One variation of a method for detecting an input at a touch sensor—including a force-sensitive layer exhibiting variations in local resistance responsive to local variations in applied force on a touch sensor surface and a set of drive and sense electrodes—includes: driving a drive electrode with a drive signal; reading a sense signal from a sense electrode; detecting a alternating-current component and a direct-current component of the sense signal; in response to a magnitude of the direct-current component of the sense signal falling below a threshold magnitude, detecting an input on the touch sensor surface during the scan cycle based on the alternating-current component of the sense signal; and, in response to the magnitude of the direct-current component of the sense signal exceeding the threshold magnitude, detecting the input on the touch sensor surface during the scan cycle based on the direct-current component of the sense signal.

One variation of a method for manipulating virtual objects within a virtual environment includes: determining a first position of a touch sensor within real space; based on the first position of the touch sensor within real space, bounding a virtual surface of a virtual object within the virtual environment tractable through inputs across the touch sensor; generating a first force vector comprising a magnitude related to a force magnitude of a first input on the touch sensor surface and a direction related to an orientation of the touch sensor within real space; locating an origin of the first force vector within the virtual environment based on a first location of the first input on the touch sensor surface and the first position of the touch sensor within real space; and manipulating the virtual surface of the virtual object within the virtual environment according to the first force vector.

A nanopaper and a fabricating method thereof, a method of graphic processing and an electronic device are provided. The nanopaper includes: a transparent substrate, wherein the transparent substrate includes a micro-nano-fiber; a plurality of pressure sensing units, wherein the pressure sensing units are located on one side of the transparent substrate, and resistances of the pressure sensing units are able to vary with deformation of the transparent substrate; and a plurality of leads, wherein the plurality of leads are connected to the pressure sensing units, and are configured to be able to separately output a sensing signal of each of the plurality of pressure sensing units.

The functionality of a conventional mouse is extended to provide an extended number of simultaneously adjustable user interface parameters employing one or more user-removable modules. In an embodiment, a user interface for controlling an external device, such as a computer, includes a first user interface sensor configured with a housing. This first sensor generates a first plurality of signals responsive to movement of the housing relative to two orthogonal axes. A compartment is configured with the housing and is sized to receive the user-removable module. This user-removable module contains a second user interface sensor, which generates a second plurality of signals responsive to user manipulation. Output is provided responsive to signals generated by the first and second user interface sensors. In another embodiment, the housing of an extended functionality mouse itself serves as a module removable from a compartment provided in another physical device.

The present invention relates to touch-sensor detector systems and methods incorporating an interpolated variable impedance touch sensor array and specifically to such systems and methods for force-aware interaction with handheld display devices on one or more surfaces of the device. An exemplary embodiment includes a method for receiving a flexing gesture formed on a sensor panel of the handheld device including determining two or more pressure inputs at the sensor panel and determining a relative pressure between the two or more pressure inputs. The method further includes correlating the relative pressure inputs to the flexing gesture, associating the flexing gesture with a UI element and providing an input to the UI element based on the gesture and the relative pressure between the two or more pressure inputs.

In a vibration unit, a first electrode of a sensor circuit of a control unit is electrically connected to a first external electrode of a first piezoelectric element, a second electrode of the sensor circuit is electrically connected to a second external electrode of the first piezoelectric element, a first electrode of a drive circuit is electrically connected to a first external electrode of a second piezoelectric element, and a second electrode of the drive circuit is electrically connected to a second external electrode of the second piezoelectric element. Only a relatively small voltage induced by an electromotive force occurring due to the flexure of the first piezoelectric element is applied to the sensor circuit. In addition, only a relatively large drive voltage to be applied to the second piezoelectric element is applied to the drive circuit.

A flexible electronic device is disclosed. The flexible electronic device includes a protruding unit, a flexible substrate and a plurality of sensing units. The flexible substrate is disposed on the protruding unit and has a deformation region corresponding to the protruding unit. The sensing units are disposed on the flexible substrate, and at least one of the sensing units is overlapped with the deformation region. A ratio of an area of the deformation region to an area of one of the at least one of the sensing units is greater than or equal to 1.4 and less than or equal to 2222.

A tactile touch sensor (TTS) system and method allowing physical augmentation of a high-resolution touch sensor array (TSA) is disclosed. Physical augmentation is accomplished using a TSA physical overlay (TPO) placed on top of the TSA. The TPO is constructed to transmit forces to the underlying TSA. Force transmission is accomplished by either using a flexible overlay or with a rigid mechanical overlay that transmits user forces exerted on the overlay to the underlying TSA. Incorporation of TPO identifiers (TPI) within the TPO permits identification of the TPO by a TPO detector (TPD) allowing operational characteristics of the TSA to be automatically reconfigured to conform to the currently applied TPO structure by a user computing device (UCD). The UCD may be configured to automatically load an appropriate application software driver (ASD) in response to a TPI read by the TPD from the currently applied TPO.

An interface for operating an elevator car includes an interface controller, a foil attached to a wall surface of a wall of the elevator car, the wall surface facing an inside of the elevator car, and at least one pressure-sensitive sensor configured for receiving user requests by an application of a pressure to the at least one sensor. The at least one sensor is connected to the interface controller, the interface controller transmitting the user requests received by the at least one sensor to a car controller of the elevator car, and wherein the at least one sensor is embedded in the foil.

A pressure calibration method, applicable to a touch panel which sequentially comprises a first electrode layer, an elastic dielectric layer and a second electrode layer, the first electrode layer includes multiple first electrodes in parallel to a first axis, the second electrode layer includes multiple second electrodes in parallel to a second axis, the pressure calibration method comprising: retrieving a depression event according to mutual capacitance sensing between the first electrodes and the second electrodes; finding a corresponding calibration area according to coordinate of the depression event; when a calibration area where the touching event locates exists, taking the found calibration area as the corresponding calibration area; otherwise, taking a nearby calibration area which is closest to the touching event as the corresponding calibration area; and calculating a calibrated pressure value according to a pressure sensing value of the depression event and a pressure calibration function of the corresponding calibration area.