the program features since the program modifications are tailored to each user's preferences.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for visually presenting a hierarchical organization for an entity. A tree structure that represents the hierarchical organization for the entity is displayed by a computer system in a graphical user interface on a display system. A sequence of user inputs is received by a computer system through the graphical user interface. A plurality of levels of the tree structure in the graphical user interface is transformed, by the computer system, based on the sequence of user inputs such that a series of direct linkages from a topmost level of the plurality of levels to a bottommost level of the plurality of levels is aligned with a vertical alignment axis.

Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for sharing content between an electronic device and an external device. A web document including pieces of content is received. At least one piece of content executable in the external device is determined from among the pieces of content based on corresponding types of the pieces of content and function information of the external device. Information on the at least one piece of content is transmitted to the external device.

Abstract: An electronic device and a method of display and interaction in a user interface is provided. The method includes: providing a display region and control region of a user interface; initiating the display of a number of interactive items in the display region; upon receiving a predefined interaction from a pointer, tracking the position or movement of the pointer and dynamically populating the display region with a subset of interactive items based on the position or movement of the pointer. In response to detecting a substantial change of direction of the pointer or in response to the pointer crossing a selection threshold, a selection interaction mode is entered in which a user can individually interact with the interactive items populating the display region.

Abstract: A system, computer-implemented method and computer-readable medium for generating a magazine edition menu, is provided. Dimensions of a display screen on a mobile device are determined. Based on the dimensions, the size of an edition preview pane is determined, where the edition preview pane displays multiple images from the magazine editions. Based on the dimensions the size of a thumbnail section is determined, the thumbnail section displays a plurality of thumbnail editions associated with each magazine edition. Based on the size of the thumbnail section and a number of magazine editions, a layout of the plurality of thumbnail editions on a display screen is determined.

Abstract: A method includes arranging a plurality of components on a user interface in a hierarchy, the hierarchy having layers and each layer having at least one of the components of the user interface, presenting the user interface according to a structure of the hierarchy by displaying a pile of stacked images associated with a first content item on a layer of the user interface, wherein the pile visually indicates that there are multiple images stacked in the pile, and in response to a first user input to interact with the pile, expanding the pile to display a number of images in a series. In addition, in response to a second user input to move from the first content item to a second content item, automatically collapsing the series of images to display the pile of stacked images associated with the first content item before displaying the second content item.

Abstract: Novel tools for navigating among a suite of business applications, including without limitation menu systems for business application suites. In some cases, the menu is customized for a particular user of the business application suite. Hence, for example, a menu might comprise only items necessary to that user's job function and/or access level, as defined by one or more user roles that the user possesses. In another example, menu items may be provided only for actions that the user has appropriate permissions to take and/or pages that the user has appropriate permissions to view.

Abstract: As provided herein, a user of a client device may perform a search to generate a search results webpage. The search results webpage may be populated with links to webpages along with selection options used to selectively designate which webpages to open. The user may select one or more of the selection options, such as a first selection option for a first webpage and a third selection option for a third webpage. Accordingly, the first webpage may be presented within a first user interface tab and the third webpage may be presented within a second user interface tab (e.g., the first user interface tab may be presented within a foreground and the second user interface tab may be presented within a background based upon the user selecting the first selection option before the second selection option). In this way, the user may selectively open webpages within user interface tabs.

Abstract: A data model defines a structure of data objects with data fields, together with presentation properties. Data is stored according to data models. A request is received that identifies a data object described in a data model. Based on the request, data associated with the data object is invoked according to the data model. The data associated with the data object is invoked from a database and comprises fields' data, field identifiers, field labels, and field properties assigned to a plurality of fields of the data object. A set of contexts is defined to be associated with the data model. A context from the set of contexts is determined to be associated with the invoked data. A presentation of the invoked data is configured according to context specific conditions defined for the determined context. The configured presentation of the data is displayed on a presentation interface.

Abstract: In some aspects, a computer-implemented method for diagnosing an unfavorable mobile application user experience is described. The method may include retrieving user application interaction data from a mobile device, inter-correlating the user application interaction data, updating a user interaction database with the inter-correlated user application data, and diagnosing, via a processor operatively connected to the user interaction database, information indicative of a cause of the unfavorable user experience.

Abstract: A screen creation apparatus automatically collects the content of execution of a property edit of a component in a component edit history database as a history in a usual screen creation operation. Subsequently, the screen creation apparatus analyzes a set value by using an edit history in the component edit history database and the setting content of a component property characteristic database in usual edit operations when adding a new component, copying and pasting a component, and changing a property value. Thus, predicted set values are automatically set in all properties.

Abstract: A method for controlling display of an icon on a terminal displaying a first graphical object corresponding to the icon for accessing a corresponding application, detecting a data update for the application, generating a second graphical object based on the data update, and displaying the second graphical object on at least a portion of the first graphical object or in place of the first graphical object. In the method, the second graphical object corresponds to a content of the data update, the second graphical object comprises at least one profile image of a contact, and the second graphical object further comprises a numerical indicator corresponding to the data update and linked to the at least one profile image.

Abstract: An interaction mechanism is defined for the navigation of a representation of a physical space, whereby events or entities of interest outside the current view are detected, and flagged by adding a visual indicator at or near the edge of the view closest to the entity in question. By designating the visual indicator, for example with a mouse click or by directing the user's gaze at the visual indicator, the representation is prompted to modify the representation to include the space incorporating the entity of interest. The point of view may revert to the initial point of view on a further user action or after a predetermined time, or the original point of view may be flagged as a new entity of interest which the user may then select. Multiple points of interest may be defined such that the user may jump from point to point.

Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes providing a mid state, a fullscreen state, and a miniplayer state of a touchscreen user interface for presentation on a touchscreen device. The mid state presents a first video from a queue of videos and portions of a previous video or a next video from the queue of the videos. The fullscreen state expands the first video to fit the touchscreen user interface without presentation of the portions of the previous video or the next video. The miniplayer state shrinks the first video to fit a list of videos for a user account within the touchscreen user interface.

Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detect a first user interaction with a control button, disable an initiation of an action for a communication service, detect a second user interaction with the icon, and transmit an identification signal to a second communication device that causes the second communication device to present identification information describing the action for the communication service. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Abstract: Techniques for display a file folder are described herein. In one example, a system includes a processor to detect a transmission of one or more files from a file folder to a service and calculate a popularity value for each of the one or more files based on detected feedback from the service. The processor can also display the file with the highest popularity value as an icon for the file folder.

Abstract: A mobile operating system, includes a “Smart Dynamic Icon”, a “Quick Voice Assistant”, a “Quick Slide Assistant”, “Smart Gesture”, a “Full Screen Application Interface”, a “Global Application Icons Interface”, “Quick Shut Down” and an “Important Contacts Application”. If an application is in an update status, the “Smart Dynamic Icon” automatically display this application's icon on a home screen. The “Quick Voice Assistant” directly starts an application with the voice, don't need access to the network. The “Quick Slide Assistant” directly start an application, by sliding a specific slide path on the home screen. The “Smart Gesture” directly starts an application, according to a user gesture. In addition, when an user takes a mobile phone from a pocket, with “Smart Gesture” the system automatically wakes-up, or the system automatically wakes-up and automatically slides unlock at the same time.

Abstract: The disclosure discloses a smart TV set, and a method for processing a thumbnail of a picture. The method includes: while pictures are being browsed, if a smart TV set determines that a focus on a screen has stayed on an icon of any one of the pictures for a period of time reaching a preset threshold, then acquiring and displaying a thumbnail of the picture corresponding to the icon where the focus is currently staying; and predicting, by the smart TV set, a next movement direction of the focus according to previous position changes of the focus, and acquiring and buffering thumbnails of a preset number of pictures in the next movement direction of the focus.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for organizing a group icon in a messenger service and, more specifically, to: a method for organizing a group icon in a messenger service, the method enabling clear confirmation of information on group members by merging the information on the members, which participate in a group chat, so as to display the information through the group icon during group chatting through a messenger service; and an apparatus therefor.

Abstract: There is provided a method for dynamically updating a set of data objects, comprising: managing an object dataset defining attribute values for attribute parameters for each object; receiving a query including search term(s); applying the query to the object dataset to select a first set of objects including attribute parameter(s) associated with the search term(s); instructing rendering of the first set of objects within a graphical user interface (GUI); receiving a selection of object(s) of the first set of objects; identifying attribute parameter(s) according to the selected object(s); excluding a second set of objects from the first set of objects based on different attribute values of the identified attribute parameter(s), to identify a third set of objects; and instructing dynamic rendering to update the GUI to present the third set of objects, wherein the third set of objects includes fewer members than the first set of objects.

Abstract: Aspects of the technology described herein can efficiently identify athletes that satisfy a user's performance profile as determined by a customized performance score. The athlete performance score can be calculated according to performance variables selected by a user and weights given to the performance variables by the user. The athlete performance score can be used to identify athletes that score well under the selected variables and weights. The variables can include known sports statistics, explicit physical characteristics, implicit performance estimators, and publicity trends across social media.

Abstract: An approach to selecting an object represented on a touch screen display includes displaying a plurality of independent digital images on the touch screen display, indicating one of the plurality of independent digital images is selectable, detecting if interaction with the touch screen display is made while one of the plurality of independent digital images is indicated as selectable, and if interaction with the touch screen display is not made while the one of the plurality of independent digital images is indicated as selectable, indicating a subsequent digital image is selectable.

Abstract: A method at an electronic device communicatively coupled to a mobile device includes: receiving user inputs defining a prototype of an application for the mobile device; sending one or more images for the prototype to the mobile device for display in a user interface of the application; sending initial display parameters for the one or more images to the mobile device; receiving user-interaction data from the mobile device corresponding to interaction of a user with the mobile device while the mobile device is displaying a respective image of the one or more images in accordance with the initial display parameters for the respective image; determining an updated display parameter for the respective image, in accordance with the user-interaction data; and sending an indication of the updated display parameter to the mobile device, wherein the mobile device is to display the respective image in accordance with the updated display parameter.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a multi-action button for mobile devices are provided. Alerts are received and multi-action buttons are determined corresponding to the alerts and clinicians associated with mobile devices. The multi-action buttons are displayed on the mobile devices.

Abstract: Methods, computer program products, and systems, for example, for controlling display of an image on a display screen includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, data regarding a user selected area relative to a first portion of an image displayed on a display screen to define a second portion of the image, at least a portion of the second portion of the image being outside the first portion of the image displayed on the display screen, and automatically controlling, by the one or more processor, display of the second portion of the image on the display screen based on the user selected area of the image to generally maximize display of the second portion of the image within the display screen.

Abstract: Various implementations of a media presentation system are provided. In one implementation, for example, the system includes a display device comprising a display region, a user input device and a control system. The control system is configured to modify a presentation while the display device is in a presentation mode. Methods of controlling media presentation systems are also provided. In one implementation, for example, a method of controlling a media presentation system includes providing a presentation on a display device in a presentation mode of the media presentation system; receiving a user input from a user input device of a media presentation system at a control system; and altering a display in a display region of the display device in response to the user input, wherein the operation of altering the display comprises modifying the display of the presentation while the media presentation system is in the presentation mode.

Abstract: Disclosed are methods and apparatus for displaying attributes of a plurality of plane elements which form a plane layout, the methods includes at least: extracting a first elevation of a first plane element and a second elevation of a second plane element, from a reference plane of the plane layout, rotating the first and second plane elements in three dimensions, displaying the first and second plane elements to be separated from the reference plane, based on the extracted first and second elevations, according to the rotation of the first and second plane elements, displaying a first and second graphic objects, which represents one or more movement attributes of the first and second plane elements, on first and second virtual side surfaces which appear as a result of the rotation of the first and second plane element.

Abstract: Methods and electronic devices are provided for processing an input. A first object is displayed on a display of the electronic device. A first input related to the first object is received from a user of the electronic device. The first object is moved according to the first input. A speed at which the first object is moving is determined. The speed is compared with a preset threshold. An instruction corresponding to the first input is determined based on a comparison of the speed with the preset threshold. The instruction is executed.

Abstract: Some embodiments provide an image editing application that edits an image. The image editing application displays an image in a display area. The image editing application displays a rotatable user interface item. In response to receiving a user input, the image editing application rotates the rotatable user interface item. The image editing application rotates the image displayed in the display area based on the rotation of the rotatable user interface item.

Abstract: A user interface for rotating imagery among a plurality of canonical views of a geographic area of interest is disclosed. The interface includes at least one rotation control icon for rotating the imagery among a plurality of canonical views of the geographic area, and a direction indicating portion that indicates a compass direction associated with the canonical view presented on the display device. In particular implementations, the interface can be configured to come into view over the imagery whenever a user navigates to a particular view of the imagery where a plurality of canonical views is available. The motion of the navigation control interface appearing into the imagery is intended to draw attention to the control interface to inform the user that additional canonical views are available.

Abstract: A mobile terminal including a touch screen and a controller configured to control the touch screen to display a first information of a first application on a first window, control the touch screen to reduce a size of the first window and to output a second window including a list of one or more applications in response to a first input, wherein the second window does not overlap with the first window and is positioned at a region where at least part of the first window has been output before the size of the first window is reduced, receive a second input to select a second application from the list, and control, in response to the second input, the touch screen to display a second information of the second application on the second window in a state where the first information of the first application is still displayed on the first window. Further, the list disappears from the second window when the second information is displayed on the second window.

Abstract: A computing device includes a hardware processor and a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions. The instructions may be executable to: display, on a touch screen, a first screen image of a user interface of the computing device; detect a first touch gesture on the first screen image, where the first touch gesture is associated with a dial control including a plurality of control options; and in response to a detection of the first touch gesture: blur the first screen image; present the dial control over the first screen image; in response to a rotation of the first touch gesture, rotate the dial control to select a first control option of the plurality of control options; and in response to a selection of the first control option, present additional information in a second portion of the touch screen.

Abstract: A geo-fence management system for a machine is disclosed. The geo-fence management system may include a user interface having a display and an input device. The user interface may be configured to receive via the input device a first input indicative of geographic information, a second input indicative of an operating parameter of the machine associated with the geographic information, and a third input indicative of one or more of a task and a request to monitor data associated with the operating parameter of the machine. The geo-fence management system may also include a controller in communication with the user interface and configured to generate a command signal based on one or more of the first, second, and third inputs.