Abstract: Disclosed is an electromagnetic fountain pen, which includes a pen core, a housing, and a pen body located in the housing, the housing includes a front housing and a rear housing, the pen body includes a first iron core and an iron core holder, the iron core holder is provided with a pen core clamp link, a second iron core, and a third iron core, coils are wound outside the first iron core and the second iron core, the first iron core is close to a pen tip of the pen core, the pen core is configured to pass through a center of the first iron core, and then is clamped by one end of the pen core clamp link.

Abstract: A method for setting a parameter includes the steps of: selecting, by a touch or click, one point on an electronic map displayed on an electronic device; displaying a parameter input area around the selected one point on the electronic map; detecting, by the electronic device, panning or drag performed along a direction in which the displayed parameter input area is formed; adjusting a value of the parameter according to the detected panning or drag; detecting, by the electronic device, panning or drag performed in a direction toward the one point; and setting the parameter to the adjusted value, wherein the touch or click is maintained while the steps of setting the one point through setting the parameter is performed.

Abstract: A stylus or other tactile-based input device can receive different types of tactile input from a user. The tactile input sensing functions can be performed by a touch input sensor, such as a capacitive sensing device, and a compressive force sensor, such as a capacitive gap sensor. A touch input sensor can be integrated into an input device in a low profile form and overlap the compressive force sensor so that both touch input and compressive force input can be detected in the same regions of the stylus. Both types of tactile input can be received at the user's natural grip location.

Abstract: A sensor controller is provided which is capable of allocating time slots to multiple active pens in a timely manner according to functions of each active pen. The sensor controller, in operation, supplies a beacon signal, which serves as a reference time for a frame formed of a plurality of time slots; acquires, from a downlink signal returned from one of a first active pen including a pen tip electrode and a second active pen including a pen tip electrode and a peripheral electrode in response to the beacon signal, functional information indicating whether or not one of the active pens that has transmitted the downlink signal includes the peripheral electrode; and determines based on the acquired functional information whether to allocate one or more of the time slots to only the pen tip electrode or to each of the pen tip electrode and the peripheral electrode.

Abstract: A stylus includes a first sensor configured to receive a first receive signal from a touch sensor of a device, and a second sensor configured to receive a second receive signal from the touch sensor of the device. The stylus includes an amplifier coupled to the first and second sensors and configured to produce a third signal by amplifying the difference between the first receive signal and the second receive signal. The stylus includes a controller configured to decode information encoded in the first receive signal and the second receive signal by processing the third signal.

Abstract: The electronic devices described herein are configured to enhance user experience associated with using a pen on the touchscreens of the electronic devices. Contact of a pen on the touch screen is detected by a persistent, pen-aware shell that occupies some or all of the touch screen user interface throughout operation of the electronic device. Detected pen contact with the touch screen is captured/collected as pen input and used to perform a function of the electronic device or shared with an application such that the application may perform a function based on the pen input. A performed function or application with which to share the pen in put is selected by a user, automatically by an operating system, or a combination of the two. Automatic capture of pen input by the persistent, pen-aware shell provides an intuitive way of making use of pen/touch screen capability of an electronic device.

Abstract: An input device for providing input to a computing device. The input device includes a body, a visual element, and a processing element in communication with the visual element. The processing element dynamically changes a graphic displayed by the visual element to correspond to presentation data corresponding to the input device as presented to the computing device. The dynamic changes in the graphic provide indication to a user regarding the current state of the input device.

Abstract: A portable terminal apparatus includes a display unit displaying an image, an operation input unit inputting a user operation, and a wireless communication unit performing wireless communication by a wireless LAN, and at a time of startup from a sleep state, a remote control button is displayed on the display unit when a mutual communication with a predetermined access point can be performed in the wireless communication unit, and when the remote control button is selected, a remote control signal corresponding to the selected remote control button is transmitted.

Abstract: An active stylus couples to an information handling system by a removable clip that inserts into a slot formed in the information handling system housing. Power to charge a battery of the active stylus passes from an interface internal to the information handling system, through the clip and to a charger in the active stylus. The active stylus clip releases the active stylus in the presence of excessive force to prevent damage to the information handling system and active stylus.

Abstract: A character input device includes an input operation unit that receives an input of a character string, an operation detector that detects a change from a state in which the character string is output, a character string entry detector that enters the character string based on the change and generates an entered suggestion, and a storage that stores the entered suggestion as a conversion suggestion.

Abstract: In some examples, a controller is to track markings of an input element in a content area defined on a medium without electronic input capability, and track an input made with the input element in a file handling control area defined on the medium, the input made with the pen in the file handling control area comprising information relating to a file and is to cause saving of a representation of the markings made in the content area according to the information relating to the file.

Abstract: Active pen includes first and second electrodes provided at different positions, a transmission circuit that uses a booster circuit to cause a change in the first electrode to thereby transmit a downlink signal, a reception circuit that uses the second electrode to detect an uplink signal, and a stop filter that prevents a change in a potential of the first electrode from affecting a potential of the uplink signal detected by the reception circuit.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a first casing, a second casing disposed within the first casing, and an electronic pen main body unit incorporating an electronic pen function disposed within the second casing, in which the electronic pen main body unit includes a side switch unit having an operating element exposed on a side surface of the second casing, and an operating opening portion is disposed in a side surface of the first casing, and the operating opening portion exposes the operating element exposed on the side surface of the second casing.

Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface on a display, the messaging user interface including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and at least one other user, a keyboard, a message-input area, and a digital image affordance. While displaying the messaging user interface, the device detects an input that activates the digital image affordance. In response, the device replaces display of the keyboard with display of a plurality of digital images, the plurality of digital images including one or more digital images stored in memory and a live preview image from a digital camera. The device detects an input that selects the live image displayed within the plurality of digital images. In response, the device captures a digital image with the digital camera, while maintaining display of the conversation transcript.

Abstract: An electronic pen includes a magnetic core that has a through-hole and around which a coil is wound in a direction along this through-hole, a core body that is inserted in the through-hole of this magnetic core and has electrical conductivity, a capacitor that forms a resonant circuit with the coil, a signal generation circuit that generates a signal that enables a position of the electronic pen to be detected, which is transmitted through the core body, an electricity storage device, and a charge circuit that charges the electricity storage device by an induced current generated in the coil according to an external magnetic field. While the resonant circuit operates, the signal generated by the signal generation circuit is concurrently transmitted through the core body.

Abstract: An electronic device adapted to apply information to a surface is described. The electronic device comprising a writing element; and a detection circuit adapted to detect the information; wherein the detection circuit identifies portions of the information. A method of implementing an electronic device adapted to apply information to a surface is also described.

Abstract: A display device includes a non e-paper portion to display a first pattern element and a passive e-paper display portion to display a second pattern element juxtaposed relative to the first pattern element.

Abstract: Disclosed is a passive electromagnetic fountain pen, which includes a pen core and a pen body, wherein the pen body includes a first iron core and an iron core holder, a pen core clamp link, a second iron core, a third iron core, an elastic component, a pressure regulating plate, and a first structure matched with the pressure regulating plate are disposed sequentially from front to back in the iron core holder, coils are wound outside the first iron core and the second iron core, the first iron core is close to a pen tip of the pen core, the second iron core is fixedly connected with the iron core holder, the pen core is configured to pass through a center of the first iron core, and then be clamped by one end of the pen core clamp link.

Abstract: A mobile device includes a sensing unit configured to determine whether the stylus pen is separated from the mobile device; a communication unit configured to receive a control signal including a first control signal and a second control signal from the stylus pen separated from the mobile device; and a controller configured to operate in a first control mode for performing an operation of an application being executed on the mobile device. The controller performs a first operation of the application in response to the first control signal, and performs a second operation of the application in response to the second control signal.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a stylus with one or more electrodes and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying logic for transmitting signals wirelessly to a device through a touch sensor of the device has one or more sensors for detecting movement of the stylus.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a reception unit, a recognition unit, an extraction unit, and a processing unit. The reception unit receives drawing information which is information on a drawing operation by a user. The recognition unit recognizes whether or not a last part of the drawing operation is a gesture which the user designates a command, based on the drawing information. The extraction unit extracts a type of a figure drawn by the user before the user performs the gesture. The processing unit performs a process based on the extracted type of the figure.

Abstract: A collaboration system is provided and includes memory storing collaboration data including a spatial event map locating events in a virtual workspace and a local display including a screen space. The collaboration system further includes logic to identify a local client viewport in the virtual workspace, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the local client viewport, logic to change a location and a dimension of the local client viewport in the virtual workspace in response to input signals, logic to render, in the screen space on the local display, graphical objects identified by events in the spatial event map that have locations within the changed local client viewport, and logic to generate a viewport change event in response to the change of the local client viewport in response to input signals.

Abstract: The systems and methods of gesture triggered automatic erasure on a private network, comprising: establishing a secure and encrypted private network with one or more profile computing devices; embedding local information on a first profile within one or more secure objects; embedding transit information exchanged by the first profile on the private network within one or more secure objects at source and destination; receiving a signal from the first profile computing device; automatically deleting one or more of the secure objects with embedded local and transit information from all profile computing devices.

Abstract: Disclosed is a passive electromagnetic pen, which includes a pen core, a first iron core, and an iron core holder, wherein a coil is wound outside the first iron core, the first iron core is fixed to an end of the iron core holder close to a pen tip of the pen core, a second iron core, an elastic component, a pressure regulating plate, and a first structure matched with the pressure regulating plate are disposed in the iron core holder sequentially from front to back, and the pen core is configured to pass through a center of the first iron core, and then drive the second iron core to move; and the pressure regulating plate when in rotation is configured to be in surface contact with the first structure by a surface, so as to generate an axial displacement to change an axial displacement of the elastic opponent.

Abstract: A sensor controller is provided, to be connected to a sensor electrode group configuring a surface. The sensor controller supplies a determined AC signal to one or more AC signal transmission electrodes that form part of a plurality of sensor electrodes included in the sensor electrode group, and the sensor controller transmits, from cancellation signal transmission electrode(s) different from the AC signal transmission electrodes, a cancellation signal configured to prevent a signal transmitted from the AC signal transmission electrodes from appearing in a ground terminal of a detection circuit of the stylus. The sensor controller thusly configured may facilitate preventing a situation in which the stylus cannot detect an uplink signal and facilitate preventing the uplink signal from affecting the operation of another apparatus such as a display apparatus.

Abstract: An information handling system stylus makes inputs to a touchscreen display with a writing tip disposed at one end of a cylindrical housing. In an opening at the end of the cylindrical housing opposite the writing tip, a port and a push button are disposed under a removeable flexible cap to provide a cable connection for charging the stylus when the cap is removed and an input device to activate a wireless function when the flexible cap is in place, such as by translating end user pushes through a steel plate integrated in the flexible cap. An attachment member extends from the flexible cap into a sliding engagement with an end cap so that the flexible cap lifts out of the opening and flexes about the attachment member to expose the port in the opening.

Abstract: The present application provides a method of displaying virtual content. The method includes: capturing a first image including a first marker; determining a display region corresponding to a first interaction device based on the first marker in the first image and displaying the first virtual object; displaying second virtual object corresponding to the first virtual object. The first marker is arranged on the first interaction device. A first display position of the first virtual object in a virtual space corresponds to the display region. A second display position of the second virtual object in the virtual space corresponds to a predefined superimposing region, and the second virtual object is at least a part of the first virtual object.

Abstract: An electronic device include a housing, a touchscreen display viewable through a portion of the housing, a wireless communication circuitry disposed inside the housing, a processor disposed inside the housing and operatively connected to the touchscreen display and the wireless communication circuitry, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a first signal indicating a charging state of a battery from an external electronic device including the battery through the wireless communication circuitry, and to provide a user interface corresponding to charging of the battery, based at least partially on the first signal.

Abstract: An electronic device including an electronic pen and a method of controlling a communication connection with the electronic pen is provided. The electronic device include a housing, a touch-screen display, a first wireless communication circuit, an extended recess disposed inside the housing, a first wireless charging circuit; an electronic pen including a second wireless communication circuit and a second wireless charging circuit electrically coupled to the first wireless charging circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions causing the processor to detect whether the electronic pen is inserted into the recess, charge the electronic pen through the first wireless charging circuit based on the detection, receive inherent information of the electronic pen through the first wireless communication circuit during or after the charging, and maintain or re-establish a communication connection with the electronic pen based on at least a portion of the received inherent information.

Abstract: A mobile terminal for controlling display includes: a frame body including a middle frame; a touch screen provided on a front surface of the frame body and attached onto the middle frame; wherein the touch screen covers whole of the front surface of the frame body, or the touch screen covers a remaining area except a predetermined area on the front surface of the frame body, the predetermined area being an exposure area for additional electronic devices provided on the front surface of the frame body; a touch integrated circuit connected with the touch screen; and a processor connected with the touch integrated circuit. According to the disclosure, the whole front surface of the frame body is covered by the touch screen without providing the upper forehead area and the lower button area thereon.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters.

Abstract: According to some embodiments, an accessory device for interacting with an electronic device having a touch sensitive surface, is described. The accessory device can include a housing having walls suitable for carrying a processor capable of providing instructions and an interface unit extending through an opening at a distal end of the housing, where the interface unit is capable of interacting with the touch sensitive surface. The accessory device can further include a sensor in communication with the processor and the interface unit, where the sensor is capable of (i) detecting a stimulus generated by the interaction between the interface unit and the touch sensitive surface, and (ii) responding by providing a feedback parameter to the processor that responds by providing a feedback instruction. The accessory device can further include a feedback component that responds to the feedback instruction by transmitting a feedback force to the walls of the housing.

Abstract: A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels and a drive circuit which displays an image, which corresponds to input data received from outside, on the display panel in a normal operation mode, and displays an image, which corresponds to an analog clock representing a current time, on the display panel based on end point coordinates of clock hands that are internally stored in the drive circuit in a standby mode.

Abstract: Disclosed is an electronic device capable of intuitively allocating a function to a button of a digital pen using different types of signals generated from an input tool, and that can more conveniently set a user environment by intuitively mapping a function to a button input of the digital pen.

Abstract: An electronic pen is provided that is enhanced in strength such as not to be bent or broken even when made to be thinner (smaller in diametric size). A connection section holds a core body at one end thereof and holds a circuit board at the other end thereof. The circuit board is accommodated in a board protecting pipe, which is fitted to the connection section. The board protecting pipe is provided with a side opening, and an operation on an electronic part on the circuit board accommodated therein and a work on an electronic circuit formed on the circuit board can be performed through the side opening. An electronic pen main body section wherein the core body and the circuit board and the board protecting pipe are united together through the connection section is accommodated in a casing, to constitute the electronic pen.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for simultaneous localization of multiple targets in 3-D cooperative wireless sensor networks (WSNs), utilizing combined measurements of received signal strength (RSS) and angle of arrival (AoA) are disclosed herein. By exploiting the convenient nature of spherical representation of the considered problem, the measurement models are linearized and a sub-optimal estimator is formulated. The method disclosed herein has a straightforward adaptation to the case where the target's transmit power is also not known. A representative set of simulations and experiments verify the potential performance improvement realized with embodiments of the method for RSS/AoA network localization in 3-D space.

Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for measuring light using a digital pen. An apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. In one embodiment, the processor determines whether a digital pen that is configured to communicate with an information handling device is in a docked position. The processor receives a light measurement sensed by the digital pen and performs an adjustment to an output parameter of a display for the information handling device in response to receiving the light measurement. A method, system, and computer program product may perform the functions of the apparatus.

Abstract: A pen detection unit and a display device including a pen detection panel. The pen detection panel includes a plurality of sensor parts, and each of the sensor parts includes a first loop antenna and at least one transistor connected to the first loop antenna. A pen driving circuit detects a position of a pen, based on a sensing signal received through the first loop antenna in a first mode, and transfers the sensing signal to an external electromagnetic induction device in a second mode different from the first mode.

Abstract: A method of controlling a device using a stylus pen having a front end and a distal end includes displaying, via a touchscreen display of the device, a first execution screen of a first application, identifying a first touch input performed by the front end on the first execution screen, outputting a first processing result with respect to the first touch input on the first execution screen, identifying a second touch input performed by the distal end of the stylus pen on the first execution screen including the first processing result, outputting a second processing result with respect to the second touch input on the first execution screen including the first processing result, displaying, via the touchscreen display, a second execution screen of a second application after the second processing result is output, wherein the first application is different from the second application, identifying a third touch input performed by the distal end of the stylus pen on the second execution screen, and outputting a

Abstract: In one aspect, a device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive, from a stylus, at least one transmission indicating movement of the stylus. The instructions may also be executable to take, based on the at least one transmission, at least one action at the device. The stylus itself may include one or more motion sensors to sense the movement.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a display device. The display device includes a display module and a sensing circuit board including a plurality of sensing dots disposed on the display module and generating a magnetic field. Each of the sensing dots includes continuous first and second periods. Additionally or alternatively, the sensing dots includes a transmitter, a driver, a charger, and an outputter. The transmitter transmits a reference alternating current signal. The driver is connected to the transmitter and a sensing node and outputs a node current signal. The charger is connected to the sensing node and generates a magnetic field. The outputter is electrically connected to an output terminal and outputs a sensing signal.

Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for character recognition in a digital image processing environment. The present invention is configured to electronically retrieve one or more documents from a document repository, wherein the one or more documents are in an image format; initiate one or more image super resolution algorithms on the one or more documents; generate, based on at least the one or more image super resolution algorithms, one or more high-resolution images associated with each of the one or more documents; initiate one or more image bottleneck ensembles (IBE) algorithms on the one or more high-resolution images; extract, using the one or more IBE algorithms, one or more features associated with the one or more high resolution images; and store the one or more features extracted from the one or more high resolution images in a feature repository.

Abstract: A touch sensing apparatus is disclosed comprising a touch surface, and a touch sensor configured to determine a first set of coordinates on the touch surface of an object in contact with the touch surface. The touch sensing apparatus is configured to determine a virtual brush angle associated with the object, determine a movement of the object to a second set of coordinates determine an updated virtual brush angle for the object in dependence on a position of the second set of coordinates relative to the first set of coordinates, and output the second set of coordinates and the updated virtual brush angle. An associated method is also disclosed.

Abstract: A user input system including a stylus and an electronic device. A user may manipulate the stylus across an input surface of the electronic device and the movement may be detected using axially-aligned electric fields generated by the stylus. The stylus may also include a force-sensitive structure that can be used to estimate a force applied to the electronic device by the stylus.

Abstract: A transmitter processing method comprising: when in an all channel mode, do following steps: receiving beacon signals, transmitted by a touch panel, in multiple channels; and switching from the all channel mode to a single channel mode if the beacon signals are received in one channel of the multiple channels; and when in the single channel mode, do following steps: transmitting electrical signals in a time slot after the beacon signals are received; and receiving the beacon signals only in the one channel of the multiple channels.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a housing, a tip that moves with respect to the housing based on applied contact force and a pressure sensor that detects the force applied on the tip. The pressure sensor includes a first element integrated or fixed to the tip and a second element that is stationary with respect to the housing and positioned to face the first element. The first element is formed from a rigid material that is conductive. The second element is conductive and has elastic properties. In addition, one of the first element or the second element is coated with a non-conductive layer. The first element moves toward the second element based on force applied on the tip and deforms the second element based on the force. The sensor additionally includes a circuit to detect capacitance between the first element and the second element.

Abstract: An information handling system stylus performs touch inputs at a touchscreen display with an active writing tip that receives a capacitive signal from a processing resource, such as an ASIC. A tip position controller selectively retracts and extends the writing tip at an opening formed in a tip cap disposed at the end of the stylus. A power interface cuts off power to the processing resource when the writing tip retracts and applies power to the processing resource when the writing tip extends.

Abstract: An electronic device, in response to detecting an input on a touch-sensitive surface: processes the input with a first gesture recognizer for an operating system application; and processes the input with a second gesture recognizer for a first software application, distinct from the operating system application. If the first gesture recognizer recognizes the input as a gesture matching a gesture definition of the first gesture recognizer, the device performs an operation defined by the operating system application and transitions the second gesture recognizer into an event impossible state. If the second gesture recognizer recognizes the input as a gesture matching a gesture definition of the second gesture recognizer, the device delays performance of an operation defined by the first software application for the input until the first gesture recognizer indicates that the input does not match the gesture definition of the first gesture recognizer.

Abstract: An input device is provided. The input device includes a communicator for communicating with an electronic device, a pen tip provided on one end portion of the input device, an electrode part provided at a position spaced apart at a predetermined interval from the pen tip, and a processor configured to apply a predetermined frequency signal to the electrode part, and control the communicator so as to transmit, to the electronic device, the signal of which frequency changed according to a capacitance formed between the electrode part and the electronic device.

Abstract: An electronic device, accessory device and method using the same are disclosed herein. The accessory device is stowable in the electronic device, and includes at least a first sensor, a second sensor, a communication interface and a processor. The method includes receiving, through the communication interface, information from the electronic device corresponding to an application executed in the electronic device, in response to the received information, obtaining the first data through the first sensor when the received information is a first information and obtaining the second data through the second sensor when the information is a second information, and transmitting, to the electronic device, data based on at least one of the first data and the second data.