Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed toward electronic devices configured to produce haptic effects, and to haptic enabled film overlays for pressure sensitive surfaces. The systems and methods for haptic enabled film overlays include a processor and a plurality of sensors, a pressure sensitive touch surface coupled to the plurality of sensors and configured to detect a user interaction, and an overlay including a tactile user interface and a plurality of haptic output devices, the overlay being configured to provide a haptic effect in response to the user interaction.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a force detection apparatus and method, a touch device and an electronic terminal. The apparatus includes: a first detection capacitor, and a second detection capacitor configured to perform differential processing for a capacitance of the first detection capacitor to cancel an interference signal; wherein the first detection capacitor includes a force detection electrode, and the second detection capacitor includes a reference detection electrode, the force detection electrode and the reference detection electrode being arranged within a surface, such that the first detection capacitor and the second detection capacitor are simultaneously coupled to the interference signal causing interference to force detection, and differential processing is performed for capacitances of the first detection capacitor and the second detection capacitor.

Abstract: The present disclosure provide a method for detecting a force, including: acquiring a plurality of sample data of a first electronic device, where each of the plurality of sample data comprises a preset force and raw data of the first electronic device, the raw data of the first electronic device is obtained by detecting a deformation signal which is generated by applying the preset force on an input medium of the first electronic device; and determining a fitting function according to the plurality of sample data, where the fitting function denotes a corresponding relationship between a force applied to the first electronic device and detected raw data, and the fitting function is for allowing a second electronic device to determine a force corresponding to detected raw data when an input medium of the second electronic device is subjected to an acting force.

Abstract: An apparatus for combined capacitance and pressure sensing is described. The apparatus includes a multiplexer (75) having a plurality of inputs (76) and an output (F), a touch panel (29), and a front end module (3). The touch panel includes a layer structure (5; FIG. 15) comprising one or more layers, each extending perpendicularly to a thickness direction, the one or more layers including a layer of piezoelectric material (10; FIG. 15), the layer structure having first (6) and second (7; FIG. 15) opposite faces, and the layer(s) arranged between the first and second faces such that the thickness direction of each layer is perpendicular to the first and second faces. The touch panel also includes a plurality of first electrodes (8) disposed on the first face, each first electrode connected to a respective input of the multiplexer. The touch panel also includes at least one second electrode (9) disposed on the second face.

Abstract: A display apparatus includes an organic light emitting display panel including a circuit layer and a touch sensing unit disposed on the organic light emitting display panel and including sensor blocks and touch signal lines connected to the sensor blocks. The circuit layer includes first signal lines disposed on a base layer, a first insulation layer disposed on the first signal lines, second signal lines disposed on the first insulation layer, and dummy conductive patterns. Each of the touch signal lines includes a touch line part and a touch pad part connected to an end of the touch line part. The dummy conductive patterns include a dummy conductive pad disposed directly on a same layer as the first signal lines or the second signal lines and overlap the touch pad part.

Abstract: An output control apparatus, including: a touch panel to which a pressing operation is performed by a user; and a processor that is configured to: detect pressing amounts at a plurality of touch points which are simultaneously touched by a user on the touch panel; and perform control of switching an output part in a continuous content on the basis of a relationship between the detected pressing amounts at the respective touch points.

Abstract: A method for operating a touch screen device and a touch screen device are provided. The method includes that: a touch screen device receives a user command, and identifies the user command (100); when the touch screen device identifies the user command as a mode switching command, the touch screen device switches an operation mode (200); herein the operation mode includes a left hand operation mode, a right hand operation mode or a normal mode. Through a predefined or user-defined operation command, the operation mode switching of a touch screen device may be achieved by a single hand, so the key problem of single-handed operation of a touch screen device with a large screen is solved; and the single-handed operation can be really achieved, thereby improving the user experience of a touch screen device with a large screen.

Abstract: The disclosure provides a touch operation assembly, includes: a first touch sensor and a second touch sensor both configured to generate a touch signal in response to a touch, and a judging module coupled to the first and second touch sensors and configured to: judge whether the second touch sensor generates a touch signal when detecting the first touch sensor generates a touch signal, and trigger a first operation if yes; and judge whether the first touch sensor generates a touch signal when detecting the second touch sensor generates a touch signal, and trigger a second operation if yes. Through combining the first and the second touch sensor, the touch operation assembly provides different operations based on the order that the touch signals detected, more operations are expanded with a limited physical structure, which enhances user operating experiences. The disclosure further provides an electronic device and a touch operating method.

Abstract: A controller includes a touch sensor and a proximity sensor. Information on when and where a user touches the surface of the touch sensor is detected. Additionally, information on pre-touch events is detecting. The pre-touch events correspond to a user's finger hovering over the touch sensor within some maximum depth. A display device generates visualizations based on the hover events and the touch events. This can include providing visual feedback in a hover mode where a user's finger is, relative to the touch sensor. Additionally, various forms of navigation information may be provided in the hover mode, as well as other control information.

Abstract: A sensing apparatus for touch and force sensing includes from, top to bottom, a protection layer, a touch electrode layer, a force electrode layer, and a resilient dielectric layer, and further includes a capacitance sensing module. In touch sensing operation, the capacitance sensing module sequentially or randomly applies a touch driving signal to selected ones of the second touch electrodes, and sequentially or randomly receives a touch sensing signal from selected ones of the first touch electrodes. In force sensing operation, the capacitance sensing module sequentially or randomly applies a force capacitance-exciting signal to the at least one force sensing electrode and obtains a force sensing signal from the force sensing electrode.

Abstract: A flat touchscreen monitor that uses touchscreen-effectuating components from a cathode ray tube (CRT) monitor to allow users to upgrade to a flat touchscreen monitor without having to purchase a new flat touchscreen monitor. The flat touchscreen monitor includes first, second, third, and fourth curved-array connectors that were previously configured to electrically attach to a pair of curved-array of IR transmitters and a pair of curved-array of IR receivers, respectively. The monitor further includes first and second straight-array of IR transmitters electrically coupled to the first and second curved-array of connectors, respectively. Additionally, the monitor includes first and second straight-array of IR receivers electrically coupled to the third and fourth curved-array of connectors, respectively. The third and fourth curved-array of connectors are electrically coupled to a touchscreen controller.

Abstract: A plurality of controlled devices are allocated in a physical layout. A touch-sensing and displaying panel detects a touching operation or gesture thereon or thereover, generates a position information in response to the touching operation or gesture, and displays a prompt information according to the position information, wherein the touch-sensing and displaying panel has a default virtual prompt layout corresponding to the physical layout of the controlled devices, and consisting of a plurality of default prompts, and the prompt information includes a prompt pattern consisting of a selected portion of the default prompts, and is changeable with the position information generated in response to the touching operation or gesture. A driver issues a first driving signal to the controlled system according to the position information for triggering a selected group of the controlled devices in compliance with the prompt pattern.

Abstract: A touch screen panel includes: a flat panel display including an upper substrate, a lower substrate, and pixels arranged on a display region of the lower substrate in a stripe arrangement; first sensing cells arranged in a first direction on the upper substrate and second sensing cells arranged in a second direction on the upper substrate; first connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the first sensing cells to each other in the first direction, and second connection patterns electrically connecting adjacent ones of the second sensing cells to each other in the second direction, wherein at least one of the first connection patterns and the second connection patterns is inclined so that it partially overlaps with the pixels.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, the touch drive device includes a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a single direction, a detection electrode which extends in a direction crossing the direction in which the drive electrodes extend, and generates capacitances at intersections of the detection electrode and the drive electrodes, and a driver (DDI) which groups the drive electrodes into a plurality of drive electrode portions each including at least one drive electrode, and performs a touch scanning drive by supplying a touch drive signal (TSVCOM) having a pulse waveform for detection of a closely situated external object to a target drive electrode portion which is a selected one of the drive electrode portions. The number of the drive electrodes included in each of the drive electrode portions and the target drive electrode portion to which the touch drive signal (TSVCOM) is supplied can be designated.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for processing a split view in a portable device. The method of processing a split view in a portable device, includes: displaying a plurality of applications as a split view corresponding to split display regions of a display unit; displaying an input panel on a display region of an application of the plurality of applications that did not call for the input panel when the input panel is called; and processing data input through the input panel by an application calling the input panel.

Abstract: An intelligent hybrid touch display device, including: a touch display unit; a rotary mechanical switch, being integrated with the touch display unit in a body; and a control unit, located in the body and including: a first interface for driving the touch display unit; a second interface coupled with the rotary mechanical switch; a touch and switch detection unit coupled with the first interface and the second interface; a transmission interface for communicating with at least one external device; and a processor and an operating system stored in a memory, the processor being coupled with the touch and switch detection unit and the transmission interface, and being used for executing a control program with a support of the operating system, so that the touch display unit and the rotary mechanical switch can cooperate to provide a hybrid operation for selecting, changing or activating function options.

Abstract: A method comprises receiving a gesture as an input to a display screen; detecting the gesture via a controller; determining whether the gesture was received on a target touch interface or in a defined area adjacent to the target touch interface; determining whether the gesture was intended to be received on the target touch interface; and providing an output based on the determination of whether the gesture was intended to be received on the target touch interface. Determining whether the gesture was intended to be received on the target touch interface comprises measuring a length of time of contact of the gesture with the display screen and measuring a proximity of a point of contact of the gesture from the touch interface.

Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting a vibration-induced error on a touch screen display device on an aircraft are provided. A method can include providing a user interface for display on a touch screen display device. The user interface can include one or more virtual elements associated with functions to be performed by a component of the aircraft. The method can include receiving data indicative of an actual user interaction with the touch screen display device. The method can include receiving data indicative of an intended user interaction. The method can include receiving data indicative of a sensed vibration. The method can include determining a corrected user interaction corresponding to a selected virtual element based on the data received. The method can also include sending one or more command signals to one or more components to perform a function associated with the selected virtual element.

Abstract: A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. For example, the transducer comprises electronic circuitry configured to encode the digital data in a signal for transmission to the sensor. The sensor controller is configured to operate both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes.

Abstract: A system is provided that is capable of storing and presenting within an interface, interactive content. For instance, it is appreciated that there may be a need to effectively present interactive content at a customer site using standard computer equipment. Also it may be beneficial to provide user tools to easily calibrate the system and customize the interactive content to suit the particular interactive content and environment. A distributed system permits the use, customization and display of interactive content among a number of various site locations.

Abstract: Provided are a method and an apparatus for displaying content on a same screen and a terminal device. The method includes: displaying an application interface of an application on a display apparatus, and displaying a floating region on the same screen as the application interface; setting a content loader corresponding to the floating region; determining display content of the floating region; and invoking the content loader to load the determined display content to the floating region for display.

Abstract: A system and method for generating a mobile autonomous dynamic graphical user interface is described. An illustrative system comprises a location-capable component, a user preference module, a server, a means for generating a display menu, and a wireless formatting engine. The location-capable component determines a location for a wireless device. The user preference module includes a variety of user preferences. The server selects targeted content based on the user preferences and the location of the wireless device. The selected content includes at least one user selectable menu button. A display menu is generated that includes the user selectable button. The wireless formatting engine formats the display menu and selected content for the wireless device.

Abstract: Techniques are provided for rendering network applications in a highly-customized manner, in which, for example, user interactions with one or more network applications using devices having different screen sizes are analyzed and used to assign user preferences and priorities with respect to the one or more network application(s). In this way, users may be provided with desired and useful content in a convenient manner, while application providers may have their content rendered in a manner that increases a likelihood of achieving an intended result (e.g., consummating a sale or other transaction, or eliciting some other desired reaction from the user).

Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for generating a user interface in which data items are grouped together. Additionally, a bulk action can be taken by a user on a grouping of data items within the user interface. An example of such a user interface can be within an email client used to manage email messages. Email messages can be grouped according to a grouping factor and a bulk action can be taken on a grouping from within the user interface.

Abstract: Provided are a system and methods for a user interface capable of managing projection overview information of a user. In one example, a method may include displaying a project overview screen including a plurality of project information objects each representing a category of project-related information of the user, receiving, from a user, a selection of a project information object from among the plurality of displayed project information objects, and in response to receiving the selection of the project information object from the user, expanding a size of a visual representation of the selected project information object on the project overview screen and with respect to the other project information objects, and revealing a plurality of subobjects within the expanded selected project information object, where the subobjects each represent a subcategory of the category of the project that is represented by the selected project information object.

Abstract: A system and a method for graphical resources management, and a computer program product with an application for graphical resources management are provided, which may capture groups of pixels from imported graphical resources to generate a plurality of graphical items, edit relationships between the graphical items, and generate a graphical data structure that demonstrates the relationships between the graphical items. The invention allows a user to logically manage graphical resources in a structured manner, and thus enables efficient management of graphical resources.

Abstract: Systems, apparatus and methods are provided to maintain a user-populated online repository of science protocols. A user may create a science protocol by inputting information relating to one or more steps of an experiment. The created science protocol may be stored in the protocol database. A user may search the protocol database using a navigable menu for accessing a plurality of application functionalities associated with the protocol database. Based on the search, a user may be able to retrieve and download the created science protocol. The user may be able to modify and/or annotate the created science protocol. The modified and/or annotated science protocol may be stored in the protocol database as a modified and/or annotated version of the created science protocol.

Abstract: An information input apparatus including a user interface that detects a first input operation and a processor that assigns information to each of a plurality of directions from a position centered at the first input operation detected by the user interface. The user interface detects a second input operation corresponding to one of the plurality of directions, and the processor selects information assigned to the one of the plurality of directions as an input.

Abstract: A method comprising detecting, by an electronic device, a first input associated with a first selectable item of one or more selectable items displayed on a display, invoking, based on the first input, a menu for display adjacent an edge of the display, wherein the menu comprises one or more selectable icons and each icon represents a function, wherein when the first input is a continuous gesture extending to an icon displayed in the menu, performing the function associated with the icon.

Abstract: A method of evaluating data in a database, the method including causing a workstation to display a graphical user interface which a user can use to create a screening rule by defining at least one screening condition and by entering a score, whether the score is applied to evaluate data in the database if the screening condition is met, whereby no knowledge of a programming language is required to create the screening rule. Other systems and methods are also provided.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for an electronic spine and one or more digital pages removably attached to the electronic spine, wherein the one or more digital pages include a first side with a first flexible display and a second side with a second flexible display. In one example, the system may further include a magnetic interface, wherein the digital page is removably attached to the electronic spine via the magnetic interface.

Abstract: Virtual bookmarks can be set in digital content to enable a user to quickly locate a portion of interest. A user can provide an input to enter into an overview mode wherein multiple pages of content are displayed concurrently. The user can navigate through the pages, and when a bookmarked page is caused to no longer appear on the display an overlay element such as a thumbnail of the page can be positioned near the edge of the display, representing the current relative location of the page in the overview. A user can select one of the displayed pages to view, or can select the bookmark overlay element to return to the current page. A user can perform an action to cause the bookmarked page to be updated, or can perform various actions to cause multiple bookmarks to be created with respect to the content.

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for inter-networked monitoring and communication triggering across a dispersed Internet protocol capable network connecting one or more smart devices connected to the dispersed network. The present invention is configured to provide an alert triggering application for installation on the one or more smart devices associated with a user; receive an indication of a user action executed using at least one of the one or more smart devices; detect an incidence of a trigger event based on at least receiving the indication of the user action executed using at least one of the one or more smart devices; establish a communication link with each of the one or more smart devices based on at least detecting the incidence of the trigger event; display, via the alert triggering application, an alert indicating the occurrence of the trigger event.

Abstract: A data editing apparatus has: a storage unit which stores first and second project data; a temporary screen data creating unit which creates temporary screen data based on screen data selected from among a first group of screen data; a temporary label list creating unit which creates a temporary label list including a label written in the temporary screen data; a temporary data changing unit which replaces the label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list with a label which does not overlap with the label written in a second label list, when the label written in the temporary screen data and the temporary label list is written in the second label list; and a project data adding unit which adds allocation information written in the changed temporary screen data and temporary label list to the second label list.

Abstract: A networked interactive expert system is disclosed for selectively providing relevant expertise when a user requires such assistance. System provides a set of networked facilities for determining an expertise needed by a customer based on a location. Such location can be either physical or logical. A physical “location” corresponds, for example, to a department within a retail outlet. Examples of logical “locations” are ones corresponding to a web-page, a product identification code of interest, a customer identification code, and/or explicit knowledge category selected by the customer. An expert studio, from a list of expert studios providing expertise corresponding to the identified location associated with the customer's request, is matched up with the request. Thereafter, a primary connection, supporting an interactive videoconference session, is established between a first networked node associated with the customer and a second networked node associated with the designated expert studio.

Abstract: Flexible graphic element objects in a process plant are configurable both in a run-time operating environment in which a process is being controlled and in a configuration environment. An instantiated flexible graphic element object may be a display view or may be another graphic element included on a display view. A graphic element object may be linked to and/or derived from another graphic element object, and changes to a particular graphic element object may be propagated to its derivations, e.g., according to a distribution policy. Changes to definitions corresponding to a particular graphic element object (e.g., to the definition of a graphic element attribute such as a shape, animation, event handler or property) may be overridden or modified in another object derived from the particular graphic element object. The modified derived object may be renamed and saved separately from the particular graphic element object.

Abstract: A software application for use on a mobile phone or other computerized hardware system for collecting geological core samples and assigning these samples to boxes is disclosed. The mobile application can include a scanner such as a bar code scanner for reading identifying data from boxes storing cores, and also provides the ability to print barcodes for identifying boxes of cores at a printer.

Abstract: An interactive, graph-based user interaction data analysis system is disclosed. The system is configured to provide analysis and graphical visualizations of user interaction data to a system operator. In various embodiments, interactive visualizations and analyses provided by the system may be based on user interaction data aggregated across particular groups of users, across particular time frames, and/or from particular computer-based platforms and/or applications. According to various embodiments, the system may enable insights into, for example, user interaction patterns and/or ways to optimize for desired user interactions, among others. In an embodiment, the system allows an operator to analyze and investigate user interactions with content provided via one or more computer-based platforms, software applications, and/or software application editions.

Abstract: A display device with a display section and a control unit including a processor, the processor performing operation in accordance with an operation program and the control unit performing control of: receiving an instruction based on touch operation on the display section; storing a list; storing use information; updating the stored use information; and allowing the display section to display the stored list upon reception of an instruction for displaying the list and performing scroll display of the list upon reception of a scroll instruction and in a case where the list is a scroll image. The control unit detects, as priority information, information highest in a use frequency out of the information listed in a scroll direction from a start position of the scroll display, and ends the scroll display while displaying the priority information at a predefined position in a display region of the display section.

Abstract: One embodiment provides a method including utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: receiving, at a transmission device communicating with a display device, a first user input, wherein the first user input activates a mode, of the display device, allowing a user to control a graphical user interface on the display device; thereafter, detecting, at the transmission device, a second user input, wherein the second user input comprises instructions for a control action for manipulating the graphical user interface; identifying the distance between an input object providing the second user input and a surface of the transmission device; modifying, based upon the distance, an attribute of the control action; and providing instructions to the display device to perform the control action having the modified attribute. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a touch sensor, a driving circuit, and a switching circuit. The driving circuit includes a first detector and a second detector. The first detector transmits/receives an electrical signal to detect a position of a touch. The second detector transmits/receives an electrical signal to detect an intensity of the touch. The switching circuit selectively connects the first detector or the second detector to the sensor.

Abstract: An electronic device including a housing including a front panel and a rear panel, the rear panel arranged on a side of the housing opposite the front panel, a processor configured to execute instructions and the processor being arranged within the housing, a display device configured to generate an interface based in part in response to the processor, where the display device is arranged in the front panel, a touchscreen associated with the display device and configured to sense a user input, where the user input is provided to the processor and where the touchscreen include part of the front panel, and a rear input arranged on the rear panel of the housing and configured to provide a dedicated input to the processor, the processor providing advanced user controls on the interface in response to operation of the rear input.

Abstract: A terminal device for executing an application providing a search service is provided. The terminal device may include a touch sensing display, one or more processors, and a memory. The application is configured to be stored in the memory and implemented by the one or more processors, and includes a first interface providing a code to display a first search interface corresponding to a text-based search on the touch sensing display, and a second interface providing a code to display a second search interface on the touch sensing display, when a call interaction of the second search interface corresponding to a recognition search is sensed in response to a touch input on the touch sensing display while displaying the first search interface.

Abstract: A method for performing an operation in accordance with a user interaction with a touch-sensitive display of an electronic device includes the following steps: detecting a finger-touch operation received by a progress bar on the touch-sensitive display; extracting a set of feature parameters from the finger-touch operation; parsing the set of feature parameters to identify candidate operating points; selecting a target operating point from the candidate operating points when the finger-touch operation is deemed to be in a release phase; and updating the progress bar and content associated with the progress bar to a predefined position that corresponds to the target operating point. The present disclosure may be implemented to eliminate, when an error exists in a touch operation of a user on a display unit, impact of the operation error to an operation result displayed on an image interface, so as to ensure correctness of the operation result.

Abstract: An information handling system input device coordinates presentation of keyboard augmentation panels proximate a keyboard resting on a horizontally-disposed touchscreen display. The keyboard augmentation panels relate keyboard and other inputs to an application active on the information handling system to enhance end user interactions. A keyboard augmentation module tracks the keyboard position on the touchscreen display to adapt content presentation in the keyboard augmentation panels based upon expected end user inputs. In other embodiments, other physical devices are augmented to have hybrid graphical interfaces that enhance multi-hand end user interactions.

Abstract: A shortcut to a file in a cloud desktop can be virtualized. A file shortcut virtualizer can be executed on a server and a client terminal that establishes remote sessions with the server. Server-side components of the file shortcut virtualizer can be configured to identify when a file shortcut has been created on a user's cloud desktop and to send information about each created shortcut to client-side components of the file shortcut virtualizer. The client-side components can then employ this information to create a virtual shortcut for each file shortcut on the user's cloud desktop. A virtual shortcut corresponding to a particular file can be configured to invoke a remote application launcher and can include information identifying a connection file that the remote application launcher should use to directly open the particular file using an associated remote application.

Abstract: One or more industrial machines is selected from a navigation screen. The selected one or more industrial machines represents a context. A database is accessed and a visualization related to the one or more industrial machines and associated with the context is retrieved. Alarm data related to one or more alarms associated with the one or more industrial machines is received. The visualization is dynamically rendered to a user on a graphical display unit such that the alarm data is selectively displayed within the visualization and in a single view to the user.

Abstract: Disclosed are an instant messenger (IM) method, client and system based on a dynamic image grid, the method comprising: adding an icon and/or a phonetic symbol combination to an image grid input interface, and editing the same to generate dynamic image grid information; selecting one image grid from the image grid input interface, operating an editing sub-unit of the image grid and sequentially adding a unit instruction of the editing sub-unit to a unit instruction list; and repeating the above operation until the editing of the image grid input interface is complete, and sending the unit instruction list. Compared to a traditional IM method, the present invention enables a user to participate in the process of information creation and parsing, thus providing the user with a larger space for imagination and development, and enabling the user to express their feelings in a more enriched and interesting way.

Abstract: An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, an input module, and a processor. The processor executes the method, including displaying a group icon representing a plurality of icons associated with a plurality of applications in a display, setting a function associated with at least two applications of the plurality of applications for execution in response to a specified user input to the group icon, and executing the at least two applications and the set function in response to detecting the specified user input associated with the group icon.

Abstract: A computer application or program for controlling devices located remotely from a user. The application is adapted to permit a user to utilize and input into the application custom images or icons of a device, such as by using a camera of the computerized device upon which the application is installed. The application may optionally be adapted to permit a user to customize images or icons representing locations, areas, buildings and room in which a controlled device is located. In related methods, a user can customize an icon or image in a computer application for depicting one or more locations, areas, buildings, rooms and devices by inputting into the application a custom image or icon created or selected by the user.