The invention concerns device for a digital writing instrument the device comprising a substrate with a transparent or translucent layer and a pattern layer on the transparent layer. The pattern comprising an active area made with photoluminescent material and an inactive area made with non photoluminescent material. The photoluminescent material comprises a successive alternate of a first layer and a second layer generating photoluminescent structure at the interface of said first layer and said second layer, the pattern layer comprises a series of N points distributed in a plan (X,Y), either said N-points define the active area whereas the inactive area is defined by the area between said N points. The N-points defines the inactive area whereas the active area is defined by the area between said N points. The invention also relates to a method for determining a position, a method for manufacturing, a system and a stylus.

It is desirable to provide a technology for enhancing quality of a displayed image in an overlap region among a plurality of display regions even in a case where a position of the displayed image is changed. There is provided an information processing apparatus including a display controller (134) that controls display of a displayed image in at least one display region of a plurality of display regions on the basis of an input position detected on the basis of a captured image, in which the plurality of display regions includes a first display region and a second display region, and in a case where the input position has moved to an overlap region where the first display region and the second display region overlap with each other, the display controller controls display of the displayed image in the overlap region on the basis of the input position before moving to the overlap region.

Various implementations of the invention comprise a surface or film having a plurality of three-dimensional structures embodied on or within the surface or film, each of the three-dimensional structures having a reflecting surface configured to retro-reflect radiation from a radiation source back to a detector located at the radiation source.

An indicator detection method includes operating in a first mode and operating in a second mode. The first mode includes detecting a position of a first indicator on a operation surface by detecting first light emitted by the first indicator, emitting second light by a light emitting device, and detecting a position of a second indicator on the operation surface by detecting reflected light of the second light reflected by the second indicator. The second mode includes reducing a light amount of the second light when it is determined that the first indicator is in contact with the operation surface, and detecting the position of the first indicator on the operation surface by detecting the first light in a state where the light amount of the second light is reduced.

The present disclosure relates to a smart pen and a display device using the same, in which a reflective light reception rate may be enhanced through a light output structure to increase a code pattern and code information recognition rate of a display panel. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, smart pen comprising a body portion, a pen tip portion formed on one end of the body portion to form a path of light emitted from a light emitting portion in an end direction at one side, a code detector detecting shape data for code patterns by applying light to the pen tip portion and receiving light reflected from a display panel and the pen tip portion, and a code processor generating coordinate data by using the shape data and transmitting the coordinate data to a main processor for driving the display panel.

A method for controlling a display apparatus, the method comprising, displaying, in a first mode, a first image based on received image data having first resolution on a display surface at a first display size corresponding to the first resolution, displaying, in a second mode, a second image based on the image data having second resolution smaller than the first resolution on the display surface at a second display size corresponding to the second resolution, converting, when the display apparatus accepts the operation of increasing the second display size in the second mode, the first resolution of image data to third resolution corresponding to the operation, displaying a third image based on the image data having the third resolution on the display surface.

A display device including a beam emitter and a display panel is provided. The beam emitter emits a first beam; the display panel includes a display screen body and a light control layer. The light control layer includes photosensitive devices that outputs a sensing signal according to a sensing result, a control module for controlling turning on and turning off of the photosensitive devices, and a reading module for reading the sensing signal output by the photosensitive devices and determining a projection position of the first beam on the display panel according to the sensing signal.

An image processing method and apparatus for a smart pen, and an electronic device are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, and belong to the technical field of data processing. The method comprises: monitoring a working state of a second pressure switch provided at a pen tip of a smart pen after a first pressure switch of the smart pen is in a closed state; controlling an infrared transceiver circuit on the smart pen to send an infrared signal to an area where the smart pen writes; acquiring a lightweight network model preset in the smart pen, so as to perform feature extraction processing on an original image; performing classification processing on a feature matrix by using a fully connected layer in the lightweight network model, to obtain a trajectory classification result; and displaying a writing trajectory of the smart pen on a target object in real time.

In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing integrated free space and surface inputs are provided. An integrated free space and surface input system includes a mixed-input pointing device for interacting and controlling interface objects using free space inputs and surface inputs, trigger buttons, pressure sensors, and haptic feedback associated with the mixed-input pointing device. Free space movement data and surface movement data are tracked and determined for the mixed-input pointing device. An interface input is detected for the mixed-input pointing device transitioning from a first input to a second input, such as, from a free space input to a surface input or from the surface input to the free space input. The interface input is processed based on accessing the free space movement data and the surface movement data. An output for the interface input is communicated from the mixed-input pointing device to interact and control an interface.

An electronic pen includes a coil wound around a magnetic core, a first capacitor forming a resonance circuit with the coil, a rectifier circuit which, in operation, rectifies an alternating-current signal received by the resonance circuit, the rectifier circuit including a second capacitor, a voltage detecting circuit which, in operation, detects whether a rectified output voltage across the second capacitor of the rectifier circuit exceeds a predetermined value, a third capacitor having a capacitance that is larger than a capacitance of the second capacitor, and a charge control circuit which, in operation, controls supply of a charging current to the third capacitor by the rectified output voltage. The charge control circuit in operation, causes the charging current to be fed to the third capacitor by the rectified output voltage when the voltage detection circuit detects that the rectified output voltage obtained across the second capacitor exceeds the predetermined value.