87 results about "Active pen" patented technology

Embodiments of the invention provide an active pen-stylus that emulates a paper feeling for users of the active pen-stylus. The active pen-stylus comprises a writing shaft that receives physical forces arising from use of the pen-stylus by a user. The active pen-stylus also includes a force sensor that receives forces from the writing shaft, the force sensor configured to convert received forces into an electronic signal. A writing spring receives forces from the force sensor and reflects back to the user a reactionary force that emulates a paper feeling. The writing spring compresses and undergoes geometric deflection in creating the reactionary force that emulates the paper feeling. The geometric deflection produced by the writing spring arises from deformation of the writing spring by the received forces.

The invention discloses an active pen and touch screen interaction system resistant to common-mode interference and a signal demodulation method. The system comprises a signal receiving terminal and a signal transmitting terminal. The signal transmitting terminal modulates data to be transmitted by adopting a differential binary phase shift keying modulation method, and transmits a generated modulation signal to the signal receiving terminal; the analog front-end receiving module is coupled with the signal transmitting terminal, receives the modulation signal and outputs a digital square wave signal after fidelity extraction processing; and the digital demodulation processing module performs differential coherent digital demodulation on the digital square wave signal based on the prior characteristics of the modulation signal, inhibits residual noise and recovers data to be sent. The analog front end focuses strong common-mode noise suppression and analog filtering, the digital demodulation algorithm performs secondary digital purification by using signal time sequence characteristics, and the two constructs an efficient anti-interference pipeline. Meanwhile, the regular square wave signals can be directly processed through differential coherent demodulation, and the requirements for performance and power consumption of a rear-end processor are lowered.

A sensor controller is provided, which is configured to be connected to a capacitive touch sensor having a plurality of sensor electrodes arranged planarly. The sensor controller includes a scan controller that executes a plurality of types of operation modes in which a pen scan for detecting an active pen transmitting a downlink signal and a touch scan for detecting a passive pointer not transmitting the downlink signal are repeatedly executed on a time-sharing basis via the plurality of sensor electrodes. The sensor controller includes a signal transmitter that transmits, during execution of the pen scan, an uplink signal for requesting the downlink signal via the plurality of sensor electrodes. When the passive pointer is not detected by the touch scan, the signal transmitter makes a transmission frequency of the uplink signal lower than when the passive pointer is detected by the touch scan.

Provided is a pen sensor for use in detecting an active pen. The pen sensor includes a first layer including a group of first sensor electrodes and a group of first dummy patterns, and a second layer including a group of second sensor electrodes and a group of second dummy patterns. The first dummy patterns and the second dummy patterns are overlaid with each other when viewed from above the pen sensor.

The application discloses a manufacturing method of an array substrate capable of reducing touch capacitance, which comprises the following steps: sequentially forming a buffer layer SiOx, an active layer, an etching stop layer ES and a metal layer GE, including a gate electrode and a touch layer CM, on a glass by patterning; depositing an insulating protective layer PV; coating an organic flat layer OC and patterning an OC hole; performing exposure / development / etching processes by using an ES mask to pattern an ES hole; patterning a metal layer SD on the OC layer and connecting the metal layer SD with the SE through the ES hole, and patterning a metal pad layer at the touch layer CM; depositing an insulating layer VA to form a VA hole; and depositing a pixel electrode PE and connecting the pixel electrode PE with a source / drain metal layer through a CH hole. The application reduces the touch capacitance and improves the receiving degree of an active pen signal.

An integrated circuit, for use with an active pen, transmits a downlink signal including first identification data via a pen tip electrode of the active pen after the active pen has been paired with a sensor controller, and in a case where an uplink signal including second identification data corresponding to the first identification data is received, controls transmission of a next downlink signal based on the second identification data, where each of the first identification data and second identification data is contact state data indicating whether a pen tip of the active pen is in contact with a touch surface, and compares the second identification data included in the uplink signal with the first identification data included in the downlink signal and controls transmission of the next downlink signal depending on a result of comparing the second identification data with the first identification data.

The invention provides a touch panel and a control method thereof. The control method is applied to the touch panel to receive control from an active pen. The control method includes demodulating a writing signal received from an active pen using a demodulation frequency; judging whether the demodulated writing signal is abnormal or not; and in response to determining that the demodulated writing signal is abnormal, adjusting the demodulation frequency to increase the energy of the demodulated writing signal.

A sensor panel is overlaid on a display apparatus and connected to an integrated circuit that detects a position of an active pen in an active region of the display apparatus. The sensor panel includes first electrodes that extend in a first direction. The sensor panel also includes second electrodes that extend in a second direction. The first electrodes include first and second outer electrodes that are located at the outermost edges of the first electrodes and first inner electrodes disposed between the first and second outer electrodes. A width of at least one of the first and second outer electrodes in the second direction is smaller than a width of each of the first inner electrodes in the second direction.

This application provides an active pen, comprising: a pen shell, a pen tip, and a tilting electrode; the pen tip includes a first pen tip assembly and a second pen tip assembly, the second pen tip assembly being partially disposed within the first pen tip assembly, the first pen tip assembly being at least partially located outside the pen shell, and the second pen tip assembly being partially located inside the pen shell; the tilting electrode is a tubular structure, disposed within the pen shell, and sleeved outside the second pen tip assembly, with insulation between the tilting electrode and the second pen tip assembly; the first pen tip assembly is configured to contact a touch screen of an electronic device; the second pen tip assembly is used to output a first coding signal, and the tilting electrode is used to output a second coding signal, enabling the electronic device to determine the contact position between the first pen tip assembly and the touch screen based at least on the first and second coding signals. The active pen provided in this application has a small pen tip size, which does not obstruct the user's view during use, thus improving the user experience.

The utility model discloses a detection chip and an active pen. The detection chip is connected with a strain circuit in the active pen through a switching circuit; the strain circuit is used for sensing the pressure of a pen point; the strain circuit comprises a first resistance bridge arm and a second resistance bridge arm; the first end of the first resistance bridge arm is connected with the power supply end, and the second end is grounded; the first end of the second resistor bridge arm is connected with the power supply end, and the second end of the second resistor bridge arm is grounded; when the switching circuit is in a first state, the first end of the detection chip is connected with the first resistor bridge arm, and the second end of the detection chip is connected with the second resistor bridge arm to receive a first forward voltage; and when the switching circuit is in a second state, the second end of the detection chip is connected with the first resistor bridge arm, the first end of the detection chip is connected with the second resistor bridge arm, the first backward voltage is received, and a signal output by the strain circuit to the detection chip is modulated to form a square wave signal, so that demodulation and noise reduction processing are facilitated, a noise signal is removed, and the detection accuracy is improved.

The invention discloses an active pen, a touch control system and a touch control method.According to one embodiment, the active pen comprises a touch control strip arranged on a pen body and a processor arranged in the pen body, the touch control strip comprises an infrared sensor and a touch control area surrounding the infrared sensor, and the processor is arranged in the pen body. The infrared sensor is used for detecting the distance between a finger of a user and the touch strip, and the touch area comprises a plurality of touch electrodes arranged in an array and is used for sending or receiving a touch signal; and the processor is used for detecting the distance output by the infrared sensor according to a preset time interval, identifying a user operation intention when the distance is smaller than a preset distance threshold value, responding to the user operation intention and adjusting parameters of the active pen according to the signal received by the touch electrode. According to the embodiment, the parameters of the active pen can be flexibly adjusted, and the use efficiency and user experience of the active pen are effectively improved.

A position detection system includes a display device that displays image data by driving pixel electrodes, and a touch panel including a sensor electrode and a touch sensor. An active pen communicates with the touch sensor using a frequency included in a frequency band. The display device suppresses a frequency component in the frequency band in capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode due to a voltage vibration in an interconnect in the display device caused by driving of the pixel electrodes. The display device selectively operates in either of a first operation mode in which driving of the pixel electrodes suppresses the frequency component included in the capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode, and a second operation mode in which driving of the pixel electrodes does not suppress the frequency component included in the capacitive noise that occurs in the sensor electrode.

The present invention provides a method for detecting a pressure of an active pen, a device and an active pen, where a pen body of the active pen is provided with a touch sensor. The method includes: obtaining a sensing change amount of the touch sensor, where the sensing change amount indicates a capacitance change amount of the touch sensor; and determining, according to the sensing change amount, a pressure value on the pen body. The technical solution provided by the invention can reduce the cost of the active pen while realizing the pressure detection for the active pen.

The invention discloses an uplink signal transmission method of a touch screen and touch input equipment, the touch screen comprises a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of second sensing electrodes orthogonal to the first sensing electrodes, and the first sensing electrodes and the second sensing electrodes are used for transmitting touch signals and obtaining detection signals; the uplink signal transmission method comprises the following steps: in a touch detection time period of a current period, when it is determined that the hand and the active pen touch the touch screen at the same time according to a detection signal, obtaining a target area touched by the active pen on the touch screen; and in the signal transmission time period of the current period, controlling a sensing electrode of the target area to transmit an uplink signal so as to enable the active pen to receive the uplink signal. According to the invention, the uplink signal cannot be distorted due to grounding attenuation, so that the accuracy of detecting the position of the active pen by the touch screen is improved.

The invention provides a touch screen control method and device, equipment, a medium and a program product. The method comprises the steps that touch signals sent to a touch screen by an active pen are received through multiple communication channels on the touch screen; positioning an active pen according to the touch signal to determine a contact position of the active pen and the touch screen; communication channels around the contact position of the active pen are determined as target channels, and the number of the target channels is smaller than the total number of the communication channels of the touch screen; and controlling the plurality of target channels to send response signals of the touch signal to the active pen, so that the active pen synchronously receives the response signals sent by the target channels. After the active pen sends the touch signal, the active pen is accurately positioned, and the plurality of communication channels around the contact position of the active pen are selected as the target channels for response driving, so that the signal sending control accuracy of the touch screen is improved, the energy efficiency and the signal response accuracy of the touch screen in the process of responding to the signal of the active pen are improved, and the user experience is improved. And the communication quality is improved.

This application relates to a method, apparatus, and storage medium for determining the state of an active pen. The method includes: when an active pen has established a communication connection with a terminal and movement of the active pen is detected, determining the current coordinate difference information of the active pen within the current time period; the current coordinate difference information includes the coordinate difference between the position coordinates of two adjacent moments within the current time period; determining the current velocity of the active pen within the current time period based on the current coordinate difference information; if the current velocity is less than or equal to a preset velocity threshold, determining the total displacement of the active pen within the preset time period based on the current coordinate difference information and the preset time period; wherein the preset time period is located within the current time period and includes the current moment; and determining the target pen state of the active pen based on the total displacement and the preset displacement threshold. This method can improve the anti-interference capability and recognition accuracy of active pen state recognition.

To prevent drawing by pen input from stopping due to a failure in receiving an uplink signal, an active pen according to the present disclosure includes a processing circuit that transmits, at a second timing decided based on a first timing of a first uplink signal received from a sensor controller, a position signal and a data signal from a pen-tip electrode and receives a second uplink signal, and a wireless communication circuit that wirelessly communicates with the sensor controller. The processing circuit determines whether the second uplink signal has been received at the second timing, and in a case of determining that the second uplink signal has not been received, the processing circuit transmits at least part of the data signal via the wireless communication circuit while transmitting the position signal from the pen-tip electrode.

A method of palm rejection is executed by a sensor controller that is connected to a plurality of sensor electrodes and that detects a downlink signal transmitted from an active pen. The method includes determining whether or not a phase of the detected downlink signal matches a phase shared in advance between the sensor controller and the active pen, and outputting, when it is determined that the phases match, a position of the active pen derived on the basis of a distribution of levels of the downlink signal in the plurality of sensor electrodes.

The invention relates to a display device which comprises a display, a touch module and a control circuit. The control circuit is used for judging whether a noise interference phenomenon occurs on the touch module due to a plurality of pictures displayed by the display. If the noise interference phenomenon occurs, the control circuit sets the upper connection signal or the lower connection signal to be generated by a first driving voltage. If the noise interference phenomenon does not occur, the up-connection signal or the down-connection signal is generated by a second driving voltage, and the first driving voltage is greater than the second driving voltage. Therefore, writing errors of the active pen can be avoided.

The invention discloses a signal generation method and device of an active pen, the active pen and a non-temporary storage medium, and relates to the technical field of touch control, and the signal generation method of the active pen comprises the steps that the working state of the active pen is detected in real time; when the working state is a hovering state, acquiring first to-be-transmitted data of the first transmitter and second to-be-transmitted data of the second transmitter; generating a first to-be-transmitted signal based on the first to-be-transmitted data, and generating a second to-be-transmitted signal based on the second to-be-transmitted data; and performing semaphore enhancement on the first to-be-transmitted signal by using the second to-be-transmitted signal. The first to-be-transmitted signal is subjected to semaphore enhancement through the second to-be-transmitted signal, so that the active pen and the screen of the receiving end can realize quicker pairing and quicker information interaction. The semaphore enhancement is realized without adding other physical equipment, and the cost required by the system is reduced. The signal receiving sensitivity does not need to be improved from a receiving end, and the influence of environmental noise is reduced.

Disclosed herein is an active pen that includes a casing and an integrated circuit disposed in the casing. In operation, the integrated circuit acquires information from a first device with via a first wireless communication, stores the information, and transmits the information to a second device via a second wireless communication.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a removable marker pen tip configured to be applied with an active pen stylus. The removable marker tip includes an antenna and an insulator and is designed to be retained onto a writing shaft of a pen stylus by a set of compression ribs fitted into a rear recess on the removable marker tip. The removable marker pen tip is designed as a consumable portion to improve the paper feel received by a user of the pen stylus while it draws on the display of the tablet device. The removable marker tip is further designed to be manually removable by a user of the pen stylus.

Embodiments of the present invention provide an active pen stylus that mimics a paper feel for a user of the active pen stylus. An active stylus pen includes a writing shaft that receives a physical force generated when a user uses the stylus pen. The active stylus pen also includes a force sensor that receives a force from the writing shaft, the force sensor configured to convert the received force into an electronic signal. The writing spring receives the force from the force sensor and reflects a reaction force mimicking the feeling of the paper back to the user. The writing spring compresses and undergoes geometric deflection, thereby creating a reaction force that mimics the feel of the paper. Geometric deflection generated by the writing spring is caused by deformation of the writing spring due to the received force.

The invention provides a touch method, device and system which are used for improving user experience. Taking electronic equipment comprising a touch screen as an example, the method comprises the steps that the electronic equipment receives a first touch signal, and the frequency of the first touch signal is a first frequency; and the electronic equipment determines that the first touch signal comes from the first active pen according to the first frequency, and responds to the first touch signal. The electronic equipment can also receive a second touch signal, and the frequency of the second touch signal is a second frequency; and the electronic equipment determines that the second touch signal comes from the second active pen according to the second frequency, and responds to the second touch signal. The method can realize simultaneous writing of the first active pen and the second active pen, and improves user experience.

A method of a touch controller for controlling a touch panel device includes; providing a dual mode in which a capacitive touch sensing operation in a touch sensing mode is used to sense an object's touch position while an active pen detection in a stylus detection mode is used to detect an active pen's signal; using a driving circuit to output driving signals into sensor electrodes placed along a first axis in the touch sensing mode; using a sensing circuit to receiving sensing signals from sensor electrodes placed along a second axis in the touch sensing mode; and, in the stylus detection mode, dynamically determining and enabling a portion of sensor electrodes for sensing the active pen or dynamically determining a sensor electrode scan time for sensing the active pen according to the object's touch position sensed by the capacitive touch sensing operation.

An active pen is provided that transmits, through coupling capacitance, a signal to a sensor electrode connected to a sensor controller. The active pen includes a pen tip electrode provided on a leading end in a pen axis direction of the active pen; a peripheral electrode provided behind in the pen axis direction as viewed from the pen tip electrode; and a signal processor that transmits a downlink signal from the pen tip electrode and that transmits a reverse-phase signal of the downlink signal from the peripheral electrode at the same time.

A method of capacitive sensing includes obtaining a capacitive touch profile from multiple receiver electrodes disposed in a sensing region of an input device and obtaining an active pen profile, different from the capacitive touch profile, from the multiple receiver electrodes. The method also includes adjusting, using the capacitive touch profile, the active pen profile to obtain a corrected active pen profile and determining a position of an active pen in the sensing region, using the corrected active pen profile.

A pointing device, such as a mouse, a touchpad, or an active pen, may include a piezoelectric vibration sensor, which may facilitate the addition of other user gestures. A knock gesture may cause a vibration of the piezoelectric vibration sensor, where that vibration may be used to recognize the knock gesture. The knock gesture may be programmatically associated with actions of an information handling system.

The invention discloses a control method of a touch integrated circuit, which comprises the following steps of: operating the touch integrated circuit in an active pen detection mode, and detecting an active touch pen through a touch panel; the touch control integrated circuit receives electric quantity information sent by the active touch control pen through the touch control panel; and when the electric quantity information represents that the active stylus is in a low electric quantity state, the touch integrated circuit is switched from the active stylus detection mode to a coexistence detection mode, in the coexistence detection mode, the touch integrated circuit performs an active stylus detection mode in a first time period, and in the coexistence detection mode, the touch integrated circuit performs an active stylus detection mode in a second time period. And performing a passive stylus detection mode in a second time period.