Abstract: A navigation keypad is disposed in an electronic device including a case and a keypad printed circuit board disposed in the case. The navigation keypad includes an elastic support element and a body. The elastic post includes an elastic post, and a first end of the elastic post has an inclined plane. The body is passing through the case and corresponding to the elastic support element. The body includes a direction keypad portion lean against the elastic post and providing a reload force. The direction keypad portions may be formed on the body for direction control. Therefore, the number of the components and the assembling hour of the navigation keypad can be reduced. In addition, the inclined plane allows the direction keypad portion to be closely in contact with the directional elastic post. Therefore, when one direction keypad portion is pressed, other direction keypad portion would not be affected.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a data input apparatus and a method thereof. The data input apparatus can input data independently or sequentially via a first input or a second input for selecting one of the indication positions or a pair of indication positions of an input unit provided with a plurality of front and back indication positions based on a reference line passing through a reference point, which is a reference position for a base within a finger movement range. When a finger is placed on the input unit, the indication positions of the input unit are easily recognized as front and back corresponding input selection positions based on the reference line or the center of the input unit. Therefore, a user can easily and rapidly input data upon inputting data using the input unit.

Abstract: There is provided an optical navigation device including an image sensor, a processing unit, a storage unit and an output unit. The image sensor is configured to successively capture images. The processing unit is configured to calculate a current displacement according to the images and to compare the current displacement or an accumulated displacement with a threshold so as to determine an outputted displacement. The storage unit is configured to save the accumulated displacement. The output unit is configured to output the outputted displacement with a report rate.

Abstract: A method and a hand held laboratory device to control screen navigation on a display instrument such as a smart phone or tablet computer by using predetermined movements of the hand held device caused by the user. The display instrument controls the hand held laboratory device, which allows the user of a hand held device to operate the device without the need of touching the display instrument.

Abstract: In a portable type information input and output apparatus having a portable housing, the control unit performs a control to determine whether a detected output by a first sensor (light sensor or atmospheric pressure sensor) for detecting a first environmental change in three-dimensional space exceeds a threshold value or not, and to execute command by regarding all or part of information obtained by a second sensor (acceleration sensor, angular velocity sensor, direction sensor, atmospheric pressure sensor or temperature sensor) for detecting a second environmental change in the three-dimensional space as an input information, and to generate an output signal according to the second environmental change in the three-dimensional space based on the input information, and to output the generated output signal as a vibration information from an information output device composed of at least one vibration device.

Abstract: In certain embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a graphical control element on a graphical user interface (GUI), determining a type of the graphical control element, generating configuration control data to cause an input device to configure one or more input elements on the input device to perform functions corresponding to the type of the graphical control element, and sending the configuration control data to the input device. In some cases, the configuration control data causes the input device to configure at least two of the one or more input elements to perform functions corresponding to the type of the graphical control element, and wherein the at least two of the one or more input elements are associated with different functions. The type of graphical control element can be one of a video media player, audio media player, hyperlink, word processor document, spreadsheet document, or alphanumeric text.

Abstract: An input device includes: an input portion; a supporting portion supporting the input portion; a first actuator having a first magnetic pole forming portion and a first coil; a second actuator having a second magnetic pole forming portion and a second coil; and a fixed yoke and a movable yoke forming a magnetic circuit for magnetic fluxes generated by the first and second magnetic pole forming portions. One of the fixed yoke and the movable yoke has a magnetic resistance as resistance in the magnetic circuit. A stabilizing force is generated in the movable yoke to stabilize the magnetic circuit against the magnetic resistance. The magnetic resistance is located such that an acting direction of the stabilizing force is opposite to a fall direction of the movable yoke due to own weight in accordance with an inclined installation.

Abstract: Stylus modes are described. In implementations, one or more sensors of a stylus are used to detect that contact with a user has ceased. A battery-conservation mode is entered by the stylus responsive to the use of the sensors.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes a stylus tip capable of communicating wirelessly with another device through a touch sensor of the other device. The stylus tip includes one or more surface areas, one or more substrates disposed along one or more of the surface areas of the stylus tip, and a plurality of electrodes disposed on or in the one or more substrates.

Abstract: An active stylus includes an electrode and a controller. The controller is configured to 1) generate a report including stylus information represented by a plurality of bits including a first subset of bits and a second subset of bits, 2) encode the first set of bits differently than the second set of bits to reduce a size of the report, and 3) excite the electrode with a carrier signal to form an electrostatic communication channel, the carrier signal being modulated to transmit the report via the electrostatic communication channel.

Abstract: A system can include a processor; a memory device having memory accessible by the processor; a touchpad operatively coupled to the processor; a display nonoverlapping the touchpad and operatively coupled to the processor; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the processor where the instructions include instructions to instruct the system to: associate different individual gestures with different individual touchpad operational modes, select one of the touchpad operational modes responsive to receipt via the touchpad of an associated one of the gestures, and control rendering of a graphic to the display wherein the graphic includes a touchpad field and a control field associated with the selected one of the touchpad operational modes.

Abstract: Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for entering an input through a rotary motion, including a rotating body, and a fixed body to which the rotating body is coupled and rotates, wherein a first magnetic material and a second magnetic material are disposed on the rotating body and the fixed body, respectively, such that a clicking sensation to the rotation of the rotating body is generated by a magnetic force between the first and second magnetic materials, and an optical sensor and one or more magnetic sensors are disposed on the fixed body such that an amount, a direction, or a speed of rotation of the rotating body is recognized by the optical sensor, and wherein the one or more magnetic sensors detect the magnetic force.

Abstract: A synchronized time difference signal transmitting method and capacitive styluses as well as a touch input apparatus applying this method are disclosed. The touch input apparatus uses a time difference synchronization module and the capacitive styluses use synchronization interfaces to synchronize time difference of the signal transmitting of the capacitive styluses.

Abstract: A capacitive stylus and a touch control apparatus applying synchronized time difference signal transmitting method are disclosed. The capacitive styluses transmit data to a touch control apparatus via wireless communication modules respectively. A non-transitory computer-readable medium of the touch control apparatus storing instructions executable to perform a synchronized time difference signal transmitting method to synchronize time difference of the signal transmitting of the capacitive styluses.

Abstract: A stylus receiving apparatus for safekeeping of a stylus includes a receiving box, a guiding member, a toggle, and a rotating member. The rotating member defines an opening. The guiding member is attached to the rotating member. The toggle is attached to the guiding member. The toggle drives the guiding member to slide. The guiding member drives the rotating member to rotate, to expose the opening to take out the stylus, or to store the stylus after use.

Abstract: A display device includes a first transparent substrate, a second transparent substrate opposed to the first transparent substrate, a display panel disposed between the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate, a first touch panel disposed on a bottom face of the display panel, and a second touch panel disposed on an upper face of the display panel.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a detection apparatus includes a touch detection surface having two dimensions, a touch detection unit and a force detection unit. The touch detection unit includes: first electrodes extending along a first direction; and a first signal output unit configured to output a first signal indicating a position of the touch operation in a second direction. Each first electrode includes divided electrodes provided in the first direction. First detection regions each provided by bundling the divided electrodes arranged in the second direction are set. The force detection unit includes a base electrode configured such that distances between the base electrode and the respective divided electrodes change when the first electrodes bend according to the applied force applied. The force signal is a signal based on electrostatic capacitances obtained by individual detection.

Abstract: An electronic apparatus with a touch panel including a host controller, an interface unit, and a touch panel control unit is provided. The host controller is used to control an electronic apparatus implemented with the host controller. The touch panel control unit is coupled to the host controller through the interface unit. The host controller transmits an updating information to the touch panel control unit with a format of the interface unit, in which the updating data is used to update the touch panel control unit. The touch panel control unit decodes the updating data to accordingly update.

Abstract: A display device and a method for driving the same are provided by the present disclosure. The display device includes a display panel and a touch panel. The method includes: applying a horizontal synchronizing signal to a plurality of scanning lines of the display panel; and applying a touch driving signal to a plurality of touch driving signal lines of the touch panel; an orthographic projection of the scanning line receiving the horizontal synchronizing signal onto the display panel does not overlap an orthographic projection of the touch driving signal line receiving the touch driving signal onto the display panel at least within a predetermined time period.

Abstract: A detection device is capable of detecting an external proximity object, and includes a substrate and a plurality of detection electrodes. The detection electrodes are each provided with a plurality of thin conductive wires having a plurality of first thin wire pieces and a plurality of second thin wire pieces which are electrically conducted with one another. Angles each of which is formed by an intersection between the first thin wire piece extending in a first direction and the second thin wire piece extending in a second direction different from the first direction included in the thin conductive wire, are constant, and a distance between the first thin wire pieces of different thin conductive wires is not constant.

Abstract: A touch screen controller identifies a multi-touch gesture associated with a display feature such as scale or orientation. The touch screen controller applies a discrete value change to the display feature from an ordered set of discrete values. The number of points of contact in the multi-touch gesture may be interpreted by the touch screen controller as step changes in the ordered set of discrete values when applying the value change to the display feature.

Abstract: A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel comprises an array substrate including a plurality of pixel sequences arranged in a first direction, a plurality of first touch control electrodes arranged in the first direction, and a plurality of first touch control electrode signal lines. A pixel sequence includes a plurality of pixels arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction. A pixel includes N number of sub-pixels continuously arranged in the first direction, N being a positive integer equal to or greater than 3. An orthogonal projection of a first touch control electrode onto the array substrate covers an orthogonal projection of M number of pixel sequences onto the array substrate, M being a positive integer. L number of first touch control electrode signal lines are electrically connected to a same first touch control electrode, and L satisfies L?M×(N?2).

Abstract: A system comprises a touchscreen, at least one touch control unit, a first controller, and a second controller, where the touch control unit includes a detection electrode, an induction electrode, and a conducting wire that connects the detection electrode and the induction electrode, where the detection electrode is located outside a touch control area of the touchscreen, the induction electrode is located in the touch control area of the touchscreen, and the induction electrode is coupled to at least one capacitance node in the touchscreen, and the first controller is separately connected to the touchscreen and the second controller. A touch control operation performed by a user on the detection electrode disposed outside the touchscreen is identified using an existing capacitance node in the touchscreen, and the terminal is controlled according to the touch control operation.

Abstract: A touch control display panel and a touch control display device are provided. The touch control display panel comprises a shift register including a plurality of cascaded shift register units, wherein a scanning line is electrically connected to an output terminal of a shift register unit; a touch driving electrode array including a plurality of touch driving electrodes; a touch switching control circuit and a plurality of touch signal lines, wherein a touch signal line has one end electrically connected to a touch driving electrode and the other end electrically connected to an output terminal of the touch switching control circuit; and a touch signal control line cluster including a plurality of touch signal control lines, wherein a touch signal control line has one end electrically connected to the output terminal of the shift register unit, and the other end electrically connected to the touch switching control circuit.

Abstract: A touch detection circuit includes: a map generation section configured to compare a touch signal corresponding to a proximity state of an external proximity object with each of a plurality of thresholds to generate a plurality of pieces of map data each showing touch regions; a labeling section configured to selectively perform labeling on the touch regions in the plurality of pieces of map data, based on inclusive relationship of the touch regions between the plurality of pieces of map data; and a detection section configured to perform touch detection based on processing results by the labeling section.

Abstract: A driving circuit, a touch display device, and a method of driving the touch display device. A plurality of first electrodes are disposed within a display panel. A second electrode is disposed outside of the display panel. A driving circuit detects at least one of a touch position and a touching force of a touch by sequentially applying a first electrode driving signal to at least one first electrode among the plurality of first electrodes and applying a second electrode driving signal to the second electrode in a touch driving period. When a user touches a screen, not only can a touch position be sensed, but also a touching force with which the user presses the screen can also be efficiently sensed. This provides a range of functions that existing touch position-detecting technologies have failed to provide.

Abstract: Disclosed is a touch window including a substrate, an electrode part on the substrate, a wire electrically connected with the electrode part, a wire pad to connect the wire with the electrode part, and a reinforcement electrode making contact with the wire pad. Provided is a touch device including a touch window, and a driving unit on the touch window, in which the touch window includes an electrode part to sense a position, a wire electrically connected with the electrode part, a wire pad to connect the wire with the electrode part, and a reinforcement electrode making contact with the wire pad.

Abstract: Provided is a holding manner determination device that accurately determines a manner of holding an information terminal. A matching processing unit (312) calculates a coincidence between distribution data of sensor values detected by a touch panel (10) and holding hand reference data (Ref1), and a holding hand determination unit (314) determines a holding hand on the basis of holding hand information of the holding hand reference data (Ref1) whose coincidence with detection data is equal to or greater than a threshold.

Abstract: A gesture cell including a photodiode comprising a first layer, the first layer formed as a serpentine element on a substrate, and an optical blind configured to guide a light that is incident from a first direction on the photodiode, the optical blind being placed on the photodiode obliquely toward the first direction, wherein the serpentine element is continuously formed from multiple limbs positioned in the first directions and returning in a corresponding second direction, and each limb positioned in the first direction and the corresponding limb returning in the second direction are equally spaced apart.

Abstract: An input device may include an image sensor having an imaging surface comprising that includes an array of pixels, and an optical waveguide layer carried by the imaging surface and having an exposed user surface and a first refractive index associated therewith. The input device may also include a substrate between the optical waveguide layer and the image sensor and having a second refractive index associated therewith that is lower than first refractive index. A collimation layer may be between the image sensor and the substrate. A light source may be configured to transmit light into the optical waveguide so that the light therein undergoes a total internal reflection. The optical waveguide may be being adjacent the imaging surface so that an object brought into contact with the exposed user surface disturbs the total internal reflection results resulting in an image pattern on the imaging surface.

Abstract: A sensor unit 11 generates a sensor signal according to proximity and contact of a manipulation object. A proximity detecting unit 12 performs proximity detection of the manipulation object, on the basis of the sensor signal. When a plurality of manipulation objects are detected by the proximity detection, a determining unit 13 sets a priority order to the detected manipulation objects and adopts a proximity detection result on the basis of the set priority order. For this reason, even though the plurality of manipulation objects are detected, the proximity detection result having the high priority order is adopted, so that erroneous detection can be prevented and an input manipulation can be correctly performed.

Abstract: Embroidered sensor assemblies are described that are formed on a flexible substrate, such as a suitable fabric material. Conductive patterns are embroidered into the flexible substrate to form an array of sensors that can be configured in various ways and used in many different applications. A sensor assembly can implement touch sensitive sensors arranged to recognize input by measuring capacitance. The sensor assembly can also implement pressure and/or force sensitive controls for an input device, such as a keyboard. Other types of sensing are also contemplated such as detection of proximity, motion, flow, gestures, and/or strain. A conductive pattern can be formed in a single layer of material and/or via a single continuous run of conductive material. The embroidered sensor assembly is flexible and therefore can be shaped to conform to various different kinds of objects and form “smart” surfaces for those objects.

Abstract: A capacitive touch sensitive device includes a matrix of pads patterned in a first electrically conductive material on a substrate. Horizontally adjacent pads within each even row of the matrix are electrically coupled to one another via channels to form a plurality of horizontally arranged electrodes. Insulators are positioned over respective channels. Conductive links are formed over respective insulators and are configured to electrically couple vertically adjacent pads between odd rows of the matrix to form a plurality of vertically arranged electrodes. The dimensions of the channels and the conductive links are configured such that an RC time-constant (RCtc) of each of the vertically arranged electrodes substantially matches an RCtc of each of the horizontally arranged electrodes.

Abstract: A touchpad system is disclosed herein that includes a touchpad sensor formed from a plurality of flexible materials and is at least partially integrated into host clothing or furniture such that the touchpad sensor is generally obscured from view. The touchpad sensor may be implemented as a resistive or capacitive touchpad, whereby user input is detected and converted into a proportional electrical signal. The touchpad sensor may include N layers of flexible materials configured to conduct electrical energy, and also conform to contours of a host object. At least one layer of the flexible materials may be heat sealed or otherwise adhered to an inner surface of the host object, such as beneath a shirt sleeve. Thus smart clothing/furniture may appear to be “normal” while also providing convenient user-access to a touchpad sensor that can robustly handle a wide variety of user-input to control operation of a remote computing device.

Abstract: A touch screen controller for cancelling an offset capacitance of a capacitive touch screen panel includes a code generator configured to generate a time-invariant digital code and a time-variant digital code during an offset cancellation time. A switched-capacitor array converts the time-invariant digital code and the time-variant digital code into an amount of electric charges corresponding to the offset capacitance.

Abstract: To provide a touch senor having an improved productivity, and also achieving high reliability since there is no occurrence of a wire break in a metal wiring and having good usability since the metal wiring layer is less likely to be visually recognized. A touch senor of the present invention includes a film substrate (11) having a plurality of protrusions on both surfaces (11a), (11b) thereof, a metal wiring layer (12) provided over one surface (11a) of the film substrate, a circular polarizer film (14) provided at a viewing side A of film substrate (11), and a metal wiring layer (15) provided over the other surface (11b) of the film substrate (11). The metal wiring layer (12) has a line width of greater than 5 ?m but less than or equal to 8 ?m, and a thickness of greater than or equal to 0.1 ?m but less than 0.5 ?m.

Abstract: An apparatus includes multiple pixel circuits for touch and fingerprint detection that may be integrated with a touchscreen. Each pixel circuit includes a JFET with a gate connected to a capacitor plate, where the capacitor plate may be integrated with the gate, and where the capacitor plate is connected via a first diode to a corresponding select line. Furthermore, each JFET in the multiple pixel circuits has a source (or drain) connected to a corresponding read line and a drain (or source) connected via a second diode to a corresponding select line.

Abstract: A semiconductor device containing a terminal, a power supply voltage dropping circuit that generates a constant voltage, a switch circuit to periodically apply a constant voltage to a terminal in response to a first clock, a current-controlled oscillator circuit, and a counter, and in which the power supply voltage dropping circuit supplies a first current to the switch circuit, the current-controlled oscillator circuit generates a second clock whose frequency changes in response to the value of the first current, and the counter counts the number of second clocks within the counting time.

Abstract: This invention relates to a transparent conductive coating that is substantially transparent to visible light and is designed to have a visible reflectance which more closely matches that the visible reflectance of the underlying substrate. In certain example embodiments, the transparent conductive multilayer coating includes a silver layer(s) and may be used as an electrode(s) in a capacitive touch panel so as to provide for an electrode(s) transparent to visible light but without much visibility due to the substantial matching visible reflection design.

Abstract: According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a plurality of scanning lines including a first scanning line and a second scanning line, wherein the first scanning line is adjacent to the second scanning line in a first direction; a plurality of touch drive electrodes including a first touch drive electrode and a second touch drive electrode, wherein the first touch drive electrode is adjacent to the second touch drive electrode in the first direction; and an operation controller, wherein the operation controller is configured to provide a display scanning signal to a selected scanning line of the plurality of scanning lines and scan the plurality of scanning lines in a second direction and provide a touch drive signal to a selected touch drive electrode of the plurality of touch drive electrodes that is not coupled to the selected scanning line.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a device includes one or more processors and one or more memory units. The one or more memory units collectively store logic configured to cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining a first measurement associated with a first voltage, the first voltage output by the mutual-capacitance measurement circuit in response to a first change in capacitance, and obtaining a second measurement associated with a second voltage, the second voltage output by the mutual-capacitance measurement circuit in response to a second change in capacitance. The operations further include calculating a differential measurement using a difference between the first measurement and the second measurement and determining whether a touch or proximity event has occurred based at least in part on the calculated differential measurement.

Abstract: A capacitive type touch sensor appropriately detecting an object, and a display and an electronic device including such a touch sensor are provided. The display including a drive electrode receiving a drive signal, a detection electrode located adjacent to the drive electrode, and a dielectric material located between the drive electrode and the detection electrode defining a capacitive area. The detection electrode generates an output signal driven by the drive signal, a detection circuit electrically connected to the detection electrode sensing the output signal. A switch element is electrically connected between the detection electrode and a voltage source providing a predefined voltage level and having a first state and a second state. A display control circuit controls a voltage applied between a display common voltage electrode and a pixel electrode to display an image based on an image signal, and the display common voltage electrode serves as the drive electrode.

Abstract: A touch screen panel including a touch electrode disposed on a base substrate, the touch electrode including a plurality of mesh patterns formed by crossing of metal wirings. The mesh patterns include a main electrode pattern and a buffer pattern overlapping the main electrode pattern, the buffer pattern having a thickness greater than 20% of a thickness of the main electrode pattern and less than 30% of a thickness of the main electrode pattern.

Abstract: An operator control device for a domestic appliance includes an electronic display panel having a cover, and an operator control element which is movable relative to the display panel to set operating conditions of the domestic appliance. The operator control element is embedded, at least in part, in the cover of the electronic display panel, and includes an annular front part having an upper face which projects, at least in part, above a level of an outer face of the cover.

Abstract: A server has a processor and a memory storing a multiple channel message thread module with instructions executed by the processor to identify when participants at client devices are actively viewing a common message thread at the same time to establish a participant viewing state. An alternate channel communication lock prompt is supplied to the client devices in response to the participant viewing state. An alternate channel communication is delivered to the client devices in response to activation of the alternate channel communication lock prompt by at least one participant.

Abstract: A computer-implemented collaborative editing method includes receiving input from a user of a browser-based document editing application on a document displayed by the application; identifying a current location in the document for a cursor of a first user executing the application; receiving from a central server system data that reflects changes made to the document by one or more users other than the first user and current positions in the document of cursors for the one or more other user; updating a document model stored on a computing device that is executing the browser-based application and rendering at least a portion of the model to the browser; and rendering the current positions of the cursors for the one or more other users to the browser.

Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including a contribution action detecting unit configured to detect a contribution action representing a contribution from a user to a target, a contribution degree giving unit configured to give the user a contribution degree in accordance with the contribution action, a virtual distance setting unit configured to set a virtual distance which is a virtual distance between the user and the target on the basis of an integrated value of the given contribution degree of the user, and a contribution degree notification screen display control unit configured to control a display of a contribution degree notification screen in which the set virtual distance is visually expressed.

Abstract: A working process processing system of an embodiment has: a 3D data storage for storing the 3D data; a working process data storage to store the working process data; an animation data processor to process animation data based on the 3D data stored in the 3D data storage and the working process data stored in the working process data storage, the animation data comprising displaying data showing a plurality of changing situations of the working processes; wherein the animation data processor is configured to include the comment information relating to the work attribute information of at least one of the working processes with the displaying data of the respective working process of the animation data processed thereof.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for providing a user interface in a portable terminal without a touch screen are provided. The method includes outputting one of a plurality of menu pages, each menu page including a plurality of icons respectively linked to a specific function and arranged in multiple columns and rows, determining whether a key signal requesting movement is input, determining whether the input key signal exceeds a preset reference value when the key signal is input, and moving another of the plurality of menu pages when the input key signal exceeds the preset reference value, and moving a focus on the output menu page when the input key signal does not exceed the preset reference value.