Abstract: Disclosed is a touch panel including a cover substrate including an active area and an unactive area, first and second sensing electrodes extending in mutually different directions on the active area, a first printed circuit board connected with one end of the first sensing electrode, and a second printed circuit board connected with an opposite end of the first sensing electrode.

Abstract: A touch sensing device and a display device for improving hovering performance including: a touch sensing display panel including sense electrodes arranged in a matrix; and a sensing signal controller connected to the touch sensing display panel. The sense electrode includes a metal mesh electrode and a conductive layer contacting the metal mesh electrode.

Abstract: A touch module and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The touch module includes a substrate, at least two first touch electrodes, at least two second touch electrodes, at least one electrode channel, and at least one bridge. All of the first touch electrodes, the second touch electrodes, and the electrode channel are embedded in the substrate. The electrode channel is configured to connect the second touch electrodes to each other. The bridge crosses over the electrode channel, is configured to electrically connect the first touch electrodes to each other. The first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are insulated from each other.

Abstract: An in-cell touch panel and a display device are disclosed. The in-cell touch panel includes a plurality of self-capacitance electrodes disposed on the same layer and independent from each other, a touch sensing chip and a plurality of wires. The self-capacitance electrodes constitute a common electrode layer and the wires and the self-capacitance electrodes are disposed on different layers. The touch sensing chip is configured to apply common electrode signals to self-capacitance electrodes in a display time period and determine touch positions by detecting capacitance value variation of self-capacitance electrodes in a touch time period. In the touch panel, the common electrode layer is reused as self-capacitance electrodes, thereby implementing touch function without a touch dead zone.

Abstract: A control method for a touch sensor panel may be provided that includes: obtaining touch information on the touch sensor panel from which an electrical signal outputted is changed according to a touch; detecting at least one valid touch from the touch information; determining the valid touch which is included in a palm touch group among the at least one valid touch; and displaying an input corresponding to the valid touch other than the valid touch which is included in the palm touch group among the at least one valid touch, on a display unit.

Abstract: Disclosed is a touch sensor device, including: a plurality of first sensing electrodes which includes a plurality of first linear electrodes extending in a first direction and a first connection electrode connecting the plurality of first linear electrodes to each other; and a plurality of second sensing electrodes which includes a plurality of second linear electrodes extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a second connection electrode connecting the plurality of second linear electrodes to each other, in which a disposition density of the plurality of first linear electrodes included in one first sensing electrode is gradually decreased from a center of the first sensing electrode to an outer side of the first sensing electrode.

Abstract: An array substrate, an in-cell touch screen and a touch display device are provided. The array substrate includes a common electrode layer, wherein the common electrode layer is provided with a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes with extending directions perpendicular to each other, each of the driving electrodes includes a plurality of driving sub-electrodes which are connected to one another, each of the sensing electrodes includes a plurality of sensing sub-electrodes which are connected to one another, and adjacent driving sub-electrode and sensing sub-electrode have concave-convex structures in a staggered arrangement at an border and are insulated from each other.

Abstract: A multi-touch sensing system and a method for estimating a location of at least one touch point are provided. The multi-touch sensing system includes a panel, a grid of conductor disposed on the panel, a driver array connected to the grid, a receiver array connected to the grid, a signal processing system, and a controller. The method involves transmitting drive signals to the grid, receiving signals from the grid, estimating a capacitance, and transforming the capacitance into touch coordinates.

Abstract: A display device substrate including a transparent substrate having a display portion formed in an overall rectangular shape in a planar view, an electrode disposed in the display portion and having pixel openings, the electrode including partial patterns which are electrically isolated from one another and formed in parallel to a first direction along the transparent substrate, a first transparent resin layer formed on the electrode, a transparent electrode formed on the first transparent resin layer, and including partial patterns which are formed along the transparent substrate and in parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a second transparent resin layer formed on the partial patterns of the transparent electrode.

Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a substrate including an active area, a non-active area at the periphery of the active area, and a contact area between the active area and the non-active area, sensing electrodes disposed in the active area, connecting lines disposed in the non-active area and the contact area and electrically connected to the sensing electrodes, and a metal capping layer disposed in the contact area, in which the sensing electrodes include a first overcoating layer disposed on the substrate as a conductor layer, and a second overcoating layer disposed on the first overcoating layer, the connecting lines include the first overcoating layer, the second overcoating layer, and a metal line layer disposed on the second overcoating layer, and the metal capping layer couple the metal line layer to the first overcoating layer through a contact hole to expose the first overcoating layer in the contact area.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof. A mobile terminal according to the present disclosure may include a display unit provided with an electrode layer having a plurality of nodes, and a display layer configured to receive power from the electrode layer and display visual information, a touch sensor disposed to overlap with the display layer to sense a touch input using the electrode layer, and a controller configured to control power supplied to the electrode layer to control the display unit and the touch sensor, wherein the driving mode of the touch sensor includes a first driving mode in which the plurality of nodes are simultaneously turned on to sense the touch input, and a second driving mode in which the plurality of nodes are sequentially turned on to detect the coordinate of the touch input when the touch input is sensed.

Abstract: An in-cell touch panel including pixels is disclosed. A laminated structure of each pixel includes a substrate, a TFT layer, a color filter layer, at least one protrusion, a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The TFT layer is disposed on the substrate. The color filter layer is disposed above the TFT layer. The at least one protrusion is disposed under the color filter layer opposite to the TFT layer. The first conductive layer is disposed above the TFT layer opposite to the color filter layer. The second conductive layer is disposed on the at least one protrusion. The first conductive layer and a part of second conductive layer are electrically connected, so that the first conductive layer which is disposed near the TFT layer and not electrically connected originally can be electrically connected through the second conductive layer disposed near the color filter layer.

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally provide an input device with display screens that periodically update (refresh) the screen by selectively driving common electrodes corresponding to pixels in a display line. In general, the input devices drive each electrode until each display line (and each pixel) of a display frame is updated. In addition to updating the display, the input device may perform capacitive sensing using the display screen as a proximity sensing area. To do this, the input device may interleave periods of capacitive sensing between periods of updating the display based on a display frame. For example, the input device may update the first half of display lines of the display screen, pause display updating, perform capacitive sensing, and finish updating the rest of the display lines. Further still, the input device may use common electrodes for both updating the display and performing capacitive sensing.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to deformable membranes and force-sensing capacitor elements useful, for example, in electronic devices that include, for example touch screen displays or other touch sensors. The deformable membranes, generally, include a first, second and third layers, with a first arrangement of a plurality of first structures interposed between the first and third layers and a second arrangement of a plurality of second structures interposed between the second and third layers. At least a portion, but not all, of the plurality of first structures have first and/or second surfaces that each overlap through the thickness of the deformable membrane with one or more of the first surfaces or with one or more of the second surfaces of the plurality of second structures. Electrodes or one or more electrode pairs are incorporated into the deformable membrane layer(s) to form force-sensing capacitors.

Abstract: The various embodiments described herein provide input devices configured to selectively operate in two different sensing regimes. The first sensing regime is configured to determine positional information for ungloved fingers in the sensing region. The second sensing regime is configured to determine positional information for gloved fingers in the sensing region. The input devices are further configured to switch from operating in the first sensing regime to the second sensing regime responsive to detecting an input gesture that meets each of a set of criteria, where the set of criteria includes a measure of sensor value stability corresponding to the input gesture being beyond a sensor value stability threshold level. So implemented, the input device allows a user to easily switch between two different sensing regimes, and thus can facilitate the use of the device with both gloved and ungloved fingers providing input.

Abstract: A method for forming a metal mesh pattern is provided. The method includes the operations below. First, at least one pitch of each of mesh base units of a mesh base is determined, and thereby the mesh base is formed. Then, a seed region is set in each of the mesh base units of the mesh base, in which a ratio of an area of each of the seed regions to an area of each of the mesh base units is a constant. Then, a plurality of seeds are generated by randomly selecting a point in each of the seed regions. Finally, the metal mesh pattern is formed, in which the metal mesh pattern is a set of perpendicular bisectors of lines connecting the seeds and their adjacent neighboring seeds.

Abstract: Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for providing a set of objects for display in a dynamic user interface such as a home screen. A system is configured to receive usage data for a plurality of objects available to a computing device, the usage data comprising a time and date that each object was most recently selected by a user and a number of times each object was selected by the user for a period of time and calculate a priority score for each object in the plurality of objects based on the usage data. The system is further configured to select a set of objects from the plurality of objects based on the priority score for each object in the plurality of objects and provide the set of objects for display in a dynamic user interface of the computing device.

Abstract: Content of a web-based application is displayed in a window of a web browser application. A selection of the display region is received from a user or a computer implemented system. A locked region is defined based on the selection. When instructions to modify the content of web-based application is received, the instructions are executed except those to modify the locked region.

Abstract: Media sets may be presented as a media presentation (e.g., a slideshow or a thumbnail set), but many such presentations exhaust the attention of a user, particularly for large media sets. Instead, ratings may be identified that represents the relevance or interest of respective media objects of the media set to the user. These ratings may be identified explicitly by the user or automatically detected (e.g., by assessing image quality or monitoring user interactions with respective media objects). A zoomable media presentation of the media set may first present only media objects having a high rating, and upon zooming in near a media object, may insert, near the zoomed media object, one or more media objects associated with the zoomed media object and having a lower rating. This presentation therefore hierarchically organizes the media set, and utilizes zoom operations as a “drill-down” metaphor within the hierarchy of the media set.

Abstract: The invention provides a display interface in a social networking system that enables the presentation of information related to a user in a timeline or map view. The system accesses information about a user of a social networking system, including both data about the user and social network activities related to the user. The system then selects one or more of these pieces of data and/or activities from a certain time period and gathers them into timeline units based on their relatedness and their relevance to users. These timeline units are ranked by relevance to the user, and are used to generate a timeline or map view for the user containing visual representations of the timeline units organized by location or time. The timeline or map view is then provided to other users of the social networking system that wish to view information about the user.

Abstract: Resizable and lockable user interfaces (UI) are provided. Systems and methods described herein allow a user to resize and/or lock a section of the user interface. Interference and distraction caused by secondary content when primary content is traversed may be minimized. In addition, UI controls are provided to allow traversing primary content and secondary content separately.

Abstract: Customizable bladed applications are described herein. A device platform is configured to provide a simultask mode that enables combined user access to multiple applications of the platform via respective chrome portions. When simultask mode is active, arrangement of chrome elements within a user interface is controlled to generate a bladed view that provides a compact representation for one application in conjunction with an expanded view that provides principal chrome for a different application. The platform makes the bladed view available for any displayable application of the platform. The bladed view may also include application-specific elements that are populated using customizations designated via metadata of the application, or using default information for applications in the absence of designated customizations.

Abstract: A method for designing a user interface (UI) for an application includes receiving, from a user, a first response comprising user selected first answers and a second response comprising user selected second answers, to pre-defined questions. The method includes assigning significance to interface (STI) weightage to each user selected first answer with respect to pre-defined user experience parameters and assigning a significance to business (STB) weightage to each user selected second answer. Also, the method includes computing total actual effective weightage for each pre-defined user experience parameter based on STI weightages of user selected first answers and STB weightages of user selected second answers. The method further includes calculating total maximum effective weightage for each pre-defined user experience parameter based on maximum STI weightage and maximum STB weightage for each pre-defined question.

Abstract: A computerized method of presenting information from a variety of sources on a display device. Specifically the present invention describes a graphical user interface for organizing the simultaneous display of information from a multitude of information sources. In particular, the present invention comprises a graphical user interface which organizes content from a variety of information sources into a grid of tiles, each of which can refresh its content independently of the others. The grid functionality manages the refresh rates of the multiple information sources. The present invention is intended to operate in a platform independent manner.

Abstract: A control device includes a control unit that displays a first cursor which discretely moves in response to an operation of a user and a second cursor which changes continuously on a display screen.

Abstract: An example method includes receiving, at a mobile device, one or more user selections by a user of the mobile device, where each user selection indicates a respective type of data item to be presented on the mobile device. The method also includes receiving, at the mobile device, one or more data items. The method also includes identifying data items that are associated with the types of data items to be presented on the mobile device, and responsive to identifying data items that are associated with the types of data items to be presented on the mobile device, presenting, on the mobile device, a dynamic icon to present the identified data items.

Abstract: A method, system, and/or computer program product modifies a graphical user interface (GUI) for an application to improve usability of the current GUI. One or more processors build a graphical user interface (GUI) neural knowledge base to capture GUIs used by multiple software applications based on a function, semantics, and context of captured GUIs. The processor(s) identify a current GUI that is utilized by a current software application, and match the current GUI to captured GUIs that have a same function, semantics, and context as the current GUI. The processor(s) identify a top-k active field used by the captured GUIs, and match a function of a current active field to a function of the top-k active field. If the visual appearance of the current active field does not match the visual appearance of the top-k active field, the processor(s) replace the current active field with the top-k active field.

Abstract: Techniques for enhancing a user's viewing experience include providing new opportunities for viewing information or manipulating data during the viewing experience. The user may take an action that has an intended purpose of changing a mode of play of content displayed at the client device. An event prompted by the user action, such as a pause or rewind of the displayed content, may be an event that triggers at least one extended option associated with the displayed content.

Abstract: A display device includes a storage storing a plurality of rules including first and second rules, a designator that designates one rule of the plurality of rules, and a controller that causes a screen to transition from one screen to another screen in accordance with the one rule. The first rule includes a rule that causes a screen to transition from a first screen to a second screen in response to a user's first action, and a rule that causes a screen to transition from the first screen to a third screen in response to a user's second action. The second rule includes a rule that causes a screen to transition from the first screen to the second screen in response to a user's third action, and a rule that causes a screen to transition from the second screen to the third screen in response to the user's third action.

Abstract: A method of providing a flash card and apparatuses for performing the method are disclosed. A method of providing a flash card in a learning system including a first terminal and second terminals may include creating, by the first terminal, a first flash card associated with a corresponding page of an electronic book (e-book) currently being displayed on a display of the first terminal, and transmitting, by the first terminal, the first flash card to the second terminals.

Abstract: A computerized system and method for facilitating and organizing the creative process of planning events either along one line, or multiple in parallel, with a designated order but not at specific points in time.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method, apparatus, and computer program for providing sub-content while providing online content. The method, apparatus, and computer program for providing sub-content while providing online content provides predetermined sub-content before providing online main content to a user, displays a predetermined user interface after a certain period of time, and continuously provides the sub-content only when the user selects the user interface.

Abstract: The invention relates to a computer-implemented graphical user interface (6) for a display (60), comprising an information area (62) for presenting a section (A') of a desktop (A), on which a plurality of widgets (W1, W2, W3, W4, WS) are arranged. The user interface also comprises a navigation area (61), which is substantially smaller than the information area (62) and which is arranged outside of the information area (62) and which has a miniaturized presentation (A*) of the entire desktop and the widgets arranged thereon. The navigation area (61) and the information area (62) are coupled by means of a selection indicator (L), which can be moved in the navigation area (61), in such a way that a sub-area of the desktop (A*) presented in miniature determined in the navigation area (61) by the selection indicator (I) corresponds to the section (A') of the desktop (A) presented in the information area (62).

Abstract: A system for a computer implemented interactive comparative display of information organizes a visual screen display to a user in such a way that the user is able to efficiently select information content, be presented with topical associations relating to that content, and readily compare different information content from a single display. The information content represented by each selectable result indicator is comparable with the information content represented by other selectable result indicators, wherein the information content is of a same type of information content but from a different perspective, vantage point, or provides a different alternative. A user may navigate to a particular segment of information content, and then be presented with a string of topically related segments, as well as with one or more connecting categories of information, which may otherwise not have been readily apparent to the particular selected segment, but for the display system and method.

Abstract: A plurality of data records is stored in a memory. The data records include data about a drill string in a well. Each data record includes a depth zone, wherein the depth zone includes a range of depths in the well, a description of a component in the drill string in the depth zone for this data record, and a failure flag that, when set, represents a failure in the drill string at the depth zone for this data record. A processor with access to the memory generates and transmits for display on a graphical user interface a schematic of a portion of the drill string. The processor emphasizes on the schematic of the portion of the drill string on the graphical user interface a representation of an emphasized depth zone, wherein a failure flag in a data record for the emphasized depth zone is set.

Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touch screen; and a controller configured to receive a touch input on a peripheral region of the touch screen, display at least one display item from among a plurality of display items on the touch screen in response to the received touch input, in which the at least one display item identifies a foreground panel among a plurality of available foreground panels, receive a dragging touch input in which the touch input is dragged and dropped at the at least one display item, and display a foreground panel corresponding to the at least one item by overlapping the foreground panel on at least part of the touch screen.

Abstract: An electronic device with a display, touch-sensitive surface and one or more sensors to detect intensity of contacts with the touch-sensitive surface displays a first user interface object and detects first movement of the contact that corresponds to movement of a focus selector toward the first user interface object. In response to detecting the first movement, the device moves the focus selector to the first user interface object; and determines an intensity of the contact. After detecting the first movement, the device detects second movement of the contact. In response to detecting the second movement of the contact, when the contact meets selection criteria based on an intensity of the contact, the device moves the focus selector and the first user interface object; and when the contact does not meet the selection criteria, the device moves the focus selector without moving the first user interface object.

Abstract: A digital template animation kit is provided for generating a three-dimensional animation corresponding to a captured two-dimensional template. In embodiments, a template animation kit includes a template portfolio having template designs for coloring in by a user. A computing device executing a template animation kit application, such as a digital fashion portfolio kit application, may then capture an image of the user-completed drawings on each template design. In some embodiments, capturing an image of a template design includes identifying a coloring figure identifier, an upper page guide identifier, and a lower page guide identifier. In further embodiments, the captured images of two-dimensional template designs are applied to three dimensional digital templates for animation within a digital template animation environment.

Abstract: A media item is presented via a media player, the media player configured to receive the media item, the media item being associated with a format and including an audio component. Responsive to a change in a display mode associated with the media player, a second media player is identified that is configured to receive a corresponding media item, the corresponding media item being associated with a second format and including a second audio component that matches the audio component. A particular location is determined in the media item to cease presentation of the media item via the media player and a corresponding location in the corresponding media item to begin presentation of the corresponding media item using the second media player. Responsive to reaching the particular location, concurrently, presentation of the media item is ceased and presentation of the corresponding media item at the corresponding location is begun.

Abstract: A method for controlling a terminal screen includes: first displaying, on a screen of a terminal, a first function input unit and at least a portion of a page of content on a screen, the first function input unit being associated with at least a first function for the terminal; recognizing a scroll operation on the screen; and second displaying, in response to the recognizing the scroll operation on the screen, a second function input unit instead of at least a portion of the first function input unit, the second function input unit being associated with a second function for the terminal.

Abstract: Provided are a terminal and a method of operating the same. The terminal includes a display unit displaying a plurality of icons that respectively represent the plurality of objects and detecting a user input; and a control unit displaying the plurality of icons on the display unit according to a first user input, displaying at least one icon to be identified according to a second user input that selects the at least one icon selected from the plurality of icons, and pasting an object corresponding to the selected icon on an input window according to a third user input that inputs the selected at least one icon into the input window.

Abstract: Various techniques, methods and apparatus are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a movable information panel may be moved to be displayed as a tabbed web page, moved to a different application window, or docked to a horizontal or vertical panel bar. Other example embodiments are also disclosed.

Abstract: A display device calculates an operation amount of a user's input operation based on a detected indicated position. Display device displays component images on display surface based on the operation amount calculated. If display device determines that the indicated position is no longer detected, display device determines whether the calculated operation amount is smaller than or equal to a threshold. If it is determined that the calculated operation amount exceeds the threshold, display device executes an acquiring operation of a newly arrived email.

Abstract: A watch-type mobile terminal is provided. The watch-type mobile terminal includes a control unit for operating in a first mode and a second mode. The control unit may display, in the first mode, a first screen at least having a watch shape and a second screen in the second mode. The luminance of the second screen may be lower than the luminance of the first screen. The second screen may include a plurality of ambient screens that represents different kinds of pieces of notification information.

Abstract: A message screen display comprises a static non-scrollable display area for display of at least part of a first message, the first message having an associated first message time. The message screen display further comprises a scrollable display area for display of at least part of a second message, the second message having an associated second message time. The message screen display further comprises a feature applied to at least part of the first message that varies based on time as referenced to the associated first message time.

Abstract: A mobile terminal having a terminal body including a first side and a second side, a display located on the first side and configured to display information, a first touch sensor configured to receive touch inputs and located on the first side, a second touch sensor configured to receive touch inputs and located on the second side, and a controller configured to cause the display to display a first screen information, and a secondary image with the first screen information when a first touch input is received via the first touch sensor and a corresponding second touch input is received via the second touch sensor, wherein the secondary image is related to a selected region of the first screen information corresponding to a position of the first touch input.

Abstract: A wearable electronic device is disclosed. The wearable electronic device comprises a ring body and a substrate. The ring body has an outer cover and an interface disposed on an exterior of the outer cover, with the ring body defining an annular receiving space within the ring body. The substrate is disposed in the annular receiving space and has a plurality of capacitive plates.

Abstract: A method of inputting text in an electronic device having a touch screen is provided. The method includes displaying a screen including a keypad and a character input window, displaying a recommended text related to a character on a candidate window when an input of the character is detected through the keypad, detecting a gesture of a touch input according to the recommended text, and displaying a recommended text to which a style corresponding to the gesture is applied on the character input window.

Abstract: A device configured to distinguish between intentional and inadvertent input is provided. Input may be in the form of touch screen or on-screen keyboard input. Such input is examined such that a device may ignore unintentional and resting contact while reacting only to purposeful contact. The characteristics of unintentional and resting device contact are ascertained and differentiated from the contact characteristics of intentional device input.

Abstract: A method for generating a virtual volume (VV) in a storage system architecture. The architecture comprises a host and one or more disk array subsystems. Each subsystem comprises a storage controller. One or more of the subsystems comprises a physical storage device (PSD) array. The method comprises the following steps: mapping the PSD array into a plurality of media extents (MEs), each of the MEs comprises a plurality of sections; providing a virtual pool (VP) to implement a section cross-referencing function, wherein a section index (SI) of each of the sections contained in the VP is defined by the VP to cross-reference VP sections to physical ME locations; providing a conversion method or procedure or function for mapping VP capacity into to a VV; and presenting the VV to the host. A storage subsystem and a storage system architecture performing the method are also provided.