A method for aligning an input interface (240) of a touchscreen (230) with an overlay (210) for the touchscreen (230) is provided. The method comprises receiving a touch input on the touchscreen (230), wherein the touch input identifies a first position on the touchscreen (230) corresponding to an alignment mark (220) of the overlay; determining, based on the received touch input, a region of the touchscreen (230) in which to render the input interface (240); and rendering the input interface (240) in the determined region of the touchscreen (230).

Example implementations relate to novel battery designs based on the original disclosures of the Parent patent application Ser. No. 15/196,019. In a non-limiting embodiment, a first battery includes a ferroelectric glass electrolyte and a ferrocene Fe(C.sub.5H.sub.5).sub.2 molecule as a redox-mediator-relay material used for plating sodium on a current collector. Novel redox Fe(C.sub.5H.sub.5).sub.2 behavior is shown at a fixed (or a finite) voltage under discharge conditions. The disposed ferroelectric electrolyte material is predisposed to align itself in the direction of the electric field inside the battery, increasing the capacity of the battery. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or to limit the scope of, the invention.

A device may include a display portion that includes a display housing and a display at least partially within the display housing. The device may also include a base portion pivotally coupled to the display portion and including a bottom case, a top case coupled to the bottom case and defining an array of raised key regions, and a sensing system below the top case and configured to detect an input applied to a raised key region of the array of raised key regions.

An input device has: a panel having a front surface; a manipulation area provided on the front surface so as to be continuous in hierarchical form; a capacitance detection electrode provided in the manipulation area; a plurality of icon display portions provided in the manipulation area, each icon display portion representing one of a plurality of functions; and a tactile response generation portion provided in the manipulation area so as to be along the plurality of icon display portions.

An operating device includes a touchpad having an operating surface for detecting touch inputs, which operating surface has multiple regions which are delimited from each other at least in part by one or more structural elements, each structural element being designed to have a first haptic effect on a finger when the finger swipes over the structural element; and a haptic actuator which is designed to have a second haptic effect which enhances the first haptic effect on the finger when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element. The operating device has a first operating mode in which the actuator is activated to produce the second haptic effect on the finger when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element, and a second operating mode in which the actuator is deactivated when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element.

An interface device includes an on-panel pad and a sensor controller. The interface device is used to perform an input to an electronic device in response to an operation by a user on a capacitive touch panel display of the electronic device. The on-panel pad causes sensor electrodes included in the touch panel display to generate a two-dimensional pattern of capacitance while the on-panel pad is on the touch panel display. When the two-dimensional pattern generated while the on-panel pad is on the touch panel display has been detected, the sensor controller generates or outputs data including operation information in response to a change in capacitance in a region that is associated with the two-dimensional pattern and that receives an operation of the on-panel pad, the operation information indicating an operation state of the on-panel pad.

The present invention relates to a method comprising providing one or more information carrier(s) with a dielectric and/or conductive pattern and a detection device having a capacitive touch screen and inducing an interaction between the information carrier and the touch screen, wherein the interaction is based on a difference in the dielectric coefficient and/or the conductivity of the pattern and generates a touch signal and wherein the interaction is induced by relative motion between the information carrier and the touch screen. The invention further relates to a system comprising an information carrier comprising a dielectric and/or conductive pattern which encodes information and a detection device having a touch screen; the detection device is able to decode the information upon interaction between the information carrier and the touch screen, wherein the interaction is caused by a difference in the dielectric coefficient and/or the conductivity of the pattern.

A system for providing a background advertisement to a virtual key input unit on an information communication terminal supporting a touch user interface (TUI) is provided. The system comprises an advertisement providing server configured to provide advertisement contents and the information communication terminal. The information communication terminal further comprises a processor, a display configured to display a key input method, a transparent skin input unit generator executed by the processor and configured to generate a transparent skin input unit, an advertisement contents skin generator executed by the processor and configured to generate an advertisement contents skin, a skin combiner executed by the processor and configured to combine the transparent skin input unit and the advertisement contents skin, and a wireless connection detector configured to detect whether free wireless access is available to the information communication terminal and notify a result to the user.

Systems and methods are disclosed of a touch screen display wherein the surface of the touch screen display comprises a sculpted and/or contoured portion. The sculpted/contoured portion gives a user a tactile sense of a portion of the touch screen where commands may be actuated and/or data may be selected. The touch screen display may further be in communication with a physical switch where additional pressure by the user may be used to actuated a command associated with a selected portion of the display. Such a switch may be a piezo structure or other type of physical switch that may also be incorporated into a smart device/controller. Other embodiments may comprise haptic and/or audio feedback upon detection of the user's presence at a desired part of the touch screen display.

Systems and methods for feedforward and feedback with haptic effects are disclosed. One such system may include a sensor configured to detect an interaction with a touch surface and transmit a sensor signal associated with the interaction; a processor in communication with the sensor, the processor configured to: determine an operation available on a device, the operation associated with a first user interaction; determine a simulated texture associated with the operation; output a haptic signal associated with the simulated texture; determine whether to perform the operation based on a second user interaction; and a haptic output device in communication with the processor and coupled to the touch surface, the haptic output device configured to receive a haptic signal and simulate a texture on the touch surface based in part on the haptic signal.