345 results about "Direct touch" patented technology

A connection structure between electrodes includes a center electrode disposed as a transparent electrode on a transparent substrate; paired side electrodes disposed as transparent electrodes on the transparent substrate so as to place the center electrode therebetween; a bridge wire serving as a wire to connect between the paired side electrodes; and an electrically insulating film disposed between the center electrode and the bridge wire; wherein the bridge wire comprises a metal material; the electrically insulating film is disposed so as to be out of contact with the side electrodes at least within a certain range; and the bridge wire is disposed so as to be brought into direct contact with the transparent substrate in a gap region, the gap region being formed by disposing the electrically insulating film so as to bring out of contact with the side electrodes.

A method of forming a virtually defect free lattice mismatched nanoheteroepitaxial layer is disclosed. The method includes forming an interface layer on a portion of a substrate. A plurality of seed pads are then formed by self-directed touchdown by exposing the interface layer to a material comprising a semiconductor material. The plurality of seed pads, having an average width of about 1 nm to 10 nm, are interspersed within the interface layer and contact the substrate. An epitaxial layer is then formed by lateral growth of the seed pads over the interface layer.

Disclosed is a pen-shaped optical mouse. The optical mouse has an optical fiber on the optical path of illuminating light, and an optical fiber bundle on the optical path of reflected light, respectively. The optical system of the optical mouse is realized irrespective of the optical paths and their lengths, showing a good image-transmitting feature to transmit good image to an image sensor. An image is input to the image sensor through an end of an optical tip where the image directly contacts a reflecting surface, which enhances the accuracy of the pen-shaped optical mouse since there is no change in the location of a mouse pointer or a focal length in spite of the change in the angle between the pen-shaped optical mouse and the reflecting surface.

The present invention is designed to provide the ability to protect the LCD screen of a touchscreen cell phone from being scratched by incorporating into a protector case for the touchscreen LCD a thin transparent lens so that an individual's fingers or a stylus do not directly come in contact with the touchscreen of the LCD phone but instead, are shielded by the lens so that in the event that there are scratches on the lens, the case can be easily discarded and replaced with another inexpensive case which contains the protector case to protect the cell phone and the lens to protect the touchscreen LCD.

A graphical user interface has a display surface that is segmented into multiple regions. A set of unique, non-overlapping locations is associated with each region. A set of actions that can be performed by the graphical user interface is defined. A document to be displayed on the display surface is selected. The document is moved to a particular location, and a particular action of the set of actions is performed on the selected object according to the particular location of the object on the display surface to operate the graphical user interface in one of a plurality of modes for the particular action.

A digital picture frame including a camera integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from a user's social media account or her or his community members' social media accounts. The integrated camera is used to automatically determine an identity of a frame viewer, and a viewer profile automatically determined from the identity of the viewer. The displayed photos are automatically shown and / or changed according to the detected viewers.

A direct touch-sensitive input device includes a display surface configured to display images on a front of the display surface, and a direct touch-sensitive surface mounted on a back of the display surface. The display surface and the direct touch-sensitive surface are geometrically coincident. The device can also include a touch-sensitive surface mounted on the front of the device.

An improved water heater for use in spas, hot tubs, pools, hydrotherapy pools, bath tubs, and similar bodies of water used indoors, outdoors, or both indoors and outdoors are used for both therapeutic and recreational purposes. The water heater uses heating element technology know as thick film on substrate comprising resistive elements bonded to the outer dry surface of a substrate to heat the substrate which in turn heats the water flowing through the heating chamber. The heater is highly efficient due to the direct contact of the wet heating surface with the water and provides a smooth seamless inner heating surface by eliminating the need to pass electrical leads into the wet region of the heater. This virtually eliminates the risk of leaks in the water heater due to bulkhead fittings. The invention further eliminates the need for a heating element to be contained in the inner wet region of a spa heater, thereby reducing the risk of corrosion. The water heater can be used with electrical, electro-mechanical, and mechanical control systems for spas and can be retrofitted into existing spa applications.

The invention provides an identification verifying system for a living human body for electronic payment, so as to overcome defects existing in the prior art. Through various voice-shape-image biometric feature recognition of face recognition, voice recognition, voiceprint recognition and lip language recognition, whether a user is an operator or not and whether the user is an intelligent living body or not are verified, through a client of the electronic payment and the interactive communication of a server, the feature information of a face, a voice, a voiceprint and a lip language is extracted out from a video and an audio obtained by the client of the electronic payment through the client of the electronic payment, and less data flow is used and transmitted into a server terminal through the Internet so as to perform the feature information of the face, the voice, the voiceprint and the lip language. Direct contact between the identification verifying system and the operator is not needed, whether the user is the operator or not and whether the user is the intelligent living body or not are verified, the identification verifying system is convenient to use, easy to accept by the operator and good in customer experience, and besides, an additional hardware is not needed.

An operating method of a three dimensional (3D) display terminal apparatus includes displaying a plurality of objects with different degrees of perceived depths, and changing display state of the plurality of objects according to a user's manipulation. The user's manipulation includes a plurality of touch modes which are perceived as different depths corresponding to the degrees of perceived depths, and the plurality of touch modes include a direct touch mode and a near touch mode. As a result, the terminal apparatus is operated with increased ease.

An air gesture recognition type electronic device operating method for operating an electronic device having multiple sensors in each of multiple peripheral sides thereof by: approaching an object to the sensors to produce sensing signals and determining whether or not the object has been continuously sensed, and then determining whether or not the moving direction and moving speed of the object match a respective predetermined value, and then coupling and computing all received sensing signals to produce an operating parameter for running an air gesture application procedure. Thus, a user can operate the electronic device without direct contact or the use of any camera or input media, saving the hardware cost and enhancing the operational flexibility.

The present invention provides a touch panel that not only demonstrates little deterioration of performance even in harsh environments at high temperature and high humidity, but is also free of the occurrence of a whitening phenomenon occurring during sudden changes in temperature and humidity, while also having superior shock resistance. Provided are a conductive laminate in which a uniform or arbitrarily patterned conductive layer containing a polythiophene-based conductive agent and an adhesive layer containing an acidic component are in direct contact over the entire surface or a portion thereof, and a touch panel in which it is used.

An audio communication apparatus for an MRI apparatus performs unidirectional or bidirectional audio communication between a subject in a gantry provided in an examination room and an operator in a control room. An acoustic transducer for transmission and / or reception provided on the subject side is formed by a bone conduction microphone and / or speaker. The bone conduction microphone / speaker transmits a sound to or from the subject by contacting the subject directly or via a protection member, without relying on air as a transmission medium. The apparatus carries out audio transmission without being affected by noise, even in a high-noise environment. The apparatus allows the use of earplugs or sound insulation earmuffs.

An integrated array of light sensitive pixels has a surface configured to receive the small particles within a distance effective for the particles to affect the pixel readout amplitude and where the pixels have an area on the order of the area of the small particles to be directly imaged. A collimated light source is provided for illuminating the integrated array. A video display receives an output from the pixels to provide an image of the small particles directly contacting the surface of the array.

The peripheral input and output device embeds a touch-screen display onto a mouse. Users interact with the display of the mouse using direct touch, whilst also performing regular cursor-based mouse interactions. The resulting device has many unique capabilities, in particular for interacting with auxiliary windows, such as toolbars, palettes, pop-ups and dialog-boxes. By migrating these windows onto a peripheral computer mouse challenges such as screen real-estate use and window management can be alleviated.

A band, bracelet, strip or patch to be worn around the wrist or ankle or removably attached to the back of the wearer's hand. Each article is treated with an anti-microbial agent (e.g., tea tree oil) that is capable of killing germs and potentially harmful bacteria. The band, bracelet, strip or patch is impregnated with the anti-microbial agent during manufacture or saturated with the agent by the wearer following manufacture. The agent is delivered to the skin (e.g., the hands) of the wearer by way of either dispersion (exudation) and migration (mixed with the wearer's normal body oil) or by direct touch contact with and transmission to the wearer's fingers so as to reduce the spread of illness and disease.

A direct touch type metal diaphragm valve, wherein durability of the valve, that is to say, the ensured number of continuous open / close operations of the valve, is substantially increased under conditions that an appropriate flow rate coefficient Cv is maintained, and changes of the afore-mentioned Cv value over time are mitigated by means of restricting the deformation of the valve seat over time. The afore-mentioned metal diaphragm is formed in a round, reverse-dish shape by laminating a plural number of thin stainless steel plates and a thin Nickel.Cobalt alloy plate, and its center part is bulged upward, and the maximum valve stroke of the valve is regulated to be 55% to 70% of the distance of the maximum bulge height Δh of the afore-mentioned metal diaphragm.

A hybrid touch screen device applied to an electric device. The hybrid touch screen device preferably includes a touch panel, a pen touch panel, a display panel, and at least one processor. The touch panel detects an input event by a direct touch. The pen touch panel detects a touch pen input and an input event from an entry into a predetermined detection distance before a touch. The display panel displays a screen according to the touch panel, the pen touch panel, and a user operation. The processor also performs control to execute a relevant function according to an input event inputted to the touch panel and the pen touch panel. The processor also performs control so that an input event of the touch pen and an input event of the touch panel are detected independently of each other.

An operating method of a three dimensional (3D) display terminal apparatus includes displaying a plurality of objects with different degrees of perceived depths, and changing display state of the plurality of objects according to a user's manipulation. The user's manipulation includes a plurality of touch modes which are perceived as different depths corresponding to the degrees of perceived depths, and the plurality of touch modes include a direct touch mode and a near touch mode. As a result, the terminal apparatus is operated with increased ease.

An apparatus and method for controlling an object are provided. Motions of fingers present in a 3-dimensional (3D) sensing area are detected, and a pointer or an object being displayed is controlled corresponding to the detected motions. Therefore, input of a control signal may be achieved without a direct touch on a display device such as a terminal, thereby preventing leaving marks on a screen of the display. In addition, since the motions of fingers are detected within the 3D sensing area, not on a 2-dimensional (2D) plane, more types of input motions may be used.

A direct touch type metal diaphragm valve, wherein durability of the valve, that is to say, the ensured number of continuous open / close operations of the valve, is substantially increased under conditions that an appropriate flow rate coefficient Cv is maintained, and changes of the afore-mentioned Cv value over time are mitigated by means of restricting the deformation of the valve seat over time. The afore-mentioned metal diaphragm is formed in a round, reverse-dish shape by laminating a plural number of thin stainless steel plates and a thin Nickel.Cobalt alloy plate, and its center part is bulged upward, and the maximum valve stroke of the valve is regulated to be 55% to 70% of the distance of the maximum bulge height Δh of the afore-mentioned metal diaphragm.

A scanning module includes a contact image sensor unit and a supporting base. The contact image sensor unit has a top surface, a bottom surface, a front surface and a back surface. The supporting base has a guiding portion, a positioning board mounted on the guiding portion, the two sides of the positioning board extends sideward and bends upward to form an elastic arm respectively, the contact image sensor unit is placed on the positioning board and the elastic arm elastically contacts the bottom surface of the contact image sensor unit. The two sides of the supporting base of the scanning module have an elastic arm respectively, the elastic arm contacts the contact image sensor unit directly and makes sure that the contact image sensor unit contacts the glass tightly.

The main object is to provide an inmold labeled type plastic container which can be fabricated, even if there are some dimensional errors in the inmold label, with no damage to aesthetic design or no drop in yield is to be provided, and further an inmold labeled type plastic container which allows the consumer to drink or eat the content safely even if he or she brings his or her mouth into direct touch with the opening is to be provided. A bottom rim is disposed in the lower part of the inmold labeled type plastic container, with its dimension being not less than 0.3 mm but not more than 20 mm, and the inmold labeled type plastic container to be provided is labeled on its bottom rim in a similar way to the side part of the container.

The invention is a telepresence interactive operation wheelchair, which is composed of an ordinary electric wheelchair, a telepresence module, a user interface for directly touching live real-time video images, and a semi-autonomous navigation module, and belongs to the field of nursing equipment. The telepresence module acquires live real-time video images, transmits the live real-time video images to the operator's palm computer in the remote operation space through the network, and forms a user interface TIUI for touching live real-time video images. Through TIUI, the operator uses touch gestures such as touch click and touch drag to directly touch the wheelchair in the live real-time video image to complete the interactive operation of the wheelchair. The present invention can give the wheelchair operator an immersive user experience, as if the operator is operating the wheelchair on the spot; with the help of mobile computing devices such as handheld computers and smart hands, the wheelchair can be interactively operated anytime and anywhere, and through the telepresence module Accompany wheelchair users.

An antenna configured for low frequency applications on a mobile device includes an antenna element coupled to a conductive structure which, in turn, is coupled to the user of the mobile device such that the user of the mobile device effectively becomes part of the antenna. The conductive structure can include, for example, the device housing being made from a conductive material, a conductive structure embedded inside the device housing, or conductive pads exposed in the device housing. The antenna element is electrically connected to the conductive structure and the user can be coupled to the conductive structure either through direct contact or through capacitive coupling.

A package embodying the invention includes a base plate for receiving an electronic device having input / output points to be connected to an external system. Side walls mounted on the base plate enclose the electronic device. Selected side walls have a plurality of hermetically sealed openings through which are passed conductive leads which extend from within the package to outside the package for connecting the electronic device to the external system. A ceramic insert is mounted on the inside of at least one of the side walls. The ceramic insert has a first set of holes (terminals) for the direct contacting and connection thereto of selected conductive leads. The ceramic insert also has a second set of terminals whose layout is customized for optimally connecting selected ones of the second set of terminals to selected input / output points of the electronic device. The ceramic insert also includes a custom designed conductive pattern interconnecting selected ones of the first and second set of terminals.

An antenna configured for low frequency applications on a mobile device includes an antenna element coupled to a conductive structure which, in turn, is coupled to the user of the mobile device such that the user of the mobile device effectively becomes part of the antenna. The conductive structure can include, for example, the device housing being made from a conductive material, a conductive structure embedded inside the device housing, or conductive pads exposed in the device housing. The antenna element is electrically connected to the conductive structure and the user can be coupled to the conductive structure either through direct contact or through capacitive coupling.

The present invention provides a contact image capturing structure comprising a substrate having a circuit layer, a detect chip located on the substrate and electrically connected to the circuit layer, a frame located on the substrate and surrounding the detect chip, a cavity is formed between the frame and the detect chip, and a transparent layer located in the frame to cover the detect chip and the circuit layer. The transparent layer above the detect chip is flat and the transparent layer above the cavity is slanted. Hence, the present invention can greatly reduce volume of the chip packaging structure, since the conventional optical devices are no more required. In addition, with the directly contact detection, the detected images can be directly displayed.

A terminal structure for vehicle drive power electronics circuits reduces the need for a DC bus and thereby the incidence of parasitic inductance. The structure is secured to a support that may receive one or more power electronic circuits. The support may aid in removing heat from the circuits through fluid circulating through the support. The support may form a shield from both external EMI / RFI and from interference generated by operation of the power electronic circuits. Features may be provided to permit and enhance connection of the circuitry to external circuitry, such as by direct contact between the terminal assembly and AC and DC circuit components. Modular units may be assembled that may be coupled to electronic circuitry via plug-in arrangements or through interface with a backplane or similar mounting and interconnecting structures.