With Alignment Or Calibration Capability (i.e., Parallax Problem) Patents (Class 345/178)
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Publication number: 20150029159Abstract: In an embodiment, a system includes a controller coupled to a first set of electrodes. The first set of electrodes are substantially arranged along a first axis. The controller is configured to send a first set of signals through a transmission medium to a first set of electrodes and receive a second set of signals. The impedance of the transmission medium is different than the impedance of the first set of electrodes. The second set of signals include characteristics resulting from effects on the first set of signals from the first set of electrodes and the transmission medium. The controller is configured to change, in response to analyzing the second set of signals, one or more of the following: an impedance of the controller and a voltage associated with the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2013Publication date: January 29, 2015Inventors: James D. Lyle, Esat Yilmaz
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Patent number: 8941615Abstract: Provided is an information processing apparatus including a contact detection unit that detects coordinates of a position of a touch manipulation with respect to a touch panel, a storage unit that stores a table that is a command table relating to an editing process with respect to a material that is an element of content, and that at least includes a command to change a reproduction position of the material that is reproduced on a separate information processing apparatus, according to a distance that the touch manipulation moves, and a command specification unit that specifies the command issued to the separate information processing apparatus, from the table stored in the storage unit, based on a detection result obtained by the contact detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventors: Ryoichi Sakuragi, Atsushi Imai
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Patent number: 8941619Abstract: A display for controlling information display. In one embodiment, the display has a display panel having a display area for displaying information and a peripheral portion surrounding the display area, a plurality of acoustic/ultrasonic transducers, {Xi}, arranged at a plurality of selected locations in the peripheral portion, each acoustic/ultrasonic transducer Xi being configured to transmit a first signal S1i with frequency band fi in a first duration, ?tdi, and to receive a second signal S2i in a second duration, ?Tdi, periodically at each period, where the second signal S2i is reflected from the first signal S1i by at least one object, and a processor in communication with the plurality of acoustic/ultrasonic transducers {Xi} for processing the received second signals {S2i} from the plurality of acoustic/ultrasonic transducers {Xi} to determine a location and a gesture of the at least one object relative to the display area.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: AU Optronics CorporationInventor: Fang-Ching Lee
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Patent number: 8941717Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a “disparity cursor” for easily measuring disparity within a selected region of a 3D image under test. In operation, a user places a window that defines the disparity cursor over a selected region of the 3D image under test using a mouse, keyboard, or other user-interface device. An average disparity value for the image segments contained within the window is then automatically calculated and reported to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Tektronix, Inc.Inventors: Daniel G. Baker, Lakshmanan Gopishankar
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Patent number: 8937604Abstract: A touch-responsive capacitive apparatus includes means for defining first and second surfaces, a first micro-wire layer formed on the first surface, the first micro-wire layer including a plurality of electrically connected first micro-wires, a second micro-wire layer formed on the second surface, the second micro-wire layer including a plurality of electrically connected second micro-wires, and a polarizing dielectric structure located between the first and second micro-wire layers.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventor: Ronald Steven Cok
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Patent number: 8937689Abstract: Apparatus, systems and methods for improving strength of a thin glass cover for an electronic device are disclosed. In one embodiment, the glass member can have improved strength by forming its edges with a predetermined geometry and/or by chemically strengthening the edges. Advantageously, the glass member can be not only thin but also adequately strong to limit susceptibility to damage. In one embodiment, the glass member can pertain to a glass cover for a housing for an electronic device. The glass cover can be provided over or integrated with a display, such as a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) display.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2010Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Prest, Stephen Paul Zadesky
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Patent number: 8934040Abstract: An imaging device of the present invention comprises a display section for displaying a moving image that has been acquired by imaging, a touch panel, provided facing the display section, for detecting a touch position, a face detection section for detecting size and position of faces from within the moving image, a facial organ detection section for detecting the size and position of organs constituting a face that has been detected by the face detection section, and a designated image determination section for determining, from an operation position that has been detected by the touch panel, a size and position of a face that have been detected by the face detection section, and a size and position of organs that have been detected by the facial organ detection section, whether an image selected based on the operation position is at least a face or an organ.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: Olympus Imaging CorporationInventor: Atsuro Okazawa
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FINGER BIOMETRIC SENSING DEVICE INCLUDING COUPLING CAPACITOR AND RESET CIRCUITRY AND RELATED METHODS
Publication number: 20150009186Abstract: A finger biometric sensing device may include an array of finger biometric sensing pixel electrodes and amplifiers coupled together in series and to be selectively coupled to respective ones of the array of finger biometric sensing pixels. The finger biometric sensing device may further include at least one coupling capacitor between an output of a given amplifier and a corresponding input of a next amplifier of the plurality thereof, and reset circuitry capable of selectively resetting the input of the next amplifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventor: Patrick J. LANDY -
Patent number: 8928554Abstract: A mobile image display system includes multiple movable panels, each including a video display. Using a position sensor, the system knows when a particular panel reaches a position in which the displayed image is distorted due to overlapping or misalignment of the panels. Then, a central processing unit provides the panels in the region where distortion is present with a modified image to correct for this distortion. Additionally, the panels may include light and/or weight sensors. In response to these sensors, an image in any location the carousel can be revised in response to the presence of an article such as a suitcase.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: IC Media Technology, Inc.Inventor: Laurence John Hine
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Patent number: 8928500Abstract: There is provided a state determination device including an input point acquisition section which acquires position information of an input point specified by an operating object, a reference region setting section which sets a reference region including the input point acquired by the input point acquisition section at a current time point, an input point-number acquisition section which acquires a number of input points acquired by the input point acquisition section in past and included in the reference region, and a determination section which determines, based on the number of input points acquired by the input point-number acquisition section, whether the operating object is in a moving state or in a still state.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Sony CorporationInventor: Naoki Kikuchi
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Patent number: 8928615Abstract: An oscilloscope with touch control has a touch screen display unit and a waveform processing and sampling unit. The touch screen display unit is connected to the waveform processing and sampling unit and has a touch control module and a display module. The touch control module detects a touch gesture and converts the touch gesture into a set of waveform processing parameters. The waveform processing and sampling unit has at least one signal input port to receive at least one external signal to be tested, processes the signal to be tested into a corresponding waveform image, and outputs the waveform image to the display module. Accordingly, the touch screen display unit enables the operation and display of the waveform thereon and provides more space originally occupied by conventional knobs so that the display module can be enlarged or the oscilloscope can be miniaturized.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2012Date of Patent: January 6, 2015Assignee: Good Will Instrument Co., Ltd.Inventors: Chiang-Kai Meng, Yuan-Long Huang
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Publication number: 20150002479Abstract: In an electronic device, a pressure correcting unit corrects press pressure of a contact object on a touch panel unit based on a parameter of a contact area of the contact object on the touch panel unit, to thereby calculate a corrected pressure parameter. A process control unit determines whether confirmation operation is performed based on the corrected pressure parameter and a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: YOSHIMASA KAWAMURA
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Patent number: 8922519Abstract: A sensor panel device that can generate and use a stimulus signal having multiple different waveforms for detecting events on or near the sensor panel is disclosed. Among other things, such a stimulus signal can be used to reject environmental noise present in the device. In some embodiments, the stimulus signal has multiple waveforms having different frequencies. Logic circuitry can generate representative values from output of the different waveforms applied to one or more sensing nodes in the sensor panel device. From the representative values, a final value can be generated that represents whether an event occurred at or near the one or more sensing nodes.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2013Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christoph Horst Krah, Minh-Dieu Thi Vu
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Patent number: 8922498Abstract: A touch screen unit comprises a touch sensitive layer, a display and a processor. The processor is arranged to receive a signal indicative of a parallax error between a user's view of the touch sensitive layer and the user selectable objects displayed on the display and to correct for this parallax error.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: December 30, 2014Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Jan Vesely, Andrew Colley, Barrie Clark
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Patent number: 8913040Abstract: A touch sensitive device having circuitry to compensate for crosstalk from the device display to the device touch sensor panel is disclosed. The crosstalk compensation circuitry can include a downsampler and a crosstalk compensator. The downsampler can downsample a display image to a manageable size for transmission and processing and can then send the downsampled image to the crosstalk compensator so as to provide information about the display operation that can be used to estimate the expected amount of crosstalk caused by the display. The crosstalk compensator can estimate the amount of crosstalk based on the downsampled image and can then compensate a touch image captured by the touch sensor panel for the estimated amount, the touch image being indicative of a touch or hover event at the panel.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2010Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin J. White, Marduke Yousefpor, Christoph Horst Krah, Steven Porter Hotelling
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Patent number: 8913028Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus of a touch-based authentication of a mobile device through user generated pattern creation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a mobile device includes recognizing a tactile force on a touch screen without a visual aid as an unlocking gesture, storing the unlocking gesture to a memory of the mobile device, associating another tactile force on the touch screen with the unlocking gesture, and transforming the mobile device from an initial state to an unlocked state based on the association between the another tactile force and the unlocking gesture. The method may include transforming the mobile device to operate as a telephonic communication device in the unlocked state.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Inventor: David H. Chin
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Patent number: 8907903Abstract: A method for switching control of object is provided including displaying an object on a screen, controlling movement of the object in response to a first touch input, detecting a request for switching control of the object from the first touch input to a second touch input, determining whether a location of the first touch input and a location of the second touch input are within a merge area and switching control of the object from the first touch input to the second touch input in response to the location of the first touch input and the location of the second touch input being within the merge area.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2011Date of Patent: December 9, 2014Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLCInventor: Erich Peter Waas
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Patent number: 8896547Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pointer detection apparatus, including: a conductor pattern including a plurality of first conductors disposed in a first direction and a plurality of second conductors disposed in a second direction; a multi-frequency signal production circuit configured to produce a plurality of signals of different frequencies; a first conductor selection circuit configured to selectively supply the signals of different frequencies to those first conductors, between which N ones of the first conductors are interposed, N being a predetermined integer equal to or greater than 0; a second conductor selection circuit configured to selectively receive detection signals from the second conductors; and a signal detection circuit configured to obtain signals of individual frequencies, corresponding to the signals of different frequencies produced by the multi-frequency signal production circuit, which are representative of coupling states at cross points between the first conductors and the second conductorsType: GrantFiled: March 30, 2010Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yasuo Oda, Yoshihisa Sugiyama
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Patent number: 8890854Abstract: A method for calibrating a touch sensor panel including a plurality of touch electrodes is provided. The method includes determining, for each of the plurality of touch electrodes, a contribution in terms of capacitance to a total capacitance of the touch sensor panel; and allocating a fraction of a fixed period of time for measuring a capacitance of each of the plurality of electrodes based on the electrode's contribution to the total capacitance.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2010Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew D. Tenuta, Louis W. Bokma
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Patent number: 8890820Abstract: According to an embodiment, a control apparatus controls a touch panel includes a first resistive film includes a first terminal and a second terminal and a second resistive film includes a third terminal and a fourth terminal, the first and second resistive films being laid on top of each other with a gap between the resistive films. The control apparatus comprises an application unit, a measurement unit and a calculation unit. The application unit is configured to apply a voltage between the first terminal and the second terminal at a first timing. The measurement unit is configured to measure a voltage of each of the third and fourth terminals at the first timing. The calculation unit is configured to derive a positional relationship between two points at which the touch panel has been touched based on the voltages of the third and fourth terminals measured at the first timing.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha ToshibaInventors: Satoshi Ito, Susumu Kubota
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Patent number: 8890821Abstract: A method and device for dual-differential sensing is disclosed. The sensing information can be generated from signals provided by a sensing device with a plurality of sensors. Each value of the sensing information corresponds to signals of three sensors, respectively. The sensing device is flexible and configured on a display. The noise effect of the display on the signal of each sensor corresponds to the distance between the display and the sensor. Besides, the noise effect of the display on each value of the sensing information corresponds to the distances between the display and the three sensors, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2011Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Egalax—Empia Technology Inc.Inventors: Chin-Fu Chang, Cheng-Han Lee, Chi-Hao Tang, Shun-Lung Ho
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Patent number: 8885068Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof capable of editing an image. A mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a display unit configured to display an image, a detection unit configured to detect a facial image from the image, and a controller configured to retrieve facial data corresponding to the facial image, and edit the facial image using the retrieved facial data.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Youngkoen Kim, Sungwook Ha, Kyungsu Lee
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Patent number: 8884942Abstract: A hysteretic mode LED driver for providing a driving current for an LED includes a hysteretic comparing circuit and a feedback loop. The hysteretic comparing circuit compares a driving current related sensing signal with a reference signal to control the average value of the driving current. The feedback loop senses the error between the average value of the driving current and a target value to adjust the reference signal or the offset of the hysteretic comparing circuit to adjust the average value of the driving current.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2010Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Richtek Technology Corp.Inventors: An-Tung Chen, Chih-Hao Yang
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Patent number: 8884890Abstract: A multi-touch capacitive touch sensor panel can be created using a substrate with column and row traces formed on either side of the substrate. To shield the column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling from a modulated Vcom layer in an adjacent liquid crystal display (LCD) or any source of capacitive coupling, the row traces can be widened to shield the column traces, and the row traces can be placed closer to the LCD. In particular, the rows can be widened so that there is spacing of about 30 microns between adjacent row traces. In this manner, the row traces can serve the dual functions of driving the touch sensor panel, and also the function of shielding the more sensitive column (sense) traces from the effects of capacitive coupling.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steve Porter Hotelling, Brian Richards Land
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Patent number: 8884907Abstract: The manipulation system described herein provides a common platform and application-programming interface (API) for applications to communicate with various multi-touch hardware devices, and facilitates the interpretation of multi-touch input as one or more manipulations. Manipulations map more directly to user intentions than do individual touch inputs and add support for basic transformation of objects using multiple touch contacts. An application can use manipulations to support rotating, resizing, and translating multiple objects at the same time. The manipulation system outputs two-dimensional (2D) affine transforms that contain rotation, scale, and translation information. Thus, using the manipulation system the application author can focus more on building touch-capable applications and let the manipulation system handle the underlying transformations and communication with the multi-touch hardware.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Reed L. Townsend, Xiao Tu, Bryan Scott, Todd A. Torset, Erik M. Geidl, Samir S. Pradhan, Jennifer A. Teed
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Patent number: 8884928Abstract: The ability of a user to provide input when using a touch screen or other such element of a computing device can be improved by correcting for parallax errors. A camera of the computing device can determine the relative position of the user's head or eyes with respect to the device, and determine a viewing perspective of the user with respect to content displayed on the touch screen. Using the perspective direction and information about the dimensions of the touch screen, the device can determine an amount and direction of parallax error, and can make adjustments to remove or minimize that error. The device can cause the position of the displayed graphical elements to shift and/or can adjust the mappings of the touch sensitive regions that correspond to the graphical elements. Such an approach enables the graphical elements and touch mappings to align from the current perspective of the user.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2012Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Leo B. Baldwin
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Patent number: 8878777Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for corner control are described. Each of the four corners of a rectangular display field can be individually configured to be a rounded corner or an angled corner. In some implementations, a method can include providing a user interface item for display. The user interface item can include four control elements. Each of the control elements can correspond to a corner of a display field. Each of the control elements can individually and independently control a shape of the corresponding corner of the display field. The display field can have one or more corners in rounded shape and one or more corners in angled shape, according to user input received through the user interface item.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Heather L. Winkle, Andrew Paulsen, Nicolas M. Hunter
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Patent number: 8878822Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of controlling the operation of a mobile terminal includes displaying, on a display module of the mobile terminal, a stereoscopic three-dimensional (3D) image using a disparity between left-eye and right-eye images, receiving a touch input within the stereoscopic 3D image, determining whether a position of the touch input is received within a first area, a second area or a third area, wherein the right-eye image is displayed in the first area, the left-eye image is displayed in the second area, and the third area is the overlapping area of the left-eye and right-eye images, and correcting a touch-sensing area on the display module according to the position of the received touch input, wherein the touch-sensing area receives a touch for selecting the stereoscopic 3D image.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Jonghwan Kim, Hyunho Jee, Youngwoo Kim, Seonhwi Cho, Hojun Lee
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Patent number: 8878781Abstract: An input device includes an input operation surface that includes one or more specific regions, can be operated by an indicator, and is provided separately from a display screen; a detection unit that detects an operation position of the indicator; a region creating unit that creates a discrimination region while using the operation position as a base point when it is detected that the operation position of the indicator is positioned in the specific region; and a discrimination unit that uses a fact that a moving direction of the indicator from the base point, when the indicator moves within the discrimination region, is positioned on at least a line, which traverses the specific region substantially in parallel or obliquely, as conditions that allow a predetermined function to be performed on the display screen. When the discrimination unit discriminates that the conditions are satisfied, a performance signal is output.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2012Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Alps Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: Toshio Kawano, Kazuhito Oshita
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Publication number: 20140320461Abstract: According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display processor and a controller. The display processor is configured to display an object on a touch screen display. The object includes a first line segment and a second line segment which is not parallel to the first line segment. The controller is configured to acquire first positional data from a first trace of the first line segment on the touch screen and second positional data from a second trace of the second line segment on the touch screen. The controller is further configured to set a correction value for correcting a deviation between a display position of traces and a detection position of a touch input on the touch screen display, by using the first and second positional data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2013Publication date: October 30, 2014Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBAInventors: Shigeru Motoi, Toshiya Takano
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Patent number: 8872778Abstract: An apparatus such as a touch screen display includes correlated emitter-detector pairs for determining the amount of electromagnetic radiation received at a detector from its paired emitter. The apparatus comprises an array of emitters operable to emit electromagnetic radiation, an array of detectors for detecting the electromagnetic radiation, and drive control circuitry configured to control the array of emitters so that they emit pulses of electromagnetic radiation. The amplitude of the pulses is modulated using mutually orthogonal binary vectors such as a Paley construction of the Hadamard matrix. Each emitter has a different vector associated with it. Detection circuitry is provided to detect the electromagnetic radiation reaching each particular detector in the array of detectors using the mutually orthogonal binary vector associated with the correlated emitter to produce a correlation between particular emitter-detector pairs. The arrangement can discriminate between near field and touching objects.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology LimitedInventors: Euan Smith, Aleksandra Rankov
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Patent number: 8872761Abstract: The invention relates to a pointing device and a method for processing signals from such a pointing device, said device comprising a base and an actuator movable with respect to the base, and a detector, said detector adapted for providing at least first and second positional signals indicating a position of the actuator with respect to the base along corresponding first and second axes, wherein said signal processing method comprises the steps of converting the at least two positional signals into a polar coordinate signal comprising a magnitude signal, and thresholding the magnitude signal of the polar coordinate signal to provide a thresholded magnitude signal. In an embodiment the method further comprising the step of applying a conversion curve to the thresholded magnitude signal to produce a velocity magnitude signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: NXP, B.V.Inventor: Kim Le Phan
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Patent number: 8872868Abstract: If a potential of a gate electrode of a driving transistor varies after a gray scale signal is inputted into each pixel, a current value of a current supplied to a light emitting element varies so that accurate gray scale display cannot be obtained. In particular, in the case of performing black display, current may flow, which makes clear black display difficult. Accordingly, the invention provides a light emitting device capable of performing accurate gray scale display, and a driving method thereof. According to the invention, a signal for display is inputted plural times within a predetermined timing period, or a writing operation period is lengthened. Consequently, the gate voltage of the transistor is determined after the anode potential of the light emitting element is stabilized, and therefore accurate gray scale display can be performed.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2012Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventors: Keisuke Miyagawa, Ryota Fukumoto
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Patent number: 8872772Abstract: A pen tool for use with a machine vision interactive input system comprises an elongate body and a tip arrangement at one end of the body, an end surface of the body at least partially about the tip arrangement carrying light reflective material that is visible to at least one imaging assembly of the interactive input system when the pen tool is angled.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: SMART Technologies ULCInventors: Sean Thompson, Grant McGibney, David Holmgren
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Patent number: 8872804Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus relating to touch sensing display devices that include a sensing device and a display device. In one aspect, a touch sensing display device can include adaptive addressing architecture to adjust an addressing characteristic based at least in part in a sensing characteristic of a sensing device. In another aspect, a touch sensing display device can include adaptive sensing architecture to adjust a sensing characteristic of a sensing device based at least in part on an addressing characteristic of a display device and/or on an electrical interference characteristic altered by an addressing circuit of the display device.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2011Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Russel A. Martin, William J. Cummings
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Publication number: 20140313169Abstract: Techniques for designs of single-layer touch sensors are described herein. In an example embodiment, a device comprises a sensor array. The sensor array comprises first plurality of electrodes and second plurality of electrodes that are interleaved without intersecting each other within a touch-sensing area in a single layer on a substrate of the sensor array. A first electrode (of the first or second plurality) comprises at least two shaped portions. The two shaped portions may be disposed across at least a portion of a given second electrode from each other, or may be disposed between two or more portions of the given second electrode. The two shaped portions of the first electrode are routed in different directions on the substrate and are coupled to each other outside of the touch-sensing area of the sensor array.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2014Publication date: October 23, 2014Inventors: Igor Kravets, Alexandre Gourevitch, Oleksandr Karpin, Oleksandr Hoshtanar, Massoud Badaye
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Patent number: 8866742Abstract: A method for controlling movement of a computer display cursor based on a point-of-aim of a pointing device within an interaction region includes projecting an image of a computer display to create the interaction region. At least one calibration point having a predetermined relation to said interaction region is established. A pointing line is directed to substantially pass through the calibration point while measuring a position of and an orientation of the pointing device. The pointing line has a predetermined relationship to said pointing device. Movement of the cursor is controlled within the interaction region using measurements of the position of and the orientation of the pointing device.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2014Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Ultimatepointer, LLCInventor: Erik Jan Banning
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Publication number: 20140306938Abstract: A method includes displaying three or more display layers, the three or more display layers including at least a first display layer and a second display layer. The method further includes shifting display positions of at least the first display layer and the second display layer. Shifting the display positions includes applying a first (x,y) offset to the display position of the first display layer, and applying a second (x,y) offset to the display position of the second display layer, wherein the first (x,y) offset and the second (x,y) offset are determined in accordance with a calculated difference between a detected orientation of the electronic device and a reference orientation. The method further includes redisplaying the three or more display layers after the shifting of the display positions. At least one of the first display layer and the second display layer is responsive to touch input gestures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Eliza Carey BLOCK, Alessandro F. SABATELLI
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Publication number: 20140306939Abstract: A projector includes a projection section adapted to project a projection image on a projection surface, an imaging section adapted to generate a shot image obtained by shooting a range including the projection image projected by the projection section, a detection section adapted to detect a motion of the projector, and an execution section adapted to execute a predetermined process with respect to a calibration for making a correspondence between a coordinate system of the projection image and a coordinate system of the shot image in a case in which the detection section detects the motion of the projector.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2014Publication date: October 16, 2014Applicant: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Akihiko Tamura
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Publication number: 20140306924Abstract: A touch input device configured to detect a touch input event and determine if the touch input event is caused by a floating object is provided. The touch input device includes one or more electrodes that scanned with a set of stimulation signals to first detect the presence of a touch event and then scanned with subsequent sets of stimulation signals in order to determine if the touch event is from a grounded object, a poorly grounded object, or a floating object.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2013Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Albert LIN, David H.C. SHIH, Martin Paul GRUNTHANER
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Patent number: 8860670Abstract: An apparatus is provided for performing a scroll function in a portable terminal, in which a touch screen displays a list divided into a plurality of sections, a memory stores a scroll function established for each of the plurality of sections, and a controller locates a focus on a particular item by performing a scroll function established for a particular section, when the section among the plurality of sections is touched and dragged.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., LtdInventors: Ji-Young Kim, Seong-Hoon Kang, Hye-Soo Lee, Sun-Haeng Jo
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Patent number: 8860686Abstract: The exemplary devices and processing techniques allow multiple measurement devices or chips to work together to sample a screen that is larger than one measurement device might sample, by allowing sharing X or drive lines amongst the measurements devices. Particular implementations of the subject matter described in this specification can be implemented so as to realize one or more of the following optional advantages. The sharing of the drive lines may allow for a screen sized or otherwise configured to have more measurement nodes than would be produced by the sum of the nodes that could be measured by the individual devices. For a screen that requires multiple measurement devices, the drive line sharing thus may allow use of a smaller number of measuring devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Atmel CorporationInventors: Martin John Simmons, Dan Thomas Edward Pickett, Richard Paul Collins
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Patent number: 8854321Abstract: An exemplary method includes 1) detecting an initialization action performed by a first extremity of a user and a second extremity of the user, the initialization action comprising a touching of a first arbitrary location on the touch screen by the first extremity and a touching of a second arbitrary location on the touch screen by the second extremity, 2) designating, in response to the initialization action, the first arbitrary location as a first reference position and the second arbitrary location as a second reference position, 3) detecting one or more tapping actions performed on the touch screen, 4) determining a relative position on the touch screen of each of the one or more tapping actions with respect to the first and second reference positions, and 5) identifying one or more data entry commands associated with the one or more tapping actions. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventors: Tiejun J. Xia, Glenn A. Wellbrock
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Patent number: 8854338Abstract: A display apparatus includes a pointing device including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit to detect a position of an object inserted into an optical path between the light emitting unit and a light receiving unit, wherein the pointing device includes an optical intensity store unit configured to store an optical intensity distribution detected by the light receiving unit in a memory unit upon detection of a change in a position or location of a display, and a position calculating unit configured to detect the position of the object by detecting a dark point in the optical intensity distribution caused by the insertion of the object based on a difference between the optical intensity distribution stored in the memory unit and an optical intensity distribution subsequently detected by the light receiving unit.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2013Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventor: Katsuyuki Omura
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Patent number: 8854336Abstract: A light guide module is applied in an optical touch module. A focusing component of the light guide module focuses the light emitted from a light guide component of the light guide module, so that all the light emitted from the light guide component can be convergently distributed in a touch area of the optical touch module. In this way, the light provided by a lighting component of the optical touch module can be effectively utilized, and the signal to noise ratio of the received signal of a sensor of the optical touch module increases. Therefore, the optical touch module can determines the location of the finger or the contacting object more correctly.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: PixArt Imaging Inc.Inventors: Hung-Ching Lai, Chiang-Yuan Chuang, Hui-Hsuan Chen
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Publication number: 20140292728Abstract: An information processing device including a control unit reduces an occurrence of a malfunction without changing a layout of a displayed object in a situation where a user supports the information processing device with one hand and performs the touch operation with that hand. The control unit sets a first area and a second area on a screen and senses a position on the screen touched by the user. An operation identified in accordance with the position sensed in the first area is invalidated so as not to be executed in the information processing device if the touch position was sensed in the second area within a predetermined time after the touch position was sensed in the first area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Yusuke Chihara
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Publication number: 20140292726Abstract: An information processing apparatus including a processor, a touch panel, and a display, wherein the processor moves a part or all of a display screen by a predetermined vector and displays the part or all of the display screen on the display when a touch on the touch panel is detected, determines whether or not there are touches that follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen before and after the movement when a touch on the touch panel is detected after the movement, and detects the touches that follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen to be of a user operation, and does not detect touches that do not follow the movement of the part or all of the display screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Katsue NAKANO, Katsuaki AKAMA
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Publication number: 20140292725Abstract: A method for selecting items using a touchscreen includes displaying a plurality of items as icons on the touchscreen, receiving a touch signal including information on a touch point on the touchscreen, and determining one or more selected items from among the plurality of items upon reception of the touch signal. A system for selecting items includes a touchscreen including a display unit for displaying a plurality of items as icons and an input unit displayed on the display unit and displaying coordinate data corresponding to a touch applied to the display unit, a storage unit storing content, and a controller for controlling the display unit of the touchscreen and the storage unit on the basis of a touch signal received through the input unit of the touchscreen.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2013Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANYInventors: Woochul Jung, Young Woo Choi
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Publication number: 20140292727Abstract: The terminal device includes a touch panel that accepts a touch entry including a first touch on a first key corresponding to a first position and a second touch on a second key corresponding to a second position that is different from the first position, and a processor that detects the first touch and the second touch, determines elapsed time from the first touch to the second touch when detecting the second touch after detecting the first touch, and decides that the second touch is a touch to the first key when the elapsed time is less than a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2014Publication date: October 2, 2014Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Kyoko KAMATA, Katsuaki AKAMA
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Patent number: 8847882Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for recognizing the position of an indicating object. An apparatus for recognizing the position of an indicating object of the present invention comprises: first reflecting means installed along the left, right, and bottom edges of a screen so as to reflect a laser beam emitted from object-detecting means back to the object-detecting means; said object-detecting means, formed as a pair, for analyzing a change in the amount of light in the reflected laser beam over time, and detecting position coordinates of the indicating object on the planar surface of the screen; and fixing means including a housing and a fixing member fixedly installed on an upper portion of the screen and coupled to the housing so as to fix the housing to the upper portion of the screen, the fixing means being intended for facilitating the installation of the object-detecting means on the upper portion of the screen.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2010Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Smart Sense Technology Co., LtdInventors: Seung-tae Jeong, Bong-hwan Kim