An input detection system includes a plurality of drive electrodes arrayed in a detection region, a drive signal supply circuit that supplies a drive signal to the drive electrodes, a storage circuit that stores therein a table having information about a correction value for a drive frequency of the drive signal, a correction value selection circuit that selects the correction value for the drive frequency on the basis of the table, and an input support device that includes an LC circuit, a first electrode coupled to one end side of the LC circuit, and a second electrode coupled to the other end side of the LC circuit.

A contactless touchscreen interface has a digital display to display digital information; the proximity detector and a proximity detector comprising an image sensor to detect user interaction at a virtual touch intersection plane offset a distance from the digital display and to resolve the interaction into XY offset-plane interaction coordinates with reference to the digital display. A gaze determining imaging system comprising an image sensor determines a gaze relative offset with respect to the digital display using facial image data captured by the image sensor. An interface controller comprising a parallax adjustment controller to convert the XY offset-plane interaction coordinates to XY on-screen apparent coordinates using the gaze relative offset and the distance and an input controller generates an input at the XY on-screen apparent coordinates accordingly.

A display device includes a display panel including pixels, an active area on which an image is configured to be displayed, and a black matrix area on which an image is not configured to be displayed, touch sensor electrodes configured to detect a touch of an external object, the touch sensor electrodes disposed in the active area, and detection input electrodes configured to generate mutual capacitance with the touch sensor electrodes, the detection input electrodes disposed in an edge area of the display panel that overlaps the black matrix area.

A touch sensor includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a sensing channel. The first electrode includes first electrode cells arranged in a first direction, a first connection portion connecting the first electrode cells in the first direction and a first opening disposed in at least one of the first electrode cells. The second electrode includes an electrode portion disposed in the first opening. The electrode portion is disposed on a same layer as the first electrode cells and separated from the first electrode. The sensing channel includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is connected to the first electrode. The second terminal is connected to the second electrode.

A capacitance detection circuit that is capable of reducing the influence of an environmental variation such as temperature. The capacitance detection circuit detects an electrostatic capacitance of a sensor electrode. A sense pin is connected to the sensor electrode. An analog front end circuit converts the electrostatic capacitance of the sensor electrode to an electrical signal, wherein an input-output characteristic of the analog front end circuit is variable. A controller adjusts the input-output characteristic of the analog front end circuit according to the environmental variation.

A method for touch detection includes, at a touch-sensitive device having a plurality of touch-sensing electrodes, driving a first subset of the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes with a drive signal having a first phase. A second subset of the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes are driven with a drive signal having a second phase, different from the first phase. Output signals for each of the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes are measured. For each touch-sensing electrode of the plurality of touch-sensing electrodes, a complex gradient is determined between the measured output signal for the touch-sensing electrode and the measured output signal for a neighboring touch-sensing electrode, the neighboring touch-sensing electrode driven with a different phase of a drive signal from the touch-sensing electrode. A location of a touch input is identified based at least in part on magnitudes of the determined complex gradients.

An operation detection device includes a detection unit to detect a touch operation in an operation surface by a detected object and to output a detection value based on a capacitance to increase from before the touch operation, and a determination unit to hold a determination threshold value to determine a start of the touch operation, to output a touch start determination to determine the start of the touch operation when the detection value becomes not less than the determination threshold value, and to output a first deemed determination to determine an end of the touch operation when a first condition, which is based on a maximum detection value after the touch start determination, is satisfied.

A touch sensor panel is disclosed. In some examples, the touch sensor panel comprises a plurality of touch node electrodes. In some examples, the touch sensor panel comprises a touch controller configured to drive and sense the plurality of touch node electrodes in a fully bootstrapped configuration to obtain a fully bootstrapped touch image, drive and sense the plurality of touch node electrodes in a second configuration, different from the fully bootstrapped configuration, to obtain a second touch image, the second touch image including an effect of water on the touch sensor panel, and determine a final touch image based on the fully bootstrapped touch image and the second touch image, the final touch image not including the effect of the water on the touch sensor panel. In some examples, the second configuration comprises a mutual capacitance configuration. In some examples, the second configuration comprises a partially bootstrapped configuration.

A wearable device includes a plurality of sensors including a touch sensor; and a processor configured to: acquire a touch input using the touch sensor; while the touch input is acquired, acquire a sensing value from at least one sensor other than the touch sensor among the plurality of sensors; determine, based on the sensing value, whether the touch input is an erroneous touch; and based on a result of the determination, perform an operation corresponding to the touch input.

A first detection signal creation unit has detection nodes connected to detection electrodes in one-to-one correspondence. The first detection signal creation unit supplies charge from each detection node through a second wire to the relevant detection electrode so that a voltage at the relevant detection node vibrates according to an alternating-current voltage, and creates first detection signals matching the supplied charge. First filters are provided in first paths, each of which branches from an alternating-current output node to a first wire. A phase difference signal creation unit creates a phase difference signal matching the phase difference between the alternating-current voltage and one of the first detection signals.