Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Nipro Corporation

Panasonic Corporation

Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Hiroshi Fukushima

Tomoo Takatani

Koji Yabuta

Takehiro Murao

Takuto Yoshino

Yasuhiro Sugita

Kazutoshi Kida

Ryoh Kikuchi

Akira Imai

Shinji Yamagishi

Takenori Maruyama

Takuma Yamamoto

Masakazu Wada

Yoshihide Koyama

Jean Mugiraneza

Yukio Mizuno

Yusuke Adachi

Shin-ichi Kawamura

Kimitaka Nomura

Tomohiro Kimura

Kiyoshi Minoura

Hirofumi Kubota

Toshiaki Masuda

Emma Jayne Walton

Martin David Tillin

Kohji Fujiwara

Masashi Yokota

Paul Bonnett

Grant Bourhill

Diana Ulrich Kean

Norihiro Ito

Hidetsugu Kawamori

Robert Winlow

Kimihiko Nakamura

Kazuki Kitamura

Masuyuki Ota

Michel Sagardoyburu

Toshinari Takahashi

Zabbie J Acosta

Hiroshi Todo

Kenichiro Tsuchida

Diana U Kean

A touch panel system includes an electrostatic capacitance type touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressing force detection electrode; and a controller configured to provide a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire a position signal value from the position detection electrode and a pressing force signal value from the pressing force detection electrode. The controller detects a position of a pointer based on the position signal value, and acquires a pressing force generated by the pointer based on a rate of change of a smoothed value of the pressing force value based on the pressing force signal value.

Touch panel system, display device, and method for controlling touch panel system

A touch panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The touch panel includes a drive electrode formed on a surface of the first substrate, a position sensor electrode and a pressing force sensor electrode formed on a surface of the second substrate, a position sensor wiring line that connects the position sensor electrode to a terminal portion, a pressing force sensor wiring line that connects the pressing force sensor electrode to the terminal portion, and a shield wiring line disposed between the position sensor wiring line and the pressing force sensor wiring line in a plan view.

Touch panel and display device

A touch panel including a sense electrode having a rectangular shape extending in a first direction and including a first sense electrode and a second sense electrode, and a drive electrode having a rectangular shape extending in a second direction intersecting with the first direction on the sense electrode and including a first drive electrode having a shielding property against electric field components. The first drive electrode is positioned covering at least a part of the first sense electrode in a planar view in which the sense electrode is viewed from the drive electrode.

Touch panel, display device, and input device having shielding for touch sensing electrodes and/or pressure sensing electrodes

A switching unit of a touch panel device switches between a first connection state in which, among a plurality of drive wiring lines, a first drive wiring line and a second drive wiring line adjacent to each other are connected, and a second connection state in which, among the plurality of drive wiring lines, the first drive wiring lines adjacent to each other are connected to each other and the second drive wiring lines adjacent to each other are connected to each other.

Touch panel device

A display device includes a backlight, a touch detection electrode disposed to overlap a display region in which an image is displayed in a plan view, and an electrically conductive reflective member disposed closer to the backlight than a plurality of touch detection electrodes. Reflective members are disposed to overlap at least some of the plurality of touch detection electrodes in a plan view, are configured to reflect light from the backlight, and segmented from each other in a plan view.

Display device with touch panel

There are provided an antenna device with improved antenna performance while suppressing a decrease in yield and a decrease in viewability, and a display device including the same. The antenna device includes an antenna substrate, a first antenna pattern formed on a first main surface of the antenna substrate, and a second antenna pattern formed on a second main surface opposite to the first main surface of the antenna substrate. The first antenna pattern and the second antenna pattern are formed such that positions on the front and back of the antenna substrate coincide with each other, and at least a part of the antenna substrate is transparent to transmit an image.

Antenna device and display device provided with same

An antenna device includes antenna portions arranged side by side in columns with a partial overlap between the antenna portions next to each other, and common lines each connected to and shared by a set of the antenna portions not overlapping each other to collectively activate the set of the antenna portions.

Antenna device, position input device including antenna device, and display device including antenna device

A display device includes a display panel displaying an image, a transparent antenna substrate arranged on one surface of the display panel and having transparency, a first conductive film having a mesh shape and arranged on a surface of the transparent antenna substrate opposite to the display panel, and a second conductive film having a mesh shape and arranged on a surface of the transparent antenna substrate facing the display panel. The first conductive film includes an antenna body portion having a thin film pattern and insulated from a surrounding portion by a slit, and the antenna body portion constitutes a transparent antenna performing wireless communication with an external communication device.

Display device and communication system

An electronic device capable of detecting a rotation amount of a dial without depending on a mechanism is achieved. A ring-like shape dial surrounds a peripheral edge of an electrostatic type touch panel, the dial includes a conductive pattern, which is formed of a conductive material, on an inner surface facing the touch panel.

Electronic device

Optical device includes first substrate being light transmissive, second substrate opposing first substrate and being light transmissive, and light distribution layer disposed between first substrate and second substrate and distributing incident light. Light distribution layer includes uneven structure portion having a plurality of projections repeated in the z axial direction parallel to the main face of first substrate, and optical medium portion containing a birefringent material and disposed to fill a plurality of recesses that are spaces between the plurality of projections. Light blocking component configured to block at least part of incident light is disposed in the plurality of recesses.

Optical drive

Obtained is a configuration of a stereoscopic display device wherein luminance variation and increase of crosstalk can be reduced over a period before and after the switching of the parallax barrier. The stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel for displaying an image with a plurality of pixels; a switch liquid crystal panel that is arranged so as to be stacked on the display panel; a position sensor for acquiring position information of a viewer; and a control unit for moving a parallax barrier in which transmitting regions and non-transmitting regions are formed in periodic fashion in a predetermined alignment direction, in such a manner that the parallax barrier is moved in the predetermined alignment direction in accordance with the position information, with use of a predetermined barrier switching pitch as a minimum unit, and causing the switch liquid crystal panel to display the parallax barrier. The plurality of pixels have openings each of which has a width A in the alignment direction, the width A satisfying the expressions of A&#x2264;Wsl&#x2212;2Pe, and A&#x2264;Wbr&#x2212;2Pe where Wsl is a width of the transmitting region, Wbr is a width of the non-transmitting region BR, and Pe is the barrier switching pitch.

Stereoscopic display device

To provide a blood treatment filter device capable of efficiently utilizing a blood treatment filter. A blood treatment filter devicehas a filter sheetthrough which a specific component among components forming blood is harder to pass than other components and a spacer sheetthrough which the specific component is easier to pass than through the filter sheet. The filter sheethas filter through-holesdisposed at intervals. The filter sheetand the spacer sheetare spirally wound in an overlapped state. The filter devicehas sealssealing both end portions in the longitudinal direction of a wound bodyformed by the filter sheetand the spacer sheetwhich are spirally wound in a fluid-tight manner. The outer peripheral surface of the wound bodyis formed by the filter sheet

Blood treatment filter device, priming method, and blood treatment method

A stereoscopic display device () of the present invention includes a display panel (), a switch liquid crystal panel (), a first polarizing plate () and a second polarizing plate (), and a control unit for moving a parallax barrier in which transmitting regions and non-transmitting regions are formed in periodic fashion in a predetermined alignment direction, in such a manner that the parallax barrier is moved in the predetermined alignment direction in accordance with position information, and causing the switch liquid crystal panel () to display the parallax barrier. A first alignment film () and a second alignment film () of the switch liquid crystal panel () are rubbed so that molecule long axes of liquid crystal molecules in the vicinities of the center of a liquid crystal layer () in the thickness direction in a state where no voltage is applied are oriented in a direction perpendicular to the alignment direction as viewed in a plan view. Retardation of the liquid crystal layer () is in a range of 380 nm to 466 nm both inclusive when an intersection angle that is an angle formed between a rubbing direction of the first alignment film () and a transmission axis of the first polarizing plate () is in a range of 0&#xb0; exclusive to 18&#xb0; inclusive, and is in a range of 410 nm to 450 nm both inclusive when the intersection angle is in a range of 18&#xb0; exclusive to 45&#xb0; inclusive.

A display device () includes a display panel (), a switch liquid crystal panel (), and a control unit (). The switch liquid crystal panel () includes a transparent electrode () provided in an active area (AA) on at least one of a first substrate () and a second substrate (), and a metal line () provided outside the active area (AA) on at least one of the first substrate () and the second substrate (), along four sides of the active area (AA).

Display device

Obtained is a configuration of a stereoscopic display device that allows a viewer to easily correct settings for stereoscopic display. A stereoscopic display device () includes: a display panel () for displaying an image; a switch liquid crystal panel () that is arranged so as to be stacked on the display panel (); a position sensor for acquiring position information of a viewer; and a control unit for causing the switch liquid crystal panel () to display a parallax barrier in which transmitting regions and non-transmitting regions are formed in periodic fashion in a predetermined alignment direction. The control unit has, as operation modes, at least a tracking mode in which, according to the position information, the parallax barrier is moved in the alignment direction and is displayed on the switch liquid crystal panel (), and a calibration mode for calibration of a reference position of the position information. The control unit sets a width of the transmitting region of the parallax barrier in the tracking mode, and a width of the transmitting region of the parallax barrier in the calibration mode, so that the widths are different from each other.

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Osaka, Japan

Hiroshi Fukushima