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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120044096 | KEYBOARD WITH CIRCUIT FOR CLEARING CMOS DATA A keyboard includes a keyboard body, a first resistor, a first capacitor, a jumper block mounted to the keyboard body, a battery, a keyboard interface, and a keyboard control circuit. The jumper block includes a grounded first pin and a second pin. The battery includes ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044095 | Capacitive-matrix keyboard with multiple touch detection An apparatus and method for detecting activation of one or more capacitive keys when presences of the one or more touches are detected on unique combinations of three or more sensor elements at the respective locations of the capacitive keys on which the one or more tou... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20110285554 | Gesture Based Smart Headphone A gesture based headphone for controlling a media player device and method for using thereof. The headphone comprises a cord with a gesture sensitive region in the cord, and an interface for connecting to the media player device. A user gesture interacts with the gestur... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285553 | Apparatus and Method for an Actuator in an Electronic Device In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, an apparatus is provided, comprising: a base element; a key top configured to pivot in relation to the base element; a first electrode coupled with the key top; a second electrode coupled with the base e... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110234429 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH MULTI-FUNCTION KEYS The presently described technology relates to an appliance control panel having multi-function keys. The multi-function keys have multiple regions. A control panel operation module is provided for regulating the control panel system between multiple operation input mode... | 09/29/2011 |
| 20110156930 | Capacitive Touch Panel with High Touching Sensitivity A capacitive touch panel has a plurality of first conductor lines and a plurality of second conductor lines. The first conductor lines are disposed in a first direction for sensing a contact with an object. The second conductor lines are disposed in a second direction t... | 06/30/2011 |
| 20110140935 | ICON ILLUMINATION FOR CAPACITIVE TOUCH SWITCH A capacitive touch switch is disclosed which includes a substrate having a channel formed between a first surface and a second surface thereof, thereby defining a flexible section of the substrate. The capacitive touch switch also includes an insulating panel having a f... | 06/16/2011 |
| 20110115652 | DETECTION OF INTENDED KEY ACTIVATION ON A MOBILE DEVICE A method and device are provided for preventing unintended activation of one or more hard keys on a mobile device. A capacitive sensor senses a capacitance level at a location on the keyboard, to detect whether a hard key is being actuated by a human hand or human skin.... | 05/19/2011 |
| 20110095919 | KEYBOARD HAVING CAPACITANCE-SENSITIVE KEY FIELDS A keyboard having a plurality of key fields and a plurality of capacitive elements, which are associated with the key fields, and measuring electronics is proposed. The measuring electronics are implemented for the purpose of detecting a change of the capacitance value ... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110074609 | CAPACITIVE KEY TOUCH SENSING USING ANALOG INPUTS AND DIGITAL OUTPUTS A pulse is applied through a capacitive touch key sensor to a sampling capacitor of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The voltage charge arriving at the sampling capacitor will be maximum when there is substantially no shunt capacitance between the capacitive touch ... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110050466 | TOUCH-SENSITIVE DEVICE A touch-sensitive device includes a membrane substrate, an inductive layer and a protection layer. The inductive layer, arranged on a front face of the membrane substrate, has a plurality of capacitance-inductive sections, and at least one transmission line extended fro... | 03/03/2011 |
| 20110037624 | SENSING CAPACITANCE CHANGES OF A HOUSING OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE Methods and apparatuses are disclosed that allow measurement of a user's interaction with the housing of an electronic device. Some embodiments may measure the electrical characteristics of a housing of an electrical device, where the housing is capable of being tempora... | 02/17/2011 |
| 20110032126 | Tongue Based Control Device for Transferring Keyboard Commands A device for transferring keyboard commands from a user to an electronic apparatus or machine. An arm intended to be carried by the user as a headset, is provided with signal sensors responding to the presence or pressure of the user's tongue by emitting an electric sig... | 02/10/2011 |
| 20110018744 | CAPACITIVE KEYBOARD WITH NON-LOCKING REDUCED KEYING AMBIGUITY Keyboards, keypads and other data entry devices can suffer from a keying ambiguity problem. In a small keyboard, for example, a user's finger is likely to overlap from a desired key to onto adjacent ones. An iterative method of removing keying ambiguity from a keyboard ... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20100309130 | CAPACITIVE DATA INPUT DEVICE WITH MECHANICAL TOUCH FEELING A capacitive data input device with mechanical touch feeling includes a mechanical part and a capacitive sensing part, wherein the mechanical part lies above the capacitive sensing part, the keys in the mechanical part have a one-to-one corresponding relationship with t... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100309030 | MECHANICAL KEYPAD WITH TOUCH PAD FUNCTION A mechanical keypad with touch panel function includes a key set including a plurality of keycaps and a keytop covering the keycaps, a backlight layer under the key set, a capacitive touch unit selectively disposed under several keycaps, an elastic layer including an el... | 12/09/2010 |
| 20100277351 | CAPACITIVE SENSING USER INTERFACES AND IMPLEMENTATION THEREOF Methods and apparatus for determining the operating states of a plurality of capacitive sensing buttons in a capacitive sensing user interface are disclosed. The capacitive sensing buttons are sampled in a round-robin fashion such that the decay time samples for the but... | 11/04/2010 |
| 20100245135 | Capacitive Keyboard with Enhanced Electrode Areas A touch sensitive capacitive keypad (200) is provided that multiple electrodes (201-210) and associated wire connectors (220-229) formed under a touch panel in a single layer of conductive material, where the electrodes (201-... | 09/30/2010 |
| 20100141458 | ILLUMINATED KEYBOARD AND ILLUMINATING METHOD FOR KEYBOARD An illuminated keyboard and an illuminating method for a keyboard are disclosed. The illuminated keyboard includes an illumination module, a first sensing module, a second sensing module, and a control module. The first sensing module is used for sensing an ambient ligh... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100033354 | TOUCH SENSITIVE DEVICE A sensitive precision detector to sense user given control input in terms of activation on a cover plate by moving the finger with an easy touch, or with a force vertically or with a force in circular or elliptical movements on the surface of the cover plate. The precis... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20090315859 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH PANEL AND FABRICATING METHOD THEREOF A capacitive touch panel including a substrate, a plurality of first touch pads, a plurality of first dummy pads, an insulator layer, a plurality of second touch pads, and a plurality of second dummy pads is provided. The first touch pads arranged along a first directio... | 12/24/2009 |
| 20090289818 | CAPACITIVE KEYBOARD DEVICE WITH A KEYSTROKE TRIGGERING THRESHOLD ADAPTIVELY ADJUSTABLE CAPABILITY A capacitive keyboard device with a keystroke triggering threshold adaptively adjustable capability is proposed, which is designed for integration to an electronic unit, such as PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) computers, mobile phone unit, and calculator, for use as a ... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090284398 | SENSING APPARATUS AND SCAN DRIVING METHOD THEREOF A sensing apparatus and a scan driving method thereof are provided. The sensing apparatus includes first and second electrodes, a sensing element array, first and second electrode scan driving circuits and a control circuit. The sensing element array outputs at least on... | 11/19/2009 |
| 20090278714 | CAPACITIVE BUTTON DEVICE The present invention discloses a capacitive button device, comprising: a signal input unit, a first amplifier, a first switching unit, a second amplifier, a second switching unit, an analog-to-digital converting unit, a third switching unit, a data output unit, a data ... | 11/12/2009 |
| 20090251339 | INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING INFORMATION COMMUNICATION APPARATUS An information communication apparatus includes: an electrostatic panel unit that is at least provided with an electrostatically chargeable panel surface; a capacitance detection unit that detects a capacitance variation of the panel surface to detect a location at whic... | 10/08/2009 |
| 20090160682 | CAPACITIVE SENSING DEVICE FOR USE IN A KEYPAD ASSEMBLY One embodiment in accordance with the present invention includes a capacitive sensing device for use in a keypad assembly of an electronic system. The capacitive sensing device includes a substantially transparent single sheet capacitive sensor. The substantially transp... | 06/25/2009 |
| 20090135144 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND INPUT MODULE THEREOF An input module for an electronic device includes a key and a touch sensing unit. The touch sensing unit includes a substrate, a sensing circuit, and a conductive member protruding from the substrate. The conductive member has a connection portion and a sensing portion.... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090135031 | Armored Capacitive Keypad An apparatus and method for detecting a key press using an armored capacitive keypad device. The device consists of two interdigitated electrodes, located behind a protective metal plate, and separated by an insulating gap or material. An electronic driver circuit sends... | 05/28/2009 |
| 20090128374 | DETERMINING ACTUATION OF MULTI-SENSOR-ELECTRODE CAPACITIVE BUTTONS Methods for determining actuation of a capacitive button are described. In some embodiments, indicia from the at least three distinct sensor electrodes associated with at least three sensor electrode elements comprising the capacitive button are received, the indicia in... | 05/21/2009 |
| 20090115645 | CONTROL UNIT FOR DOMESTIC APPLIANCES A control unit comprising a light guide is formed and positioned in a circuit board for providing visual indication to a user of an appliance, such as a cooktop. The light guide receives light from a source, typically in the form of an LED on the circuit board, typicall... | 05/07/2009 |
| 20090095542 | TOUCH SENSOR AND OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Provided are a touch sensor and a method of operating the same. The touch sensor includes: a pulse signal generator for generating a pulse signal of which pulse width is calibrated in response to a control code; a pulse signal transmitter for transmitting the pulse sign... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090002205 | DATA INPUT DEVICE AND PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE Embodiments include a data input device and a portable electronic device including such a data input device. The data input device may include a key sensing mechanism and a solid material layer provided above the key sensing mechanism. The solid material layer may inclu... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20090002206 | Noise resistant capacitive sensor A switch capacitor unit for implementing a capacitive sensor includes a charging switch, a charge transfer switch, and a first switch. The charging switch is coupled between a first supply voltage and a circuit node to selectively couple a sensing capacitor to the first... | 01/01/2009 |
| 20080309353 | CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSOR A touch sensor that includes sampling the output of a touch sensor circuit supplied with a high level carrier signal at least once, sampling the output of a touch sensor circuit supplied with a low level carrier signal at least once and thereby determining the occurrenc... | 12/18/2008 |
| 20080278355 | INTRUSION DETECTION USING A CAPACITANCE SENSITIVE TOUCHPAD A capacitance sensitive proximity and touch-sensitive detection device having an XY electrode grid sensor, wherein a compensation matrix is created when the capacitance sensitive touchpad is installed within a PIN Entry Device (PED), wherein the compensation matrix enab... | 11/13/2008 |
| 20080224900 | CAPACITIVE SWITCH An input key and a detection circuit are not directly connected but are connected via a first capacitor. This prevents electrostatic noise obtained by the input key from directly entering the detection circuit, thereby protecting the detection circuit. Further, a first ... | 09/18/2008 |
| 20080218371 | MOBILE COMMUNICATION DEVICE A mobile communication device configured to operate in at least a first mode and a second mode is provided. The mobile communication device includes a housing, a light emitting unit configured to emit at least a first color when the mobile communication device is operat... | 09/11/2008 |
| 20080143559 | Appliance Control Panel An appliance control panel detects on ON gesture by a user approximately near a set of electrodes in a surface of the appliance, in which the electrodes sense a capacitive coupling to the user. The appliance is turned on in ON in response to the detecting of the ON gest... | 06/19/2008 |
| 20080122661 | Touch sensor A touch sensor includes a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) that is transparent with respect to light in a visible wavelength band, an upper clad and a lower clad formed on the top face and the bottom face of the PCB, a light source for emitting light to a side of the PCB, an... | 05/29/2008 |
| 20080111714 | Capacitance to code converter with sigma-delta modulator An apparatus and method for converting a capacitance measured on a sensor element to a digital code. The apparatus may include a switching capacitor as a sensor element of a sensing device, and a sigma-delta modulator coupled to the sensor element to convert a capacitan... | 05/15/2008 |
