Abstract:
There are provided an electronic pen, and an electronic pen data input system and method using the same. The electronic pen includes: a triaxial accelerometer sensor sensing a change in acceleration based on triaxial coordinates of three fixed axes; and a controlling unit setting a reference point represented by the triaxial coordinates and generating acceleration information using the change in acceleration sensed by the triaxial accelerometer sensor due to movement of the electronic pen.
Abstract:
There are provided a touch sensing device and a touch sensing method. The touch sensing device includes a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first axis direction, a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second axis direction intersecting the first axis, and a control unit detecting a plurality of changes in capacitance generated between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes and thus determining a touch, wherein the control unit determines the touch based on at least one of a plurality of first error information signals corresponding to the plurality of respective first electrodes and a plurality of second error information corresponding to the plurality of respective second electrodes.
Abstract:
A touchscreen apparatus may include a signal converting unit generating digital signals including a plurality of data according to changes in capacitance in a plurality of nodes; a signal processing unit changing levels of the plurality of data of the digital signals; and a calculating unit determining a touch according to the digital signals output from the signal processing unit. The signal processing unit may change the levels of the plurality of data by using a portion of the plurality of data included in a plurality of regions partitioned according to a plurality of predetermined reference levels.
Abstract:
A fingerprint sensing device includes a sensing circuit configured to extract sensing data from nodes included in each of sampling regions of a sensor array. The fingerprint sensing device also includes a control circuit configured to calculate a number of the nodes based on the extracted sensing data to produce sensing data distributions for each of the sampling regions and compare the sensing data distributions with reference distributions, configured to determine that the sampling regions from which the sensing data distributions corresponding to the reference distributions are extracted are effective contact regions, and configured to generate fingerprint information from the sensor array when the number of effective contact regions is greater than or equal to a threshold.
Abstract:
A touchscreen device may include a panel unit including a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes; a driving circuit unit sequentially applying a driving signal having a predetermined period to the plurality of first electrodes; a sensing circuit unit detecting levels of capacitance from the plurality of second electrodes; and a driving voltage generating unit generating a driving voltage. The driving voltage generating unit adjusts a level of the driving voltage depending on a detected voltage which is detected in a first electrode, to which the driving signal is applied, among the plurality of first electrodes in a calibration section.
Abstract:
There is provided a touch sensing method including: classifying sensed pieces of data obtained from a panel unit as a plurality of groups according to a predetermined reference; selecting a portion of groups in which variations of the sensed pieces of data included in each of the plurality of groups are lower than a first threshold value; calculating representative values with respect to each of portion of the groups; and determining a noise canceling method by comparing the variations of representative values with a second threshold value.
Abstract:
There are provided a touch sensing method and a touch sensing apparatus. The touch sensing method includes calibrating an offset value; obtaining sensed data from a panel unit, performing a difference operation on the sensed data and the offset value to calculate valid data, when the valid data is higher than a first threshold value, calculating a correlation value between the valid data and reference data, and comparing the correlation value with a second threshold value to determine whether to update the offset value and whether to filter the valid data.