Patents Issued in August 17, 2017
  • Publication number: 20170235345
    Abstract: An electronic device can include first and second housing components and an electrical grounding feature located therebetween to provide a grounding path. The grounding feature can include an outer portion formed from an electrically conductive material and an internal region containing a removable expansion element. The grounding feature can exert an expansion force against the housing components when the device is assembled and the expansion element remains, and exert no expansion force against the housing components when the expansion element is removed. The device can also include an adhesive coupling the electrical grounding feature to the housing components, which adhesive can be electrically conductive. The expansion element can be deformable and removable from an open end of the grounding feature outer portion, which outer portion can be elastic and can deform to contact more of the housing components when the grounding feature is compressed therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Jonathan L. BERK
  • Publication number: 20170235346
    Abstract: An assembly for a computer system includes a computer chassis having a back panel with a connector panel; a cable covering unit fixable in a mounting position to the back panel that prevents connected plug connectors from being unplugged from the connector panel in the mounting position; wherein the cable covering unit and the computer chassis are arranged such that the cable covering unit can be placed on the computer chassis in an articulated manner to be fixed thereto and subsequently pivoted toward the back panel into the mounting position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Andreas Burghart, August Scherer
  • Publication number: 20170235347
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and assemblies for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data processing assembly is presented. The data processing assembly includes a midplane assembly configured to electrically couple on a first side to storage modules, compute modules, or graphics modules, electrically couple on a second side to communication modules and one or more power supply modules. The data processing assembly includes a chassis configured to mechanically house and structurally support each of the storage modules, the compute modules, the communication modules, and the one or more power supply modules when coupled to the midplane assembly to form the data processing assembly and allow installation of the data processing assembly into a rackmount environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Liqid Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Rudolph Heyd, Seth Walsh, Brenden Michael Rust, Christopher R. Long, Jason Breakstone
  • Publication number: 20170235348
    Abstract: Provided herein is an apparatus including circuitry as well as membrane that is configured to pass air, to remove heat from the circuitry, and to prevent the circuitry from being exposed to moisture. The membrane is additionally includes pores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Forrest Wolf
  • Publication number: 20170235349
    Abstract: 3D printed thermal management devices and corresponding methods of manufacturing are described herein. A thermal management device includes a single contiguous component including at least a portion of a first heat exchanger and at least a portion of a second heat exchanger. The second heat exchanger is of a different type than the first heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Lincoln Ghioni, Jeffrey Taylor Stellman, Andrew Hill, Kurt Jenkins, Robyn Rebecca Reed McLaughlin
  • Publication number: 20170235350
    Abstract: A cooling apparatus that includes a base plate including two heat exchange units and a cover coupled to the base plate and enclosing the two heat exchange units. A recess is defined in the base plate and between the two heat exchange units. The cover and the base plate define a heat exchange chamber that includes the two heat exchange units. The cover has a first set of openings and a second set of openings, and is coupled to the base plate such that the first set of openings is above a first heat exchange unit and the second set of openings is above a second heat exchange unit. The cooling apparatus further includes a first pumping unit on the cover and over the first set of openings and a second pumping unit on the cover and over the second set of openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Shui Fa TSAI
  • Publication number: 20170235351
    Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, apparatus and methods for restarting an electronic device configured to receive power from a main power supply and an auxiliary power supply. The electronic device includes a reset circuit a reset circuit configured to provide a first signal indicative of an electronic device failure, and an isolation circuit configured to isolate the main power supply from the auxiliary power supply in response to the first signal so that power is supplied to the reset circuit by the auxiliary power supply. The reset circuit can be configured to generate a reset signal for restarting the electronic device with the power supplied by the auxiliary power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Fairchild Semiconductor (Suzhou) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jianing ZHOU, Peng ZHU, William Robert Newberry, Shuyuan SHAO
  • Publication number: 20170235352
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to data processing, and more particularly, to methods and systems for memory initialization of an integrated circuit. In one embodiment, a method for memory initialization at a circuitry is provided. The method comprises: identifying a portion of the circuitry configured as a memory device; detecting a start of a power-off state for a power domain within the circuitry including the memory device; performing a write operation to write data of a pre-determined pattern to the memory device upon detecting the start of the power-off state; and providing the data stored at the memory device for a reading operation after the power-off state ends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Kodavalla Vijay KUMAR
  • Publication number: 20170235353
    Abstract: A network-centric, power management system and method is disclosed for monitoring and controlling device nodes attached to a network. The monitoring and controlling includes collecting and processing information available on the network about the device nodes and using the collected information to manage power on the device nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Shankar Mukherjee, Jean Walrand, Nicholas Bambos
  • Publication number: 20170235354
    Abstract: A power system includes a voltage detection IC which outputs a reset signal to a microcomputer when an input voltage is equal to or lower than a reset release voltage, releases outputting of the reset signal when the input voltage exceeds the reset release voltage, and outputs the reset signal to the microcomputer again after the input voltage exceeds the reset release voltage when the input voltage is equal to or lower than a reset detection voltage which is lower than the reset release voltage and a voltage conversion circuit which sets a first voltage associated with a change of a power voltage as the input voltage before start of operation of the microcomputer and sets a second voltage which is associated with a change of the power voltage and is lower than the first voltage as the input voltage after the start of operation the microcomputer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: ALPINE ELECTRONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Hideaki Sato
  • Publication number: 20170235355
    Abstract: A laptop computer housing includes a base, a lid, a hinge coupling the base and the lid, and one or more detection circuit for detecting multiple open lid angles between the lid and the base. A method includes detecting an open lid angle between the lid and the base of the laptop, and scaling power consumption of one or more components of the laptop in response to the detected open lid angle. For example, the method may enforce a first reduced power setting for the one or more components in response to detecting a first open lid angle, and may enforce a second reduced power setting for the one or more components in response to detecting a second open lid angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Shareef F. Alshinnawi, Gary D. Cudak, J. Mark Weber, Joseph F. Herman
  • Publication number: 20170235356
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a system bus, a hardware including a plurality of physical devices connected to the system bus, and a power controller connected to the system bus to collect through the system bus state information about each of the plurality of physical devices, select a specific category corresponding to the collected state information by using a previously constructed decision-making tree model, and control an operation of each of the plurality of physical devices according to a power reduction policy mapped to the selected specific category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Jin Ho ON
  • Publication number: 20170235357
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed towards a method and apparatus for managing power consumption of a client computer, comprising receiving, by a host computer from the client computer, a battery power management object (BPMO) related to a remote computing session, the host computer communicatively coupled to the client computer by the remote computing session and adjusting, by the host computer based on the battery power management object, at least one of i) at least one parameter associated with the remote computing session or ii) a source definition for the remote computing session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2014
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Alfred Hoi-Fai Leung
  • Publication number: 20170235358
    Abstract: A power sourcing equipment (PSE) chip, and a Power over Ethernet (PoE) device and method are provided, which can determine a status that a peer end is connected to a powered device (PD) when four cable pairs are used to supply power. The PSE chip includes a channel controller, a first channel detector, and a second channel detector. The channel controller sends detection voltages along a first and a second groups of cable pairs in an Ethernet twisted pair; determines a first impedance and a second impedance according to the detection voltages and corresponding currents that are detected; and determines that a first group or a second group of cable pairs is connected to a valid PD according to the impedances and a preset range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Shiyong Fu, Yan Zhuang, Rui Hua, Jianguang Yang, Xueqi Chen, Haifei Wang
  • Publication number: 20170235359
    Abstract: A secondary side controller for a power converter configured to provide a control signal to an emitter element of an opto-coupler for control of a primary side controller of the power converter, the secondary side controller configured to operate with the primary side controller for controlling the voltage output of the power converter, the secondary side controller configured to, based on; a first control value configured to instruct the power converter to output its present voltage output; and a second control value configured to instruct the power converter to provide a requested target voltage output; provide said control signal in accordance with a transition profile over a predetermined transition time period to effect a change between the first control value and the second control value, the transition profile comprising at least a first rate of change in the control signal followed by an end time period leading to the end of the transition time period during which the rate of change in the control
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Robert Henri de Nie, Wilhelmus Hinderikus Maria Langeslag, Peter Laro
  • Publication number: 20170235360
    Abstract: A method and system for assisting a user when interacting with a graphical user interface combines gaze based input with gesture based user commands. A user of a computer system without a traditional touch-screen can interact with graphical user interfaces in a touch-screen like manner using a combination of gaze based input and gesture based user commands. A solution for touch-screen like interaction uses gaze input and gesture based input as a complement or an alternative to touch-screen interactions with a computer device having a touch-screen. Combined gaze and gesture based interaction with graphical user interfaces can be used to achieve a touchscreen like environment in computer systems without a traditional touchscreen or in computer systems having a touchscreen arranged ergonomically unfavorable for the user or a touchscreen arranged such that it is more comfortable for the user to use gesture and gaze for the interaction than the touchscreen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Tobii AB
    Inventor: Erland George-Svahn
  • Publication number: 20170235361
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to an interaction system for a vehicle that can be configured by a user. For example, an interaction system for a vehicle can include an image capture resource to receive eye image data of a user. The interaction system for a vehicle can also include a processor to identify a direction of an eye gaze of the user based on the eye image data. The processor can correlate the eye gaze to a driving experience function (DEF), and the processor can transmit a DEF communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: LUCA RIGAZIO, CASEY JOSEPH CARLIN, ANGELIQUE CAMILLE LANG, MIKI NOBUMORI, GREGORY SENAY, AKIHIKO SUGIURA
  • Publication number: 20170235362
    Abstract: According to the invention, a system for presenting graphics on a display device is disclosed. The system may include an eye tracking device for determining a gaze point of a user on a display device. The system may also include a graphics processing device for causing graphics to be displayed on the display device. The graphics displayed on the display device may be modified such that the graphics in an area including the gaze point of the user have at least one modified parameter relative to graphics outside the area. The size of the area may be based at least in part on an amount of noise in the gaze point over time and at least one other secondary factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Tobii AB
    Inventors: Robin Thunström, Märten Skogö
  • Publication number: 20170235363
    Abstract: A method for selecting a first area from a viewing zone which has a plurality of selectable areas is described. The method has measures a point of gaze of a user on the viewing zone, thereby providing a measured point of gaze. Furthermore, the method determines an estimated point of gaze based on the measured point of gaze and displays information regarding the estimated point of gaze on the viewing zone. The method also captures displacement information which is directed at dislocating the displayed information on the viewing zone. An actual point of gaze is determined based on the measured point of gaze and based on the captured displacement information. Furthermore, a first area which corresponds to the actual point of gaze is selected from the plurality of selectable areas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Marc BREISINGER, Michael EHRMANN, Felix SCHWARZ, Philipp SUESSENGUTH, Julian EICHHORN
  • Publication number: 20170235364
    Abstract: There is provided a detection device, including: a non-contact sensor unit that detects a shape of a finger; and a mounting unit that mounts the non-contact sensor unit on a hand at a more distal position than a carpal area. Generation of occlusions may be prevented and operations that utilize a shape of user's fingers may be detected more reliably, while a mounted component and an operating procedure may also be simplified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hitoshi NAKAMURA, Noriyuki SUZUKI, Kensuke KITAMURA
  • Publication number: 20170235365
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and system for improving application ergonomics in a hand-held device. The application ergonomics is improved by a layout optimizing unit of the hand-held device which detects a touch on the hand-held device and receives one or more signals corresponding to the region of the touch on the hand-held device. The one or more signals received are validated by the layout optimizing unit and usage of at least one hand of both hands is determined based on the validated signals. The layout optimizing unit determines a user interface layout of the hand-held device based on the determined usage to improve the application ergonomics of the hand-held device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Rahul SIRIPURAPU, Vinod PATHANGAY
  • Publication number: 20170235366
    Abstract: The present application relates to the field of wearable devices and provides a dominant limb identification method and device. The method may comprise acquiring first somatosensory information of a first limb of a user and determining whether the first limb is a dominant limb according to the first somatosensory information and reference information. The method and device enable a device worn by the user to perform automatic setting according to the identification result, thereby improving user experience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: HAO LIU
  • Publication number: 20170235367
    Abstract: One variation of a dynamic tactile interface for a computing device includes: a tactile layer defining a peripheral region and a deformable region adjacent the peripheral region; a substrate including a transparent base material exhibiting a first optical dispersion characteristic, coupled to the tactile layer at the peripheral region, defining a fluid conduit adjacent the peripheral region and a fluid channel fluidly coupled to the fluid conduit; a volume of transparent fluid contained within the fluid channel and the fluid conduit and exhibiting a second optical dispersion characteristic different from the first optical dispersion characteristic; a volume of particulate contained within the transparent base material of the substrate, biased around the fluid conduit, and exhibiting a third optical dispersion characteristic different from the first optical dispersion characteristic; and a displacement device displacing fluid into the fluid channel to transition the deformable region from a retracted setting i
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Micah Yairi, Christopher DeArmitt, Michael Hammersley
  • Publication number: 20170235368
    Abstract: The invention relates to a motor vehicle control device comprising: a touch surface (2) for detecting contact from a finger of a user and locating the contact on the touch surface (2); and a haptic and/or audio feedback module (4) configured such as to cause the touch surface (2) to vibrate and/or such as to generate audio feedback to the user, in response to contact with the touch surface (2), characterized in that said motor vehicle control device comprises a control unit (5) configured such as to control the haptic and/or audio feedback module (4) such that the value of at least one parameter of the haptic and/or audio feedback depends on the distance (D) between the location (P1) of the finger of the user and a target area (Zc) for controlling the touch surface (2). The invention also relates to a control method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: DAV
    Inventors: Nour-Eddine El-Ouardi, Stéphanie Dabic
  • Publication number: 20170235369
    Abstract: A wearable device suitable for being worn by a user, said wearable device comprising a proximity sensor configured to detect a proximity parameter representative of a distance between said wearable device and another wearable device; a transceiver configured to send proximity information pertaining to said detected proximity parameter to a processing unit and to receive from said processing unit visual output generated based on said proximity information; and a display layer configured to display said visual output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Utku Gunay Acer, Afra Mashhadi, Marc Van Den Broeck, Fahim Kawsar
  • Publication number: 20170235370
    Abstract: Disclosed is a three-dimensional gesture sensing method. The three-dimensional gesture sensing method comprises the following steps. Step A: driving at least one first conductive line of conductive lines in the touch sensing device as a first working sensing line, and driving at least one second conductive line of the conductive lines in the touch sensing device as a second working sensing line, such that a sensing area is formed between the first working sensing line and the second working sensing line. Step B: detecting a conductor according to the sensing area. Step C: dynamically adjusting at least the area, the position or the amount of the sensing area according to the conductor to implement a three-dimensional gesture sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: YU-HAN CHEN, CHI-CHIEH LIAO, CHIA-YI LEE
  • Publication number: 20170235371
    Abstract: Vehicle operating systems for operating a vehicle having a driving seat for a vehicle driver and at least one passenger seat for passengers are described. The vehicle operating system may include one or more camera devices for shooting images of hand actions of the driver or images of hand actions of a passenger, and a storage device for storing operating signals corresponding to hand actions. A processing device may be configured to select the driver or the passengers as a gesture command operator, and to control the camera device to shoot hand action images of the selected gesture command operator. The command system may also be configured to convert the shot hand action images into corresponding operating signals according to hand action indicia stored in the storage device. The operating signals may be sent to execution devices, that execute the corresponding operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Thunder Power Hong Kong Ltd.
    Inventors: Jen-Chieh Hsiao, Yong-Syuan Chen
  • Publication number: 20170235372
    Abstract: An interactive 3D display apparatus and method are provided. The interactive 3D display apparatus includes a hand sensing module configured to acquire a hand image by detecting a hand of a user and a user interaction module configured to generate a virtual object adjustment parameter by analyzing user-intended information about the hand based on the hand image acquired by the hand sensing module and comparing an analysis result with predefined user scenarios, an image rendering module configured to set a scene according to the generated virtual object adjustment parameter, generate image data by rendering the set scene, and convert the generated image data into display data, and a 3D display configured to display a 3D image including a virtual object in which a change intended by the user has been reflected according to the display data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hoon SONG, Yuntae KIM, Juwon SEO, Hongseok LEE, Chilsung CHOI
  • Publication number: 20170235373
    Abstract: A method of providing a handwriting style correction function and an electronic device adapted to the method are provided. The electronic device includes: a touch screen; a processor electrically connected to the touch screen; and a memory electrically connected to the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Wonje MOK
  • Publication number: 20170235374
    Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a plurality of scanning lines including a first scanning line and a second scanning line, wherein the first scanning line is adjacent to the second scanning line in a first direction; a plurality of touch drive electrodes including a first touch drive electrode and a second touch drive electrode, wherein the first touch drive electrode is adjacent to the second touch drive electrode in the first direction; and an operation controller, wherein the operation controller is configured to provide a display scanning signal to a selected scanning line of the plurality of scanning lines and scan the plurality of scanning lines in a second direction and provide a touch drive signal to a selected touch drive electrode of the plurality of touch drive electrodes that is not coupled to the selected scanning line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Kazuya ARIMA
  • Publication number: 20170235375
    Abstract: A user interface, a computer program product, a signal sequence, a means of transportation and a method for classifying a user gesture performed freely in space. A first gesture and/or a second gesture may be detected by a sensor. A processor may compare a first characteristic of the first gesture with a first characteristic of a second gesture, and, as a function of the comparison, the first gesture may be classified in contrast to the second gesture as an intended user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20170235376
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter includes a method of recognizing an aimed point on a plane. Images captured by one or more image sensor are processed for obtaining data obtaining data indicative of location of at least one pointing element in the viewing space and data indicative of at least one predefined user's body part in the viewing space; using the obtained data an aimed point on the plane is identified. In case it is determined that a predefined condition is met a predefined command and/or message is executed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Itay Katz, Amnon Shenfeld
  • Publication number: 20170235377
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to a method of realistic rotation of a virtual object for an interaction between a control object in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and the virtual object in a virtual space that the control object interacts with. In particular, it relates to detecting free-form gestures of a control object in a three-dimensional (3D) sensory space and generating for display a 3D solid control object model for the control object during the free-form gestures, including sub-components of the control object and in response to detecting a two e sub-component free-form gesture of the control object in the 3D sensory space in virtual contact with the virtual object, depicting, in the generated display, the virtual contact and resulting rotation of the virtual object by the 3D solid control object model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Leap Motion, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex MARCOLINA, David S. HOLZ, Paul A. Durdik
  • Publication number: 20170235378
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for invoking a local keyboard on an HTML page in a user terminal device are disclosed. The method includes analyzing an HTML page when a user terminal device loads the HTML page, and generating a local input field at each page input field having a recognition identifier if page input field(s) having recognition identifier(s) and needing to invoke local keyboard(s) exist(s); setting a type of a local keyboard that needs to be invoked by each local input field; and transmitting input information received by the local input field through a corresponding local keyboard to the HTML page. By generating a local input field at a page input field having a recognition identifier, the present disclosure can implement an invocation of a local keyboard that cannot be invoked by a page input field through the local input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Qiang Mou
  • Publication number: 20170235379
    Abstract: A user interface device for applying control signals to a communication system, comprising: at least one pressure-activated multidirectional tiltable/pushable plate with multiple pressureable areas, wherein each of said pressureable areas activates a corresponding pressure element that is located under said plate, wherein each activation of a specific pressure element defines an action which is respectively performed upon tilting-pressing of said plate towards the location of the respective pressure element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: CARDO SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Abraham Glezerman, Avraham Kushnirov, Abraham Moato
  • Publication number: 20170235380
    Abstract: An HMD includes an image display unit that makes a user visually perceive an image, and an control device, capable of being moved independently of the image display unit, which includes a six-axis sensor detecting a movement and a track pad receiving an operation. The HMD controls the display of the image display unit in accordance with the movement detected by the six-axis sensor in a state where the track pad receives an operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kaori SENDAI, Kazuo NISHIZAWA, Fusashi KIMURA, Masahide TAKANO
  • Publication number: 20170235381
    Abstract: A novel information processing device with high convenience or high reliability is provided. Furthermore, a novel semiconductor device with high convenience or high reliability is provided. The information processing device includes a housing, an attitude sensor, a plurality of photosensors, and an arithmetic device. The attitude sensor has a function of sensing an attitude of the housing and a function of supplying attitude information based on the attitude. The housing includes a plurality of regions. The photosensors have a function of measuring illuminance in each of the plurality of regions and a function of supplying illuminance information based on the illuminance. The arithmetic device has a function of selecting one region on the basis of the attitude information and a function of operating on the basis of the illuminance information of the selected region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Haruki Katagiri
  • Publication number: 20170235382
    Abstract: A mobile device is disclosed. The mobile device comprises an inertial measurement unit (IMU), a magnetic field detector, a display screen, and a processing unit. The processing unit is operable to monitor directional data from the magnetic field detector. In response to directional data exceeding a predetermined threshold, the processing unit processes the graphic content based on the inertial motion data from the IMU. The controller then displays the graphic content on the display screen demonstrating graphic motion corresponding to the inertial motion data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Robert P. Bruza, Samuel R. Vidal
  • Publication number: 20170235383
    Abstract: An operating device for a domestic appliance includes an operating element having a rotary ring to set operating conditions of the domestic appliance according to a rotary movement, and an electronic display area enclosed by the rotary ring. An optical light strip in a form of a circumferential ring is arranged adjacent to and separate from the rotary ring to indicate visually a length of a rotary path travelled by the rotary ring in a rotary movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Ulrich GOSS, Christoph ORTMANN, Robert SACHON
  • Publication number: 20170235384
    Abstract: A method is provided to interface an active stylus with a sensor controller, wherein the sensor controller is coupled to a sensor configured to receive input from the active stylus. In the method the sensor controller caches stylus capability information of the active stylus. The stylus capability information includes setting information for inking used by an application program executed to display input from the active stylus on the sensor. The active stylus generates a hash value of the stylus capability information and transmits the hash value to the sensor controller when the active stylus enters a sensing zone of the sensor controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: David Charles Fleck, Sadao Yamamoto
  • Publication number: 20170235385
    Abstract: An explosion-proof electronic system. The system comprises a substantially explosion-proof enclosure, a substantially explosion-proof glass window forming a portion of the enclosure, an electrical coil located within the enclosure, an electrical excitation circuit located within the enclosure and connected to the electrical coil, where the excitation circuit is configured to cause the electrical coil to establish a magnetic field that extends through the explosion-proof glass window, and a processor located within the enclosure and coupled to the electrical excitation circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: JunSeong Park, Jeffrey Lee, Dongil Ko, JePhil Ahn
  • Publication number: 20170235386
    Abstract: A material-discerning sensing device includes an antenna, a capacitive proximity sensor, and a control circuit. The antenna includes multiple conductive loops and is configured to radiate a wireless signal. The antenna defines an interior region devoid of the conductive loops and an exterior region outside the conductive loops. The capacitive proximity sensor includes a conductive pattern provided within the interior region or within a projection of the interior region, as well as a conductive bar. The control circuit is configured to detect a change in a characteristic of an electrical signal from the capacitive sensor. The conductive pattern includes a longitudinal portion, a first plurality of parallel conductors extending away from the longitudinal portion in a first direction and orthogonal to the longitudinal portion, and a second plurality of parallel conductors extending away from the longitudinal portion in a second direction opposite the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Thomas ALMHOLT
  • Publication number: 20170235387
    Abstract: A touch-input display device includes a substrate, piezoelectric pillars that are on and extend away from a surface of the substrate, and light emitter devices each coupled to a different one of the piezoelectric pillars. The substrate has power lines and signal lines. The piezoelectric pillars are electrically isolated from each other, and each of the piezoelectric pillars includes a piezoelectric material that generates an electric voltage across a pair of the signal lines responsive to an applied touch force compressing the piezoelectric pillar. The light emitter devices are each electrically connected to a pair of the power lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: CA, Inc.
    Inventor: Martin SACHA
  • Publication number: 20170235388
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a first electrode, one or more processors, and one or more memory units coupled to the one or more processors. The one or more memory units collectively store logic that is configured to cause the one or more processors to control connections of the first electrode by connecting the first electrode to a first reference voltage, then connecting the first electrode to a second reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage, and then connecting the first electrode to a third reference voltage lower than the first reference voltage and the second reference voltage. The second reference voltage is coupled to a capacitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Trond Jarle Pedersen, Torgeir Fenheim, Jan Rune Herheim, Stefan Markus Schabel
  • Publication number: 20170235389
    Abstract: A touch panel and a display device are disclosed. The touch panel includes a base substrate and a touch layer located on the substrate, the touch layer includes a plurality of touch unit sets, each of which includes two touch units, and each of the touch units has a first side, a second side and a third side that are connected head-to-tail; the length ratio of the first side to the second side is from 1:3 to 1:4; two touch units of each touch unit set have their third sides face each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Bo Liu, Xianjie Shao, Honggang Gu, Xiujuan Wang
  • Publication number: 20170235390
    Abstract: The present application discloses a touch control display panel comprising a base substrate; a first touch electrode layer comprising a plurality of first touch electrodes; a second touch electrode layer comprising a plurality of second touch electrodes; a plurality of connection islands; a plurality of first bridges; a plurality of second bridges; and a plurality of third bridges. The plurality of first electrodes are spaced apart along a first direction; the plurality of second electrodes are spaced apart along a second direction; the second direction intersecting the first direction forming a plurality of intersections; a connection island is at each intersection surrounded by and insulated from two adjacent first touch electrodes along the first direction and two adjacent second touch electrodes along the second direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2016
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicants: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., Chengdu BOE Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Xiangdan Dong, Youngyik Ko, Lei Dai
  • Publication number: 20170235391
    Abstract: A switching device according to an embodiment includes a circuit board, a laminated body, and an air layer. The circuit board is provided with an electrode which detects change in electrostatic capacitance that is caused by a touch operation of a user. The laminated body is laminated on the circuit board, and includes a touch panel member that receives the touch operation. The air layer is arranged at a position that corresponds to the electrode between the circuit board and the laminated body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: FUJITSU TEN LIMITED
    Inventors: Tomoaki ISHIKAWA, Chiyohiko KOBAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20170235392
    Abstract: A touch panel device includes a touch panel including sensing electrodes, a selector circuitry; a sensing circuitry configured to generate sensed signals having signal levels depending on self-capacitances of connected ones of the sensing electrodes, and a processor configured to perform touch sensing of the touch panel, based on the sensed signals. When the touch panel device is placed in a first state, the selector circuitry electrically connects first sensing electrodes to the sensing circuitry in each operation cycle. When the touch panel device is placed in a second state, the selector circuitry electrically connects second sensing electrodes to the sensing circuitry in each operation cycle. The number of the second sensing electrodes connected to the sensing circuitry in each operation cycle for the second state is less than the number of the first sensing electrodes connected to the sensing circuitry in each operation cycle for the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventor: Tatsuya ISHII
  • Publication number: 20170235393
    Abstract: A capacitive touch sensitive device includes a matrix of pads patterned in a first electrically conductive material on a substrate. Horizontally adjacent pads within each even row of the matrix are electrically coupled to one another via channels to form a plurality of horizontally arranged electrodes. Insulators are positioned over respective channels. Conductive links are formed over respective insulators and are configured to electrically couple vertically adjacent pads between odd rows of the matrix to form a plurality of vertically arranged electrodes. The dimensions of the channels and the conductive links are configured such that an RC time-constant (RCtc) of each of the vertically arranged electrodes substantially matches an RCtc of each of the horizontally arranged electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Elo Touch Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Kyu-Tak SON, Joel C. Kent
  • Publication number: 20170235394
    Abstract: The present invention provides a touch control structure, comprising a touch control zone, and the touch control zone comprises touch control units and first lead wires corresponding to the touch control units, and the touch control units are arranged in array having a plurality of column of the touch control units, and the touch control units of each column are aligned in spaces from top to bottom in the touch control structure, and the first lead wires sequentially penetrate the touch control units in each column from top to bottom in the touch control structure, and the first lead wire is electrically coupled to one touch control unit, and is disconnected with the next touch control unit, which is adjacent to the touch control unit in the same column and close to the top of the touch control structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicants: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd., WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD
    Inventors: Gui CHEN, Caiqin CHEN