Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080278139 | SLEEP CURRENT ADJUSTING CIRCUIT OF SYSTEM ON CHIP - There is provided a sleep current adjusting circuit of a system on chip including: a regulator supplying a turn-on voltage and a normal current when a mode selection signal is a normal mode signal, and a turn-off voltage when the mode selection signal is a sleep mode signal; a switching device turned on by the turn-on voltage of the regulator to supply the normal current from the regulator to a main circuit part and a sleep operation circuit part, respectively, and turned off by the turn-off voltage of the regulator to block the normal current from being supplied to the main circuit part and supply the sleep current to the sleep operation circuit part; and a current limit device limiting an operating current flowing in response to the operating voltage and supplying the sleep current to the sleep operation circuit part. | 11-13-2008 |
20090102866 | LIGHTING CONTROL APPARATUS USING DIGITAL SIGMA-DELTA MODULATION - There is provided a lighting control apparatus using digital sigma-delta modulation, the apparatus including: a control part supplying a brightness control signal; a sigma-delta modulation part generating a carry signal according to the brightness control signal of the control part and a predetermined threshold signal by using a sigma-delta modulation method; and a lighting driving part generating a driving current according to the carry signal of the sigma-delta modulation part and supplying the generated driving current to a lighting part. | 04-23-2009 |
20090131004 | RECEIVER WITH SIGMA-DELTA STRUCTURE - There is provided a receiver with a sigma-delta structure, the receiver including: a low noise amplifier amplifying a received signal according to a detection signal; a mixer converting an RF signal of the low noise amplifier into an IF signal; a sigma-delta A/D converter converting the IF signal from the mixer | 05-21-2009 |
20090170461 | ANTENNA DIVERSITY RECEIVER - An antenna diversity receiver includes a plurality of antennas, an antenna selector unit, an RF module unit, a logic gate unit, a power detector unit, and a selection controller unit. The antenna selector unit selects one of the antennas. The RF module unit converts an RF RX signal received from the antenna selector unit into a baseband RX signal. The logic gate unit controls a power detection mode for detecting the power levels of RX signals and an operation mode for selecting one of the antennas. The power detector unit detects the power level of the RX signal. The selection controller unit controls the antenna selector unit to sequentially select the antennas in the power detection mode, and controls the antenna selector unit to select the antenna with a relatively good RX sensitivity among the antennas. | 07-02-2009 |
20090295340 | REGULATOR WITH SOFT-START USING CURRENT SOURCE - There is provided a regulator with soft-start using a current source. The regulator with soft-start may include: a power switch unit including first and second power switches connected between a power supply terminal and an output terminal; a load capacitor connected between the output terminal and a ground; a voltage detection unit detecting a voltage of the output terminal; a comparison unit comparing a detection voltage and a predetermined reference voltage, and outputting first and second switching signals; a current generating a predetermined constant current; a current control unit switching a connection between a control terminal of the first power switch and the current source unit according to the first switching, and switching a connection between the control terminal of the first power switch and the ground according to the second switching signal; and an error amplification unit amplifying an error voltage between the detection. | 12-03-2009 |
20100033162 | LOW-POWER DIRECT CURRENT DETECTOR - Provided is a low-power direct current detector. The low-power direct current detector includes a main current source circuit generating an ultra-low current, a limitation circuit limiting the current generated by the main current source circuit to lower than a preset current, and a voltage detection circuit biased by the ultra-low current generated by the main current source circuit to detect an input DC voltage. | 02-11-2010 |
20100033999 | LOW-POWER RADIO FREQUENCY DIRECT CURRENT RECTIFIER - Provided is a low-power radio frequency (RF) direct current (DC) rectifier. The low-power RF DC rectifier includes a rectification circuit with first and second to n-th rectification units sequentially rectifying an RF signal input through a first input terminal and a second input terminal. The first rectification unit is disposed between the first and second input terminals and a first output terminal of the first rectification unit. The second rectification unit is disposed between the first rectification unit and a second output terminal of the second rectification unit, is biased by the first rectification unit. The n-th rectification unit is disposed between an immediately previous rectification unit and a rectification output terminal of the rectification circuit, is biased by a rectified voltage output from an immediately preceding rectification unit, and outputs the rectified RF signal through the rectification output terminal. | 02-11-2010 |
20100052952 | KEY SCANNING CIRCUIT - In a key scanning circuit, a key input unit has a parallel connection of a plurality of circuits having a series connection of resistors and switches between a power supply input terminal and a key scanning terminal. The resistors connected in parallel have different resistances. A current mirror has a first terminal connected to the key scanning terminal. A reference current source is connected between a second terminal of the current mirror and the power supply input terminal. | 03-04-2010 |
20100150041 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION APPARATUS HAVING SELF SENSING FUNCTION - Disclosed is a wireless communication apparatus having a self sensing function, which can detect an object by use of a wake-up function without employing a separate sensor. The wireless communication apparatus includes a communication unit wirelessly communicating with a server forming a wireless network, and a wake-up unit waking up the communication unit under the control of the server when the communication unit is in sleep mode, and sensing the presence of an object within a preset communication range according to a reflection signal, which is a signal reflected by the object after being transmitted from the communication unit. | 06-17-2010 |
20120169305 | MULTI-VOLTAGE REGULATOR - Disclosed herein is a multi-voltage regulator. The multi-voltage regulator includes an error amplifier amplifying a difference voltage between a predetermined reference voltage and a received feedback voltage; a first voltage adjusting part connected to an output terminal of the error amplifier, the first voltage adjusting part regulating a level of a voltage at a power input terminal to output the regulated voltage to a first output terminal; a second voltage adjusting part connected to the output terminal of the error amplifier, the second voltage adjusting part regulating the level of the voltage at the power input terminal to output the regulated voltage to a second output terminal; and a voltage detector detecting a voltage according to a voltage at the first output terminal and a voltage at the second output terminal to supply the detected voltage as the feedback voltage. | 07-05-2012 |
20120235801 | Wireless apparatus having wake-up function - A wireless apparatus having a non-electric power-type wake-up function that operates a wake-up circuit waking-up a microprocessor for communications without power. There is provided a wireless apparatus having a wake-up function, including: a wake-up unit that has a rectifying circuit having elements configured as passive elements and rectifies preset first wireless signals to transmit wake-up signals; and a wireless communications unit that is woken-up by the wake-up signals from the wake-up unit to perform communications using preset second wireless signals, in a sleep mode. | 09-20-2012 |
20130063390 | TOUCH INPUT SENSING DEVICE AND TOUCH INPUT SENSING METHOD - There are a touch input sensing device and a touch input sensing method. The touch input sensing device includes: a plurality of sensing electrodes; and a controller obtaining sensing signals generated from the plurality of sensing electrodes through a plurality of sensing channels electrically connected to the plurality of sensing electrodes, wherein the controller calculates a difference value between the sensing signals obtained from the plurality of sensing channels connected to the mutually adjacent sensing electrodes among the plurality of sensing electrodes to determine a touch input. A weighting value is assigned to a difference value between sensing signals obtained from mutually adjacent sensing electrodes, based on which the coordinates, or the like, of a touch input are determined, thus significantly reducing the influence of noise and accurately determining a touch input. | 03-14-2013 |
20130082672 | CAPACITOR-FREE LOW DROP-OUT REGULATOR - There is provided a low drop-out regulator. The low drop-out regulator includes an amplifier including an odd number of operational amplifiers connected to one another in series, and an output unit including a pass transistor operated by an output from the amplifier and generating an output voltage to be applied to a load, wherein the pass transistor is an N-channel transistor, and the amplifier controls a feedback loop gain between an output terminal of one of the odd number of operational amplifiers and the output unit. The feedback loop gain may be controlled independently from the trans-conductance of the pass transistor, whereby the stable output voltage may be generated, even in the case that the load and the input voltage are changed, and the design parameter may be simplified. | 04-04-2013 |
20130100068 | TOUCH INPUT SENSING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a touch input sensing device and a method thereof. The touch input sensing device includes a panel integrally provided with a display device and including a plurality of sensing electrodes; a sensing circuit unit generating an analog signal from capacitance variations generated in the plurality of sensing electrodes; a signal converting unit generating a digital signal from the analog signal; and a calculating unit judging a touch input from the digital signal, wherein the signal converting unit generates the digital signal by measuring a time required for the analog signal to reach a predetermined reference signal level and controls a time at which the sensing circuit unit generates the analog signal by judging whether the measured time is included in an activation time period of a clock signal of the display device. | 04-25-2013 |
20130100069 | TOUCH SENSING DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a touch sensing device and a method thereof. The touch sensing device, including: a plurality of sensing circuit units measuring capacitance variations from a plurality of sensing electrodes; at least one TDC circuit connected with the plurality of sensing circuit units to convert the capacitance variations into digital signals; a calculating unit judging a touch from the digital signals; and a delay circuit sequentially receiving the capacitance variations from the plurality of sensing circuit units. | 04-25-2013 |
20130106768 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130107775 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS TERMINAL HAVING RF DIRECT WAKEUP FUNCTION AND WAKEUP METHOD THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130113721 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a touch sensing method and a touch sensing apparatus that can minimize the influence of noise due to a driving signal of a display apparatus. The touch sensing method includes generating an analog signal by sensing variations in capacitance generated from a plurality of electrodes; measuring a first time required for a level of the analog signal to reach a first reference value; determining whether the first time is included in a noise generation period of a driving signal of a display apparatus; and measuring a second time required for a level of the analog signal to reach a second reference value when the first time is included in the noise generation period. | 05-09-2013 |
20130113722 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a touch sensing apparatus and an operating method thereof. The touch sensing apparatus includes: a panel unit including a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, the first and second electrodes intersecting each other; a circuit unit applying first driving signals to the first electrodes and detecting sensed signals from the second electrodes; and a control unit controlling an operation of the circuit unit, wherein the control unit controls the circuit unit to simultaneously apply the first driving signals to the first electrodes during a first duration corresponding to a sleep mode and detect first sensed signals from the second electrodes, and determines whether a valid touch has occurred during the first duration to determine whether to cancel the sleep mode. | 05-09-2013 |
20130127773 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a touch sensing apparatus and a touch sensing method. The touch sensing apparatus includes a driving circuit unit applying a driving signal to at least one of a plurality of first electrodes; a sensing circuit unit generating an analog signal by detecting variations in capacitance in second electrodes intersecting the at least one of first electrodes to which the driving signal is applied; and a signal converting unit converting the analog signal into a digital signal, wherein the driving circuit unit controls a frequency of the driving signal according to electric noise and determines a level of the driving signal according to a dynamic range of the signal converting unit. | 05-23-2013 |
20130127774 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a touch sensing apparatus and a touch sensing method. The touch sensing apparatus includes: a panel unit provided with a plurality of electrodes; a sensing circuit unit detecting variations in capacitance in the plurality of electrodes; and a calculating unit determining a touch from the variations in capacitance, wherein the calculating unit applies different parameters for determining the touch to the plurality of individual electrodes. The parameters such as an integration time, a digital signal conversion time, and a driving signal application time are set differently according to positions in which the variations in capacitance are detected, driving efficiency may be improved and power consumption may be significantly reduced. | 05-23-2013 |
20130135247 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS - There is provided a touch sensing apparatus including a panel unit in which a plurality of electrodes intersecting with each other are disposed; and a control unit sensing changes in capacitance generated in regions in which respective electrodes, among the plurality of intersecting electrodes, intersect, wherein the panel unit includes a first region in which the plurality of electrodes are disposed with a first interval therebetween, and a second region in which the plurality of electrodes are disposed with a second interval therebetween, and the control unit senses a fingerprint touching the second region based on a change in capacitance generated therein. | 05-30-2013 |
20130155003 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a touch sensing apparatus and a touch sensing method. The touch sensing apparatus includes: a plurality of first electrodes extending along a first axis; a plurality of second electrodes extending along a second axis intersecting the first axis and forming a plurality of intersection points by intersecting the plurality of first electrodes; and a controller integrated circuit determining a touch by detecting changes in capacitance generated in the plurality of intersection points, wherein the controller integrated circuit sets parameters for detecting the changes in capacitance differently according to positions of the plurality of intersection points. | 06-20-2013 |
20130257789 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a touch sensing apparatus and method. The touch sensing apparatus includes a sensing circuit unit detecting a plurality of signals from a plurality of changes in capacitance generated in a plurality of electrodes provided in a panel unit; and a signal processing unit comparing, with predetermined reference levels, levels of at least two signals generated from changes in capacitance in at least two electrodes spaced apart from one another by a predetermined distance or greater, from among the plurality of electrodes, wherein, when the levels of the at least two signals are greater than the predetermined reference levels, the plurality of changes in capacitance are determined to be generated due to noise. | 10-03-2013 |
20130285975 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS - There are provided a touch screen panel and a touch screen apparatus. The touch screen panel includes a plurality of first electrodes formed on a substrate and extending in a first axis direction; and a plurality of second electrodes formed on the substrate and extending in a second axis direction perpendicular to the first axis direction, wherein a plurality of first slits are provided in a diagonal direction with respect to the first axis direction and the second axis direction between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes, and at least one second slit is formed within each of the plurality of second electrodes. | 10-31-2013 |
20130321290 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SENSING TOUCH INPUT - There are provided a method and an apparatus for sensing a touch input. The method of sensing a touch input includes selecting at least a portion of a plurality of nodes in which a sensing signal is generated by a touch input, defining a node group according to the plurality of selected nodes, generating two or more first sub-node groups by dividing a plurality of nodes included in the node group, based on a first axial direction, and determining a first touch vector of the node group by calculating centric coordinates of the respective two or more first sub-node groups. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321325 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING CAPACITANCE, AND TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS - There are provided an apparatus for sensing capacitance, a method for sensing capacitance, and a touch screen apparatus. The apparatus for sensing capacitance includes; a first integration circuit unit including a first capacitor charged by a change in capacitance occurring in a sensing electrode; a comparison circuit unit comparing a level of an output signal of the first integration circuit unit with a predetermined reference level; and a noise removal unit including a plurality of switches operating according to an output of the comparison circuit unit, wherein the comparison circuit unit controls an operation of each of the plurality of switches to discharge charges charged in the first capacitor when the level of the output signal of the first integration circuit unit is higher than the reference level. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321326 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR SENSING CAPACITANCE, AND TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS - There are provided an apparatus for sensing capacitance, a method for sensing capacitance, and a touch screen apparatus. The apparatus for sensing capacitance includes; a driving circuit unit applying driving signals to a first capacitor; an integration circuit unit including a second capacitor and a third capacitor respectively charged by a change in capacitance generated in the first capacitor based on the driving signals to generate a predetermined output voltage and calculating a voltage difference between the output voltage of the second capacitor and the output voltage of the third capacitor; and a control unit determining characteristics of a noise signal based on the voltage difference and controlling the driving signals based on the characteristics of the noise signal. | 12-05-2013 |
20130321327 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND DATA PROCESSING METHOD THEREOF - There are provided a data processing method and a touch sensing apparatus. The data processing method includes (a) obtaining a plurality of pieces of sensing data according to one or more touch inputs; (b) selecting one or more pieces of temporary reference data having the minimum difference value between adjacent other pieces of sensing data; (c) calculating difference values between the one or more pieces of temporary reference data; (d) calculating an N number of difference values between the N number of pieces of sensing data obtained from the nodes included in the Kth row and an N number of pieces of sensing data obtained from nodes included in the K-1th row; and (e) determining the temporary reference data having a relatively small representative value as reference sensing data of the Kth row. | 12-05-2013 |
20140009216 | CAPACITANCE SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS - There is provided a capacitance sensing apparatus including: a driving circuit unit applying a driving signal to a first capacitor; a first integrating circuit unit including a second capacitor charged by a change in capacitance generated in the first capacitor based on the driving signal to generate a first output voltage; and a second integrating circuit unit including a third capacitor charged by a change in capacitance generated in the second capacitor to generate a second output voltage, wherein a level of the second output voltage is changed at least twice during a single period of the driving signal applied to the first capacitor. | 01-09-2014 |
20140009431 | CAPACITANCE SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS - There is provided a capacitance sensing apparatus including: a driving circuit unit sequentially applying a driving signal to each of a plurality of first electrodes; a sensing circuit unit including a first integrating circuit detecting a first change in capacitance generated in a plurality of second electrodes by the driving signal and a second integrating circuit connected to another first electrode adjacent to the first electrode to which the driving signal is applied; and an operating unit connected to the sensing circuit unit to determine a touch input, wherein the second integrating circuit detects a second change in capacitance generated due to noise in the another first electrode, and the operating unit determines the touch input based on the first and second changes in capacitance. | 01-09-2014 |
20140009432 | CAPACITANCE SENSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND TOUCHSCREEN APPARATUS - There is provided a capacitance sensing apparatus including: a driving circuit unit applying a driving signal having a common level potential and first and second level potentials different from the common level potential to a first capacitor; a sensing circuit unit detecting a change in capacitance generated in the first capacitor; and a gain controlling circuit unit controlling a gain of the sensing circuit unit, wherein the sensing circuit unit includes a second capacitor charged by the change in capacitance of the first capacitor when a level of the driving signal is changed from the first level potential to the common level potential or changed from the common level potential to the second level potential. | 01-09-2014 |
20140035653 | CAPACITANCE SENSING DEVICE AND TOUCHSCREEN - There are provided a capacitance sensing device and a touchscreen, the capacitance sensing device including a driving circuit unit allowing a capacitor to be charged and discharged; and an integrating circuit unit integrating charges stored in the capacitor, wherein the integrating circuit unit integrates the charges stored in the capacitor to thereby output a first voltage having a positive polarity and a second voltage having a negative polarity. | 02-06-2014 |
20140035862 | CAPACITANCE SENSING APPARATUS AND TOUCH SCREEN APPARATUS - There is provided a capacitance sensing apparatus including a driving circuit unit applying a driving signal to a first capacitor at a predetermined interval; and a sensing circuit unit sensing a change in capacitance generated by the first capacitor based on the driving signal, in which a portion of a plurality of switches included in the sensing circuit unit operate at a first interval, the same as the interval of the driving signal, and remaining switches among the plurality of switches operate at a second interval, different from the first interval. | 02-06-2014 |
20140043252 | TOUCHSCREEN PANEL AND TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - There is provided a touchscreen panel including: a plurality of first electrodes formed on a substrate and including a plurality of first unit electrodes connected in a first axial direction; and a plurality of second electrodes formed on the substrate and including a plurality of second unit electrodes connected in a second axial direction perpendicular to the first axial direction, wherein a plurality of slits having a curved shape are formed between the plurality of first and second electrodes, part of the first unit electrodes and part of the second unit electrodes are included in a unit sensing cell having a rectangular shape, and a virtual slit obtained by rotating a slit formed in a direction toward a corner of the unit sensing cell from a center of the unit sensing cell by 90 degrees is identical to a slit formed in a direction toward another corner adjacent thereto. | 02-13-2014 |
20140049234 | REGULATOR FOR CONTROLLING OUTPUT VOLTAGE - There is provided a regulator for controlling an output voltage, capable of stabilizing the voltage output from the regulator. The regulator for controlling an output voltage may include an output current generating unit generating an output current according to a reference voltage, an output voltage detecting unit detecting an output voltage using the output current, according to resistors provided therein, and a controlling unit comparing the output voltage with a preset reference output voltage to control the reference voltage. | 02-20-2014 |
20140062915 | TOUCHSCREEN PANEL AND TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - There are provided a touchscreen panel and a touchscreen device, the touchscreen panel including: a plurality of first electrodes each including a base portion extended in a first axis direction and one or more branch portions connected to the base portion; and a plurality of second electrodes each extended in a second axis direction intersecting the first axis direction, wherein the branch portions may be extended from an intersection between the base portion of the first electrode and the second electrode. | 03-06-2014 |
20140078080 | TOUCHSCREEN PANEL AND TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - There are provided a touchscreen panel and a touchscreen device. The touchscreen panel includes: a plurality of first electrodes extended in a first axis direction; a plurality of second electrodes extended in a second axis direction intersecting with the first axis direction; and a third electrode formed between one first electrode and another first electrode adjacent thereto among the plurality of first electrodes, wherein the third electrode may be engaged with the plurality of first electrodes and formed such that one of either side of the respective first electrodes is exposed. | 03-20-2014 |
20140104226 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING CAPACITANCE DETECTION, AND TOUCHSCREEN APPARATUS - There are provided an apparatus and a method of controlling capacitance detection, and a touchscreen apparatus. The apparatus includes: a driving circuit unit providing driving signals including a preset number of driving pulses to a plurality of respective driving electrodes of a panel unit; a detecting circuit unit removing electrical noise from a first voltage corresponding to a capacitance change in the panel unit when the electrical noise is included in the first voltage; and a controlling unit controlling the driving circuit unit to generate an additional driving pulse when the electrical noise is included in the first voltage. | 04-17-2014 |
20140125636 | ELECTRONIC PEN DATA INPUT SYSTEM AND ELECTRONIC PEN DATA INPUT METHOD USING THE SAME - There are provided an electronic pen data input system and an electronic pen data input method using the same. The electronic pen data input system includes: an electronic pen including an accelerometer sensor to provide acceleration information corresponding to movement thereof; and a portable communications terminal calculating movement information of the electronic pen using the acceleration information of the electronic pen and compensating for a noise input in the movement information to determine a handwriting data input. | 05-08-2014 |
20140139478 | TOUCH SENSING METHOD AND TOUCH SENSING DEVICE - There are provided a touch sensing method and a touch sensing device. The touch sensing method includes: obtaining sensed data from a panel unit; calculating valid data by removing an offset value from the sensed data; calculating reference data by comparing the offset value with a backup offset value when the valid data is higher than a first reference value; and determining a touch based on the reference data and the valid data. | 05-22-2014 |
20140146000 | TOUCH SENSING DEVICE AND TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - There are provided a touch sensing device and a touchscreen device, the touch sensing device including a driving circuit unit sequentially applying a driving signal to a plurality of respective driving electrodes, a sensing circuit unit connected to a plurality of sensing electrodes and measuring changes in capacitance in node capacitors formed by the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of sensing electrodes, and a noise removing unit providing a preset reference voltage to a driving electrode to which the driving signal is not applied, among the plurality of driving electrodes. | 05-29-2014 |
20140160038 | TOUCH SENSING METHOD AND TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS - There are provided a touch sensing method and a touch sensing apparatus. The touch sensing method includes calibrating an offset value; obtaining sensed data from a panel unit, performing a difference operation on the sensed data and the offset value to calculate valid data, when the valid data is higher than a first threshold value, calculating a correlation value between the valid data and reference data, and comparing the correlation value with a second threshold value to determine whether to update the offset value and whether to filter the valid data. | 06-12-2014 |
20140160057 | TOUCH SENSING METHOD AND TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS - There is provided a touch sensing method including: classifying sensed pieces of data obtained from a panel unit as a plurality of groups according to a predetermined reference; selecting a portion of groups in which variations of the sensed pieces of data included in each of the plurality of groups are lower than a first threshold value; calculating representative values with respect to each of portion of the groups; and determining a noise canceling method by comparing the variations of representative values with a second threshold value. | 06-12-2014 |
20140184527 | TOUCH PANEL - Disclosed herein is a capacitive touch panel having a single layer electrode structure capable of securing uniformity of capacitance distribution by decreasing capacitive coupling which may be caused by a generation of undesirable parasitic capacitance between short-range electric field lines by a sensing electrode and a ground electrode adjacent to the sensing electrode employing a mutually inclined concave and convex part toward the sensing electrode and by the sensing electrode and an adjacent driving electrode having a interdigit structure formed in the same method, in a mutual capacitive type touch panel that configures together the driving electrode and the sensing electrode on a single electrode layer having a matrix structure in which a plurality of electrodes are arranged to be intersected with each other on a base substrate. | 07-03-2014 |
20140184556 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS AND TOUCH SENSING METHOD - There are provided a touch sensing apparatus and a touch sensing method. The touch sensing apparatus includes: a panel unit including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes; a driving circuit unit applying driving signals to the plurality of driving electrodes, respectively; a sensing circuit unit measuring a change in capacitance of node capacitors generated in intersections of the plurality of the driving electrodes and the plurality of sensing electrodes; a signal conversion unit generating a first digital signal based on the change in capacitance; and a calculation unit determining a touch according to the first digital signal, wherein the driving circuit unit and the sensing circuit unit are operated by an input voltage, and the signal conversion unit and the calculation unit are operated by a low voltage drop out (LDO) voltage generated by decreasing the input voltage. | 07-03-2014 |
20140184557 | TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS - There is provided a touch sensing apparatus including: a panel unit including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes; a driving circuit unit applying one of a driving signal and a scanning signal having a frequency different from that of the driving signal, to each of the plurality of driving electrodes; a sensing circuit unit measuring a change in capacitance of a plurality of node capacitors generated in intersections of the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of sensing electrodes; and a calculation unit determining a touch based on a change in the capacitance, wherein when the scanning signal is applied to the plurality of driving electrodes, the calculation unit calculates capacitance deviations in the plurality of node capacitors from the deviations of changes in the capacitance generated by the plurality of node capacitors. | 07-03-2014 |
20140253491 | TOUCH SENSING DEVICE AND TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - There are provided a touch sensing device and a touchscreen device, the touch sensing device including a plurality of driving electrodes extended in a first axial direction, a plurality of sensing electrodes extended in a second axial direction intersecting with the first axial direction, an integrating circuit unit generating a first analog signal by integrating a change in capacitance generated in a first sensing electrode among the plurality of sensing electrodes and generating a second analog signal from a change in capacitance generated in a second sensing electrode adjacent to the first sensing electrode, and a subtracting unit calculating a difference in levels between the first and second analog signals. | 09-11-2014 |
20140267144 | TOUCH SENSING DEVICE AND TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE - There are provided a touch sensing device and a touchscreen device. The touch sensing device according to an embodiment of the invention may include: a buffer unit including a buffer capacitor charged and discharged by a first voltage and a second voltage input at a predetermined period; an integrating circuit unit integrating a charging voltage of the buffer capacitor; a signal conversion unit comparing a voltage output from the integrating circuit unit with a predetermined reference voltage to generate the second voltage; and a touch determination unit counting the second voltage with a predetermined reference clock to determine a touch. | 09-18-2014 |
20140292708 | TOUCHSCREEN APPARATUS - There is provided a touchscreen apparatus, including a panel unit including a plurality of driving electrodes extended in a first axial direction and a plurality of sensing electrodes extended in a second axial direction intersecting with the first axial direction, a driving circuit unit applying predetermined inspection signals to a plurality of driving channels electrically connected to the plurality of driving electrodes, and an inspecting unit determining an occurrence of a short between at least one pair of adjacent driving electrodes among the plurality of driving electrodes by performing a logical operation on voltages of the plurality of driving channels. | 10-02-2014 |
20140375575 | STYLUS PEN AND TOUCHSCREEN MODULE - There are provided a stylus pen and a touchscreen module. The stylus pen includes a receiving unit receiving a predetermined driving signal; a synchronizing unit generating a signal synchronized with the received driving signal; a frequency adjusting unit changing a frequency of the synchronized signal; and a transmitting unit transmitting a signal output from the frequency adjusting unit. | 12-25-2014 |
20150015531 | TOUCH SCREEN TO RECOGNIZE REMOTE GESTURE AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed herein is a touch screen to recognize a remote gesture including a touch panel, a mode selecting unit, first and second switching circuit units and a controlling unit. Slimness and lightness of a mobile device having the touch screen may be realized by integrating touch and remote gesture recognition functions with the electrode patterns by switching operations of the first and second switching circuit units. In addition, a signal to noise ratio (SNR) available for both the touch and remote gesture recognitions may be secured by forming a width of a first electrode pattern of the touch screen in a metal mesh pattern having a wider width than a mutual induced capacitive type according to the prior art. | 01-15-2015 |
20150070295 | TOUCHSCREEN DEVICE AND METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME - There are provided a touchscreen device and a method of driving the same. The touchscreen device includes: a panel unit including a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second direction; and a control unit applying predetermined driving signals to at least one first electrode among first electrodes arranged sequentially from a first thereof and to at least one first electrode among first electrodes arranged sequentially from a last thereof, and detecting a change in capacitance from at least one of the first electrodes among electrodes disposed in a central portion, to thereby determine a touch. | 03-12-2015 |