10th week of 2010 patent applcation highlights part 21 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20100060512 | Level sensing device - A level sensing device with a high frequency radar system is provided. The radar system includes a radar high frequency module, a carrier board and a controller. The radar high frequency module is mounted on the carrier board using surface mount techniques. The controller includes a processor and the radar high frequency module has a plurality of components including one or more microwave integrated circuits, a radiating patch antenna, and coupling means for channeling a radiated signal from the patch antenna out of the module. The components are encapsulated to form the module and the coupling means includes a dielectric rod. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060513 | ANTENNA - An antenna is provided, in combination with an associated switch array, the antenna comprising a number of antenna elements mounted above a ground plane for providing coverage over a predetermined range of angles in azimuth using a number of beams. Each of the antenna elements is connected to a switch in the switch array and the switch array is operable to connect selected pairs of the antenna elements to a signal path to thereby generate each of the different beams, at the same time connecting unselected antenna elements to ground. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060514 | NETWORK ASSISTED POSITIONING - A method for acquiring positioning information includes receiving downlink data in a plurality of downlink slot frames, and receiving at a mobile terminal within one of the downlink slot frames, broadcasted global positioning system (GPS) orbital description data. The GPS orbital description data information relates to a first group of orbiting satellites within operable range of the base station (BS) providing the broadcasting of the GPS orbital description data. The method further includes performing GPS-based positioning for the mobile terminal based upon signaling received from a second group of a plurality of orbiting satellites in conjunction with the GPS orbital description data, such that at least one of the second group of the plurality of orbiting satellites is the same as some or all of the orbiting satellites of the first group. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060515 | Mobile satellite communications - Provided is a mobile satellite transceiver system for communicating with a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and a communications satellite. In on implementation, the mobile satellite transceiver system includes a GPS receiver configured to receive communications from the GPS satellite, a satellite modem configured to transmit and receive communications from the communications satellite, and an operating system. In some implementations, the operating system of the mobile satellite transceiver system is configured to send and receive text messages to/from the communications satellite via the satellite modem. In some implementations the mobile satellite transceiver system also includes a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) interrogator for communicating with RFID tags. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060516 | METHOD OF DETERMINING APPROPRIATENESS OF SATELLITE ORBIT MODELING, METHOD OF PROVIDING LONG-TERM PREDICTED ORBIT DATA, AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING APPROPRIATENESS OF SATELLITE ORBIT MODELING - A method of determining the appropriateness of satellite orbit modeling is provided. The method includes calculating values of parameters, that the predetermined model has, on the basis of predicted position data including a first predicted position at a first point of time and a second predicted position at a second point of time of a positioning satellite in time series, calculating a first and a second calculated positions of the positioning satellite derived from the predetermined model by using the values of the parameters; and determining the appropriateness of the predetermined model using the values of the parameters, on the basis of first difference between the first predicted position and the first calculated position, and seconded difference between the second predicted position and the second calculated position. The predetermined model is used when approximating a satellite orbit of the poisoning satellite. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060517 | Partitioned aperture array antenna - A partitioned aperture array antenna. The novel antenna includes a first subarray having a first number of antenna elements equipped with transmit functionality and a second subarray having a second number of antenna elements equipped with receive functionality, wherein the first and second numbers are not equal and the first and second subarrays have at least one common antenna element. In an illustrative embodiment, the first subarray includes a transmit circuit coupled to each antenna element in the first subarray for controlling a relative transmit phase of the antenna element to steer an overall antenna transmit beam, and the second subarray includes a receive circuit coupled to each antenna element in the second subarray for controlling a relative receive phase of the antenna element to steer an overall antenna receive beam. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060518 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR AUTONOMOUS, IN-RECEIVER PREDICTION OF GNSS EPHEMERIDES - Methods and apparatus for autonomous in-receiver prediction of orbit and clock states of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are described. Only the GNSS broadcast message is used, without need for periodic externally-communicated information. Earth orientation information is extracted from the GNSS broadcast ephemeris. With the accurate estimation of the Earth orientation parameters it is possible to propagate the best-fit GNSS orbits forward in time in an inertial reference frame. Using the estimated Earth orientation parameters, the predicted orbits are then transformed into Earth-Centered-Earth-Fixed (ECEF) coordinates to be used to assist the GNSS receiver in the acquision of the signals. GNSS satellite clock states are also extracted from the broadcast ephemeris and a parametrized model of clock behavior is fit to that data. The estimated modeled clocks are then propagated forward in time to enable, together with the predicted orbits, quicker GNSS signal acquision. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060519 | PARAMETER CALCULATING METHOD, LONG-TERM PREDICTION ORBIT DATA PROVIDING METHOD, INFORMATION PROVIDING DEVICE, AND POSITIONING SYSTEM - A parameter calculating method includes: setting lengths of prediction target terms as divisions of a predetermined effective period of a satellite orbit as variable lengths; and calculating a parameter of a predetermined orbit model expression used for approximating the satellite orbit based on prediction position data containing prediction positions of a positioning satellite in time series for each of the prediction target terms. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060520 | Receiver device and method of receiving a plurality of signals - A receiver device and method of receiving a plurality of signals are provided, wherein the receiver device includes at least one antenna element and circuitry in communication with the at least one antenna element. The at least one antenna element is configured to receive at least a first signal having a first polarization and a second signal having a second polarization, wherein the first polarization is different than the second polarization. The circuitry is configured to process and emit an output based upon at least one of the received first and second signals, wherein the first signal is received at a first reception elevation angle with respect to the at least one antenna element that is greater than a second reception elevation angle of the second signal with respect to the at least one antenna element, and the first and second signals are transmitted at substantially the same frequency. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060521 | DISPLACED FEED PARALLEL PLATE ANTENNA - A displaced feed antenna, operating at UHF, microwave, millimetre wave and tetrahertz frequencies, of mostly spaced conducting plate construction that incorporates electronically selectable feed points with associated antenna beam positions, which displaced feed antenna comprises: (i) a set of one or more beamforming configurations means ( | 2010-03-11 |
20100060522 | Antenna Arrangement - In a cellular communications system the antenna tilt may be varied in order to achieve different degrees of overlap between different cells, in dependence of the service being transmitted. For a broadcast service the antenna tilt may be set to maximize the overlap, while for a data or speech connection the antenna tilt may be set to minimize the overlap. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060523 | ADAPTIVE ARRAY ANTENNA APPARATUS AND ADAPTIVE CONTROL METHOD THEREFOR - An adaptive away antenna apparatus having an array antenna which includes a plurality of antenna elements, wherein a received signal received by each of the antenna elements is weighted by a weighting factor, and then the received signals of the antenna elements are synthesized to be output as a synthesized signal. The apparatus includes a weighting-factor computing device for computing a weighting factor assigned to the received signal of each antenna element by using adaptive control; and an adaptive-control varying device for varying the adaptive control used by the weighting-factor computing device, in accordance with the number of times the computation is performed by the adaptive-control varying device with respect to the weighting factor. The adaptive-control varying device varies the adaptive control by decreasing the rate of update with respect to the weighting factor in accordance with the number of times the computation is performed. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060524 | INTEGRATED ANTENNA WITH IDENTICAL GROUND MEMBER - The present invention provides an integrated antenna with an identical ground member, in which the interference between the adjacent antennas can be suppressed while the antenna is miniaturized in not only the width direction but also the height direction. In the integrated antenna with the identical ground member, plural antenna elements having two different resonance frequency bands are disposed in an identical ground member. Each antenna element includes a first radiation portion corresponding to one of the resonance frequency bands and a second radiation portion corresponding to the other resonance frequency band. At a point where the two antenna elements are adjacent to each other, a dielectric material is disposed in one of radiation portions located inside the antenna element such that the dielectric material contacts the radiation portion. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060525 | MULTI-BAND ANTENNA - A multi-band antenna includes a feed-in element having a feed-in point thereon. A first connecting portion extends from one side of the feed-in element. A ground element connects to a side of the first connecting portion and is parallel to the feed-in element. A holding portion perpendicularly extends from a side of the ground element opposite the first connecting portion. A second connecting portion perpendicularly bends and extends from a side of the feed-in element opposite the first connecting portion. A first radiating portion extends from one side of the second connecting portion. A second radiating portion extends from the other side of the second connecting portion opposite the first radiating portion. The first radiating portion and part of the second radiating portion are disposed at one side of the holding portion. The rest part of the second radiating portion is disposed at the other side of the holding portion. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060526 | OMNIDIRECTIONAL ANTENNA - An omnidirectional antenna includes a substrate, a signal feed-in portion, a first radiation unit, and a second radiation unit. The first radiation unit is located on a first surface of the substrate, and electrically connected to a first circuit of the first surface. The first radiation unit has a first extension end and a second extension end. The second radiation unit is located on a second surface of the substrate, and electrically connected to a second circuit of the second surface. The second radiation unit has a third extension end and a fourth extension end. The first extension end is disposed corresponding to the third extension end, and the second extension end is disposed corresponding to the fourth extension end. The signal feed-in portion is located on the first circuit and the second circuit. Thus, the impedance is improved, a wider bandwidth is achieved, and the process is simplified. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060527 | ELECTROMAGNETIC BAND GAP TUNING USING UNDULATING BRANCHES - Embodiments of the invention include electromagnetic band gap (EBG) structures having undulating branches to tune the resulting stopband. A periodically patterned structure of conductive patches are interconnected by the undulating branches. Physical parameters of the undulating branches, such as the number of undulations or “turns” per branch, may be selected to tune the stopband in an effort to achieve a target stopband. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention also include methods of designing and manufacturing an EBG structure using undulating branches. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060528 | DUAL-FREQUENCY ANTENNA - The present invention discloses a dual-frequency antenna, which comprises a radiation conductor, an extension conductor, a feeder member, a short-circuit member, and a ground plane. The radiation conductor has a first terminal and a second terminal, which are arranged close to each other but do not contact each other. The extension conductor is connected to the second terminal and disposed along the contour of the first terminal to have a gap between the extension conductor and the first terminal. The feeder member is connected to the radiation conductor. One end of the short-circuit member is connected to the radiation conductor, and the other end is connected to the ground plane. The radiation conductor generates a low-frequency resonant mode and a first high-frequency resonant mode. In the present invention, a single radiation conductor generates two resonant modes to form the operational frequency bands of the dual-frequency antenna. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060529 | ANTENNAS WITH TUNING STRUCTURE FOR HANDHELD DEVICES - Handheld electronic devices are provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include antenna structures. To accommodate manufacturing variations, the antenna structures and handheld electronic devices may be characterized by performing measurements such as antenna performance measurements. Appropriate antenna adjustments may be made during manufacturing of a handheld electronic device based on the characterizing measurements. An antenna may be formed using an inverted-F design in which an antenna flex circuit is mounted to a dielectric antenna support structure. Cavities in the support may be selectively filled with dielectric material and dielectric patches may be added to the antenna flex circuit to adjust the dielectric loading of the antenna. The length of a ground return path in the antenna may be adjusted by appropriate positioning of an electrical connector within the ground return path. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060530 | NOTCH ANTENNA AND WIRELESS DEVICE - A notch antenna includes a ground conductor having a slit and a reactance circuit containing a capacitive reactance element and an inductive reactance element, the reactance circuit being placed at an open end of the slit so as to bridge the slit and being connected to the ground conductor. The slit has a closed end to which power is supplied, and the capacitance of the capacitive reactance element and the inductance of the inductive reactance element are set so that the reactance circuit has a capacitance desired to obtain a first antenna resonance point at a first frequency and a capacitance desired to obtain a second antenna resonance point at a second frequency. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060531 | ACTIVE ANTENNAS FOR MULTIPLE BANDS IN WIRELESS PORTABLE DEVICES - Wireless devices, and particularly mobile devices such as cellphones, PDAs, computers, navigation devices, etc., as well as other devices which transmit or receive data or other signals at multiple frequency bands utilize at least one antenna to transmit and receive and a plurality of different bands (e.g., GSM cellular communication band; Bluetooth short range communication band; ultrawideband (UWB) communications, etc.). These wireless devices can simultaneously transmit or receive at a plurality of different bands, or simultaneously transmit and receive at different bands. The wireless devices have the ability to use a single physical structure (e.g., an antenna) for transmission and reception of many different bands. The antenna can be either actively tuned or passively tuned using one or more elements. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060532 | VEHICLE HOLDER WITH WIRELESS SIGNAL ENHANCEMENT FUNCTION - A vehicle holder with a wireless signal enhancement function is provided. A receiving antenna and a transmitting antenna are disposed on a holder. The receiving antenna is pivotally connected to the holder, and it may rotate relative to the holder to be adjusted to an optimal signal-receiving position. The wireless signal received by the receiving antenna is transmitted to the transmitting antenna directly, and then the transmitting antenna transmits the signal to a wireless communication device disposed in the vehicle holder in a wireless mode. Thus, the quality of the signals, especially GPS signals, is improved. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060533 | ANTENNA MODULE - An antenna module including a casing, a USB connecting end, an antenna, a key and a moving component is provided. The casing has a terminal end opposite to the USB connecting end and a hole located at the terminal end. The antenna is disposed in the casing near the terminal end. The key disposed in the casing has an enabling portion for enabling the key when being touched. The moving component disposed in the casing includes a contacting member and an actuating member. The contacting member has first and second ends and a pivotal portion. The pivotal portion is pivotally connected to the casing between the first and second ends. The actuating member exposed from the hole is for moving toward the USB connecting end. The first end is driven by the actuating member, so that the second end is rotated around the pivotal portion to touch the enabling portion. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060534 | ANTENNA DEVICE - An antenna device includes a reflector plate, plane conductors, an antenna element, variable impedance elements, control wires and linear conductors. The plane conductors are arranged regularly on a plane which is parallel to the reflector plate. The antenna element is set on the plane, to be parallel to the reflector plate. The variable impedance elements provide a directivity to the antenna element, the directivity is radiating a wave strongly to a particular direction. Each control wire supplies a control signal to each of the variable impedance elements. Each linear conductor connects each of some plane conductors with the reflector plate. Moreover, each of the other plane conductors is connected to the reflector plate through a portion of each control wire instead of the linear conductor. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060535 | PLANAR ANTENNA FOR MOBILE SATELLITE APPLICATIONS - The invention relates to a microstrip patch antenna for mobile satellite communications comprising a first electrically conducting ground plane having at least one opening, at least one patch radiating element, at least one first dielectric layer, disposed between the first electrically conducting ground plane and the patch radiating element and more particularly between the at least one opening and the patch radiating element, at least one feed line for providing signal energy in a contactless manner to or from the patch radiating element through the opening and a second dielectric layer disposed between the feed line and the first electrically conducting ground plane wherein the antenna further comprises a second ground plane and a third dielectric layer disposed between the second ground plane and the feed line. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060536 | MULTIBAND SATELLITE ANTENNA - A multiband satellite antenna is provided. The multiband satellite antenna includes a plurality of first band wave receivers and a second band wave receiver. The first band wave receiver includes a first band wave guide, and the second band wave receiver has a first receiving unit and a second receiving unit. The first receiving unit and the second receiving unit are disposed on opposite sides of an alignment line of the first band wave receivers. Each of the first receiving unit and the second receiving unit has a second band wave guide. Output ends of the first receiving unit and the second receiving unit are coupled together to combine signals received from both units into a single signal, and then the single signal is outputted as a second frequency signal. Through this design, in a high satellite density environment, dual-frequency signals from several satellites at similar elevation angles can be received by the antenna of the invention. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060537 | ANTENNA ARRAY - An antenna array provided with two frames which form waveguides. Each frame includes a plate portion and frame portion. The plate portion includes grooves laid out next to one another. Each groove has an open end and a closed end. The frame portion is arranged adjacent to the plate portion. The frame portion has an opening that opens in a direction perpendicular to a direction in which the grooves extend and a direction in which the grooves are laid out. A dielectric substrate is held between the two frames. The dielectric substrate includes an array of feeders and electronic circuits, each circuit having a discrete active element. The circuits are exposed from the opening of either one of the frames. The frames are superimposed with the dielectric substrate so that the grooves form the waveguides. Each circuit is electromagnetically connected to a corresponding one of the waveguides. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060538 | CORE-SHELL MAGNETIC MATERIAL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CORE-SHELL MAGNETIC MATERIAL, DEVICE, ANTENNA DEVICE, AND PORTABLE DEVICE - The present invention provides a core-shell magnetic material having an excellent characteristic in a high frequency band, particularly, in a GHz band. The core-shell magnetic material includes: core-shell magnetic particles including magnetic metal particles and an oxide coating layer, the magnetic metal particle containing magnetic metal selected from the group of Fe, Co, and Ni, nonmagnetic metal selected from the group of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, a rare-earth element, Ba, and Sr, and an element selected from carbon and nitrogen, and the oxide coating layer being made of an oxide containing at least one nonmagnetic metal as one of the components of the magnetic metal particle; and oxide particles existing at least a part between the magnetic metal particles and containing nonmagnetic metal selected from the group of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, a rare-earth element, Ba, and Sr, and in which nonmagnetic metal/magnetic metal (atomic ratio) in the particles is higher than that in the oxide coating layer. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060539 | CORE-SHELL MAGNETIC MATERIAL, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING CORE-SHELL MAGNETIC MATERIAL, DEVICE, AND ANTENNA DEVICE - The present invention provides a core-shell magnetic material having an excellent characteristic in a high frequency band, particularly, in a GHz band. The core-shell magnetic material includes: core-shell magnetic particles including magnetic metal particles and an oxide coating layer, the magnetic metal particle containing magnetic metal selected from the group of Fe, Co, and Ni, nonmagnetic metal selected from the group of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, a rare-earth element, Ba, and Sr, and an element selected from carbon and nitrogen, and the oxide coating layer being made of an oxide containing at least one nonmagnetic metal as one of the components of the magnetic metal particle; and oxide particles existing at least a part between the magnetic metal particles and containing nonmagnetic metal selected from the group of Mg, Al, Si, Ca, Zr, Ti, Hf, Zn, Mn, a rare-earth element, Ba, and Sr, and in which nonmagnetic metal/magnetic metal (atomic ratio) in the particles is higher than that in the oxide coating layer. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060540 | RADIO WAVE RECEIVER WITH AN ANTENNA STRUCTURE - A radio wave receiver comprising an antenna structure placed within a case. The antenna structure has a rod-like core around which a coil is wound. A pair of opposite external magnetic members are each provided in a respective one of a pair of cavities provided so as to extend along the inner periphery of the case from adjacent the respective ends of the rod-like core toward the end points of an inner diameter of the case parallel to the axis of the rod-like core. The pair of external magnetic members is substantially the same permeability as the core. Thus, the antenna core is magnetically coupled to the pair of external magnetic members. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060541 | ANTENNA - An antenna includes a substrate, a radiation portion, and a signal feed-in portion. The radiation portion includes a first radiation unit and a second radiation unit. The first radiation unit and the second radiation unit are disposed on the same surface of the substrate. The signal feed-in portion is disposed on the first radiation unit. The second radiation unit and the first radiation unit have the same shape and are symmetrical in position, and the second radiation unit is connected to the first radiation unit, such that the first radiation unit and the second radiation unit form a closed loop. Thus, the impedance is improved and a wider bandwidth is achieved. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060542 | Multi-Band Antenna Arrangement - A multi-band antenna arrangement having a plurality of resonant modes and including a ground plane; and a first antenna forming a loop-like structure between a ground point and a feed point, wherein the first antenna is located in proximity to the ground plane and has resonant modes at X/2 and X. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060543 | ANTENNA HAVING OBLIQUE RADIATING ELEMENTS - The invention relates to an antenna comprising a plurality of metallic elements ( | 2010-03-11 |
20100060544 | Frequency-Tunable Metamaterial Antenna Apparatus - Techniques and apparatus based on metamaterial structures to achieve tunable operations of an antenna at different antenna frequencies. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060545 | Unitary Solderless Monopole Antenna for in-duct use - An improved monopole antenna for in-duct use is disclosed. The antenna comprises a center pin rod disposed coupled to a connector housing by a molded dielectric. The center pin rod includes a pin portion which is disposed through a portion of a connector portion of the connector housing, thereby allowing a mating RF connector to couple to the monopole antenna. The center pin rod is composed of a single assembly or a single piece of material, thereby eliminating the need to solder the antenna to a RF connector. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060546 | REFLECTOR - A reflector for a reflector antenna is provided for producing a far field pattern with near-zero field strength at a predetermined position, the reflector having a surface comprising a stepped profile for generating the near-zero field strength. The stepped profile may comprise a radial step. The location of the near-zero field strength can be steered by moving the reflector only or by adjusting the amplitude and phase of an additional low resolution beam, produced by, for example, a simple horn, covering the same region. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060547 | Display Device and Method for Displaying Images in a Variable Size Display Area - An image is displayed on a variable display area defined by two or more relatively moveable displays. A detector detects movement of the displays that varies the size of the display area. A processor determines the size of the new display area created by the relative movement of the displays and dynamically alters the displayed image to fit the new display area responsive to the detection of movement. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060548 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND OPERATION METHOD THEREOF - A mobile terminal and an operating method thereof are provided. The operating method includes providing a transparent flexible display having a first display region at the front of the transparent flexible display and a second display region at the rear of the transparent flexible display; displaying an image in the first display region; determining whether a bend signal indicating that the transparent flexible display is bent is detected; and if the results of the determining indicate that a portion of the second display region has the same display direction as that of the first display region, displaying information regarding the image in the portion of the second display region having the same display direction as that of the first display region. Therefore, it is possible to display various information not only using a display region at the front of a display device but also using a display region at the rear of the display device. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060549 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMICALLY GENERATING DIFFERENT USER ENVIRONMENTS WITH SECONDARY DEVICES WITH DISPLAYS OF VARIOUS FORM FACTORS - Exemplary embodiments of methods and systems that dynamically generate different user environments from a handheld device for secondary devices with displays of various form factors are described. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a user environment for the handheld device; auto-detecting a configuration of the secondary device over an interface; generating at least a part of a different second user environment based on the configuration of the secondary device; transmitting the second user environment over the interface; and displaying at least a part of the second user environment on the second display. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060550 | System and Apparatus for Linked Display Devices - A system, display device and computer program product for controlling and coordinating a display device displaying information and other material in areas where foot traffic can be present. The system, display device, and computer program can display information, data, and images received from a network where the information, data and images are relevant to the area. The system, display device, and computer program product can coordinate displayed information and other material between multiple display devices. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060551 | BEAM SCANNING-TYPE DISPLAY DEVICE, METHOD, PROGRAM AND INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - A beam scanning-type display device used as a head-mounted display (HMD) or a head-up display (HUD) includes a light source ( | 2010-03-11 |
20100060552 | Head mount display - A see-through-type head mount display includes a display unit which is configured to project an image light corresponding to display information on an eye of a viewer thus allowing the viewer to visually recognize an image corresponding to the image light while allowing an external light to pass therethrough. The head mount display determines a distribution state of identifying objects within a detected imaging region, and decides a display mode of associated information which is associated with the respective identifying objects corresponding to a distribution state of the identifying objects. Further, the head mount display performs a control such that a display unit performs a display of the associated information which is associated with the identifying objects in the decided mode in association with the identifying objects viewable by a viewer in a see-through manner through the display unit. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060553 | LED display utilizing freestanding epitaxial LEDs - High resolution light emitting diode (LED) displays can be formed from freestanding small epitaxial LED chips or small LED arrays. The addressing elements for the LED display can be active matrix backplane. The LED display may use isotropic and directional luminescent elements. The LED displays can be flat screen, fixed image, projection or low resolution or high resolution direct view. A macro freestanding epitaxial LED chip with multiple addressable pixels is described which forms a complete microdisplay. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060554 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - In a display apparatus and a driving method thereof, image data corresponding to plural different positions of a display panel are added to each other, and a sum of the image data of a present frame is compared with a sum of the image data of a previous frame to determine whether an image displayed on the display panel is a still image or not. While a still image is displayed, brightness of the display panel is gradually lowered. Accordingly, the display panel may prevent occurrence of afterimages and deterioration of organic electroluminescent light emitting devices, as well as reduce power consumption. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060555 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF - An LCD device adapted to apply an optimized luminance in correspondence with a brightness of each divisional region of image is disclosed. The LCD device uses dimming curves, which are provided differently from each other, for divisional regions which are divided from one frame and have different pixel numbers. Therefore, the LCD device can a luminance optimized to a brightness of each divisional region of image, thereby preventing a luminance mismatching phenomenon and a luminance nullity phenomenon. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060556 | Display Device and Light Adjusting Method Thereof - The invention provides a display device and a light adjusting method thereof capable of carrying out light adjustment effectively by the output control of a light source and, preferably, of effecting light adjustment according to color distribution of a displayed image. The display device of the invention that is capable of adjusting a displayed image by changing light flux can include a plurality of light sources having light emitting diodes, an image analyzing unit for outputting a light control signal for controlling the output of each of the light sources, based on an image signal of the displayed image, and a light control device for controlling the output of each of the light sources based on the light control signals. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060557 | DATA DE-SKEW BLOCK DEVICE AND METHOD OF DE-SKEWING TRANSMITTED DATA - A source driver device includes a de-skew block device for receiving image data and clock signals, the de-skew block device has a receiver for receiving a clock signal and image data, a delay lock loop for generating a plurality of sub-clock signals, each having different delay times increasing in order, based on the clock signal, an edge detection unit for finding an edge of the data by the sub-clocks, and selecting one from the sub-clocks based on the edge as a de-skewed clock, and a data de-skew unit for sampling the image data by the de-skewed clock signal to output de-skewed image data and the de-skewed clock signal, and a plurality of channels for receiving the de-skewed image data and the de-skewed clock signal to drive an LCD panel. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060558 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY - A liquid crystal display includes a first insulation substrate, gate lines disposed on the first insulation substrate and extending in a first direction, storage electrode lines disposed on the first insulation substrate and extending in the first direction, data lines extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction and intersecting the gate lines and the storage electrode lines and, thin film transistors disposed in pixel areas, pixel electrodes disposed in the pixel areas and connected to the thin film transistors, ripple detecting wiring disposed proximate to a first gate line of the gate lines, a connection line which transmits a ripple signal from the ripple detecting wiring, a ripple detector connected to the connection line, and a ripple compensator which generates a compensation voltage based on the ripple signal received from the ripple detector and applies the compensation voltage to the storage electrode line. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060559 | DISPLAY DEVICE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPLAY DEVICE - A display device displays images with a plurality of signal lines and includes spare lines, each being arranged to be connectable to the signal lines so as to be used for recovery of the signal lines from disconnection. Each of the spare lines has constricted sections for cutting. With this arrangement, it is possible to easily and properly recover the signal lines from disconnection. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060560 | LARGE AREA ELECTRONIC SHEET AND PIXEL CIRCUITS WITH DISORDERED SEMICONDUCTORS FOR SENSOR ACTUATOR INTERFACE - A pixel circuit including a first transistor; a second transistor, the first transistor and the second transistor serially coupled between a first power supply terminal and a second power supply terminal; and a first capacitor coupled between a gate of the first transistor and a gate of the second transistor, and an electronic sheet including the same. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060561 | Shift Register Circuit - Each stage of a shift register circuit has an input section ( | 2010-03-11 |
20100060562 | STRAY LIGHT COMPENSATION IN AMBIENT LIGHT SENSOR - A method is provided of compensating for stray light in a light sensor having a detection photosensor ( | 2010-03-11 |
20100060563 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT READER - We describe an electronic document reading device having a front, display surface and a device rear surface, the device including a connector mounted on an edge of the device. The device includes a back panel having an exterior surface to provide the rear surface and an interior surface, wherein the back panel is substantially transparent and the interior surface of the back panel is substantially opaque, and wherein the back panel has a cut-out for the connector such that a rear surface of the connector is substantially flush with the device rear surface provided by the exterior of the transparent back panel, such that the opaque interior surface of the transparent back panel gives the impression of a device thinner than a physical thickness of the device defined by the substantially flush connector rear surface and the device rear surface. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060564 | E-paper display control of classified content based on e-paper conformation - A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and controlling display of one or more portions of one or more display layers of the electronic paper assembly regarding display of second information having one or more classifications in response to the first information associated with one or more changes in the one or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060565 | E-paper display control of classified content based on e-paper conformation - A method for one or more portions of one or more regions of an electronic paper assembly having one or more display layers includes, but is not limited to: obtaining and one or more multi-layer display control modules configured to direct control of display of one or more portions of one or more display layers of the electronic paper assembly regarding display of second information having one or more classifications in response to the first information associated with one or more changes in the one or more conformations of the one or more portions of the one or more regions of the electronic paper assembly. In addition to the foregoing, other related method/system aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060566 | ELECTRONIC BOOK READING APPARATUS AND UPDATING METHOD THEREOF - A method of updating content applied on an E-book, which includes: an electronic paper display, a first power supply, a RTC, a second power supply, a power manager, and a central processor. The method includes: keep time; generating a control signal for turning on the first power supply when it is time to update; turning on the first power supply in response to the control signal; updating content displayed on the electronic paper display; and cutting off the first power supply after updating is completed. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060567 | CONTROLLING DEVICE OPERATION RELATIVE TO A SURFACE - Architecture for automatic switching between multiple modes in a handheld device such as a mouse based on the presence of specular light, or lack thereof. When applied to a presenter mouse, the architecture facilitates the automatic switching between mouse mode and presenter mode without manual intervention by the user. An optical approach is well suited since most optical systems include a light source, lenses, and light sensors to detect reflected light from the source (or lack thereof). The approach leverages the existing light source and lenses in a mouse to minimize incremental cost, yet provide a robust technique for detecting lift from the tracking surface thereby automatically switching between modes as the user moves the mouse on and off the tracking surface. A delay circuit and/or image comparison can also be provided that eliminates undesirable triggering to a different mode by preventing unintended switching between the multiple modes. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060568 | CURVED SURFACE INPUT DEVICE WITH NORMALIZED CAPACITIVE SENSING - A curved surface input device with normalized capacitive sensing is disclosed. The input device can normalize capacitive sensing through an overlay having a varying thickness, such as an overlay with a curved surface. The capacitive sensing normalization can be implemented in software, hardware or a combination of software and hardware. A software implementation for normalizing capacitive sensing can comprise adjusting the sensitivity of a sensing operation associated with different sensor elements of the input device. A hardware implementation for normalizing capacitive sensing can comprise adjusting a hardware configuration of the input device associated with one or more physical parameters that can influence the capacitive sensitivity of the sensor elements, such as an area of the sensor elements, a distance between the sensor elements and other conductive input device elements (such as a ground plane), and a dielectric constant associated with the overlay. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060569 | WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL HAVING MOTION-BASED CONTROL FUNCTIONS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURE THEREOF - A wireless remote control and a method of manufacturing the same. In one embodiment, the wireless remote control includes: ( | 2010-03-11 |
20100060570 | Control System for Navigating a Principal Dimension of a Data Space - Systems and methods are described for navigating through a data space. The navigating comprises detecting a gesture of a body from gesture data received via a detector. The gesture data is absolute three-space location data of an instantaneous state of the body at a point in time and physical space. The detecting comprises identifying the gesture using the gesture data. The navigating comprises translating the gesture to a gesture signal, and navigating through the data space in response to the gesture signal. The data space is a data-representational space comprising a dataset represented in the physical space. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060571 | KVM SWITCH USING A TOUCH SCREEN - A KVM switch system having a touch screen for interacting with multiple computers is disclosed. The KVM switch processes coordinate data from the touch screen and transfers the processed data to the controlled computer either as absolute mouse coordinate data or as relative mouse coordinate data depending on the operating system (Windows, Mac OS, SUN, etc.) and mouse data interface (USB, PS/2, etc.) used by the computer. Thus, the touch screen can interact with all computers connected to the KVM switch, achieving a multi-platform and multi-interface application without requiring device drivers on the computers. The KVM switch stores necessary parameters for each computer so that when switching from one computer port to another, or when the display resolution of the computer changes, processing of the touch screen data is automatically adjusted accordingly. The touch screen also works within the OSD of the KVM switch. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060572 | DISPLAY DEVICE FOR INTERFACING WITH A HANDHELD COMPUTER DEVICE THAT DYNAMICALLY GENERATES A DIFFERENT USER ENVIRONMENT FOR THE DISPLAY DEVICE - A secondary device is described comprising a display and an interface in which communication is established with a handheld device with its own display and user environment, wherein the secondary device provides its configuration to the handheld device over the interface and receives a second user environment from the handheld device over the interface. In one embodiment, the secondary device with display receives the second user environment, which includes a graphical user interface that is different than the user environment and graphical user interface of the handheld device, and displays the second user environment at least partially on the second display. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060573 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR INCREMENTAL PREDICTION OF INPUT DEVICE MOTION - Methods and apparatus for incremental prediction of input device motion. In one embodiment, the input device comprises one or more sensors adapted to output motional data of the input device as measured at a certain period. A prediction of input device motion is generated based upon the last prediction and a weighted error in estimate determined by the sensory output. According to one embodiment, the weight is calculated as a Kalman gain. In one embodiment, once the prediction has been generated, it is provided to a display update algorithm adapted to orient a navigational object upon an associated display screen. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060574 | OPERATING APPARATUS FOR HAND-HELD ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - An operating apparatus for a hand-held electronic apparatus includes a motion sensor, an analog to digital converting module and a processing unit. The motion sensor is utilized for sensing a motion track of the hand-held electronic apparatus to generate an analog sensing signal. The analog to digital converting module is coupled to the motion sensor, and is utilized for converting the analog sensing signal into a digital sensing signal. The processing unit is coupled to the analog to digital converting module, and is utilized for executing a multimedia motion control software to determine whether the motion track of the hand-held electronic apparatus corresponds to a predetermined track according to the digital sensing signal. Furthermore, the processing unit executes at least one predetermined function corresponding to the predetermined track from a plurality of predetermined functions when determining that the motion track corresponds to the predetermined track. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060575 | COMPUTER READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM RECORDING IMAGE PROCESSING PROGRAM AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS - Displayed region size data indicating a size of a screen of a display device, or a size of a region in which an image of a virtual space is displayed on the screen, is obtained. Distance data indicating a distance between a user and the display device is obtained. A position and an angle of view of the virtual camera in the virtual space are set based on the displayed region size data and the distance data. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060576 | Control System for Navigating a Principal Dimension of a Data Space - Systems and methods are described for navigating through a data space. The navigating comprises detecting a gesture of a body from gesture data received via a detector. The gesture data is absolute three-space location data of an instantaneous state of the body at a point in time and physical space. The detecting comprises identifying the gesture using the gesture data. The navigating comprises translating the gesture to a gesture signal, and navigating through the data space in response to the gesture signal. The data space is a data-representational space comprising a dataset represented in the physical space. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060577 | POSITION SENSOR ARRANGEMENT - A position sensor arrangement that can determine the two-dimensional position of a variety of different movable devices, such as an electronic joystick. According to one embodiment, the position sensor arrangement includes two pair of magnetic sensing elements that are angularly offset or skewed with respect to one another in order to provide redundancy and accuracy with a minimum number of sensing elements. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060578 | OPTICAL POINTING DEVICE WITH INTEGRATED OPTICAL COMPONENTS AND RELATED ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - According to the claimed invention, an optical pointing device includes a cover having a transparent part, and a sensing component installed inside the cover. The sensing component includes a light emitting module for emitting light, and a light sensing module for sensing light transmitted from the transparent part. The optical pointing device further includes a light guiding component installed between the sensing component and the cover. The light guiding component includes a reflecting part for reflecting the light emitted from the light emitting module to the transparent part, and a condensing part integrated with the reflecting part monolithically for condensing light transmitted from the transparent part to the light sensing module. The light emitted from the light emitting module is reflected to the transparent part by the reflecting part and then reflected back to the transparent part and the condensing part by a shelter disposed above the cover. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060579 | Power Management Device for a Wireless Input Device and Related Wireless Input Device - A power management device for a wireless input device includes a sensor, built on a housing of the wireless input device, for sensing a distance between the housing and an object to generate a sensing result, and a control module, coupled to the sensor, for controlling an operating mode of the wireless input device based on the sensing result. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060580 | Computer mouse with less friction - A mouse includes a casing with a curved top and at least one click pad is located on the curved top of a front end of the casing. A sensing means such as a roller or an optical sensor is connected to an underside of the casing and a plurality of support members are connected to the underside of the casing. Each support member includes a semi-sphere protrusion which is in contact with a desk top by a small area so that the friction between the mouse and the desk top or mouse pad is reduced. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060581 | System and Method for Updating Live Weather Presentations - A computer-implemented method of preparing live weather presentations including preparing a computer readable run-down describing graphical elements and associated data links inserting current weather data into the graphical elements to be used as a graphical portion of a live weather presentation. The method further includes, at first intervals, using the run-down to prepare an audiovisual live weather presentation by capturing at a first data rate, a live weather presenter describing and displaying graphical portions generated by the run-down augmented with current weather data at the first time, and to transmit the same in real time. The method yet further includes, at second intervals more frequent than the first intervals, using the run-down to prepare an audiovisual live weather presentation by capturing at a second data rate lower than the first data rate, a live weather presenter describing and displaying graphical portions generated by the run-down augmented with current weather data at the second time and to store the same on the web for access by users. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060582 | Cradle, mouse and mouse unit - A cradle of the present invention includes a support portion and a holding portion that is formed on the support portion as a depression with a shape corresponding to part of a mouse. The holding portion of the cradle includes an inclined surface that is a flat surface over which a mouse can be slid and that has a predetermined angle with respect to a bottom surface of the support portion, and a guiding edge portion that is formed on at least a lower portion and a side portion of an outer edge of the inclined surface and that guides the mouse that is slid along the inclined surface to a holding position. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060583 | Input devices operable by reflected light - An optical input apparatus including light sources, light receiving areas, and processing circuits. The light from the sources can be reflected by fingers into the receiving areas where the incident light can trigger electrical signals. The processing circuits can process the signals and transmit corresponding data entry or pointing information to host computer or other electronic systems. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060584 | COMPUTER KEYBOARD - A computer keyboard, comprising: an operation unit, a processing unit, an output unit, a query unit, and a display unit; wherein the operation unit comprises an editing key, a function key, the editing key is configured to respond to a user input to generate an editing information, the function key is configured to respond to the user input to control the computer keyboard entering an editing mode; and the processing unit is configured to transmit the editing information to an editing software via the output unit, when the computer keyboard is in the editing mode. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060585 | ON-SCREEN VIRTUAL KEYBOARD SYSTEM - An on-screen virtual keyboard system includes a simplified virtual keyboard layout, at least a traditional virtual keyboard layout, and a memory segment. The simplified virtual keyboard layout has a plurality of reserved keys for entering input characters and a traditional layout switch key for switching the simplified virtual keyboard layout to the traditional virtual keyboard layout. The traditional virtual keyboard layout has a simplified layout for switching to the simplified virtual keyboard layout and an input character keys for entering the input characters. The memory segment stores the latest user-entered or user-defined input characters. The input characters stored in the memory segment are mapped to the reserved keys of the simplified virtual keyboard layout, so the input characters and numeric keys are displayed in the simplified virtual keyboard layout simultaneously, and the user is able to quickly select and enter any of the stored input characters. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060586 | PORTABLE TOUCH SCREEN DEVICE, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR PROVIDING WORKOUT SUPPORT - In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method is performed at a portable electronic device with a touch screen display while the portable electronic device is in a user-interface locked mode of a workout monitoring application with the touch screen display turned off. The method includes: monitoring a workout by a user with the workout monitoring application; detecting an interaction by the user with a first physical button on the portable electronic device; and determining whether the detected interaction by the user with the first physical button corresponds to a first predefined action. The method further includes, in response to determining that the interaction by the user with the first physical button corresponds to the first predefined action; turning on the touch screen display; providing an audio status report of the workout by the user; displaying a workout pause icon; and displaying an unlock image. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060587 | Handheld Device with Multiple Displays - A handheld device includes a plurality of display units and at least one processor coupled to the plurality of display units. The processor is configured to generate output at least a portion of which is displayed on at least one of the display units. At least two of the display units are configured to present data associated with different applications running on the processor, the applications operating simultaneously and independently of one another. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060588 | TEMPORALLY SEPARATE TOUCH INPUT - A method of processing touch input includes recognizing a first touch input, and then, after conclusion of the first touch input, recognizing a second touch input temporally separate from the first touch input. The temporally separate combination of the first touch input and the second touch input is then translated into a multi-touch control. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060589 | Advanced Receive Channel Architecture - This relates to an architecture of a receive channel circuit used during both a spectrum analysis phase and a touch panel detection phase. Various components of the receive channel can be used during both the spectrum analysis phase and the touch panel detection phase. For example, a plurality of digital signal mixers used in the receive channel circuit can be used to demodulate signals during both a spectrum analysis phase and a touch sensor panel detection phase. In addition, the number of digital mixers needed in the receive channel can be reduced by dividing groups of signals to be demodulated into multiple sets of signals and demodulating each set at different times. Furthermore, the size of a sine look-up table (LUT) used to generate sine waveforms can be reduced by taking advantage of the symmetry of the sine waveform. For example, a quarter of a sine waveform can be saved in the LUT and the remaining quadrants of the waveform can be derived based on the symmetry of the sine wave. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060590 | Channel Scan Architecture for Multiple Stimulus Multi-Touch Sensor Panels - A channel scan architecture for detecting touch events on a touch sensor panel is disclosed. The channel scan architecture can combine drive logic, sense channels and channel scan logic on a single monolithic chip. The channel scan logic can be configured to implement a sequence of scanning processes in a panel subsystem without intervention from a panel processor. The channel scan architecture can provide scan sequence control to enable the panel processor to control the sequence in which individual scans are implemented in the panel subsystem. Type of scans that can be implemented in the panel subsystem can include a spectral analysis scan, touch scan, phantom touch scan, ambient light level scan, proximity scan and temperature scan. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060591 | Multiple Stimulation Phase Determination - Determination of phases of multiple stimulation signals to be simultaneously applied to a touch sensor panel is disclosed. A matrix may be determined that is invertible and has a gain greater than one, where each row of the matrix may represent a single step among multiple steps needed to compute values for generating an image of touch, each column of the matrix may represent a drive line of the touch sensor panel to be stimulated, and each element of the matrix may represent the phase of the stimulation signal to be applied to a particular drive line in a particular step. For each step, stimulation signals having phases in accordance with the matrix elements may be simultaneously applied to the drive lines of the touch sensor panel. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060592 | Data Transmission and Reception Using Optical In-LCD Sensing - Data transmission and reception through optical in-LCD sensing panels is provided. The transmission/reception can be a communication in which data is transmitted by displaying, on display pixels of the panel, a communication image encoding the data, and data is received by capturing, with EM sensors embedded in the panel, a communication image encoding the data that is displayed in proximity to the panel. The transmission/reception can be a scan in which a motion of a handheld device is determined by scanning a surface with the EM sensors at different times and comparing the corresponding scan images to obtain the motion of the device. A control signal based on the motion of the handheld device can be transmitted to an external device, for example, to control a mouse cursor. In another example, scan images can be combined based on the motion to generate a combined scan image of a surface. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060593 | Phase compensation for multi-stimulus controller - Determining a compensated phase matrix for a multi-stimulus demodulation process is provided. A first drive line of a multi-stimulus sensing system is selected, and a stimulation signal is transmitted on the selected drive line. A channel gain resulting from the stimulation signal is measured from a received sense signal resulting from the stimulation signal. The measured channel gain is compared with a known channel gain to obtain an individual phase compensation for the selected drive line. A compensated phase matrix is formed of the individual phase compensation values for multiple drive lines. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060594 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A REPRODUCTION APPARATUS VIA A USER INTERFACE HAVING TOUCH ELEMENTS - A method for operating a reproduction apparatus via a user interface having a plurality of touch elements enables users to conveniently and efficiently locate desired portions of a file. According to an exemplary embodiment, the method includes detecting a first input to a first one of the touch elements ( | 2010-03-11 |
20100060595 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF SWITCHING IDENTITY MODULE THEREIN - A mobile terminal includes a plurality of identity modules, a touch screen configured to display a list including a plurality of service items, the list indicating an assigned identity module, of the plurality of identity modules, for each of the plurality of service items, and a controller configured to switch the assigned identity module of a first service item of the plurality of service items to a different one of the plurality of identity modules responsive to a first touch input that is associated with the first service item. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060596 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH TOUCH SCREEN - A display device with touch sensor input has a touch sensor structure on top of the display layer. The touch sensor structure includes a first and second array of electrodes, the electrodes in the first array being non-parallel to the electrodes in the second array. The first and second arrays of electrodes occupy different fractions of a touch sensor area. These asymmetric fill factors give improved sensitivity. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060597 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING AND SELECTING ICONS ON A TOUCH SCREEN - A touch screen including a display unit configured to display a plurality of icons. The touch screen may include a detection unit configured to detect a touch in one of a plurality of touch detection regions of the display unit wherein the touch detection regions comprise an icon portion on which one icon of the plurality of icons is displayed, and an adjacent portion which is adjacent to the icon portion. The touch screen may further include a control unit electrically connected to the display unit and the detection unit, the control unit configured to control display operations of the display unit, and configured to identify based on a received signal from the detection unit which touch detection region is touched and which one icon is displayed in the touched detection region. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060598 | TOUCH SCREEN REGION SELECTING METHOD - A touch screen region selecting method implemented by a central processing unit (CPU), wherein the touch screen senses and recognizes tracks of two line-drawing touches simultaneously performed thereon. The method comprises: receiving the two line-drawing touches and displaying two lines via the CPU, identifying start points and terminal points of the two lines via the CPU, connecting the start point and the terminal point of each line to generate a first line and a second line respectively via the CPU, connecting the start points of the two lines to generate a third line, and connecting the terminal points of the two lines to generate a fourth line via the CPU, identifying a region framed by the first line, the second line, the third line, and the fourth line, obtaining displayed contents, and performing an operation for the displayed contents via the CPU. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060599 | METHOD AND DEVICE TO SEARCH FOR AND EXECUTE CONTENT USING A TOUCH SCREEN - A method and device to search for and execute content are provided. The method of searching for and executing content includes displaying at least one content icon, and identifying, if an approach to one of the at least one content icon is detected, a content icon of a position at which the approach is detected. The method further comprises determining a classification category of a content corresponding to the identified content icon, searching for at least one related content classified in the same classification category as the content corresponding to the identified content icon, displaying the identified content icon and at least one related content icon corresponding to the at least one related content using a preset display method, and executing, if one of the at least one content icon is touched, a content corresponding to the touched content icon. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060600 | ARRAY SUBSTRATE, LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY COMPRISING THE SAME, AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present invention provides an array substrate, a liquid crystal display device comprising the same, and a method for forming the same. The array substrate comprises a gate line, a data line, a signal line and a pixel electrode formed thereon. The gate line intersects the data line to define a plurality of pixel regions in which the pixel electrodes are formed. Each of the pixel electrodes overlaps the signal line to form a first sensing capacitor and overlaps the gate line to form a second sensing capacitor. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060601 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - A liquid crystal display device having a touch panel and a front window which can enhance reliability thereof and facilitates repair thereof is provided. The touch panel and the front window are mounted on a liquid crystal display device using a thermoplastic adhesive material. Electronic parts are arranged on a lower side of a touch-panel-use flexible printed circuit board, and electronic parts are arranged on a lower side of a main flexible printed circuit board. The respective electronic parts are covered with the front window in a plan view. A light emitting diode is mounted on the main flexible printed circuit board, and faces a light guide plate in a resin mold. Due to such a constitution, an external shape of the liquid crystal display device can be made small as a whole, and relatively expensive light emitting diodes can be reproduced and reused by repair. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060602 | TOUCH SCREEN, TOUCH PANEL AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Each detection column wiring is constituted by a set of a first metal wiring having a zigzag pattern and a second metal wiring having a structure axisymmetric with the first metal wiring about a column direction as an axis, wherein the first metal wiring is constituted by first sloped portions which are obliquely sloped by an inclination angle of 45 degrees with respect to the column direction, and first parallel portions which are parallel with the column direction and are continuous with the first sloped portions, such that the first sloped portions and the first parallel portions are repeatedly placed in a zigzag shape along the column direction. Each detection row wiring also has the same structure. A sloped portion out of the first sloped portions of the first metal wiring is always orthogonally and spatially intersected, at its middle point, with a sloped portion out of the second sloped portions of the third metal wiring at its middle point. There is also the same orthogonal relationship among the other portions. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060603 | TOUCH PANEL, AND ELECTRO-OPTIC APPARATUS AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE HAVING THE TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel includes: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed to face the first substrate; an annular seal material that adheres peripheries of the first substrate and the second substrate to each other so as to set a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate; first seal portions that adhere corner portions of the first substrate and the second substrate through the seal material; and second seal portions that are in connection with the first seal portions and adhere side portions of the first substrate and the second substrate through the seal material. Each of the first seal portions has a thickness which is smaller than each of the second seal portions so that the substrate gap is set to be small. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060604 | System for impulse input of commands, control arguments and data - An advanced technique of user interaction with compact, portable, hand-held devices, larger electronic devices and other surfaces and objects is disclosed. The particular component arrays, configuration modes and analytic methodologies disclosed are optimized and directed toward logical interpretation of device motions resulting from vector impulses as user data inputs and commands. Apparatus, system and method embodiments are described and illustrated by examples. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060605 | PRESSURE SENSITIVE CONTROLS - The use of pressure-sensitive controls is disclosed in which controls respond differently to different pressure applied by a stylus on a digitizer. Users interacting with displayed controls may modify the speed, increment, or other property of the control by pressing harder or softer. Devices that allow for the input of location and pressure information may use embodiments of the invention, including computers with pressure sensitive mice or digitizer tablets, PDAs, or tablet computers. Controls that may use pressure to augment their behavior include scrollbars, spinner controls, resize handles, buttons, drop down menus and so forth. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060606 | HARD TAP - The use of variable-pressure taps in computer interfaces is disclosed in which tap inputs cause different functions to execute depending on the pressure applied by the tap. A hard tap is interpreted when a user makes rapid contact with the input surface, exceeding a threshold pressure within a threshold time, possibly without exceeding a threshold distance from the initial point of contact. Operating systems, applications, and other software may interpret a hard tap as a unique input, or as a double-click, right click, etc. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060607 | USER INTERFACE MOUSE WITH TOUCHPAD RESPONSIVE TO GESTURES AND MULTI-TOUCH - A computer interface device has a housing configured with a first sensor for detecting a position change of the computer interface device on a surface, a touch pad configured with the housing for generating touchpad signals, and a wireless link to transmit the first pair of parameters and the touchpad signals to a computing device. In an application, the first sensor provides a first pair of parameters to indicate the position of the housing on the surface and control cursor displayed on a screen of the computing device. The touch pad may be configured to detect gestures and provides signals responsive to the gestures over a wireless link for controlling a displayed object or attribute on the screen of the computing device. The touch pad may also be configured to detect a plurality of contacting fingers and to provide signals over a wireless link used to control a displayed object or attribute on the screen of the computing device. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060608 | CORRECTION OF PARASITIC CAPACITANCE EFFECT IN TOUCH SENSOR PANELS - Compensation of pixels included in a touch sensor panel that generate erroneous readings (so called “negative pixels”) due to a poor grounding condition of the object touching the touch sensor panel is disclosed herein. To compensate for the erroneous readings, sense lines of the touch sensor panel can include reverse driving circuits to facilitate calculation of an object-to-ground capacitance. If the calculated object-to-ground capacitance indicates the presence of a poor grounding condition, then the object-to-ground capacitance and detected pixel touch output values are used to estimate new pixel touch output values that are used instead of the detected pixel touch output values to determine touch event(s). | 2010-03-11 |
20100060609 | Touched Position Detection Method for Touch Panel - In a touched position detection method for a touch panel for detecting a touched position, based on measured values by a plurality of sensors, presence of a touch is determined when a measured value by a sensor exceeds a touch threshold. As a touch threshold, a value which cannot be attained due to a mere noise but can due to presence of a touch is set. With respect to sensors located in the vicinity of a sensor showing a high measured value, a higher weighted value is applied to modify a measured value in a touched position calculation process than that to be applied to other sensors. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060610 | SENSING CIRCUIT FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL - A sensing circuit for a capacitive touch panel is disclosed. By adding a path for a noise to pass through, the noise is differentially processed through two paths which have the same electrical conditions with each other. The noise is then decreased significantly, and a sensing signal can be detected correctly. | 2010-03-11 |
20100060611 | TOUCH DISPLAY WITH SWITCHABLE INFRARED ILLUMINATION FOR TOUCH POSITION DETERMINATION AND METHODS THEREOF - An electronic touch display includes a display device, a plurality of light sensors, an infrared light source, a switch circuit, and a touch position circuit. The light sensors are spaced apart and coupled to the display device. The infrared light source is coupled to the display device and configured to emit infrared light through the display device to illuminate an adjacent user object that is touching the display device. The switch circuit is configured to turn on the infrared light source in response to at least one of the light sensors indicating detection of the user object touching the display device. The touch position circuit is configured to identify a user touch position on the display device in response to signal levels from a plurality of the light sensors sensing infrared light from the infrared light source which is reflected by the user object to the plurality of the light sensors. | 2010-03-11 |