G06F 3/04166
Details of scanning methods
Official title: {Details of scanning methods, e.g. sampling time, grouping of sub areas or time sharing with display driving (Synchronisation with the driving of the display or the backlighting unit to avoid interferences generated internally G06F3/04184)}
G06F3/04166 (Details of scanning methods) appears on 6,589 US grants and 7,848 published applications in this corpus.
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- Sensor controller, electronic device, and control method of sensor controller6 Oct 2026US 12,754,634 B2Wacom Co., Ltd.
- Driving system having multiple driver circuits for cooperatively driving display panel and driver circuit thereof6 Oct 2026US 12,754,635 B2Novatek Microelectronics Corp.
- Adaptive noise reduction in touchscreen devices6 Oct 2026US 12,754,638 B1STMicroelectronics International N. V.
- Driving method and apparatus for touch display panel and touch display8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310320 A1Wuhan China Star Optoelectronics Technology Co., Ltd.
- Electronic device8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310324 A1Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
- Touch display device, display panel and touch driving method1 Oct 2026US 2026/0299723 A1LG Display Co., Ltd.
- Multistable display with handwriting function1 Oct 2026US 2026/0301641 A1Genetouch Corp.
- Position detecting device, electromagnetic resonance stylus, and position detecting system24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288289 A1Wacom Co., Ltd.
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- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input3,711US 6,323,846 B1University of Delaware · 2001
- Multipoint touchscreen3,397US 7,663,607 B2Apple Inc. · 2010
- Object position detector with edge motion feature and gesture recognition2,193US 5,880,411 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1999
- Touch pad driven handheld computing device892US 5,543,588 ASynaptics Incorporated · 1996
- Method and apparatus for integrating manual input703US 6,888,536 B2University of Delaware · 2005