Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Toppan Forms Co., Ltd.

Jean Mugiraneza

Yasuhiro Sugita

Shinji Yamagishi

Takenori Maruyama

Kazutoshi Kida

Kenshi Tada

Tomohiro Kimura

Hiroyuki Ogawa

Hidetsugu Kawamori

Hiroshi Fukushima

Takuma Yamamoto

Yukio Mizuno

Hisashi Watanabe

Kohhei Tanaka

Ryo Yonebayashi

Andrew Kay

Hidefumi Yoshida

Koichi Miyachi

Hiroyuki Furukawa

Mitsuhiro Murata

Masafumi Ueno

Takeshi Noma

Takayuki Nishiyama

Miho Yamada

Masaaki Moriya

Naoki Shiobara

Toshiki Matsuoka

Mitsuru Hineno

Yuki Owashi

Tomohiro Omatsu

Yoshitaka Kawanabe

A display device according to an aspect includes: a display panel; and a touch panel on the display panel. The touch panel includes: a plurality of detection electrodes extending in a first direction in a plan view; and a plurality of drive electrodes disposed respectively between the plurality of detection electrodes and extending in the first direction. Each of the plurality of drive electrodes includes: a plurality of electrode segments patterned in the first direction; and a plurality of wires connected respectively to the plurality of electrode segments and extending in the first direction.

Display device and a method of manufacturing the same

An organic light-emitting device (OLED) display is provided. The OLED display includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) substrate having a plurality of TFTs and a plurality of data lines that control the plurality of TFTs. The OLED display also includes a conductive shielding layer disposed over the TFT substrate and an OLED layer disposed over the conductive shielding layer. The OLED layer includes a plurality of OLEDs that are driven by the plurality of TFTs. The OLED layer also includes a touch panel layer disposed over the OLED layer. The conductive shielding layer is configured to reduce noise coupling between the TFT substrate and the touch panel layer.

Touch-sensitive display with shielding layer

A flexible touch panel apparatus includes a series of first electrodes extending along a first direction, at least one second electrode extending along a second direction and defining a bending axis of the flexible touch panel. An elastomeric layer is located between the series of first electrodes at least second electrode. A series of third electrodes are extending along the second direction parallel to the bending axis, and an insulator layer is located between at least one second electrode and the series of third electrodes. At least one second electrode is capacitively coupled to at least one of the series of first electrodes for bend sensing in the flexible touch panel along the bending axis, and the third electrodes are capacitively coupled to the first electrodes for touch sensing on the flexible touch panel.

Touch panel integrating bending sensor for foldable OLED display

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

To enable both touched position detection and pressing force detection without increasing the thickness of a touch panel. A driving electrode () is formed on the top face of a piezoelectric polymer layer (). A touch detection electrode () and a pressing force detection electrode () are formed on the bottom face of the piezoelectric polymer layer ().

Display device with touch panel providing touched position detection and pressing force detection

Provided is an antenna device that performs the reading of information via near field wireless communication by using a plurality of antenna patterns, and that has no insensitive area on the touch surface. An antenna device that reads information via near field wireless communication includes an antenna layerthat includes a plurality of antenna patternstoarrayed in parallel with one another, wherein at least a part of the antenna patternstoare arranged so as to overlap with one another when the antenna layeris viewed in a plan view.

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

Provided is an antenna built-in touch panel that includes an antenna that reads information via near field wireless communication, and that has a small thickness. An antenna built-in touch panel includes: a touch panel; and an antenna that reads information via near field wireless communication, wherein the touch panel includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer, and antenna patternstoare provided in at least one of a sensing electrode layer and a drive electrode layer of the touch panel.

Antenna built-in touch panel

The present invention makes it possible to recognize proximity of a coil without an increase in material cost and production cost. A liquid crystal display panel includes a TFT substrate () and a CF substrate (). A touch panel () includes (i) a plurality of touch sensing electrodes () which are provided on the TFT substrate () so as to detect an electric capacitance between the touch panel () and a subject of a touch or a change in the electric capacitance and (ii) a proximity sensing electrode () which is provided on the CF substrate () so as to detect proximity of a coil ().

Display with built-in touch panel

The purpose of the present invention is to achieve further miniaturization and performance improvement in a pressure detection type touch panel. The touch panel () includes a TP upper side electrode layer () located above the CF substrate (), a TP lower side electrode layer () located below the CF substrate () and above the liquid crystal layer (), and a piezoelectric element layer () located between the TP upper side electrode layer () and the TP lower side electrode layer ().

Touch panel and electronic device

Proximity of a coil is recognized without increasing a material cost or a manufacturing cost. Provided is a touch panel () that includes a plurality of drive electrodes () that are formed in a drive layer () and a plurality of touch sense electrodes () that are formed in a sense layer (), in which a proximity sense electrode () by which proximity of a coil is detected is formed in the sense layer ().

Touch panel and touch panel system

The present invention reduces the width of a frame region. A touchscreen () includes: M sense lines; pad electrodes () that are arranged in N rows&#xd7;M columns; (N&#xd7;M) switching elements; N multiplexers (); N sets of M drive lines (), each of the M drive lines () connecting between a multiplexer () and one of M pad electrodes () in a row that corresponds to the multiplexer (); and a driving circuit () that is connected to the N multiplexers ().

Display including touch panel

An embodiment of the present invention has a decreased antenna resistance so as to conform to the EMV specification. An NFC antenna includes: a mesh antenna pattern line () being transparent and formed in a netlike form in a display region (R); and a non-mesh antenna pattern line () being formed in a form having no mesh in a non-display region (R).

NFC antenna and display device

The purpose of the present invention is to achieve further miniaturization and performance improvement in a pressure detection-type touch panel. The touch panel () includes a TP upper side electrode layer () located above a CF substrate (); and a TP lower side electrode layer () located below the CF substrate () and above a liquid crystal layer (); an ITO layer () located above the TFT substrate () and below the liquid crystal layer (); and a piezoelectric element layer () located between the TP lower side electrode layer () and the ITO layer ().

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Sakai, Japan

Jean Mugiraneza