Sampling Circuit Patents (Class 178/20.03)
  • Patent number: 11347188
    Abstract: Embodiments of the subject matter described herein relates to a stepper motor for use in a rotary control assembly of an input device. The stepper motor includes a shaft; a magnet coupled to the shaft and operable to rotate with a rotation of the shaft, the magnet generating a first magnetic field; a first coil arranged on a rotational path of the magnet; and a first current source configured to supply a first current to the first coil to cause the first coil to generate a second magnetic field, a main direction of the second magnetic field being substantially parallel with a main direction of the first magnetic field while the magnet rotates and passes the first coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Jason Greenslade
  • Patent number: 11216087
    Abstract: A method is disclosed to detect a tilt angle of a pen-shaped position indicator relative to a sensor surface of a tablet. The position indicator includes a first pen electrode and a second pen electrode. The sensor surface includes X electrodes and Y electrodes that intersect each other. The position indicator transmits a first signal from the first pen electrode and a second signal from the second pen electrode. The tablet detects a first signal intensity level V1 of the first signal based on a highest signal level Vpx1 detected in one of the X electrodes in response to the first signal, and detects a second signal intensity level V2 of the second signal based on a highest signal level Vpx2 detected in one of the X electrodes in response to the second signal. The tablet determines a tilt angle of the pen-shaped position indicator relative to the sensor surface based on a difference between the first signal intensity level V1 and the second signal intensity level V2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Yuji Katsurahira
  • Patent number: 10635220
    Abstract: There is offered a signal processing circuit for an electrostatic capacity type touch sensor which can improve the noise tolerance and adjust an offset in the output voltage. The signal processing circuit for the touch sensor is structured to include an alternating current power supply providing an excitation pad with an alternating voltage, an electric charge amplifier generating an output voltage Vout corresponding to a difference between a capacitance of a first capacitor formed between a first touch pad and the excitation pad and a capacitance of a second capacitor formed between a second touch pad and the excitation pad, and an offset adjustment circuit to adjust an offset in the output voltage Vout of the electric charge amplifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Kazuyuki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Suzuki, Kumiko Fukai, Yasuhiro Kaneta
  • Patent number: 10070310
    Abstract: A method and system for provisioning access data in a second application on a mobile device using a first application on the mobile device. Authentication data may be input into the first application, and an authentication code may be requested from a remote server. After the authentication code is received by the first application in the mobile device, it can pass the authentication code to a second application that initiates an access data provisioning process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Glenn Powell, John F. Sheets
  • Patent number: 10031633
    Abstract: A touch panel device includes: a first resistance film and a second resistance film each of which includes an electrode; a switch connected to the electrode; a controller that controls operation of the switch; and a detector that, when a voltage is applied to a resistance film of a voltage applied side among the first resistance film and the second resistance film, detects presence or absence of touch and a position of the touch based on a voltage detected from the electrode on a resistance film of a voltage detection side among the first resistance film and the second resistance film; wherein before detection operation by the detector, the controller controls the operation of the switch connected to the electrode on the resistance film of the voltage detection side so that the electrode on the resistance film of the voltage detection side is grounded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: FUJITSU COMPONENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Daisuke Ichikawa, Kenichi Fujita, Yuji Makiuchi
  • Patent number: 9785262
    Abstract: A method is provided to interface an active stylus with a sensor controller, wherein the sensor controller is coupled to a sensor configured to receive input from the active stylus. In the method the sensor controller defines data frames consisting of more than one time slot usable for receiving packets from the stylus. The active stylus transmits, in response to a request from the sensor controller, a signal including stylus capability information. The sensor controller determines, based on the stylus capability information, a downlink time slot allocation for use by the active stylus to transmit packets to the sensor controller. The sensor controller transmits the downlink time slot allocation to the active stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: David Charles Fleck, Sadao Yamamoto
  • Patent number: 9779675
    Abstract: A display device includes a display panel, a variable gate clock generator and a gate driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels coupled to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines, respectively. The variable gate clock generator generates a first variable gate clock signal and a second variable gate clock signal having respective duty ratios that are varied depending on a brightness of a frame image. The gate driver generates a plurality of gate driving signals for driving the gate lines in response to the first and second variable gate clock signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min-Young Park, Jeong-Doo Lee, Sung-Jun Kim, Yun-Mi Kim, Kyung-Hwa Lim, Ki-Hyun Pyun
  • Patent number: 8928627
    Abstract: A light sensing circuit using an oxide semiconductor transistor, a method of manufacturing the light sensing circuit, and an optical touch panel including the light sensing circuit. Because the light sensing circuit includes only one light sensor transistor and one switch transistor formed on the same substrate, a structure of the light sensing circuit is simplified. Furthermore, because the light sensor transistor and the switch transistor have the same structure, a method of manufacturing the light sensing circuit is also simplified. Also, since an optical touch panel or an image acquisition apparatus using the light sensing circuit uses the light sensing circuit having a simple structure and does not use a capacitor, the optical touch panel or the image acquisition apparatus may be made thinner and larger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang-hun Jeon, I-hun Song, Seung-eon Ahn, Chang-jung Kim
  • Patent number: 8928636
    Abstract: A magnetic touch pen is disclosed. In one aspect, the magnetic touch pen comprises a first case in which a plurality of magnets is arranged in a cylindrical first body in a longitudinal direction of the first body. It also comprises a second case including a second body in which the first body of the first case is accommodated and having screw threads formed on an inner circumference of the second body. It further comprises a magnetic power controller configured between two magnet groups to separate the two magnet groups and moving along the screw threads of the second case to control a plurality of magnets of the two magnet groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hyung-Sung Bang, Won-Jong Kim, Ji-Young Choung, Joon-Gu Lee, Jin-Baek Choi, Yeon-Hwa Lee, Young-Woo Song, Jong-Hyuk Lee
  • Patent number: 8773404
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pen, an electromagnetic signal transmission method and an electromagnetic signal processing method, a processing device and a processing apparatus comprises: a reference inductance and a reference capacitor, connected with each other in parallel in a housing of the electromagnetic pen and configured to transmit an electromagnetic signal in a handwritten frequency; a control capacitor, connected with the reference capacitor in parallel and controlled by a control switch connected in series so as to transmit an electromagnetic signal in a control frequency. The processing device comprises: a receiving identification module, configured to receive the electromagnetic signal transmitted by the electromagnetic pen and identify a frequency of the electromagnetic signal; a handwritten input module, configured to input a handwritten symbol when the identified frequency is within a range of the handwritten frequency; and a control input module, configured to input a control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: Taiguen Technology (Shen—Zhen) Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jiangli Wei, Xuanming Shi
  • Patent number: 6970581
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus detects the sampling rate of a coordinate input device, and standardizes the writing data which is input from the coordinate input device based on the detected sampling rate. The standardized writing data is further used for signature verification or for handwritten character recognition. The information processing apparatus provides precise signature verification or handwritten character recognition even if signatures or handwritten characters for handwritten character recognition are input using digitizers having different processing rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2005
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroto Yoshii, Hatsuo Machida, Masaru Okazaki