Abstract: A hand-mounted position-tracking device includes a plurality of position-tracking subsystems. Each position-tracking subsystem is associated with a different digit of a hand and includes a magnet and a sensor that generates a signal based on a distance between the magnet and the sensor. Each position-tracking subsystem further includes a rotatable coupling that rotationally couples the magnet to the sensor.

Abstract: Method(s) and apparatus are provided for interfacing with a nervous system of a subject.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for methods of developing a database of controllable objects in an environment. For example, a method includes a mobile device having a camera to capture images of objects in an environment. For each object, the method includes, in response to receiving a user selection of the object, training a machine-learning model to recognize the object. The method includes receiving a command associated with the object and receiving a plurality of images of the object and training the machine-learning model to recognize the object based on the plurality of images. The method further includes transmitting the trained model and the command to a wearable electronic device causing the wearable electronic device to save the trained machine-learning model to a data store and to associate the command with the trained machine-learning model.

Abstract: An electronic device for touch translation includes a body and pins extending therefrom and including couplings to facilitate movement of a first portion relative to a second portion. The pins are controllable to more the first portion relative to the second portion and to control force applied by the pins on an external object. Heads are disposed on the pins, which heads are greater in width than the pins and are moveable relative to the pins about respective couplings. Sensors cooperating with the pins detect forces applied to the pins and a communication subsystem communicates over a network, with a remote electronic device. A controller based on detected forces transmits signals to the remote electronic device to control the remote electronic device, and actuates pins to control the relative movement of the portions based on signals received from the remote electronic device.

Abstract: A sensory control method includes a step of receiving, a step of converting, and a step of outputting. In the step of receiving, a sensitivity parameter is received. In the step of converting, the received sensitivity parameter is converted into, among a plurality of physical parameters included in physical properties relating to a sensory presentation, a physical parameter correlated with the sensitivity parameter. In the step of outputting, a sensory presentation signal based on the physical parameter obtained as a result of the conversion is output.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for capturing touchless inputs and controlling an electronic device with the same are described. In one embodiment, the method for controlling a user interface of software on a portable electronic device, the method comprising: obtaining one or more touchless inputs by capturing movements of the portable electronic device resulting from one or more hand gestures made by a hand holding the portable electronic device; determining one or more operations to control the user interface being displayed on a display of the portable electronic device based on the one or more touchless inputs; and controlling the software using at least one of the one or more operations.

Abstract: An information handling system keyboard includes an array of microphones having a defined layout that supports location of human voice sounds captured by the array of microphones to isolate voices originating from a defined distance and orientation while filtering other voices and non-voice sounds. A display included in the keyboard depicts a visual indication of voice quality that can include instructions to a speaker regarding adjustments to help obtain a desired voice capture quality to support a video or audio conference of an information handling system interfaced with the keyboard. The keyboard display also supports an interface to control a keyboard, video, mouse (KVM) switch interfaced with the keyboard.

Abstract: In a method for sensing a displacement of a pointing device, like a mouse, said pointing device includes at least one light source configured to illuminate a surface, at least one first secondary photodetector, at least one second secondary photodetector, and at least one primary photodetector. Each individual value of the photodetectors is weighted and compared such as to sense said displacement of the pointing device.

Abstract: A tracking system is provided. The tracking system includes a three degree-of-freedom (3DoF) device, a camera, and a processor. The 3DoF device is adapted to be mounted on a control device worn or hold on a body portion of a user. The 3DoF device is configured to obtain sensor data from a 3DoF sensor of the 3DoF device. The camera is configured to obtain camera data. The camera data comprises an image of the body portion of the user or the control device as a tracking target. The processor is configured to: track the tracking target to generate a tracking result based on the sensor data and the camera data; determine the tracking target being static or not based on the tracking result; determine a target pose of the tracking target based on the tracking result; and calibrate an accumulative error of the 3DoF sensor in background.

Abstract: The invention provides an ambient light sensing device which receives at least one visible light image sensed by an image sensor. The ambient light sensing device includes an image sampling unit and an analyzing unit. The image sampling unit divides the visible light image into plural image blocks, extracts at least one sample data in each image block, and generates a comparison data according to a difference between the sample data extracted at different time points. The analyzing unit analyzes the comparison data and generates an output analysis signal accordingly.

Abstract: A pointer positioning method, an apparatus, and an instrument, relates to the technical field of instrument. The method comprises: on the condition that a virtual pointer rotates in a first dial image at a first preset angle, detecting quantities of first pixel points corresponding to a plurality of first rotation positions; according to the quantities of the first pixel points corresponding to the plurality of first rotation positions, determining a first target position where the virtual pointer is located; according to the first target position, determining a target angle value between a target pointer in an instrument dial corresponding to the first dial image and a reference position; and according to the target angle value, searching a target scale value corresponding to the target pointer from a corresponding relationship between preset angle values and scale values.

Abstract: An electronic pen is provided with a light source that emits irradiation light, a rotatable rotating body, a deflecting member that deflects, toward the rotating body, the irradiation light emitted by the light source and transmits the irradiation light reflected by the rotating body, and a detecting member that receives the irradiation light transmitted through the deflecting member.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a rotating body rotatably supported on an object, a first detection member configured to detect movement of the rotating body, and a second detection member configured to detect movement of the object.

Abstract: An information handling system mouse has a plastic chassis that assembles without the use of metal screws to that the mouse more readily breaks down to recycle at end of life. The mouse chassis has a complete perimeter at a bottom side to accept a bottom surface within the interior and having the assembly gap hidden from view under the mouse when in normal use. An inner frame heat stakes to the chassis to provide structural support without metal coupling devices like metal screws.

Abstract: An information handling system mouse has a variable speed scroll wheel with magnetic tactile response. A ferromagnetic wheel coupled to the scroll wheel and having spikes and valleys interacts with a magnetic field of magnet as the scroll wheel rotates to resist rotation in variable amounts. The magnetic field is selectively removed to reduce the tactile response, such as by disengaging a magnet from a magnetic focus lens that directs the magnetic field, moving an opposing magnet into contact with the magnetic focus lens that cancels the magnetic field and moving the magnet away from the ferromagnetic wheel.

Abstract: An information handling system mouse has input buttons at an upper surface with selectable response to an end user press. An arrangement of magnets cooperate to establish a distance for the input button to move to complete an input at a switch to provide the end user with a selected of a spring or cantilever type of input response. For example, electropermanent magnets are configured to attract or repel a permanent magnet so that the amount of input button press motion adjusts along with the resistance against an input button press.

Abstract: An information handling system mouse includes a motion power switch that applies power to the mouse when the mouse is moved in a powered down state to restart the mouse processing resource and position sensor. When a mouse is inactive for predetermined conditions, such as an idle time, the processing resource enables the motion power switch and cuts off power to the mouse. The motion power switch consumes no power until motion of the mouse closes a circuit that reactivates the processing resource to manage the mouse power state. The result is a mouse idle state with no power use and a rapid wake to an operational state.

Abstract: An information handling system mouse includes an acoustic isolation enclosure coupled proximate a switch and having a first position that suppress actuation sound of the switch and a second position that directs actuation sound of the switch out from the mouse. In one embodiment, the acoustic isolation enclosure has a first portion in a fixed position around the switch and a second portion in sliding engagement with the first portion and having an opening that is blocked in the first position and exposed in the second position.

Abstract: An information handling system mouse includes a sliding power button on a bottom surface that slides to actuate a power switch on and off. When slid to an on position, the sliding power button is freed to move inward to actuate a tactile button under the sliding power button, such as with an end user inward push. In the off position the sliding power button catches under lip that prevents an inward push at the tactile button. Dual motion of the sliding power button offers intuitive varied end user interactions with a single button structure to save space at the mouse bottom surface.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a casing, an opening portion formed on one side of the casing, a core body that projects outside of the casing through the opening portion, a pen module part, and a core body insertion member disposed in the casing and having a hollow space that houses the core body. The hollow space includes a hollow portion between an inner circumferential surface of the core body insertion member and an outer circumferential surface of the core body when the core body insertion member houses the core body, the hollow portion communicating, via the opening portion, with a first space external to the electronic pen. The hollow portion is separated from a second space in which the pen module part is disposed within the casing.

Abstract: A peripheral device with an adaptive scroll wheel can be used to provide additional control of a host computing device. A variable force is used to change friction on the adaptive scroll wheel for different situations. Examples include stopping a scroll wheel at an end of a document, changing a number of ratchet steps based on a number of items on a list, and changing scroll profiles based on application, such as a scroll profile for document processing and a scroll profile for gaming.

Abstract: A method for reducing jitter of an optical sensor when in a stationary condition includes: receiving a plurality of raw delta; comparing a movement of the optical sensor with a predetermined threshold; and when the movement is less than the predetermined threshold, entering a dynamic downshift mode, including: storing raw delta into a buffer; when the buffer is not full, outputting the raw delta as reported delta; and when the buffer is full, calculating an average of the total raw delta stored in the buffer, and outputting the average delta as reported delta.

Abstract: A display panel and a mobile terminal are provided. The display panel includes a driving circuit layer, a fingerprint recognition sensor, and a light emitting device layer. The fingerprint recognition sensor is disposed on a side of the driving circuit layer, and the fingerprint recognition sensor is an ultrasonic sensor. The light emitting device layer is arranged on a side of the fingerprint recognition sensor away from the driving circuit layer.

Abstract: A display module and a display terminal are provided in the present application. The display module includes a display region, a bending region, and a binding region, and the bending region is located between the display region and the binding region. The display module includes a display panel and a touch layer. The touch layer is located on a light emitting side of the display panel, wherein the touch layer includes a plurality of touch traces, and the plurality of touch traces extend form the display region to the bending region, and the plurality of touch traces extend across the bending region to the binding region.

Abstract: A display device includes: a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode on the first electrode, and a light-emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a pixel-defining film having a pixel opening exposing the first electrode; a sensing electrode on the pixel-defining film; a light-blocking pattern on the sensing electrode; and a color filter on the sensing electrode, wherein the light-blocking pattern comprises a first pattern part and a second pattern part, and the first pattern part and the second pattern part have different optical densities (OD) with respect to first light.

Abstract: An electromagnetic touch display panel is provided. The electromagnetic touch display panel includes: a substrate having a display area and a binding area, a circuit board disposed in the binding area and including a first signal terminal and a second signal terminal, a display trace extending from the display area to the binding area and connected to the first signal terminal for transmitting a display signal, and an antenna trace extending from the display area to the binding area and connected to the second signal terminal for transmitting an antenna signal.

Abstract: Disclosed are a touch display panel and a display device, comprising touch wires. The touch wires comprises first sub-parts arranged along the first direction; the first sub-part comprises a first wiring sub-part arranged along the first direction and a first connecting sub-part connecting adjacent first wiring sub-parts. The widths of the two first connecting sub-parts connected to one first wiring sub-part are different, and/or the widths of the two first connecting sub-parts connected between two adjacent first wiring sub-parts are different.

Abstract: A touch display device can include a display panel including a plurality of touch electrodes; a gate driving circuit to apply a plurality of scan signals to the display panel through a plurality of gate lines; a touch driving circuit to detect touch based on a change in capacitance of the plurality of touch electrodes; a compensation clock generating circuit to generate direct current (DC) compensation clocks for determining a DC compensation period based on clock signals that determine rising times and falling times of the plurality of scan signals. Also, the touch display device can include a DC voltage generating circuit to generate DC voltages based on a reference DC voltage; and a DC compensation voltage generating circuit to generate a DC compensation voltage based on one of the DC voltages and supply the DC compensation voltage to the display panel during the DC compensation period.

Abstract: A touch display device includes a display panel including a plurality of touch electrodes, a touch driving circuit configured to operate in a first mode and a second mode according to a touch sensing type and detect a touch presence or a touch position based on a touch sensing signal received from the plurality of touch electrodes, and a timing controller. The timing controller can generate a first type of touch synchronization signal having a first level for displaying a first image during a first display period of a first display frame and a second level for detecting the touch position during a touch driving period of the first display frame, and supply the first type of touch synchronization signal to the touch driving circuit to operate the touch driving circuit in the first mode.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a display panel and a driving method thereof. The display panel includes a substrate, a light control device, a display device, and a touch device. The light control device, the display device, and the touch device are disposed on the substrate. Wherein, the light control device, the display device, and the touch device operate in a first time period, a second time period, and a third time period, respectively, and any two of the first time period, the second time period, and the third time period are not intersected.

Abstract: An input device includes an optical detection mechanism detecting a position of the user's fingertip in the aerial-image display region in which an aerial image is displayed and a control portion for controlling the input device. In the input device, the aerial-image display region is an input portion for inputting information, and the aerial image includes images of a plurality of buttons for identifying information input in the input portion. Assuming that a region in a display region of an image of the button displayed in the aerial-image display region and recognized by the control portion such that the image of the predetermined button was pointed by the user on the basis of the detection result of the detection mechanism is a recognition region, the recognition region is narrower than the display region in this input device.

Abstract: A compensation circuit, a touch screen, and an electronic device are provided in the disclosure. The compensation circuit includes a logic circuit, a selection circuit, and a switch circuit. The logic circuit is configured to obtain a first selection signal, a second selection signal, and a third selection signal according to an enable signal and a timing signal. The selection circuit is configured to obtain a first control signal according to the first selection signal, obtain a second control signal according to the second selection signal, and obtain a third control signal according to the third selection signal.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a display with touch sensors. One or more shielding layers may be interposed between the display and the touch sensors. The display may include transistors with gate conductors, a first planarization layer formed over the gate conductors, one or more contacts formed in a first source-drain layer within the first planarization layer, a second planarization layer formed on the first planarization layer, one or more data lines formed in a second source-drain layer within the second planarization layer, a third planarization layer formed on the second planarization layer, and a data line shielding structure formed at least partly in a third source-drain layer within the third planarization layer. The data line shielding structure may be a routing line, a blanket layer, a mesh layer formed in one or more metal layers, and/or a data line covering another data line.

Abstract: A pen state detection circuit that is connected to a touch sensor of a capacitance type and adapted to detect a state of an electronic pen in accordance with an output signal from the touch sensor. The touch sensor includes sensor electrodes disposed in a planar manner, and the electronic pen includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The pen state detection circuit includes a processor configured to sequentially and repeatedly: acquire first and second coordinate values in a sensor coordinate system, the coordinate system being defined on a detection surface of the touch sensor, the first coordinate values indicating a projected position of the first electrode, the second coordinate values indicating a projected position of the second electrode; calculate an inclination value indicative of an inclination of the electronic pen from the acquired first and second coordinate values in accordance with calculation rules; and output the inclination value.

Abstract: An electronic device may have a touch sensitive display that is insensitive to the presence of moisture. An array of pixels in the display may be used to display images. A display cover layer may overlap the array of pixels. A light source may illuminate an external object such as a finger of a user when the object contacts a surface of the display cover layer. This creates scattered light that may be detected by an array of light sensors. The light source may supply light to an edge of the display cover layer at an angle that ensures total internal reflection within the display cover layer is sustained across the display cover layer even when the display cover layer is immersed in water or otherwise exposed to moisture.

Abstract: A virtual trackpad and method for using the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, the method comprises: projecting a virtual trackpad on one hand of a user using hand tracking position data from an extend reality (XR) device; detecting, via hand tracking, movements of one or more fingers as the one or more fingers are being moved across the virtual trackpad projected on the one hand; and controlling a user interface (UI) being displayed on a display by the XR device based on the movements of the one or more fingers.

Abstract: A touch sensor includes a base layer; a first electrode member that includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged on the base layer and electrically connected to each other along a first direction, each of the first electrodes including a first opening; a second electrode member that includes a plurality of second electrodes arranged on the base layer and electrically connected to each other along a second direction that intersects the first direction; a conductive member that includes a plurality of conductive patterns electrically connected to each other along the first direction; and a proximity detector that is electrically connected to the conductive member and configured to detect proximity of an object by receiving a proximity sensing signal from the conductive member. Each of the conductive patterns is located in the first opening of each of the first electrodes and spaced apart from each of the first electrodes, respectively.

Abstract: A display device includes a light-emitting device, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light-emitting device, an insulating layer on the encapsulation layer; a plurality of first touch sensors on an upper surface of the insulating layer, and arranged in a first direction; a plurality of second touch sensors on the upper surface of the insulating layer, and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a discharge pattern disposed between the encapsulation layer and the insulating layer, and overlapping an area between a first touch sensor of the plurality of first touch sensors and a second touch sensor of the plurality of second touch sensors, the plurality of first touch sensors and the plurality of second touch sensors are a mesh type and include a protruding outer portion.

Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.

Abstract: A display panel is provided. The display panel includes: a touch electrode layer including a plurality of touch electrodes, each of the touch electrodes includes a plurality of first grid units; and a touch electrode lead layer including a plurality of touch electrode leads, each of the touch electrode leads includes a plurality of second grid units, and the second grid units are arranged in one-to-one correspondence with the first grid units; wherein ratios of an overlap area between each of the second grid units and a corresponding one of the first grid units to an area of the corresponding first grid unit and to an area of the second grid unit are both less than 1.

Abstract: The present application discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a display area, a bending area and a bonding area, and the bending area comprises a reguler bending sub-area and a thinning bending sub-area. The display panel also comprises a thin film transistor layer and a touch metal layer. The touch metal layer is located on the thin film transistor layer and comprises touch traces extending through the thinning bend sub-area to the bonding area; wherein, a thickness of the thin film transistor layer in the thinning bending sub-area is less than a thickness of the thin film transistor layer in the regular bending sub-area.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a long side extending in a first direction and a short side extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes first sensing electrodes each extending in the first direction along the long side, second sensing electrodes each extending in the second direction along the short side, first signal lines electrically connected to the first sensing electrodes, and second signal lines electrically connected to the second sensing electrodes. Each of the first sensing electrodes is electrically connected to two or more first signal lines among the first signal lines, and at least one of the two or more first signal lines overlaps the first sensing electrodes in a plan view.

Abstract: An electrode structure is provided. The electrode structure includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer has a first wire, a second wire and an isolated wire, wherein the first wire is electrically connected to the second wire, and the isolated wire is electrically insulated from the first wire and the second wire. The second layer is disposed on the first layer and has a third wire, wherein the third wire is electrically connected to the first wire. In a top view of the electrode structure, the isolated wire is disposed between the first wire and the second wire.

Abstract: A technique for reading the columns (12) and rows (14) of a touch sensor (10) provides several advantages, including scalability to touch sensors with high column/row counts. A simultaneously applied set of column input signals (24) yields a corresponding set of column output signals (34) that are combined into a combined column signal (38) that is transformed into the frequency domain after digitization, to yield column values (48) corresponding to the respective touch sensor columns (12). The same process applied with respect to the touch sensor rows (14) yields a set of row values (50), with evaluation of the frequency-domain column and row values (48, 50) providing the basis for detecting touch inputs to the touch sensor (10).

Abstract: An electronic device including a display layer and a sensor layer including a plurality of sensing units. Each of the plurality of sensing units includes at least one sub sensing unit. The at least one sub sensing unit includes a first pattern including a first portion and a second portion, a first cross pattern including a first cross portion and a second cross portion, a second cross pattern, and a bridge pattern. The second portion extends in a first cross direction crossing the first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction to face the first cross portion, and the second cross portion extends in the first cross direction to face the first portion.

Abstract: A display module and a mobile terminal are provided, which includes a light-emitting backplane. The light-emitting backplane includes a substrate, and an electromagnetic induction layer and a light-emitting component layer sequentially arranged on the substrate. The light-emitting component layer includes a plurality of light-emitting components distributed in an array along a first direction and a second direction intersecting with each other. The electromagnetic induction layer includes first electromagnetic induction coils arranged in the first direction and extending to the second direction and second electromagnetic induction coils arranged in the second direction and extending to the first direction.

Abstract: A touch sensor detector system and method incorporating an interpolated sensor array is disclosed. The system and method utilize a touch sensor array (TSA) configured to detect proximity/contact/pressure (PCP) via a variable impedance array (VIA) electrically coupling interlinked impedance columns (IIC) coupled to an array column driver (ACD), and interlinked impedance rows (IIR) coupled to an array row sensor (ARS). The ACD is configured to select the IIC based on a column switching register (CSR) and electrically drive the IIC using a column driving source (CDS). The VIA conveys current from the driven IIC to the IIC sensed by the ARS. The ARS selects the IIR within the TSA and electrically senses the IIR state based on a row switching register (RSR). Interpolation of ARS sensed current/voltage allows accurate detection of TSA PCP and/or spatial location.

Abstract: Scalable architectures, systems, and services are provided herein for generating jobs by applying user-specified rules to events in an action log framework (ALF) stream is disclosed. More specifically, collaboration environments can include features or mechanisms that allow end-users or collaborators to perform a variety of actions such as, for example, file uploads and previews, or collaboration operations such as, for example, task assignment and comments. These actions can be captured or logged by an action log framework and, as described herein, automatically translated into one or more jobs by applying customizable user-specified rules.

Abstract: A method includes that an electronic device displays a first interface after detecting a first operation performed by a user on the electronic device. The first interface includes a first element and a second element. The electronic device displays at least one transition interface and then displays a second interface after detecting a second operation performed by the user on the first interface. The second interface includes the second element and a third element, the transition interface includes the second element, and the second element does not include an element in a status bar on the first interface, the transition interface, or the second interface.

Abstract: An image formation device is provided with a CPU. The CPU performs control to execute a predetermined function upon execution of an operation by a user on an operation unit which is displayed at a display, and to change operability of the operation such that as an importance degree which is determined in accordance with an execution condition for the predetermined function becomes relatively high, a difficulty degree of the operation required for executing the predetermined function becomes high.