| STANTUM Patent applications |
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| 20110298445 | MULTIPOINT SENSOR - The invention relates to a multipoint sensor ( | 12-08-2011 |
| 20110273392 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING MANIPULATION OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS ON A MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SCREEN - A device configured to acquire tactile information, including a transparent tactile matrix sensor; a display device; a measurement unit configured to simultaneously measure a first position of a first finger and a second position of a second finger that are placed on the transparent tactile matrix sensor; a graphical processing unit configured to generate a first and a second cursor that are associated with the first and second position, respectively; and a processor configured to execute an application that associates the first and second cursors with a graphical object that is displayed on the display device, to interact with the graphical object. | 11-10-2011 |
| 20110181547 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING MANIPULATION OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS ON A MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SCREEN - A device configured to acquire tactile information, including a transparent tactile matrix sensor; a display device; a measurement unit configured to simultaneously measure a first position of a first finger and a second position of a second finger that are placed on the transparent tactile matrix sensor; a graphical processing unit configured to generate a first and a second cursor that are associated with the first and second position, respectively; and a processor configured to execute an application that associates the first and second cursors with a graphical object that is displayed on the display device, to interact with the graphical object. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110181546 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING MANIPULATION OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS ON A MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SCREEN - A device configured to acquire tactile information, that can be placed over a display device, including a transparent tactile matrix sensor having rows and columns of conductive stripes, the rows arranged next to each other to form a first layer, and the columns are arranged next to each other to form a second layer, and a transparent resistive layer arranged between the first layer of rows and the second layer of columns, a resistivity of the transparent resistive layer decreasing as a function of a pressure that is exerted onto the transparent resistive layer; and a measurement unit configured to measure an electric resistance for each overlap area of a column and a row that are separated from each other by the transparent resistive layer to acquire information on a pressure force at the respective overlap area to acquire the tactile information. | 07-28-2011 |
| 20110169760 | DEVICE FOR CONTROL OF ELECTRONIC APPARATUS BY MANIPULATION OF GRAPHICAL OBJECTS ON A MULTICONTACT TOUCH SCREEN - A device for controlling an electronic apparatus by handling graphic objects. The device includes a visualisation screen, a transparent multi-contact touch sensor for acquiring multi-contact touch information generated by a plurality of pointing devices, and an electronic control circuit for generating control signals based on the touch information and for generating graphic objects on the visualisation screen. Each of the graphic objects is associated with at least one specific processing rule. Each piece of touch information is subjected to a specific processing determined by the location thereof relative to the position of the graphic objects. A first series of main graphic objects and a second series of subordinate graphic objects respectively have main and subordinate complementary functions associated respectively with at least one main specific processing rule and at least one subordinate specific processing rule. All the graphic objects are arranged such that the first series is handled by a first set of pointing devices and the second series is handled by a second set of pointing devices different from the first set, the handling of at least one of the subordinate graphic objects resulting in modifications of the properties of at least one of the main graphic objects. | 07-14-2011 |
| 20110141026 | MULTICONTACT TOUCH-SENSITIVE SENSOR INCLUDING VARIABLE-SIZE AND VARIABLE-IMPEDANCE SPACING MEANS - A multi-contact tactile sensor including an elastically deformable interaction layer and a supporting layer, a lower surface of the interaction layer including an array of strip conductors and an upper surface of the supporting layer including an array of strip conductors that are not parallel to the array of strip conductors on the interaction layer. The interaction layer and the supporting layer are separated by a first series of rigid insulating spacers. A second series of conducting spacers is in contact with at least one of the two arrays of strip conductors. The impedance and dimensions of the spacers of the second series are determined to prevent contact at rest and enable local contact during deformation of the interaction layer between the spacers of the second series and the array of strip conductors of the layer opposite the spacers. A controller can control one such sensor, a multi-contact tactile screen can include one such sensor, and a keyboard including a set of discrete keys can be formed by one such sensor. | 06-16-2011 |
| 20110134067 | METHOD FOR THE ACQUISITION AND ANALYSIS OF A MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SENSOR USING A DICHOTOMOUS PRINCIPLE, AND ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT AND MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SENSOR IMPLEMENTING ONE SUCH METHOD - A method for acquisition and analysis of a multi-contact tactile sensor including a matrix of capture points and an electronic analysis circuit for controlling the acquisition and analysis of the matrix. The method includes acquisition of a sensor detection zone to determine a state of each of contact points of the detection zone and analysis of detection zone to deliver information as a function of an activation state of the contact points. The acquisition and the analysis are repeated iteratively. The acquisition is performed on a detection zone containing the activated contact points determined during a preceding analysis. The detection zone is smaller than the detection zone acquired during the preceding acquisition. The iteration is performed until a pre-determined spatial resolution is obtained. An electronic acquisition and analysis circuit and a multi-contact tactile sensor can implement such a method. | 06-09-2011 |
| 20110119580 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING MANIPULATION OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS ON A MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SCREEN - A method of controlling a computerized device with a tactile multi-point matrix sensor placed on a display device, the method including the steps of simultaneously acquiring data of a first contact position and a second contact position of a first and a second finger that is placed on the multi-point tactile matrix sensor, respectively; creating a first cursor and a second cursor that are associated with the first and second finger, respectively; displaying a graphical object on the display device; associating the first cursor and the second cursor with the graphical object to interact with the graphical object; and generating control messages for the computerized device based on positional data of the first cursor, the second cursor, and the graphical object. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110115736 | DEVICES AND METHODS OF CONTROLLING MANIPULATION OF VIRTUAL OBJECTS ON A MULTI-CONTACT TACTILE SCREEN - A device configured to acquire tactile information including a transparent tactile matrix sensor having rows and columns of conductive stripes; and a scanning control unit, wherein the scanning control unit is configured to sequentially read out tactile information from the rows and the columns of the conductive stripes of the transparent tactile matrix sensor. | 05-19-2011 |
| 20110025619 | ELECTRONIC ANALYSIS CIRCUIT WITH MODULATION OF SCANNING CHARACTERISTICS FOR PASSIVE-MATRIX MULTICONTACT TACTILE SENSOR - An electronic analysis circuit for a multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor including an electrical supply mechanism powering one of two axes of the matrix, and a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at nodes between the two axes. At least one scanning characteristic is modulated locally or temporally. A multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor can include such an electronic analysis circuit. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110001487 | MULTICONTACT TACTILE SENSOR WITH SINGLE-CONTACT IDLE MODE - A multicontact tactile sensor including a matrix formed of two transparent conducting layers, at least one exhibiting an array of fine conducting tracks, a control circuit including a power supply for one of the layers, and a mechanism detecting the other layer, the sensor having an operating mode of multicontact type corresponding to a sweep of supply to the lines of the corresponding layer, and an operating mode of monocontact type corresponding to a continuous and uniform supply over a whole of the sensor, each operating mode being activated as a function of the detection or nondetection of at least one contact. | 01-06-2011 |
| 20100302197 | ANALYZER ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT WITH ENERGIZATION AXIS/DETECTION AXIS ALTERNATION FOR PASSIVE-MATRIX MULTICONTRACT TACTILE SENSOR - An electronic analysis circuit of a multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor including an electrical supply mechanism powering one of two axes of the matrix, and a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at intersections between the two axes. The supply axis and the detection axis are alternated. A multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor includes an electrical supply mechanism powering one of the two axes of the matrix, a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at the intersections between the two axes, and such an electronic circuit. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100289508 | ELECTRONIC ANALYSIS CIRCUIT WITH ALTERNATION OF CAPACITIVE/RESISTIVE MEASUREMENT FOR PASSIVE-MATRIX MULTICONTACT TACTILE SENSOR - An electronic analysis circuit for a passive-matrix multicontact tactile sensor including an electrical supply mechanism feeding one of two axes of the matrix, and a mechanism for detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at intersections between the two axes. The electrical characteristic measured is alternately capacitance and resistance. A multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor includes an electrical supply mechanism feeding one of the two axes of the matrix, a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at the intersections between the two axes, and such an electronic analysis circuit. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100289507 | MULTICONTACT TRANSPARENT TACTILE SENSOR BASED ON A METALIZED SURFACE DEPOSITION - A multicontact transparent tactile sensor including two at least partially conducting transparent layers, the layers being spaced apart by an insulating transparent material. At least one of the layers includes a transparent sheet on which is deposited an array of conducting tracks whose width is less than 80 microns. | 11-18-2010 |
| 20100066686 | MULTIPOINT TOUCH SENSOR WITH ACTIVE MATRIX - The present invention relates to a multipoint touch sensor with active matrix comprising: —a matrix layer exhibiting N×M independent cells, each of the cells P | 03-18-2010 |
