Abstract: A touch panel device displays a nautical chart and symbols indicating waypoints arranged on the nautical chart. The touch panel device detects touch operations at two or more positions on the display screen and touched positions thereof. The touch panel device creates an area on the display screen based on the two or more detected touched positions, specifies one or more of the symbols located within the created area, and performs cut processing and the like on the one or more of the symbols.

Abstract: There is provided an operation processing device including an input direction acquisition unit, an output direction indication unit and a determination unit. The input direction acquisition unit is configured to acquire information indicating an input direction according to a direction generated in response to an operation indicating the direction which is performed on an input unit. The output direction indication unit is configured to indicate an output direction to a display unit configured to display an image. The output direction is a direction in which the image of the display unit is changed in response to the operation on the input unit. The determination unit is configured to determine an orientation of the output direction with respect to the input direction according to a relative position relationship between the input unit and the display unit.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive an update instruction to update at least a part of an image displayed on a display screen, an estimating unit configured to estimate a target position on the display screen before a user operation determines the target position, and a display control unit configured to, after the estimating unit estimates the target position, display an object displayed at the target position on the display screen at the estimated target position before an image displayed on the display screen is updated in response to the update instruction received by the receiving unit.

Abstract: A touch panel of the present invention includes: a cover substrate; a connector being provided on an area of the cover substrate other than a display area, and including a color layer and a shield layer, the shield layer being formed from a multilayer structure, the multilayer structure being configured so that a metal layer and a dielectric layer which is thicker than the metal layer are alternately laminated; and a touch panel substrate being arranged to face the cover substrate with the connector interposed therebetween.

Abstract: The selective rejection of touch contacts in an edge region of a touch sensor panel is disclosed. In addition, by providing certain exceptions to the rejection of edge contacts, the functionality of the touch sensor panel can be maximized. Contacts in edge bands around the perimeter of a touch sensor panel can be ignored. However, if a contact in the edge band moves beyond a threshold distance or speed, it can be recognized as part of a gesture. To accommodate different finger sizes, the size of the edge band can be modified based on the identification of the finger or thumb. Furthermore, if contacts in the center region of a touch sensor panel track the movement of contacts in the edge band, the contacts in the edge band can be recognized as part of a gesture.

Abstract: A touch screen panel includes: a touch sensor film including: at least one corner formed in a curved line; and a through part; and a flexible printed circuit board including one end connected to a wiring extending from the touch sensor film; the flexible printed circuit board disposed through the through part, wherein the through part is disposed adjacent to the corner of the touch sensor film formed in the curved line, and wherein the through part includes a curved line corresponding to the corner of the touch sensor film formed in the curved line.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal display structure and a mobile terminal. The display structure may include: a terminal housing; a display module, including a display screen and a glass panel attached to the display screen; wherein the glass panel has a touch region and extension regions bending and extending along both lateral sides of the touch region, an exterior surface of each extension region being located in a same plane with a corresponding edge of the terminal housing. The mobile terminal display structure according to the present disclosure is provided with the glass panel which at least covers both the lateral sides of the whole front surface thereof, and at least the packaging regions on both the lateral sides of the display screen are bended and extended into the housing. A real visual frameless design for the mobile terminal is achieved, while the screen occupying proportion is increased.

Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate; a pixel driving circuit disposed in a first region on the substrate; an encapsulation layer disposed on the pixel driving circuit; a touch sensing layer formed on the encapsulation layer and including a touch sensing sensor; and a touch-driving layer including a touch driving circuit disposed in a second region on the substrate, integrally formed with the pixel driving circuit, and electrically connected to the touch sensing sensor to apply a signal thereto.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a surface of a smartphone 10 is covered with a transparent protective panel 22 supported by rims 16 of a housing 12, and a display device 18 and touch panel 20 are placed in a storage part 14 of the housing 12. The protective panel 22 is constituted by joining a glass plate 22A and resin plate 22B together, and concave parts 30A, 30B are provided on the joining surface side of the resin plate 22B, with piezoelectric vibrating elements 40 placed therein and joined to the glass plate 22A, wherein vibration is transmitted to the surface of the protective panel 22 as surface acoustic waves, demonstrating a haptic function, and also, audible vibration is generated because the modulus of elasticity of the resin plate 22B is lower than that of the glass plate 22A, achieving an operation as a speaker (or receiver).

Abstract: An information processing apparatus is provided which include a display control unit that causes a touch panel to display a slider to specify one of specifiable values by an operating body as a specified value and a start edge value and an end edge value stored in a storage unit and if the touch panel acquires position information indicating position on the slider, decides a value corresponding to the position information as the specified value and also decides an interval to decide a new specifiable range in accordance with a contact state quantity acquired by the contact state quantity acquisition unit, specifies the new specifiable range based on the interval using the specified value as a reference.

Abstract: An electronic device that senses home button inputs through ultrasonic force sensing. The electronic device may correlate that amount of force that a user applies to the home button with a specific home button command. In certain embodiments, the system may combine the force of touch information with other information that is sensed for a particular touch to correlate the touch input with a greater number of home button commands. A home button embodiment discussed herein may include a home button image that is displayed on a touch sensitive panel. In other embodiments, a home button may be located outside of the boundaries of a touch sensitive panel.

Abstract: Various examples of deformable sensors are disclosed. In one example, a deformable sensor comprises a ground electrode comprising a plurality of spatially separated lines, and a set of individually-indexed signal channels interdigitated with the spatially separated lines, each individually-indexed signal channel comprising a stretchable conductive path encapsulated in an elastomeric material.

Abstract: A high-density sensor module includes a substrate with a printed circuit board, a first supporting member disposed on a upper surface of the printed circuit board, the first supporting member includes at least one first sensing channel with a first right sidewall, at least one sensor disposed on the first right sidewall and electrically connected to the printed circuit board, and at least one first conductive unit arranged in the first sensing channel. The angle between the first right sidewall and the upper surface of the printed circuit board is not less than 90°. When the first conductive unit is subjected to a pressure from outsides, the first conductive unit slides along a direction toward the upper surface of the printed circuit board and presses the sensors, and the pressure is conductive from the first conductive unit to the sensor. The sensing density and sensing resolution are enhanced.

Abstract: A controller for interfacing with an interactive application includes an interface region disposed on a surface of a body of the controller. The interface region includes a plurality of interface elements for providing input to the interactive application. One of the interface elements is an input surface that is defined by an indentation and is configured to receive touch input. Plurality of sensors disposed under the input surface detects movement of a finger of a user. Processing circuitry is used to analyze the movement of the finger of the user over the input surface and transmit signals that are used by the interactive application to drive interaction in the interactive application.

Abstract: A method, information handling system, and display assembly utilizes wherein a first touch panel indication is detected, and it is determined whether the first touch panel indication is from a defined bending area or from a defined non-bending area. When the first touch panel indication is from the defined bending area, it is determined if there is a second touch panel indication from an other touch sensor element adjacent to the first touch sensor element. When there is a simultaneous second touch panel indication, the touch location is interpolated based on the locations of the first and the other touch sensor elements. When there is a sequential second touch panel indication, the touch location is extrapolated based on locations of the first and the other touch sensor elements and a sequence of the first touch panel indication and the second touch panel indication.

Abstract: An input device making little false sensing is provided. An input device capable of outputting a signal in which input data in a plurality of regions are combined is provided. The input device includes a first region and a second region which are provided so as to face each other. The input device includes a means for obtaining first positional data input to the first region, a means for obtaining second positional data input to the second region, a means for converting the second positional data into third positional data, a means for obtaining fourth positional data, and a means for outputting a signal in accordance with the fourth positional data.

Abstract: The touch detecting circuit is a capacitive detecting circuit correctable with a sensor capacitance, and includes an integration capacitance. In the touch detecting circuit, a sensor capacitance connected with the touch detecting circuit is charged and discharged; electric charges to input and output for charging and discharging the sensor capacitance are cumulatively added to the integration capacitance. The electric charges to he added to the integration capacitance are inverted in polarity according to directions of charge transfer accompanying the charge and discharge. Not only when charging the sensor capacitance, but also when discharging the sensor capacitance, the absolute values of electric charges to be moved are integrated and therefore, the amount of signals is doubled.

Abstract: An in-cell mutual-capacitive touch panel having low RC loading and its trace layout are disclosed. A first conductive layer and a second conductive layer are used as bridge of TX electrode and MFL electrode above an active area of in-cell mutual-capacitive touch panel. The second conductive layer and a transparent conductive layer are used as bridge of TX electrode and MFL electrode at the lower-side out of the active area. Cooperated with at least one driving IC having more than two sets of TX electrode pins and MFL electrode pins and the number of the at least one driving IC is determined according to the size of the in-cell mutual-capacitive touch panel. At the same time, the second conductive layer has traces in parallel distributed in the same electrode area of the active area. Therefore, the RC loading of the in-cell mutual-capacitive touch panel of the invention can be largely reduced.

Abstract: A display apparatus capable of image scanning and a driving method thereof are provided. A display apparatus capable of image scanning includes a plurality of contact sensors each of which includes an N-type transistor, a P-type transistor connected to a gate electrode of the N-type transistor, and a sensing capacitor, the plurality of contact sensors being arranged so as not to cover a unit color pixel area of a color filter layer; a first scan line to which a selective signal is periodically applied, the first scan line being connected to a source electrode of the N-type transistor; a second scan line to which a selective signal is applied followed by the first scan line, the second scan line being connected to the gate electrode and source electrode of the P-type transistor; and a readout line connected to the drain electrode of the N-type transistor.

Abstract: A disclosed method for assigning a touch identification in a multi-touch sensitive display device is includes applying a touch driving signal to touch sensors of a touch screen and generating raw touch data, detecting touch points based on the raw touch data and respectively assigning temporary identifications (IDs) to the touch points, grouping the touch points based on a difference in distances between the touch points to form touch groups, and forming adaptive touch groups respectively based on the touch groups. The method also includes setting a comparison block including one or more of the adaptive touch groups contacting or overlapping each other, and matching the temporary ID assigned to one of the touch points within the comparison block in the current frame to one of a plurality of touch IDs within the comparison block in a previous frame.

Abstract: According to one embodiment, a display device includes plural display pixels arranged in a matrix, plural gate lines, plural source lines and a control circuit which controls by applying intermittent driving and a column-inversion drive scheme, an operation in which drive signals are supplied to the gate lines and the source lines, and an image signal is supplied to the display pixels and held thereby, wherein the display pixels each include a liquid crystal in which alignment of liquid crystal molecules is changed by a voltage between pixel electrodes and a common electrode, and the control circuit applies in a signal stop period in the intermittent driving, a voltage corresponding to a gradation higher than or equal to white gradation to the source lines in a case where a display mode of the liquid crystal is a normally-black mode.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a driving circuit and a driving method for a touch device, a touch device and a display device. The driving circuit includes an operational amplifier and a control circuit. A negative input terminal of the operational amplifier is connected with a touch-sensing electrode included in the touch device, and a positive input terminal of the operational amplifier is connected with the control circuit. The control circuit is to, at a touch stage, adjust a voltage at the positive input terminal of the operational amplifier to be within a first predetermined voltage range so as to control the touch-sensing electrode to implement a touch sensing operation, and at a display stage, adjust the voltage at the positive input terminal of the operational amplifier to be within a second predetermined voltage range so as to shield external static electricity.

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

Abstract: A touch control device capable of preventing false positives is provided. The touch control device includes: a conductive plate, electrically connected to a predetermined potential; a sensing region, located above the conductive plate, including a plurality of capacitive sensing units; and a conductive ring, located above the conductive plate, disposed at a periphery of the sensing region. When a touch scanning signal is provided to one on-duty capacitive touch sensing unit of the capacitive touch sensing units, the conductive ring synchronously receives a control signal associated with the touch scanning signal.

Abstract: A touch operation detection apparatus includes a touch pad that has an operation surface touchable by an operator's body, and has a plurality of electrostatic sensors incorporated therein each of which detects electrostatic capacitance that is variable according to a touch on the operation surface; a number-of-touched-point determination part that determines whether the number of touched points at which touches are made on the operation surface of the touch pad is greater than or equal to 2 based on signals from the electrostatic sensors; and a sensitivity adjustment execution part that executes a sensitivity adjustment concerning the touch against the operation surface of the touch pad when the number-of-touched-point determination part determines that the number of touched points is greater than or equal to 2.

Abstract: An input apparatus includes: a display; and a detector that detects contactless proximity of an object to the display at first coordinates of the object along a plane of the display, and contact of the object with the display at second coordinates of the object along the plane of the display. When the contactless proximity of the object is detected, and the first coordinates of the object are located within a first distance in the plane of the display from an item, the item is temporarily selected. After the item has been selected temporarily, when the contact of the object is detected, and the second coordinates of the object are located within a second distance in the plane of the display from the item, the item is finally selected. The second distance from the item is longer than the first distance from the item.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for controlling a display and a display using the same. The method includes: detecting the approach of a user's hand to the display unit, determining a user's input hand shape; and displaying a display screen corresponds to the determined user's input hand shape. Through the present invention, a user may render a higher menu list and a lower menu list to be displayed on one screen, and may control display screen shift direction and speed, merely by performing a finger extending and folding action. Further, the user may control the size of a display screen by inputting the finger extending and folding action.

Abstract: An operating device includes at least one ToF sensor for emitting transmission signals, in particular in the form of light, receiving reception signals and outputting information signals, at least one optical waveguide for directing the transmission signals from the ToF sensor to at least one deflection point, for directing the deflection signals deflected where the operating device can be installed in a motor vehicle.

Abstract: A vehicle display apparatus includes a display, a plurality of light emitting units provided in the periphery of the display, a plurality of light receiving units provided in the periphery of the display, and a processor configured to calculate a position of an approaching external object based on levels of light signals received by the plurality of light receiving units. The plurality of light emitting units sequentially emits light, the plurality of light receiving units sequentially receives light in correspondence with sequential light emission of the plurality of light emitting units, and the processor calculates the position of the external object based on the levels of the light signals received by the plurality of light receiving units in correspondence with sequential light emission of the plurality of light emitting units. Accordingly, it is possible to stably detect the position of the external object positioned in front of the display.

Abstract: An elastive sensor device comprises a set of sensor electrodes and a processing system. The processing system is configured to acquire an elastive measurement by emitting an electrical signal with a first subset of the set of sensor electrodes and receiving the electrical signal with a second subset of the set of sensor electrodes. The processing system is further configured to determine positional information using the elastive measurement.

Abstract: A zoom gesture determination method for a touch control device includes detecting a first touch point and a second touch point; determining a position difference between the first touch point and the second touch point; and deciding a zoom gesture represented by the first touch point and the second touch point according to variations in the position difference.

Abstract: Detecting force and touch using FTIR and capacitive location. FTIR determines applied force by the user's finger within infrared transmit lines on a touch device. A pattern of such lines determine optical coupling with the touch device. Capacitive sensing can determine (A) where the finger actually touches, so the touch device more accurately infers applied force; (B) whether finger touches shadow each other; (C) as a baseline for applied force; or (D) whether attenuated reflection is due to a current optical coupling, or is due to an earlier optical coupling, such as a smudge on the cover glass. If there is attenuated reflection without actual touching, the touch device can reset a baseline for applied force for the area in which that smudge remains. Infrared transmitters and receivers are positioned where they are not visible to a user, such as below a frame or mask for the cover glass.

Abstract: In an example implementation, a portable computing device may alternate between scanning for tactile input, such as a user's finger on a trackpad, and scanning for wireless input, such as a near field communication (NFC) signal. If tactile input is received, the portable computing device may stop scanning for wireless input while the portable computing device continues to receive the tactile input. When the portable computing device stops receiving the tactile input, the portable computing device may return to alternating between scanning for tactile input and scanning for wireless input. If wireless input is received, the portable computing device may stop scanning for tactile input while wirelessly communicating with the device from which the wireless input was received. When the portable computing device is finished wirelessly communicating with the device, the portable computing device may return to alternating between scanning for tactile input and scanning for wireless input.

Abstract: There are provided a touch sensing device and a touchscreen device. The touch sensing device includes: a driving circuit applying a driving signal having a predetermined first period to a node capacitor; a buffer circuit converting capacitance of the node capacitor into a voltage signal; a buffer capacitor being charged and discharged depending on an output voltage from the buffer circuit; and an integration circuit integrating voltages charged in the buffer capacitor, wherein, in a normal touch mode, the buffer circuit integrates capacitance of the node capacitor to generate the voltage signal, and, in a proximity touch mode, the buffer circuit generates the voltage signal by following the voltages charged in the node capacitor.

Abstract: A touch screen device includes a touch screen panel including Tx lines, Rx lines, and touch sensors formed at crossings of the Tx lines and Rx lines; a Tx driving circuit for supplying a driving pulse to the Tx lines; and an Rx driving circuit for sampling charge variations of the touch sensors, which are received through the Rx lines, and converting the received charge variations into touch raw data, wherein the Rx driving circuit includes: a noise filter that removes noise of signals received from the Rx line; an integrator that accumulates the charge variations passing through the noise filter; a sampling circuit that samples the accumulated charge variation of the integrator; and an analog to digital converter that converts the charge variation sampled by the sampling circuit into the touch raw data, the noise filter being a biquad bandpass filter including variable resistors and variable capacitors.

Abstract: Examples of the present disclosure generally provide current feedback techniques for capacitive sensing with an input device. A processing system for an input device includes an operational amplifier having a non-inverting input, an inverting input, and an output. A voltage source is coupled to the non-inverting input. A first voltage-controlled current source is coupled between the output and the inverting input to form a feedback path. A second voltage-controlled current source is coupled to the output and configured for modifying a charge on a capacitor based on a control voltage at the output. A determination module is coupled to the capacitor and configured for determining a capacitance measurement at the inverting input based on the charge on the capacitor.

Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a substrate and a black matrix located on the substrate in a mesh pattern. On the black matrix are formed a first touch sense electrode and a second sense electrode. The first touch sense electrode extends in a first direction and the second touch sense electrode has a plurality of blocks extending in a second direction. An insulation layer with openings exposes portions of the blocks of the second touch sense electrode. A connection electrode connects the adjacent blocks of the second touch sense electrode via the openings in the insulation layer. The first touch sense electrode and the second touch sense electrode are covered by the pattern of the black matrix.

Abstract: A system made up of a first device which includes a communication interface and a processing device and a second device which includes a touch sensor assembly and a controller, where the controller uses the touch sensor assembly to communicate with the processing device through a capacitor that is jointly formed by the touch sensor assembly and a conductive portion of the communications interface.

Abstract: A display device includes: a light source unit; a holding frame that stores the light source unit therein; a display panel that is disposed to face the light source unit; and a transparent member that is disposed on a front surface side of the display panel, wherein the holding frame includes a planar portion which is formed to face a periphery portion of a rear surface side of the transparent member, and wherein the holding frame includes a bonding member which is disposed on the planar portion and bonds the transparent member and the holding frame, and wherein the planar portion provided with a convex protrusion protruding toward the transparent member.

Abstract: An in-cell touch panel and a display device are disclosed. The in-cell touch panel includes: an array substrate provided with top-gate thin-film transistors (TFTs); a plurality of mutually independent self-capacitance electrodes arranged in a same layer and disposed on a layer provided with the top-gate TFTs; a touch detection chip configured to determine a touch position in a touch period; and a plurality of wirings disposed beneath the layer provided with the top-gate TFTs and configured to connect the self-capacitance electrodes to the touch detection chip. Orthographic projections of patterns of the wirings on the array substrate shield patterns of active layers of the top-gate TFTs. The in-cell touch panel can reduce the manufacturing cost and improve the productivity.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a touch panel, its manufacturing method and a touch display panel. A bridging point member of a bridging line, through which sensing electrodes in the touch panel are electrically connected to each other, is provided with at least one via-hole, so as to provide the bridging point member with a hollowed-out pattern.

Abstract: A touch window includes a substrate; and an electrode on the substrate, wherein the electrode includes a first mesh line extending in a first direction and having a first width; a second mesh line extending in a direction different from the first direction and having a second width; and an cross area in which the first and second mesh lines cross each other, the cross area having a third width, wherein the third width is larger than the first width, and the third width is equal to or less than 10 times of the first width.

Abstract: A sensor includes a patterned compliant layer positioned between two substrates. Each substrate can include one or more conductive electrodes, with each electrode of one substrate paired with a respective electrode of the other substrate. Each pair of conductive electrodes forms a capacitor. Several methods are disclosed that can be used to produce the patterned compliant layer.

Abstract: A touch panel includes touch electrodes and a touch driver configured to apply a driving signal to the touch electrodes to form sensing capacitors comprising the touch electrodes, the touch driver configured to sense a change in an amount of charge caused by the sensing capacitors. The touch driver is configured to distinguish hovering and floating based upon a result of sensing the time change in an amount of charge. The touch driver is configured to apply a highest level of the driving signal to a hovering electrode corresponding to a hovering position from among the touch electrodes.

Abstract: A touch input device that includes a touch sensor and a control unit. The touch sensor includes a base material, a piezoelectric film, a plurality of first detecting conductors and a plurality of second detecting conductors. The base material is a flat plate. The piezoelectric film is made of uniaxially stretched PLLA, and is arranged on one principal surface of the base material. The first detecting conductors are arranged on a surface of the piezoelectric film opposite to the base material. The plurality of second detecting conductors are arranged on a surface opposite to the surface of the base material which abuts on the piezoelectric film. The control unit detects an operation position and a press by using detection signals outputted from the first detecting conductors and the second detecting conductors.

Abstract: Techniques for estimating height of an input object in a sensing region of an input device are provided. The techniques include constructing a signal profile based on measured data. The techniques also include determining a fit value of a fitting parameter of a mathematical function that fits the mathematical function to the signal profile such that the fitting of the mathematical exceeds a quality threshold. The fitting parameter correlates to hover height of the input object and adjusting the fitting parameter affects the fit of the mathematical function to the signal profile. In some embodiments, fitting a curve includes varying the height parameter of a mathematical function until the curve generated by the mathematical function with the selected height parameter is deemed to fit obtained sensor data to within a certain tolerance. In other embodiments, fitting a curve may be accomplished with direct computation.

Abstract: Techniques for removing display-based corrupting components from a capacitive sensing signal are provided. A routing carrying display related signals (e.g., a source signal for sub-pixel updating) may induce corrupting current into a routing for carrying capacitive sensing signals. This corrupting current may reduce the ability to determine presence of an input object via the sensing signal. Therefore, the corrupting signal is effectively removed by driving the display elements with a dot inversion technique and by performing capacitive sensing for a sensor electrode during a time in which an even number of display rows are driven for display updates. Dot inversion causes the corrupting current to alternate polarity. Thus, driving sensor electrodes in a period of time in which an even number of rows is driven means that an equal number of positive and negative polarity corrupting currents are induced into the sensing signal.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a touch-sensitive display device comprising: a first set of metal electrodes including a first metal electrode; a second set of metal electrodes including a second metal electrode and a third metal electrode, the first metal electrode located between the second metal electrode and the third metal electrode such that the second metal electrode is physically separated from the third metal electrode; a first set of touch electrodes including a first touch electrode that is connected to the first metal electrode; a second set of touch electrodes including a second touch electrode and a third touch electrode, the second touch electrode connected to the second metal electrode and the third touch electrode connected to the third metal electrode; an insulation film having a plurality of contact holes; and a connection electrode electrically connecting the second metal electrode to the third metal electrode through the plurality of contact holes.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides an electromagnetic touch display device and a method for manufacturing the same. The electromagnetic touch display device includes a display device and an electromagnetic stylus. The display device includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate, a grid array electromagnetic induction layer and a control circuit. The grid array electromagnetic induction layer is arranged on the array substrate or the color filter substrate. The control circuit is connected to the grid array electromagnetic induction layer and configured to detect position information of the electromagnetic stylus on the grid array electromagnetic induction layer.

Abstract: An object of the invention is to provide a method for more easily manufacturing a touch-panel conductive sheet in which end portions of lead-out wires are collected on one surface side of a substrate with high productivity, and a touch-panel conductive sheet.