Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Manabu Yumoto

Masayuki Miyamoto

Shunsuke Nagasawa

Shinichi Yoshida

Kengo Takahama

Tsuyoshi Muramatsu

Manabu Onozaki

Masayuki Ehiro

Shinsuke Anzai

Hiroshi Tanaka

Atsushi Aoki

Takashi Morisue

Yasufumi Itoh

Qian Yan

Hiroshi Hamada

Atsushi Yamashita

Kunihiko Iizuka

Toshiya Okamoto

Souichi Miyata

Ken Sumitani

Hitoshi Azuma

Masayuki Yamaguchi

Munehiro Uratani

Yusuke Kanazawa

Takashi Horiyama

Akira Nishioka

Hiroyuki Nabesawa

A touch panel system () includes a touch invalidating section () which, in a case where a specific point of the sensor panel () is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction given, in accordance with the touch, to a host computer (). Furthermore, the touch invalidating section () invalidates an instruction corresponding to a next touch on the point.

Touch sensor system and electronic device

Provided are a touch panel system with improved indicator detection accuracy and an electronic information device provided with the touch panel system. A touch panel systemincludes: a touch panelprovided with a plurality of electrodes SL, DL; and an indicator position detection unitfor detecting a position of the indicator that is in contact with or close to the detection surface P, based on an output signal that is outputted by at least part of the electrodes SL, DL and shows a capacitance formed by the electrode SL. The touch panel system is characterized in that the indicator position detection unitcorrects detection sensitivity for each predetermined position within the detection surface P so as to correspond to a pattern of the electrodes SL, DL, and detects the position of the indicator within the detection surface P.

Touch panel system

A touch panel system () includes a touch panel () and a touch position detecting section () for detecting a touch position on the touch panel (). The touch position detecting section () includes a touch start determining section () for (i) setting a determining region based on a touch start position candidate which is a touch position that has been detected relatively earliest and (ii) determining that touches have been started from the touch start position candidate in a case where the touches whose starting point is at the touch start position candidate have been successively detected within the determining region a predetermined number of times or more.

A touch panel system prevents an incorrect operation caused by an unintended contact of an object with a touch panel while suppressing a decline in sensitivity of detection of presence or absence of a touch on the touch panel. The touch panel system includes a touch invalidating section which, in a case where a specific point of a touch panel is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction that is given, in accordance with the touch, to an electronic device including the touch panel.

Touch panel system and electronic device

In a touch sensor panelfor inputting a position by a touch operation to a predetermined region, a plurality of drive lines DL disposed in one direction and a plurality of sense patterns SL disposed in another direction intersect each other and an electrode size of an electrode of a sense pattern (sense electrode pattern) in one direction disposed between adjacent intersections is switched between at least two electrode sizes of large and small. The configuration enables power consumption to be small while maintaining detection precision of a touched position.

Touch sensor panel, touch panel system and electronic equipment

A touch panel system () includes: a touch panel () for outputting an output signal in accordance with a presence or absence of an indicator that is in contact with or close to a detection surface P; and an indicator position detection unit () for detecting a position of the indicator within the detection surface (P) based on the output signal outputted by the touch panel (). The indicator position detection unit () detects the position of the indicator within the detection surface (P) by use of a detection reference that is set for each predetermined position within the detection surface (P).

Touch panel system, and electronic information device

An artificial nail () has a member made of a material having electrical conductivity. The artificial nail () is given electrical conductivity by mixing an electrically conductive material into plastic serving as a base material. As the electrically conductive material, a carbon-based material, such as carbon black, carbon fiber, or black lead, or a metal-based material, such as a fine metal powder, a metal oxide, metal fiber, or a whisker, is used. Alternatively, the base material for the artificial nail () per se is an electrically conductive resin.

Artificial nail

A touch panel system () prevents an incorrect operation caused by an unintended contact of an object with a touch panel while suppressing a decline in sensitivity of detection of presence or absence of a touch on the touch panel. The touch panel system () includes a touch invalidating section () which, in a case where a specific point of a touch panel () is continuously touched for a predetermined period of time, invalidates an instruction that is given, in accordance with the touch, to an electronic apparatus including the touch panel ().

Touch panel system and electronic apparatus

Provided is a touch panel system () capable of reliably removing a wide variety of noises. The touch panel system () includes a main sensor () which detects a touch operation, a sub sensor () which does not detect a touch operation but detects a noise component, and a subtracting section () which subtracts, from an output signal of the main sensor (), an output signal of the sub sensor (). The subtracting section () performs a subtracting operation to remove a noise component from the output signal of the main sensor (), thereby extracting a signal derived from the touch operation itself.

A touch sensor panel disclosed herein includes: a plurality of vertical electrodes (); and a plurality of horizontal electrodes (), the plurality of vertical electrodes () and the plurality of horizontal electrodes () (i) being so disposed that, as viewed in the direction perpendicular to a substrate, the plurality of vertical electrodes () include no segment coincident with the plurality of horizontal electrodes () and (ii) forming a uniform grid having no gap.

Provided is a touch panel system capable of reliably removing a wide variety of noises. The touch panel system () includes a subtracting section () which receives output signals from the sense lines () and finds differences between the capacitances in a direction in which each of drive lines () extends, as the differences in signal between the respective pairs of the sense lines () adjacent to each other. The subtracting section () obtains a difference signal value between the sense lines adjacent to each other.

A touch panel system () includes a capacitance value distribution detection circuit (). The capacitance value distribution detection circuit () switches a connection state between a first connection state and a second connection state, which first connection state makes first signal lines (HLto HLM) serve as drive lines (DLto DLM) and second signal lines (VLto VLM) serve as sense lines (SLto SLM), and which second connection state makes the second signal lines (VLto VLM) serve as the drive lines (DLto DLM) and the first signal lines (HLto HLM) serve as the sense lines (SLto SLM).

The touch sensor system includes: a touch panel having a two-dimensional region made up of a hand placing region and a remainder region; a hand placing region processing section for carrying out a process related to the hand placing region in accordance with a hand placing region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the hand placing region; and a drawing input processing section for carrying out a drawing input process in accordance with a remainder region touch signal corresponding to a touch to the remainder region.

A touch panel system includes a touch panel having sense lines, and drive lines which intersect the sense lines and form capacitance with the sense lines, a touch panel controller for processing signals of the sense lines, and a drive line driving circuit for driving the drive lines in parallel. The touch panel controller includes a subtracting section for finding differences in signals between the sense lines adjacent to each other, a decoding section for calculating a distribution of differences between the capacitances by calculating an inner product of code sequences for driving the drive lines in parallel and difference output sequences which correspond to the code sequences, a touch detecting section for obtaining touch information based on the distribution of differences between the capacitances calculated by the decoding section, and a region setting section for setting an effective region in the touch panel based on the touch information.

A light emitting module board which is compatible with a plurality of screen sizes and is used for a backlight apparatus of a liquid crystal display panel is provided. A light emitting module includes a first connectorand a second connector, each including a plurality of cathode terminals and at least one anode terminal, at each end of the board, and can be connected to another one to each other through the connectors in multi-level. A cathode wiringfor supplying a cathode control signal includes first cathode wirings which connect the cathode terminals of the first connector and light emitting bodies to supply a control signal to the light emitting bodies in the light emitting module, and second cathode wirings which connect the cathode terminals of the first and second connectors to supply a control signal to the light emitting bodies on a downstream light emitting module.

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Osaka, Japan

Manabu Yumoto