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A touch panel is a piece of equipment that lets users interact with a computer by touching the screen directly.
Touch Sensing Using Shadow and Reflective Modes
InactiveUS20080122803A1Cathode-ray tube indicatorsInput/output processes for data processingInfraredSensor array
A touch panel is described which uses at least one infrared source and an array of infrared sensors to detect objects which are in contact with, or close to, the touchable surface of the panel. The panel may be operated in both reflective and shadow modes, in arbirary per-pixel combinations which change over time. For example, if the level of ambient infrared is detected and if that level exceeds a threshold, shadow mode is used for detection of touch events over some or all of the display. If the threshold is not exceeded, reflective mode is used to detect touch events. The touch panel includes an infrared source and an array of infrared sensors.
Owner:MICROSOFT TECH LICENSING LLC
Touch panel module and electronic apparatus
ActiveUS10101861B2Improve visibilityLower resistanceInput/output processes for data processingMetal electrodesProtection layer
A touch panel module in which a conductive film in which a mesh conductive layer composed of a mesh-like metal electrode is formed on a support, a λ / 4 plate, a polarizing plate, and a protective layer are arranged in this order. A λ / 4 plate is further arranged on a side of the conductive film opposite to the protective layer. The touch panel module has a visible light diffuse reflectivity of 2% or less, which is measured from the protective layer.
Owner:FUJIFILM CORP
Integrated in-plane switching display and touch sensor
ActiveUS8040326B2Low costStatic indicating devicesSubstation equipmentIn planeComputer graphics (images)
This relates to adding multi-touch functionality to a display without the need of a separate multi-touch panel or layer overlaying the display. Instead, embodiments of the invention can advantageously utilize existing display circuitry to provide multi-touch functionality while adding relatively little circuitry that is specific to the multi-touch functionality. Thus, by sharing circuitry for the display and the multi-touch functionalities, embodiments of the invention can be implemented at a lower cost than the alternative of superimposing additional multi-touch related layers onto an existing display panel. Furthermore, since the display and multi-touch functionality can be implemented on the same circuit, they can be synchronized so that noise resulting from the display functionality does not detrimentally affect the multi-touch functionality and vice versa.
Owner:APPLE INC
Method and apparatus for multi-touch tactile touch panel actuator mechanisms
A method and apparatus of actuator mechanisms for a multi-touch tactile touch panel are disclosed. The tactile touch panel includes an electrical insulated layer and a tactile layer. The top surface of the electrical insulated layer is capable of receiving an input from a user. The tactile layer includes a grid or an array of haptic cells. The top surface of the haptic layer is situated adjacent to the bottom surface of the electrical insulated layer, while the bottom surface of the haptic layer is situated adjacent to a display. Each haptic cell further includes at least one piezoelectric material, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (“MEMS”) element, thermal fluid pocket, MEMS pump, resonant device, variable porosity membrane, laminar flow modulation, or the like. Each haptic cell is configured to provide a haptic effect independent of other haptic cells in the tactile layer.
Owner:IMMERSION CORPORATION
Gaming device with directional and speed control of mechanical reels using touch screen
InactiveUS6942571B1Increase flexibilityImprove interactivityApparatus for meter-controlled dispensingVideo gamesHigh speed controlEngineering
An enhanced mechanical gaming system (10) utilizes a touch panel (40) as a user control device for mechanical assemblies and game play features which provides users with the enhanced flexibility and interactivity of a video gaming device in a mechanical gaming device environment. The enhanced mechanical gaming system (10) includes a gaming machine assembly (20), a touch sensor assembly (30) incorporating a substantially transparent touch panel (40), a touch panel controller (50), and touch panel software (60). The gaming machine assembly is a standard gaming machine assembly that has been modified to utilize touch-panel components. The touch panel (40) and the sensor assembly (30) produce touch data when activated, and provide viewing of mechanical assemblies behind the touch panel (40). The touch panel controller (50) acts to control and interpret the touch panel (40). The touch panel software (60) controls and interprets the touch data, as well as applying the touch data to interactive applications of the gaming machine assembly (20).
Owner:BALLY GAMING INC
Camera with touchscreen
InactiveUS6919927B1Television system detailsColor television detailsComputer graphics (images)Touchpad
A camera which can perform operations by touching a screen of an image display and can give different instructions according to different pressures applied on the touching. A digital camera has an LCD for displaying the captured image or a reproduced image. A touch panel for determining the position of a touched portion and the pressure applied to the touched portion is provided over the LCD. The camera gives a variety of instructions with respect to a camera operating system according to pressure applied to the touched portion on the touch panel. For example, the touch panel instructs an image-recording preparation in a case that the pressure is no more than a predetermined pressure, and instructs image-recording in a case that the pressure is more than the predetermined pressure. In short, adjusting a focus and an exposure to the principal subject by touching the principal subject displayed on the LCD, and touching the principal subject harder can record an image of the principal subject.
Owner:FUJIFILM CORP
Touch Screen Element
InactiveUS20070257894A1Low powerProvide detectionElectronic switchingInput/output processes for data processingElectricityElectrical resistance and conductance
A capacitive two-dimensional (2D) touch panel has three sets of interleaved electrodes. A first set of electrodes is spaced apart along the y-direction and these are galvanically connected to each other by a resistive strip connected at either end to a connection line. A second set of electrodes is also arrayed along the y-direction and these are galvanically connected to each other via a notionally non-resistive first connection. A third set of electrodes is also arrayed along the y-direction and these are galvanically connected to each other via a notionally non-resistive second connection. The second and third sets of electrodes are interleaved without galvanic cross-conduction to provide a gradient along the x-direction to resolve touch position in the x-direction. The first set of electrodes resolves touch position along the y-direction. Passive or active capacitive sensing techniques may be used to acquire the position information from the 2D touch panel.
Owner:ATMEL CORP
Touch panel, display device provided with touch panel and electronic equipment provided with display device
InactiveUS6972753B1Increase resistanceThe detection position is accurateCathode-ray tube indicatorsInput/output processes for data processingLight guideDisplay device
A touch panel using an optical sensor has a simple construction and can accurately detect an input position. An illuminating lights emitted from illuminating means are turned into lights having a high directivity in an X-axis direction and in a Y-axis direction of the prism lens sheet and thereafter enter from side faces of a light guide panel as incident lights. The incident lights advance in the inside of the light guide panel toward opposite side faces while being subjected to a total reflection and are received by the optical sensor arrays. When an input pen or a fingertip touches a surface of the light guide panel, the lights are refracted or absorbed at a touched position and hence, a quantity of received lights at the optical sensor arrays is reduced.
Owner:SEMICON ENERGY LAB CO LTD
Apparatus and method for manipulating a touch-sensitive display panel
InactiveUS6958749B1Easy to implementEasily and correctly calculateTransmission systemsCathode-ray tube indicatorsElectrical resistance and conductanceGraphics
The present invention enables to easily perform a graphic processing even when a touch panel is used. When a resistance film unit is pressed with a pen or a finger, output voltages associated with the X coordinate and the Y coordinate position are changed and these output voltages are transmitted as the X coordinate data and the Y coordinate data to a touch panel driver. According to the output from the resistance film unit, the touch panel driver generates an event for supply to a GUI handler. The touch panel driver includes a two-point specification detector which detects two point specifications and causes to calculate coordinates of the two points. The GUI handler generates a message corresponding to the GUI according to the event and supplies the message to an application. The GUI handler includes a processing mode modification block which differently interprets the event when a single point is specified and when two points are specified, thereby modifying the graphic processing mode.
Owner:SONY CORP
Flexible Multi-touch Screen
InactiveUS20080180399A1Easy to makeLow costInput/output processes for data processingDisplay deviceTouchpad
A method, apparatus, and system of flexible multi-touch touch are provided. The invention comprising: a flexible layer; and one or more sensors configured to detect a plurality of simultaneous touching positions at distinct locations of the layer and to generate distinct signals representative of the locations for each of the touches. And a method for flexible touch panel comprising: driving one or more sensors; and detecting a plurality of simultaneous touching positions at distinct locations of a touch panel, wherein the touch panel comprising a flexible property. The invention is also directed towards a flexible multi-touch screen device, comprising: a display as user interface; and a multi-touch panel with flexible property to combine with the display configured to detect a plurality of simultaneous touching positions at distinct locations of the multi-touch panel.
Owner:CHENG TUNG WAN
Conductor pattern structure of capacitive touch panel
ActiveUS20080264699A1Simple structureReduce the thickness of the structureTransmission systemsResistance/reactance/impedenceElectrical conductorEngineering
Disclosed is a conductor pattern structure of a capacitive touch panel. First-axis conductor assemblies and second-axis conductor assemblies are formed on a surface of a substrate. Each first-axis conductor assembly includes a plurality of first-axis conductor cells that are interconnected by first-axis conduction lines. An insulation layer is formed on a surface of each first-axis conduction line. Each second-axis conductor assembly includes a plurality of second-axis conductor cells that are interconnected by second-axis conduction lines. Each second-axis conduction line extends across the insulation layer of the associated first-axis conduction line.
Owner:TRENDON TOUCH TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
Camera housing
InactiveUS20070040931A1Preventing the touch panel from being brokenSuppress pressing forceTelevision system detailsColor television detailsEngineeringTouch panel
Providing a camera housing which is suitably used to house a camera with a liquid crystal monitor having a touch panel and is capable of preventing the touch panel from being broken. The camera housing includes, an external operation unit provided outside the camera housing, a contact member provided inside the camera housing for operating the touch panel by contacting the touch panel, and an elastic member provided between the external operation unit and the contact member for transmitting pressing force which is applied on the external operation unit to the contact member.
Owner:NIKON CORP
Capacitive Touch Panel
InactiveUS20100214247A1Layer structure is simpleEasy to integrateElectronic switchingInput/output processes for data processingCapacitanceEngineering
A capacitive touch panel includes a substrate having a pattern-forming surface, a color pixel layer formed on the substrate, and a patterned conductive layer formed on the pattern-forming surface of the substrate. The patterned conductive layer includes a plurality of first electrode units, a plurality of second electrode units, a plurality of spaced apart first conductive lines, and a plurality of spaced apart second conductive lines. The first electrode units are capacitively coupled to the second electrode units so as to form a plurality of two dimensionally arranged capacitive sensing units. Each of the first electrode units includes a plurality of first electrodes. Each of the first conductive lines is connected to and extends along the pattern-forming surface from at least one of the first electrodes of a respective one of the first electrode units into a bonding area of the pattern-forming surface. The second conductive lines extend respectively from the second electrode units into the bonding area, and do not cross the first conductive lines.
Owner:ACROSENSE TECH
Capacitive type touch panel
ActiveUS7864503B2Overcomes drawbackContact materialsMechanically variable capacitor detailsElectrical conductorEngineering
A capacitive type touch panel includes: a transparent substrate; an array of first conductors formed on a surface of the transparent substrate; an array of second conductors formed on the surface of the transparent substrate; a plurality of conductive first bridging lines, each of which interconnects two adjacent ones of the first conductors; a plurality of conductive second bridging lines, each of which interconnects two adjacent ones of the second conductors and each of which intersects insulatively a respective one of the first bridging lines; and a plurality of spaced apart insulators, each of which is disposed at an intersection of a respective one of the first bridging lines and a respective one of the second bridging lines to separate the respective first and second bridging lines.
Owner:TAZIK SOLUTIONS (SUZHOU) LTD
Single layer touch panel with segmented drive and sense electrodes
ActiveUS20100149108A1Less spaceUniform sensitivityInput/output processes for data processingTouch SensesEngineering
A touch sensor panels having segmented electrodes for both the drive and sense lines. The touch sensor panel may include a number of columns of sense electrodes and a number of rows of drive electrodes. Each of the drive and sense electrodes are connected to one of the metal bus lines using a connecting trace. Pixels on the touch sensor panel are formed by the unique pairings of individual drive electrodes and their adjacent sense electrodes. Electrically, the mutual capacitance of one touch-sensing pixel can be distinguished from the mutual capacitance of another touch sensing pixel because the two mutual capacitances are formed with combinations of different drive electrodes and sense electrodes. In one embodiment, the drive electrodes and sense electrodes in adjacent columns are staggered horizontally with respect to each other by half a Y-pitch of the electrodes.
Owner:APPLE INC
Image signal recording/reproduction apparatus, method employed therein, and image signal recording apparatus
InactiveUS20080025701A1Television system detailsColor television signals processingComputer hardwareLiquid-crystal display
A dynamic image recording button and a still image recording button are provided at the main unit of a movie camera. A magneto-optical recording medium is loaded in a slot. If the dynamic image recording button or the still image recording button is operated during a reproduction operation, the reproduction operation is interrupted in a state in which the mechanical drive (rotation) of the magneto-optical recording medium is sustained. At this point, a dynamic image signal or a still image signal obtained through a photographing operation performed at the camera unit is temporarily recorded in a buffer memory, and is written in the magneto-optical recording medium when a write in the magneto-optical recording medium becomes enabled. Instructions to record dynamic images and to record still images can be issued to the movie camera through a touch-panel provided on the screen of a liquid crystal display unit. Even when operation cannot be performed through the touch-panel, the instructions can be issued through the dynamic image recording button or the still image recording button.
Owner:NIKON CORP
Display Panel
ActiveUS20090213090A1Reduce viewEasy to detectNon-linear opticsInput/output processes for data processingTouch panelElectrical and Electronics engineering
A display panel is provided having a capacitive touch panel over a display region, wherein the capacitive touch panel comprises a plurality of X electrodes and a plurality of Y electrodes formed with an insulating layer there between and in a manner to cross each other, each of the X electrodes and the Y electrodes is formed such that a pad portion and a narrow line portion are alternately placed in a direction of extension, and when viewed from top, the pad portion of the X electrode and the pad portion of the Y electrode are placed to not overlap each other and a dummy electrode which is in a floating relationship with the X electrode and the Y electrode is formed between the pad portion of the X electrode and the pad portion of the Y electrode.
Owner:JAPAN DISPLAY INC +1
Video game device and video game program
ActiveUS20060094502A1Video gamesSpecial data processing applicationsComputer graphics (images)Face sheet
A moving character and a background image are displayed on a display screen with a touch panel thereon. When the player operates the touch panel to draw a line in an intended path extending between a start point and an end point along which the player wishes to guide the moving character, an operation trace image having the shape of the line drawn is displayed on the display screen. Then, the moving character moves along or in parallel to the operation trace image. The operation trace image is gradually erased after a predetermined amount of time elapses. Thus, it is possible to provide a video game device and a video game program in which the player can influence the moving path or the moving direction of the player (moving) character based on the shape and / or the direction of the line drawn by the player.
Owner:NINTENDO CO LTD +1
Touch panel display system with illumination and detection provided from a single edge
InactiveUS20050248540A1Accurately detect user 's touchEasy to operateCathode-ray tube indicatorsNon-linear opticsTriangulationTouch panel
A touch panel that has a front surface, a rear surface, a plurality of edges and an interior volume. An energy source is positioned in proximity to a first edge of the touch panel and is configured to emit energy that is propagated within the interior volume of the touch panel. A diffusing reflector is positioned in proximity to the front surface of the touch panel for diffusively reflecting at least a portion of the energy that escapes from the interior volume. At least one detector is positioned in proximity to the first edge of the touch panel and is configured to detect intensity levels of the energy that is diffusively reflected across the front surface of the touch panel. Preferably, two detectors are spaced apart from each other in proximity to the first edge of the touch panel, to allow calculation of touch locations using simple triangulation techniques.
Owner:SMART TECH INC (CA)
Information processing device and touch operation detection method
InactiveUS20090160803A1Accurate measurementAccurate identificationInput/output processes for data processingTouch panelRelease point
An information processing device includes: a display unit having a touch panel on its front surface; a movement amount calculation unit that calculates the movement amount of a touch operation based on a touch point at which the touch operation is performed with respect to the touch panel and a touch release point at which the touch operation is released from the touch panel; an operation determination unit that determines whether the touch operation is a depression operation or a gesture operation depending on the calculated movement amount; and a command recognition unit that recognizes whether a received command is a command corresponding to the depression operation or the gesture operation.
Owner:SONY CORP
Game apparatus utilizing touch panel and storage medium storing game program
ActiveUS20060025218A1Travel speed be controlEnhance interestVideo gamesSpecial data processing applicationsTurn angleArtificial intelligence
A game apparatus includes a touch panel on which at least two pointing positions are simultaneously detectable. In response to an operation of the touch panel by a player, coordinates values of the detected two points are detected, and at least one of a distance between the two points and an angle of the line connecting the two points is calculated. Furthermore, change amounts of the distance and angle between the two points are calculated. A movement parameter such as a travel speed and a turning angle is set on the basis of at least one of the calculated distance and angle, and the movement of the character such as travel and turning is controlled on the basis of the movement parameter. In addition, when a pointing state of the two points is changed, the movement parameter is changed on the basis of a change amount, and the movement of the character is controlled on the basis of the movement parameter.
Owner:NINTENDO CO LTD
Stylus Adapted For Low Resolution Touch Sensor Panels
InactiveUS20100006350A1Sufficient electrical interactionRaise the possibilityTransmission systemsGraph readingCapacitanceImage resolution
Methods and apparatus adapted to ensure that contact from a stylus will be detected on a low resolution touch sensor panel irrespective of the location of the region of contact upon the touch surface. In some embodiments, a metallic or otherwise conductive disk may be attached to one end of the stylus. The disk may be sized so as to guarantee sufficient electrical interaction with at least one sensory element of the touch sensor panel. In some embodiments, the stylus may be powered so as to provide a stimulus signal to the capacitive elements. Optionally, one or more force and / or angle sensors disposed within the stylus can supply additional data to the touch panel.
Owner:APPLE INC
Conduction structure in transparent conduction film, transparent conduction film and manufacture method thereof
ActiveCN102903423AConductive layers on insulating-supportsTransparent dielectricsTransmittanceConductive materials
Owner:ANHUI JINGZHUO OPTICAL DISPLAY TECH CO LTD
Method and apparatus for providing haptic effects to a touch panel
ActiveUS20060256075A1Promote sportsCathode-ray tube indicatorsInput/output processes for data processingDisplay deviceEngineering
A method and apparatus for generating haptic effects for a touch panel or other interface device employs a touch-sensitive panel, a display and an actuator. The actuator includes a first structural element and a second structural element, a biasing element and two magnetic devices. The first magnetic device is configured to be carried by the first structural element and the second magnetic device is configured to be carried by the second structural element. The first structural element is coupled to a touch-sensitive panel and the second structural element may be coupled to the display or to a relatively fixed item. The biasing element couples the first and second structural elements together and deforms to facilitate a movement between the first and second structural elements. The actuator provides haptic effects by facilitating relative movement between the first and second structural elements.
Owner:IMMERSION CORPORATION
Touch screen system and control method therefor capable of setting active regions
ActiveUS20050017957A1Reduce input errorReduce inputInput/output for user-computer interactionCathode-ray tube indicatorsTouch panelStorage cell
Disclosed is a touch screen system and a control method therefor. The touch screen system includes a display displaying at least one working window; a touch panel outputting a predetermined signal in correspondence with a touch input on the display; a coordinate value calculation unit calculating coordinate values of the touch input based on the signal outputted from the touch panel; a coordinate value storage unit storing coordinate value information indicating active regions for active working windows; a decision unit deciding whether the calculated coordinate values exist in the active regions which the coordinate value information stored in the coordinate value storage unit indicates; and a control unit interrupting a response to the touch input if the calculated coordinate values exist outside the active regions as a result of the decision of the decision unit. Accordingly, the present invention can reduce input errors, to thereby prevent delaying desired processings.
Owner:SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD
Input device and electronic device using the input device
InactiveUS20070080951A1Great deflection （bending） displacementInput/output for user-computer interactionDigital data processing detailsElectricityInformation type
The present invention related to an input device including: an image display unit (30) that displays information; a touch panel (15) with which a user performs input operation of information by touching a portion corresponding to the position at which the information of the image display unit is displayed; a vibration generation device (71) disposed in the image display unit and feeds back, to the user, various kinds of sense of touch in accordance with the type of the information through the touch panel; and a vibration control circuit (73) for allowing the vibration generation device to generate various forms of vibrations in accordance with the type of the information. The vibration generation device is a bimorph piezoelectric actuator. Each of first and second actuator units has multi-layered piezoelectric elements (63). By this way, it is possible to provide an input / output device capable of surely realizing a feedback to user's input operation performed in accordance with the type of information through the sense of touch when the user performs an input operation of information to a touch panel using the sense of touch.
Owner:SONY CORP
Compact integrated touch panel display for a handheld device
InactiveUS6965375B1Minimizing length of busReduction in size of handheldTransmission systemsCathode-ray tube indicatorsFlexible circuitsElectrical connection
A handheld device with a compact integrated touch panel is disclosed. A handheld device incorporating a touch panel display requiring electrical connections is reduced in size by incorporating electrical pathways within the support structure of the touch panel display, obviating the need for a flex circuit extension from the touch panel display for connection to the handheld device. A further reduction in size is obtained by providing an inherent visually homogeneous perimeter for the touch panel display by matching the colors of the conductive and dielectric materials, thereby eliminating the need for a bezel.
Owner:QUALCOMM INC
Touch sensitive devices with composite electrodes
ActiveUS20100026664A1Great mutual capacitance changeLess susceptibilityCathode-ray tube indicatorsAdhesivesCapacitanceCapacitive coupling
A matrix touch panel having upper and lower electrodes, the upper electrodes being composite electrodes made of a plurality of spaced micro-wires, and allowing, for example, an electric field from lower electrodes to pass between the micro-wires and thereby capacitively couple with a touching object, such as a finger.
Owner:3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES CO
Communication Between Touch-Panel Devices
InactiveUS20110304583A1Digital data processing detailsInternal/peripheral component protectionNetwork addressTouch panel
Technologies described herein generally relate to communications between electronic systems. Each electronic system includes a touch-panel device that may be positioned in proximity to one another such that the near field emissions of the touch-panel devices interact with one another. The touch-panel devices can be adapted to sense one another based on these near field emissions. Once detected, the touch-panel devices can be configured to establish a communication channel to communicate information between one another via modulated near field emissions. Such exchanged information may include identification information, network addresses, security keys, and so forth. The exchanged information may be used for discovery or pairing between the touch-panel devices. The technology presented herein can support an intuitive user experience and improved security over traditional wireless pairing approaches.
Owner:VIBRANT LICENSING LLC
Mobile terminal
InactiveUS20100222110A1Cathode-ray tube indicatorsDetails for portable computersComputer scienceTouch panel
A mobile terminal includes: a main device having a display unit and performing a mobile communication function, and a sub-device having an input unit, communicating with the main device, and detachably coupled to the main device, wherein the input unit includes a transparent touch panel, and at least a portion of the transparent touch panel overlaps with the display unit in a state that the main device and the sub-device are coupled. The main device and the sub-device communicate with each other when they are coupled or separated to remotely control each other.
Owner:LG ELECTRONICS INC
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