52nd week of 2015 patent applcation highlights part 43 |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150370332 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR RECOGNIZING GESTURES FOR A USER CONTROL INTERFACE - In the context of a user interface control, a gesture-recognition device: receives gyroscopic data representing a gesture executed with a dedicated instrument including a gyroscopic sensor; determines a correlation between the received gyroscopic data and gyroscopic data relating to a supervised learning and pre-recorded into a database; recognizes or not the executed gesture according to said correlation, the only data representing the executed gesture taken into account being said gyroscopic data; transposes each recognized gesture into a user interface command. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370333 | SYSTEMS, DEVICES, AND METHODS FOR GESTURE IDENTIFICATION - Systems, devices, and methods adapt established concepts from natural language processing for use in gesture identification algorithms. A gesture identification system includes sensors, a processor, and a non-transitory processor-readable memory that stores data and/or instructions for performing gesture identification. A gesture identification system may include a wearable gesture identification device. The gesture identification process involves segmenting signals from the sensors into data windows, assigning a respective “window class” to each data window, and identifying a user-performed gesture based on the corresponding sequence of window classes. Each window class exclusively characterizes at least one data window property and is analogous to a “letter” of an alphabet. Under this model, each gesture is analogous to a “word” made up of a particular combination of window classes. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370334 | DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DEVICE - Provided are a device and a method of controlling the device. The method includes obtaining information regarding type of a hovering input unit configured to transmit a hovering input to the device; and displaying a user interface corresponding to the obtained information regarding type of the hovering input unit from among a plurality of user interfaces related to an application executed on the device. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370335 | DISPLAY CONTROL APPARATUS, DISPLAY APPARATUS, DISPLAY CONTROL METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A display control apparatus of an illustrative embodiment controls display of a movable object on a display plane such that, in response to a movement operation, a movement trajectory of the movable object has a component that appears perpendicular to the display plane, wherein the movement operation is initiated when an operation device receives a user input having a component perpendicular to the display plane. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370336 | Device Interaction with Spatially Aware Gestures - Described is a system and technique for providing the ability for a user to interact with one or more devices by performing gestures that mimic real-world physical analogies. More specifically, the techniques described herein provide the ability for a user to interact with a device by limiting the conscious gesturing for a computer component by camouflaging computer-recognizable gestures within manipulations of a physical objects. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370337 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INTERFACE - In an apparatus and method for controlling an interface, a user interface (UI) may be controlled using information on a hand motion and a gaze of a user without separate tools such as a mouse and a keyboard. That is, the UI control method provides more intuitive, immersive, and united control of the UI. Since a region of interest (ROI) sensing the hand motion of the user is calculated using a UI object that is controlled based on the hand motion within the ROI, the user may control the UI object in the same method and feel regardless of a distance from the user to a sensor. In addition, since positions and directions of view points are adjusted based on a position and direction of the gaze, a binocular 2D/3D image based on motion parallax may be provided. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370338 | TEXT CHARACTER INPUT DEVICE AND TEXT CHARACTER INPUT METHOD - A text character input device for inputting a text character selectively from text characters displayed on a display screen is provided. The text character input device includes an area storage that stores positions of areas in the display screen, a text character storage that stores inputtable text characters assigned to any of the areas, a visual line detector that detects a position of a user's visual line in the display screen; a text character display that deploys and displays the text characters assigned to an area when the user's visual line is present within the area; and a text character selector that selects an input text character from the displayed text characters in accordance with a user's operation. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370339 | INPUT/OUTPUT DEVICE WITH A DYNAMICALLY ADJUSTABLE APPEARANCE AND FUNCTION - A computing device is disclosed. The computing device may include a display, a processor in communication with the display and an enclosure connected to the display. The computing device may also include an input/output (I/O) device in communication with the processor. The I/O device may also be connected to the enclosure. Additionally, the I/O device may include a modifiable display that may substantially match the appearance of the enclosure. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370340 | NEW COMPUTER KEYBOARD LAYOUT, STRUCTURE AND ARRANGEMENT - The invention provides a way to optimize and increase typing speed for smartphones during SMS or mail writing given that the existing methods are not optimized and they often cause difficulties, limitations or slow text insertion. The technical problem to solve is “to develop an intelligent keyboard that is fast and intuitive, designed for devices using either a touchscreen keyboard (cell phones, smartphones and tablets as well as ticket emission machines, ATM machines, etc.) or a physical keyboard (many smartphones, old generation cell phones), which are used mostly with a single hand or even with a single finger in case of smaller devices”. The solution to this problem originates from blending together the following ideas: • | 2015-12-24 |
20150370341 | Electronic Apparatus And Display Control Method Thereof - An electronic apparatus and a display control method are described. The display control method includes determining whether the external input device is connected with the electronic apparatus; controlling the display component to display the graphic user interactive interface with a first display mode in a state where the external input device is not connected with the electronic apparatus; and controlling the display component to display the graphic user interactive interface with a second display mode in a state where the external input device is connected with the electronic apparatus, wherein layout of operable objects in the graphic user interactive interface displayed with the first display mode and layout of operable objects in the graphic user interactive interface displayed with the second display mode are different. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370342 | CHARACTER STRING INPUT SYSTEM - The present invention is intended to realize character string input using two or more devices by an efficient technique. A character string input system includes a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus. The first information processing apparatus acquires an operation done on a first input device and acquires a first character string on the basis of the acquired operation. The second information processing apparatus acquires an operation done on a second input device and acquires a second character string on the basis of the acquired operation. The first information processing apparatus outputs an input character string on the basis of the first character string acquired by the time input of the second character string is started by use of the second input device and the second character string. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370343 | CUSTOMIZABLE AND RECONFIGURABLE VIRTUAL INSTRUMENT PANEL - The invention provides an instrument control panel that is easily customized and reconfigured, and yet provides the familiar tactile sensation of physical knobs, sliders, and buttons. The instrument control panel comprises one or more interface components that are removably coupled to an interface display wherein the interface components communicate with one or more control components disposed behind the interface display. The present invention lends itself particularly well to an instrument panel. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370344 | Rotary Controller Arrangement - The present disclosure provides methods and systems for a rotary controller arrangement. A method may include receiving an indication that a rotary control element is moved to a first end position. A first action may be performed based on a selection of the first action at the first end position. An indication that the rotary control element is moved to a second end position may be received. A second action may be performed based on a selection of the second action at the second end position. The disclosed rotary controller arrangement includes assigning an action to the end point of rotation of a rotary control element. By assigning an action to an end point of rotation, a user may rotate the rotary control element to a particular end point to easily find and select the desired action. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370345 | IDENTIFYING ONE OR MORE WORDS FOR ALTERATION OF USER INPUT OF ONE OR MORE CHARACTERS - In one aspect, a device includes a display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive first input pertaining to at least two characters comprising a first character and a second character, present at least the first and second characters on the display, receive second input corresponding to the first character but not corresponding to the second character, present on the display a recommendation of at least one alternate character to the first character in response to receipt of the second input, and present the at least one alternate character on the display in place of the first character in response to third input corresponding to the at least one alternate character. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370346 | MAGNETIC CONTROLLER FOR DEVICE CONTROL - Systems, methods and apparatus for using a magnetic controller to control device. In one aspect, a system includes a magnetic controller external to a device, the magnetic controller including: a magnetic device for altering a surrounding magnetic field of a device; one or more input actuators, each operatively coupled to the magnetic device and that when actuated cause the magnetic device alter the surrounding magnetic field according to a predefined change associated with the input actuator; and a model executable by the device and that models as device inputs the differences in the surrounding magnetic field of the device caused by the actuation of the one or more input actuators. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370347 | TOUCH PANEL USING TOUCH PEN AND FORMED WITH POWER PATTERN - A touch panel is provided with a power pattern. The touch panel may include a first substrate, a first pad and a second pad. The power pattern may be formed as the first substrate to surround an edge of one side of the substrate at least one or more times and not to be overlapped all the way from one end to the other end. The first pad may be electrically connected to one end of the power pattern. The second pad may be electrically connected to the other end of the power pattern. The touch panel may also include a second substrate for arranging a terminal unit electrically connected to the first pad and the second pad. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370348 | ACTIVE TRIANGULATION CALIBRATION - According to examples of the presently disclosed subject an active triangulation system includes an active triangulation setup and a calibration module. The active triangulation setup includes a projector and a sensor. The projector is configured to project a structured light pattern that includes a repeating structure of a plurality of unique feature types and a plurality of markers distributed in the projected structured light pattern, where an epipolar distance between any two epipolar lines which are associated with an appearance in the image of any two respective markers is greater than a distance between any two distinguishable epipolar lines. The sensor is configured to capture an image of a reflected portion of the projected structured light. The calibration module is configured to determine an epipolar field for the active triangulation setup according to locations of the markers in the image, and to calibrate the active triangulation setup. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370349 | ERGONOMIC PHYSICAL INTERACTION ZONE CURSOR MAPPING - Users move their hands in a three dimensional (“3D”) physical interaction zone (“PHIZ”) to control a cursor in a user interface (“UI”) shown on a computer-coupled 2D display such as a television or monitor. The PHIZ is shaped, sized, and positioned relative to the user to ergonomically match the user's natural range of motions so that cursor control is intuitive and comfortable over the entire region on the UI that supports cursor interaction. A motion capture system tracks the user's hand so that the user's 3D motions within the PHIZ can be mapped to the 2D UI. Accordingly, when the user moves his or her hands in the PHIZ, the cursor correspondingly moves on the display. Movement in the z direction (i.e., back and forth) in the PHIZ allows for additional interactions to be performed such as pressing, zooming, 3D manipulations, or other forms of input to the UI. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370350 | DETERMINING A STYLUS ORIENTATION TO PROVIDE INPUT TO A TOUCH ENABLED DEVICE - In one aspect, a first device includes a display, a processor, and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory bears instructions executable by the processor to receive data from an input device pertaining to the orientation of the input device and, at least in part based on the data, determine whether the input device is positioned to provide input to the first device. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370351 | Pen Input Device Used With Mobile Device - A pen input device used with mobile device includes a digital pen, which includes an ink cartridge and is provided therein with an electromagnetic wave emitting circuit; a digital tablet, which includes therein a signal selector, a signal amplifier, an analog-to-digital converter, a microcontroller, and a transmission interface and has a surface on which a scan line grid composed of parallel conductive lines is formed with the scan line grid being inductively coupled to the electromagnetic wave emitting circuit of the digital pen through electromagnetic wave signals and the transmission interface being set in communicating connection with a transmission interface of an external mobile device; and at least one paper sheet, which is positioned on the surface of the digital tablet, and the digital pen which containing an ink cartridge may writes or draws on a paper sheet arranged on a digital tablet to have the writing scripts or drawing data generated by handwriting synchronously transmitted to a mobile device thereby providing an effect of synchronously display the writing scripts or drawing data that a user made on the paper sheet on a screen of the mobile device so as to achieve the purpose of having the writing scripts and drawings data stored in the mobile device or transmitted to a cloud host for storage. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370352 | ACTIVE STYLUS PEN, DATA INPUT SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF ACTIVE STYLUS PEN - According to one embodiment, an active stylus pen includes a power supply circuit, an operation detector, a counter and a grip detector. The power supply circuit supplies power from a battery to components in the active stylus pen. The operation detector detects an operation with the active stylus pen being performed for an electronic device capable of receiving the operation. The counter counts an elapsed time after detecting the operation being performed. The grip detector detects the active stylus pen being gripped. The power supply circuit reduces power supply to the components when the elapsed time exceeds a value defined in advance and the active stylus pen being gripped is not detected. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370353 | Optical Touch Display Device and Driving Method Thereof - An optical touch display device which is advantageous in high-speed driving, large-area touch sensing, and multi-touch sensing because of use of an image map and which can improve touch sensing performance and a driving method thereof are provided. The optical touch display device includes a display device configured to display a display image based on input source image data and an image map for touch sensing, an optical touch pen configured to detect map information of the image map displayed on the display device, and a position detector configured to detect position information (coordinate information) on a screen based on the map information. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370354 | INTERACTING TIPS FOR A DIGITIZER STYLUS - A stylus for use with a digitizer sensor includes a housing confined by a first and second end, a primary tip positioned at the first end of the housing and associated with a first transmitting element, the first transmitting element having a first diameter, a secondary tip positioned at the second end of the housing and associated with a second transmitting element, the second transmitting element having a second diameter that is larger than the first diameter, a transmitting unit for transmitting a first signal with a first amplitude via the first transmitting element and for transmitting a second signal with a second amplitude via the second transmitting element, wherein the first amplitude is at least twice the second amplitude and a powering unit for powering transmission of the first and second signal. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370355 | POSITION INDICATOR - A position indicator is provided, which includes a chassis that accommodates a holder therein, wherein the holder in turn accommodates various elements therein. The holder includes a core body engaging portion configured to hold a core body, a component disposing portion in which one or more pressure-sensitive components are disposed in an axial direction so as to receive a pressing pressure applied to the core body, and a printed wiring board mounting portion for being engaged with and mounting a printed wiring board with a longitudinal direction of the printed wiring board as the axial direction. The core body and the one or more pressure-sensitive components are held by the core body engaging portion and the component disposing portion in such a way that their central positions are aligned with each other in a predetermined position. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370356 | TOUCH PANEL AND APPARATUS FOR DRIVING THEREOF - Embodiments relate to a touch panel and a method of operating the touch panel. The touch panel includes first electrodes and second electrodes separated from and intersecting the first electrodes. The first electrodes are applied with a touch driving pulse during a first sensing mode and a second sensing mode. The second electrodes sense a first touch sense signal responsive to the touch driving pulse in the first sensing mode. A subset of the second electrodes senses a second touch sense signal responsive to the touch driving pulse in the second sensing mode. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370357 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel comprises a protection substrate, a first transparent substrate, a first patterned electrode layer and a first transparent adhesive layer. The first transparent substrate is disposed opposite the protection substrate. The first patterned electrode layer is disposed on the first transparent substrate and between the protection substrate and the first transparent substrate, and includes a patterned portion and a non-patterned portion. The first transparent adhesive layer is disposed between the protection substrate and the first patterned electrode layer. The refractive index of the first transparent adhesive layer is greater than or equal to 1.65 and less than or equal to 1.72, wherein reflectivity of the patterned portion is substantially the same as the reflectivity of the non-patterned portion. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370358 | SUBSTRATE AND TOUCH PANEL MEMBER USING SAME - The present invention aims to provide a substrate having an ITO with a low ITO pattern visibility, which substrate is formed by a method utilizing a simple technique such as coating, printing or the like, and which method is less burdensome from the viewpoints of cost and process; and to provide a touch panel member using the substrate. The present invention provides a substrate including a region where thin layers are laminated on a transparent ground substrate, which thin layers are, in the order mentioned from the upper surface of the substrate, an ITO (Indium Tin Oxide) thin layer (I); an organic thin layer (II) having a film thickness of from 0.01 μm to 0.4 μm and a refractive index of from 1.58 to 1.85; and a silicon oxide thin layer (III) having a film thickness of from 0.01 to 10 μm. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370359 | CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURE BODY PRECURSOR, CONDUCTIVE STRUCTURE BODY AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - The present application provides a conductive structure body precursor, a conductive structure body and a method for manufacturing the same. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370360 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS HAVING IMAGE-RELATED INFORMATION DISPLAYING FUNCTION - In an electronic apparatus having a user identification function or in a user identification method, an electronic apparatus and an electronic instrument having stored therein user personal information communicate in wireless with each other so as to enable the electronic apparatus to automatically identify the electronic apparatus user. If the electronic apparatus identifies a plurality of possible users, the electronic apparatus automatically selects the user by 10 executing specific user identification processing | 2015-12-24 |
20150370361 | DETECTING DEVICE AND INPUT DEVICE - A detecting device includes an irradiation component that includes a first light source and irradiates a specific region with light from the first light source, a light receiver that receives light reflected in the specific region, and a controller that performs an operation control of the irradiation component based on a specific criterion with respect to the light received by the light receiver. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370362 | SENSOR CONTROL - An apparatus can include a left optical trackpad that, responsive to object sensing, outputs a left optical trackpad signal; a right optical trackpad that, responsive to object sensing, outputs a right optical trackpad signal; assignment circuitry that assigns a status to the optical trackpads that is a right hand dominant status or a left hand dominant status; and control circuitry that outputs one or more commands based at least in part on the status and at least one of the right optical trackpad signal and the left optical trackpad signal. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370363 | Single-Layer Touch Sensor - In one embodiment, a touch sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode. At least a portion of the second electrode is interdigitated with the first electrode. The first electrode includes a base portion, a digit and an extent. The digit includes a first end and a second end, connects to the base portion at the first end, and extends from the base portion in a first direction along a first axis. The extent connects to the digit at the second end and extends from the digit along a second axis that is substantially perpendicular to the first axis. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370364 | CLASSIFYING INPUT OBJECTS INTERACTING WITH A CAPACITIVE BUTTON - Embodiments of the invention generally provide an input device that includes a zero-dimensional button that detects whether an input object is proximate to a sensing region. However, different input objects may provide similar responses which may prevent the input device from accurately determining whether the user actually intended to activate the button. In one embodiment, the input device drives a capacitive sensing signal onto a sensor electrode in the capacitive button and measures at least two resulting signals. The input device then derives capacitance values based on the two resulting signals and uses a ratio between the capacitance values to classifying the interaction with the input object. This ratio enables the input device to distinguish between events that have similar capacitive responses and would otherwise be indistinguishable if only one resulting signal were measured. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370365 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - A mobile terminal and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. The mobile terminal displays, on a display unit, a touch input interface including at least one graphic object and a first region defined to correspond each graphic object, recognizes the defined first region as a touch input region of the each graphic object, changes the touch input region of the each graphic object to a specific region discriminated from the defined first region upon sensing approach of the mobile terminal within a predetermined distance from a first object through the sensing unit, and recognizes the changed specific region as the touch input region for receiving touch input from a second object while a distance between the mobile terminal and the first object keeps within the predetermined distance. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370366 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL WITH INCREASED SCAN FREQUENCY - A system includes a first group of transmit electrodes configured to be driven from a first side of a capacitive touch panel and a second group of transmit electrodes configured to be driven from a second side of the panel. The system also includes receive electrodes and a controller operatively coupled with the transmit electrodes and the receive electrodes. The controller is operable to dynamically configure the transmit electrodes and the receive electrodes to compensate for phase delays introduced by driving the transmit electrodes from different sides of the panel. A method includes driving a first group of transmit electrodes from a first side of a capacitive touch panel, driving a second group of transmit electrodes from a second side of the panel, and dynamically configuring the transmit electrodes and receive electrodes to compensate for phase delays introduced by driving the transmit electrodes from different sides of the panel. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370367 | TOUCH SCREEN, MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF AND DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch screen, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device are disclosed. In the touch screen, a plurality of first sensing units are connected to each other by a first connection line in a first direction; and a plurality of second sensing units are connected to each other by a second connection line in a second direction; the first sensing units and the second sensing units are arranged alternatively in the first and second direction; and in the first direction, at least part of the second sensing units is overlapped with the first connection line between two first sensing units adjacent to this second sensing unit, and in the second direction, at least part of the first sensing units is overlapped with the second connection line between two second sensing units adjacent to this first sensing unit. The overlapping area between the first sensing unit and the respective connection line and the overlapping area between the second sensing unit and the respective connection line is increased, improving the electrostatic capacitance in the overlapping position, and in turn improving the ability of anti-static electricity of the touch screen. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370368 | CAPACITIVE TOUCHSCREEN - A capacitive touchscreen including a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and at least one interlayer interposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes, and the first electrodes are arranged at spaced intervals along a first direction. The second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes, and the second electrodes are arranged at spaced intervals along a second direction so as to cross the first electrodes. The second direction crosses the first direction. The at least one interlayer has a thickness set such that a coupling capacitance between each first electrode and each second electrode is between or equal to 0.5 pF and 2 pF. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370369 | Touch Sensing Device - A touch sensing device includes a driving electrode and a sensing electrode. The driving electrode includes an electrode main stem and a plurality of electrode fingers. The electrode main stem has a planar contour of substantially a long strip, and has a longer side parallel to a first direction. The electrode fingers extend from the electrode main stem towards a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. At least two electrode fingers of the electrode fingers have different lengths in the second direction. The sensing electrode includes a main body. The main body has a plurality of recessed portions that correspond and interleave with the electrode fingers to form a mutual capacitive touch region. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370370 | DISPLAY - To reduce disturbances in display of images due to static electricity without deteriorating optical properties in a display. The display includes a conductive pattern provided on the upper surface of the substrate, a protection layer provided on the upper surface of the substrate to cover the conductive pattern, and a conductive layer provided on the protection layer. The sheet resistance of the conductive pattern is not more than 8Ω/square. A ratio of the total sum of areas of portions of the plurality of sub-pixels that overlap the conductive pattern in a plan view to the total sum of the areas of the plurality of sub-pixels is 1 to 22%. A sheet resistance of the conductive layer is higher than the sheet resistance of the conductive pattern. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370371 | DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING TOUCH DETECTION FUNCTION - A display device is provided and having a touch detection function includes drive electrodes, detection electrodes, a display driver which performs a touch scanning drive and a display scanning drive, and a touch driver which obtains touch information including detection information on the closely situated external object by acquiring detection signals from the detection electrodes. The display driver acquires the image signal, which is input in response to a master synchronizing signal output to the outside, and outputs the touch synchronizing signal to the touch driver after a predetermined time elapses from time when the image signal is input. The touch driver starts to operate in response to the touch synchronizing signal from the display driver, to acquire the touch information, and outputs the touch information to the outside to cause production of the image signal to start. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370372 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL HAVING DIELECTRIC STRUCTURES FORMED THEREIN - A capacitive touch panel that includes dielectric structures formed therein to modify capacitive coupling within the touch panel is disclosed. In one or more implementations, the capacitive touch panel includes elongated drive electrodes arranged next to one another and elongated sensor electrodes arranged one next to another across the elongated drive electrodes. The capacitive touch panel also includes a dielectric structure positioned over a sensor electrode to modify capacitive coupling within the capacitive touch panel. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370373 | CAPACITIVE BASED DIGITIZER SENSOR - A sensor includes a sensor layer patterned with conductive elements spread across the sensor layer and a resilient layer proximate to the sensor layer. The conductive elements are electrically isolated from one another. The sensor layer is configured for capacitive based sensing and to detect local compressions based on pressure applied to the resilient layer. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370374 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FORMING PATTERNS IN COATINGS ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF A TRANSPARENT SUBSTRATE - A method of forming patterns in coatings on opposite sides of a transparent substrate by direct write laser patterning comprising the steps: a) providing a first transparent coating on a first side of the substrate, the first coating being formed of a material having a relatively high laser ablation threshold energy density; b) mounting the substrate on a stage or locating the substrate on a chuck, c) using a first laser beam to form a first pattern in the first transparent coating by laser ablation; d) providing a second transparent coating on the second side of the substrate after formation of said first pattern, the second coating being formed of a material having a relatively low laser ablation or modification threshold energy density; using a second laser beam to form a second pattern in the second transparent coating by laser ablation or modification, the energy density of the second laser beam being lower than that of the first laser beam such that ablation of the second transparent coating is carried out without causing appreciable damage to the first transparent coating. Apparatus arranged to carry out this method and a product formed by the method are also described. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370375 | INPUT DEVICE, METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME, AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION EQUIPMENT - An input device having a row electrode and a column electrode made by patterning a meshed metallic layer by forming a dividing section on a metallic line constituting the meshed metallic layer can make areas of individual dividing sections of the metallic lines uniform, whereby uneven shading due to the patterned, meshed conductive layer is suppressed from appearing on a touch operation surface. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370376 | Force Determination Based on Capacitive Sensing - A device configured to determine the location and magnitude of a touch on a surface of the device. The device includes a transparent touch sensor that is configured to detect a location of a touch on the transparent touch sensor. The device also includes a force-sensing structure disposed at the periphery of the transparent touch sensor. The force sensor includes an upper capacitive plate and a compressible element disposed on one side of the upper capacitive plate. The force sensor also includes a lower capacitive plate disposed on a side of the compressible element that is opposite the upper capacitive plate. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370377 | TOUCH PANEL AND MANUFACTURING METHOD OF TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel includes a transparent substrate, a wiring formed on at least one surface of the transparent substrate, a conductive layer formed on the wiring and the transparent substrate, and a protective layer formed on the conductive layer. The wiring transmits a signal from the conductive layer. The conductive layer is transparent and has a pattern formed by patterning a material formed on the wiring. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370378 | INTEGRATED TOUCH SCREENS - Integrated touch screens are provided including drive lines formed of grouped-together circuit elements of a thin film transistor layer and sense lines formed between a color filter layer and a material layer that modifies or generates light. The common electrodes (Vcom) in the TFT layer can be grouped together during a touch sensing operation to form drive lines. Sense lines can be formed on an underside of a color filter glass, and a liquid crystal region can be disposed between the color filter glass and the TFT layer. Placing the sense lines on the underside of the color filter glass, i.e., within the display pixel cell, can provide a benefit of allowing the color filter glass to be thinned after the pixel cells have been assembled, for example. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370379 | TOUCH PANEL AND RESIN COMPOSITION FOR FORMING PROTECTIVE LAYER - A touch panel having an input region and an outside region positioned outside the input region includes at least: a substrate; detection electrodes disposed on the substrate corresponding to the input region; lead-out wirings which are disposed on the substrate corresponding to the outside region and are electrically connected to the detection electrodes; and a protective layer disposed on the substrate corresponding to the outside region so as to cover the lead-out wirings. The protective layer is formed by using an epoxy resin, and the lead-out wirings contain metal silver and gelatin. In the touch panel, the occurrence of ion migration between lead-out wirings is further inhibited. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370380 | TOUCH SCREEN PANEL AND TOUCH SENSING APPARATUS HAVING THE SAME - A touch screen panel includes a first touch electrode part, a second touch electrode part, a first touch router, a second touch router and plural third touch routers. The first touch electrode part includes plural first touch units. The second touch electrode part is substantially parallel to the first touch electrode part. The second touch electrode part includes plural second touch units. The first touch router is disposed adjacent to the first touch electrode part and is connected to one of an even-numbered first touch unit and an odd-numbered first touch unit of the first touch units. The second touch router is disposed adjacent to the first touch electrode part and is connected to the other of the even-numbered first touch unit and the odd-numbered first touch unit of the first touch units. The third touch routers are connected to each of the second touch units, respectively. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370381 | DISPLAY PANEL WITH TOUCH DETECTION FUNCTION, METHOD OF DRIVING THE SAME, DRIVING CIRCUIT, AND ELECTRONIC UNIT - There are provide a display panel with a touch detection function, in which display operation is less affected by touch detection operation, a method of driving the display panel with a touch detection function, a driving circuit, and an electronic unit having the display panel with a touch detection function. The display panel with a touch detection function includes: one or more display elements; one or more drive electrodes; one or more touch detection electrodes; and a drive section selectively applying a DC drive signal or an AC drive signal to the drive electrodes. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370382 | TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch display device comprises a display module, a polarizer, a first patterned electrode layer and a first transparent adhesive layer. The first patterned electrode layer is disposed between the polarizer and the display module and includes a patterned portion and a non-patterned portion. The first transparent adhesive layer is disposed on the first patterned electrode layer. The refractive index of the first transparent adhesive layer is greater than or equal to 1.65 and less than or equal to 1.72, wherein reflectivity of the patterned portion is substantially the same as reflectivity of the non-patterned portion. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370383 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND SENSOR CONTROL METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a detector and a notification processor. The detector detects states of one or more components related to power supply to the electronic apparatus. The notification processor notifies a sensor of a frequency at which the sensor operates based on the states of the one or more components. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370384 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD FOR USER INPUT - An electronic device may include a multi-layer panel, a first upper electrode and a first lower electrode disposed in different respective layers of the multi-layer panel, a second upper electrode and a second lower electrode disposed in different layers respectively of the multi-layer panel. A first controller may detect a touch input by detecting a change in an electromagnetic field between the first upper electrode and the first lower electrode. A second controller may detect a hovering input by detecting a change in an electromagnetic field between the second upper electrode and the second lower electrode. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370385 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A strain quantity threshold value is set in accordance with a distance from a pressure detection unit for each divided predetermined subdivision which is obtained by dividing an operation surface of a touch panel unit into a plurality of subdivisions. The minimum value of the strain quantity threshold value is set to be a value larger than a strain quantity when water or the like is attached to the operation surface of the touch panel unit. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370386 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - A strain quantity obtaining unit is provided that obtains a strain quantity at an interval faster than variation in the strain to be detected and stores the maximum value of the strain quantity. When a touch coordinate is obtained at a predetermined sampling interval, if the maximum value of the strain quantity when the touch coordinate is obtained does not exceed a strain quantity threshold value, the touch coordinate is not caused to be effective. However, if the maximum value of the strain quantity when the touch coordinate is obtained exceeds a strain quantity threshold value, the touch coordinate is caused to be effective. If a touch coordinate is caused to be effective once, the touch coordinate is caused to be effective continuously until an instructing object is separated from an operation surface of a touch panel unit at a predetermined distance or more in a perpendicular direction. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370387 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS - Provided is an electronic apparatus including a casing, a display unit, an electrostatic capacitive touch panel, a gravity sensor, and a step. The display unit is disposed in the casing, has a predetermined shape, and displays predetermined information. The electrostatic capacitive touch panel has a shape substantially the same as the predetermined shape and determines a two-dimensional coordinate indicated by an instructing object which has some conductivity and display of the display unit passes through the electrostatic capacitive touch panel. The gravity sensor enables detection of a perpendicular direction. The step is disposed along a side of the predetermined shape, is low on an inside of the predetermined shape and is high on an outside of the predetermined shape. A nullification region at which the two-dimensional coordinate is nullified is enabled to be disposed along the side and the nullification region is disposed along the side in a perpendicular direction. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370388 | TOUCH PANEL - A touch panel of the present disclosure includes a substrate divided into a view area and an unavailable area. Sensing electrodes are formed in the view area to sense a first input, and touch electrodes are formed in the view area not to be overlapped with the sensing electrodes to sense a second input. A first wire is formed in the unavailable area to connect first ends of the touch electrodes, and second wires are formed in the unavailable area and connected to the second ends of the touch electrodes. A controller is connected to the second wires to control the touch electrodes, in which the first wire may be connected to the plurality of touch electrodes, and the second wires may connect each of the plurality of touch electrodes to the controller. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370389 | PORTABLE COMPUTER - A portable computer includes a display panel having a display surface and a touch panel. The touch panel is disposed on the display surface and comprises at least one transparent conductive layer. The transparent conductive layer includes a carbon nanotubes layer having a carbon nanotube film. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370390 | ANTI-NEWTON-RING FILM AND TOUCH PANEL - An anti-Newton-ring film for effectively preventing generation of Newton rings in a resistive touch panel is provided. The anti-Newton-ring film is obtained, with the use of a liquid phase containing one or more polymers, one or more curable resin-precursors, and a solvent, through a step for forming a phase-separation structure by spinodal decomposition of (i) a plurality of polymers, (ii) a combination of a polymer and a curable resin-precursor, or (iii) a plurality of curable resin-precursors, from the liquid phase concurrent with evaporation of the solvent, and a step for curing the resin-precursor to form an anti-Newton-ring layer. In the film, the anti-Newton-ring layer has an uneven surface structure, isotropically transmits and scatters an incident light, shows a maximum value of a scattered light intensity at a scattering angle of 0.1 to 10°, and has a total light transmittance of 70 to 100%. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370391 | TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE AND PROCESS FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A touch display device includes an encapsulating cover plate; a touch component positioned on the encapsulating cover plate and comprising at least one touch pattern and at least one wiring pad electrically connected with the at least one touch pattern; a TFT substrate, sealed together with the encapsulating cover plate by means of sealant; at least one OLED element formed on the TFT substrate; a touch wiring formed on the TFT substrate; at least one spacer positioned on the TFT substrate to keep the TFT substrate from the encapsulating cover plate for a distance; at least one conductivity layer formed on the at least one spacer to transmit signals from the touch component to the TFT substrate. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370392 | TOUCH SYSTEM AND METHOD - A multi-user touch system comprising: transmitter means comprising at least one transmitter and a plurality of transmitter antennae, the transmitter means being operable to apply a respective different encoded signal to each of the transmitter antennae by means of the at least one transmitter; and receiver means comprising at least one receiver and a plurality of receiver antennae, the receiver means being operable to receive by means of one of the receiver antennae an encoded signal applied to one of the transmitter antennae when a user selectively couples a transmitter antenna and a receiver antenna to one another by means of at least a portion of the user's body, the receiver means being operable to determine an identity of the transmitter antenna that transmitted the received signal by decoding the received signal using receiver reference data stored by the receiver means. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370393 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR COMMENCING THE EXECUTION OF TASKS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - Methods and systems for commencing the execution of tasks on an electronic device are provided. First, the orientation of the electronic device is detected. When an instruction is received, the orientation of the electronic device is analyzed, and a specific task is performed according to the analyzed orientation. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370394 | SENSING STRUCTURE OF ONE-GLASS SOLUTION (OGS) TOUCH PANEL - A sensing structure of a one-glass solution (OGS) touch panel is provided, which has a designed diversion structure, such that an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection capability of the sensing structure is improved. According to such design, the ESD protection capability of the sensing structure is improved without increasing a process complexity, so as to avoid energy release of electrostatic charges to cause a damage of the sensing structure. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370395 | TOUCH DISPLAY DEVICE - A touch display device comprises a touch panel, a display panel and a first transparent adhesive layer. The touch panel includes a first patterned electrode layer including a patterned portion and a non-patterned portion. The first transparent adhesive layer is disposed between the touch panel and the display panel. The refractive index of the first transparent adhesive layer is greater than or equal to 1.65 and less than or equal to 1.72, wherein reflectivity of the patterned portion is substantially the same as the reflectivity of the non-patterned portion. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370396 | Force Sensing Based on Capacitance Changes - A force sensing device for electronic device. The force inputs may be detected by measuring changes in capacitance, as measured by surface flex of a device having a flexible touchable surface, causing flex at a compressible gap within the device. A capacitive sensor responsive to changes in distance across the compressible gap. The sensor can be positioned above or below, or within, a display element, and above or below, or within, a backlight unit. The device can respond to bending, twisting, or other deformation, to adjust those zero force measurements. The device can use measure of surface flux that appear at positions on the surface not directly the subject of applied force, such as when the user presses on a part of the frame or a surface without capacitive sensors. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370397 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CHARACTER AND COMMAND INPUT - Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for a user interface allowing a user to input characters, numbers, commands, symbols, etc. with a single hand. Embodiments of the user interface may be a hardware device configured to conform to a user's grip, wherein the device is configured to determine pressure caused by flexions of each of the digits on the user's hand. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370398 | Mechanical Force Redistribution Sensor Array Embedded in a Single Support Layer - An MFR sensor array having a first supporting layer. The array has a second supporting layer. The array has a force sensing component disposed between the first and second supporting layers. The array has protrusions combined with the force supporting component, where there are only two supporting layers. When a force is applied to the second supporting layer, the force causes the second supporting layer to contact protrusions so the force is transmitted through the protrusions to the force supporting component and through the force supporting component. An MFR sensor array. A system for sensing. A method for sensing. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370399 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME - Provided is a mobile terminal including a display unit to which multiple images are output; a sensing unit that detects a touch gesture as being applied to a first image among the multiple images; and a controller that changes an output state of the first image based on the touch gesture. In a state where the output state of the first image is output, when at least one image is selected from among the multiple images, the controller performs control in such a way that at least one selected image overlaps the first image serving as a reference image, and sets the first image and at least one image that overlaps the first image serving as the reference image so that the first image and at least one image belong to a first group. Accordingly, the stored multiple images are quickly categorized on one screen without being moved to a different screen. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370400 | LIGHT GUIDE DEVICE HAVING TOUCH FUNCTION - A light guide device having touch function, including: a reflective plate having one or more conductive areas; a light source unit having a light output side; a light guide plate, located above the reflective plate and having a light input side and a light output face, wherein the light input side is adjacent to the light output side of the light source unit; and a control circuit having a touch detection unit, wherein, the touch detection unit is coupled with the one or more conductive areas of the reflective plate for detecting a touch event on the light output face. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370401 | LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE - To provide a liquid crystal display device with a touch detection function in which any drive method can be adopted. The liquid crystal display device is provided with: a liquid crystal element arrangement that has a plurality of liquid crystal display elements arranged in a matrix shape; a plurality of scanning lines that are arranged in each row of the liquid crystal element arrangement, and supply scanning signals to a plurality of liquid crystal display elements arranged in a corresponding row; a plurality of signal lines that are arranged in each column of the liquid crystal element arrangement, and supply an image signal to a plurality of liquid crystal display elements arranged in a corresponding column; a plurality of touch detection drive electrodes which are arranged in a column of the liquid crystal element arrangement, and to which a drive signal for detecting a touch is supplied; and a touch control part that specifies a touch detection drive electrode from the a plurality of touch detection drive electrodes. Here, the drive signal is supplied to the touch detection drive electrode specified by the touch control part. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370402 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND MEDIA FOR CONTROLLING PLAYBACK OF VIDEO USING A TOUCHSCREEN - Methods, systems and media for controlling playback of video using a touchscreen are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: causing video content to be presented in a player window of a screen of a touchscreen; detecting a first tap gesture within the player window; causing presentation of the video content to be paused; detecting a second tap gesture via the touchscreen; causing presentation of the video content to continue; detecting a left to right swipe gesture; causing a first portion of the video content that is later in time to be presented; detecting a right to left swipe gesture; causing a second portion of the video content that is earlier in time the video content that is currently being presented to be presented. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370403 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING THEREOF - A tablet terminal comprises a touch panel which functions as a display for displaying a screen on a front face of a main body, and a controller which detects a contact to a touch sensor using a contact detection signal which the touch sensor outputs and executes control assigned to a point where the contact is detected after the point where the contact is detected is changed to a non-contact state. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370404 | MULTI-PHASE TOUCH-SENSING ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A touch-sensing electronic device includes a housing having a first touch-sensing surface, a second touch-sensing surface and a third touch-sensing surface; a touch-sensing unit accommodated by the housing for generating at least one control signal in response to touch-sensing operations respectively performed on or over the first touch-sensing surface, the second touch-sensing surface and the third touch-sensing surface; and at least one functional circuit disposed in the housing and being in communication with the touch-sensing unit for performing specific functions in response to the control signal. The touch-sensitive electronic device supports multi-phase touch-sensing. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370405 | VEHICULAR INPUT DEVICE - The present disclosure provides a vehicular input device including: a capacitance sensor mounted to a vehicle providing a plurality of first conductors lined up in a vehicular front-back direction; and a control unit for estimating the separation distance between the capacitance sensor and a driver's finger based on the amount of an electrical charge in a part of the plurality of first conductors arranged at the back side of a vehicle and also estimating the front-back position of the driver's finger on the capacitance sensor based on the difference of an electrical charge respectively stored in each of the plurality of first conductors. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370406 | PROTECTIVE FILM, PROTECTIVE GLASS AND COMMUNICATION METHOD OF MOBILE PHONE - The present invention discloses a method for communicatively connecting a protective film/glass and a mobile phone comprising: downloading and installing a mobile phone APP by a user; implanting one or more APP hidden icons to an edge of the display window of the mobile phone touch screen or an area without action icon by the mobile phone APP; attaching the protective film/glass to the mobile phone touch screen; producing touch buttons on the protective film/glass corresponding to a touching-reactionless portion of an upper end or a lower end of a mobile phone touch screen; touching one of the touch buttons, which makes the capacitance of the hidden icon on the mobile phone touch screen changed; waking up or exiting the mobile phone APP quickly and conveniently through the input and output of CPU. Besides a series of traditional uses such as improving of perverting scoring and polluting for mobile phone, through developing mobile phone system, the present invention enables user download APP according their requirements easily, operate a portion of a mobile phone touch screen that is touching-reactionless originally, wake up or exit commonly used application quickly and conveniently, thereby the application area of the mobile phone is enlarged, user experience and playability are improved. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370407 | Straight Line Gesture Recognition and Rendering - Techniques for determining whether touch-input gestures approximate straight lines and for animating a display with such gestures are described. The techniques determine a linear regression line for pixel locations comprising a gesture, determine distances of the pixel locations from the linear regression line, and render the set of pixel locations to the display based on the distances and a threshold. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370408 | CONTACT DETECTING DEVICE AND DISPLAY DEVICE - Disclosed herein is a contact detecting device including: a contact responding section configured to produce an electric change in response to an object to be detected coming into contact with or proximity to a detecting surface; and a contact driving scanning section configured to scan application of driving voltage to the contact responding section in one direction within the detecting surface, and control output of the electric change in time series, wherein the contact driving scanning section performs a plurality of scans of different regions of the contact responding section in parallel with each other, and outputs a plurality of the electric changes in parallel with each other. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370409 | DISAMBIGUATION OF TOUCH-BASED GESTURES - A system, and computer program product for disambiguation of touch-based gestures are provided in the illustrative embodiments. At an application executing using a processor in a touch-sensitive device, a detection is made that the touch-based gesture does not correspond to a perimeter defining a action, wherein the touch-based gesture is made relative to the touch-sensitive device. A set of possible actions intended by the touch-based gesture is determined. Using a disambiguation rule, an action is selected from the set of possible actions, wherein the selected action matches an action computed using the disambiguation rule. The selected action is caused to occur at the touch-sensitive device. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370410 | TIME MULTIPLEXED TOUCH DETECTION AND POWER CHARGING - A method of scanning a touch sensor panel while the touch sensor panel is coupled to a power adapter is disclosed. The power adapter can charge a battery of a device, but can also introduce or add noise during the process of charging the battery. To prevent adverse effects to the touch sensor panel, while the device is charging, the touch controller can time multiplex touch scan periods and inductive charging periods and can discard touch scans or touch images affected by the noise. Determining whether a touch scan is a bad touch scan can include performing a touch scan across the array of touch pixels and making a determination based on the scan profile. In some examples, the profile can be quantified using different metrics such as the shape, instantaneous slope of tail ends, a full-width half-maximum, and a monotonicity of the curve of the scan profile. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370411 | METHOD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT EDGE SUPPRESSION AND CORRECTION - An electronic device (“the device”) includes a touchscreen display that has a centroid within a curvilinear active area of the touchscreen display. The device detects a touch at a location on the touchscreen display and determines the length of a vector between the centroid and the location. If the length is less than a predefined threshold radius, the device carries out a function in response to the touch. If the length is greater than the predefined threshold radius, the device suppresses the touch. In some implementations, the device carries out edge correction by detecting that the touch is sliding towards an edge of an active area the touchscreen display and, if the length is greater than the distance between the centroid and a predefined edge threshold, the device processes the touch as if the touch was actually closer to the predefined edge threshold. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370412 | TOUCH PANEL DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, a capacitance type touch panel device which is provided on a screen of a display device and is allowed to detect a touch of a stylus is provided. The touch panel device includes a loop antenna, a sensor and a controller. The sensor is connected to the loop antenna and is configured to detect noise which generates in accordance with driving of the display device. The controller is configured to detect the touch at timing different from timing in which the noise generates in the cycle of generation of detected noise. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370413 | PORTABLE DISPLAY DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THEREFOR - A display device detecting pressure of a touch input is disclosed. The display device calibrates the pressure of the touch input based on a distance between a position where the display device is gripped and a position on which the touch input is received. By calibrating the pressure of the touch input, the display device can obtain more precise pressure of a touch input. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370414 | TOUCH PANEL INFORMATION PROCESSING - An information processing device for receiving user selections inputted using a touch panel includes an acquisition unit for acquiring a touch point on the touch panel touched by the user, a placement unit for placing, in an area surrounding a display reference point on a screen, the display of a plurality of input items capable of being inputted by the user by moving the touch point, a detection unit for detecting the direction of movement by the touch point from the initial touch point of the user, a calculation unit for calculating the angle of deviation between the direction of movement of the touch point by the user and a standard direction, and a correction unit for correcting the placement of the display of the plurality of input items in accordance with the angle of deviation. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370415 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE - An image display device includes an image display component, a projection component that forms an optical image corresponding to an image displayed by the image display component, a distance measurement component having a detector that detects an indicator for performing an touch operation relative to the optical image to acquire distance information from the detector to the indicator, and a controller that determines whether or not the indicator has performed the touch operation relative to the optical image based on the distance information and relative movement information between the distance measurement component and at least one of the image display component and the projection component. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370416 | INPUT DEVICE - An input device includes an irradiation component that emits scanning light relative to an input region of a projected image, a light receiver that receives reflected light of the scanning light to output detection signal, a detector that detects an input operation relative to the input region based on the detection signal from the light receiver; and a controller that sets an irradiation parameter of the scanning light from the irradiation component based on the input region. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370417 | AD-HOC WEB CONTENT PLAYER - A system for dynamically playing information using conventional feeds and ad-hoc feeds to produce “playable” content includes a device that executes a player engine, the player engine collecting, combining and sequencing items to play based on selection criteria and device context, of text, image, video content by parsing selective tags, patterns, text, identifiers and resource types of interest on resources such as web pages to produce playable content, storing the playable contents results from parsing in a queue of playable feed items, selecting items from the queue to produce an ad-hoc feed and playing the ad-hoc feed. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370418 | DISPLAY DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY SYSTEM - Problem: A display device and an image display system are provided which can easily identify different kinds of windows. Solution: A list X of simplified images M is based on data containing associated information of multiple attributes as metadata. A display is provided to display the list X in a matrix in which the simplified images M are located for respective pieces of associated information of one attribute in a row direction while the simplified images M are located for respective pieces of associated information of another attribute in a column direction. The display has a first sub window SW | 2015-12-24 |
20150370419 | Interface for Multiple Media Applications - Systems and techniques are provided for an interface for multiple media applications. A list of features for a media application may be received, each of the features associated with a control for the media application. The features may be ranked. A template user interface including definitions for controls may be received. The definition for a control may include a position within a user interface for the control and a size of the control. Each feature from the list of features ranked above a threshold may be associated with a corresponding definition for a control in the template user interface to generate a translated interface. A feature that does not have corresponding definition for a control may not be part of the translated interface. The translated interface may be displayed to a user. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370420 | METHOD FOR QUICK EXECUTION OF AN OPTION - A main remote application menu in a local device provides a user with multiple mechanisms by which the user effectively and quickly share and transform files (text, music, video, etc.). The main remote application menu can be used in fast sharing of a data file, data transformation and other data options for provision of associated functions related to the format of a corresponding file compared with that of the data file. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370421 | LOCATING EVENT ON TIMELINE - Locating an event on a timeline is provided. A calendar application may locate an event on a timeline by detecting a selection action on the event on a calendar. A context menu is displayed on the calendar, where the context menu includes a search control. An activation of the search control is detected. The event is located on the timeline of the calendar. The event is displayed on the timeline. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370422 | MANAGE EVENT WITH CONTENT ON CALENDAR WITH TIMELINE - Management of an event with a content on a calendar with a timeline is provided. An application such as a calendar application detects a selection of the event with the content on the calendar. A context menu is displayed on the calendar, where the context menu includes an add control. An activation of the add control is detected. The event with the content is duplicated on the timeline of the calendar. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370423 | MOBILE TERMINAL, AND MENU ITEM DISPOSING METHOD AND APPARATUS THEREOF - A mobile terminal, and a menu item disposing method and apparatus thereof are provided. The menu item disposing method includes the following steps of providing a menu operation hotspot at a first predetermined position on a touch screen of the mobile terminal, the menu operation hotspot having a predetermined number of touch regions; receiving an input setting; obtaining usage priorities of menu items; and disposing the predetermined number of said menu items on the predetermine number of touch regions in a descending order of the usage priorities, wherein when the input setting complies with left-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the leftmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot; and when the input setting complies with right-hand operation habit, then the menu item having the highest usage priority is disposed on the rightmost touch region of the menu operation hotspot. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370424 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF - Disclosed are a mobile terminal and controlling method thereof, by which saved image data can be effectively searched. The present invention includes a memory configured to store at least one image data, a touchscreen, and a controller outputting a thumbnail list for the stored image data on a 1 | 2015-12-24 |
20150370425 | APPLICATION MENU FOR VIDEO SYSTEM - The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device generates for presentation on a display a user interface including a plurality of groups of icons. A plurality of the icons have been grouped based at least in part on metadata of applications associated with the icons. The electronic device receives input selecting a respective icon. In response to receiving the input selecting a respective icon, the electronic device invokes an instance of an application associated with the respective icon. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370426 | MUSIC NOW PLAYING USER INTERFACE - The invention is directed to an electronic device. The electronic device generates for presentation on a display a user interface including a plurality of content items, a first heading, and a second heading. While the user interface is presented on the display, the electronic device receives input scrolling the plurality of content items. In response to the input, the electronic device scrolls the plurality of content items including: scrolling the first heading with a first content item of the plurality of content items that is currently playing; and scrolling the second heading with a second content item of the plurality of content items that is next in a queue of content items. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370427 | EVENT RESPONSE METHOD FOR USER INTERFACE OF MOBILE DEVICE, AND MOBILE DEVICE - The disclosed are a mobile device and a method for responding to events of a user interface of a mobile device. The method comprises: detecting a first trigger action on the user interface; calculating a coordinate of the position where the first trigger action occurs; according to the coordinate, determining that a response region to which the position belongs is the ith to the nth layer of response region, wherein iε[1, n]; judging whether the position belongs to the valid region of the ith layer of response region, and if yes, responding to the first trigger action in the ith layer of response area; otherwise, updating i to i+1, repeating this step until i is equal to n+1. By means of the above-mentioned solution, a mobile device is enabled to accurately respond to an operation of a user on the sector user interface. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370428 | LAUNCHING APPLICATIONS ON AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE - In some examples, an electronic device may offload an application to a network storage. For instance, the application, associated application data, and/or saved application state information may be deleted from the electronic device. Subsequently, an application launcher may present a launcher user interface (UI) on a display associated with the electronic device. The launcher UI may include a first set of application representations corresponding to applications offloaded from the electronic device, and a second set of application representations corresponding to applications currently installed on the electronic device. In response to receiving a selection of one of the representations from the first set via the launcher UI, the selected application may be onloaded onto the electronic device. Further, in some cases, the electronic device may receive from the network storage at least one of the application data or the application state information for the onloaded application. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370429 | IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD OF IN-VEHICLE APPARATUS - An in-vehicle apparatus and a control method of an in-vehicle apparatus, which is applied to a multimedia terminal having, for example, a function of navigation equipment and a function of video playback so as to improve usability to a user in a case of accepting an operation through a touch panel and a remote commander. A touch panel menu screen suitable for an operation through a touch panel and a remote commander menu screen suitable for an operation through a remote commander are switched to be displayed so as to accept an operation by a user. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370430 | METHOD FOR SELECTING AND CONTROLLING SECOND WORK PROCESS DURING FIRST WORK PROCESS IN MULTITASKING MOBILE TERMINAL - Provided is a method for controlling a plurality of work processes in a multitasking mobile terminal, and more particularly, a method for selecting a second work process during a first work process and controlling a predetermined function of the selected second work process. In the controlling method, icons corresponding to the respective work processes are displayed in response to a user command, and a desired work process is selected through the displayed icons. A predetermined function of the selected work process is controlled through a pop-up menu activated in response to the user command. | 2015-12-24 |
20150370431 | System and Method for Document-Portion Social Networking - A system and method for document portion social networking is disclosed. | 2015-12-24 |