# US 2025/0165091 A1 · Sensor controller and stylus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2025/0165091 A1 - Document ID: US20250165091A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 18/933,838 - Filed: 2024-10-31 - Published: 2025-05-22 - Earliest claimed: 2023-11-16 - Assignees: Wacom Co., Ltd. - Applicants: Wacom Co., Ltd. - Inventors: Haruhiko HISANO - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250165091A1 ## CPC - G06F 3/04162: {for exchanging data with external devices, e.g. smart pens, via the digitiser sensing hardware} - G06F 3/03545: {Pens or stylus} - G06F 3/0383: {Signal control means within the pointing device} - G06F 3/0442: {using active external devices, e.g. active pens, for transmitting changes in electrical potential to be received by the digitiser} - G06F 3/0446: {using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes} - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract A position detection device is operated in a detection mode in which a multiprotocol simultaneous activation uplink signal is transmitted. The multiprotocol simultaneous activation uplink signal is obtained by adding, to a first portion configured to activate a stylus using a first protocol, subsequent data for activating the stylus using a second protocol different from the first protocol. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A position detection device comprising: a detection mode wherein a multiprotocol simultaneous activation uplink signal is transmitted, which is obtained by adding, to a first portion configured to activate a stylus using a first protocol, subsequent data for activating the stylus using a second protocol different from the first protocol. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The position detection device according to claim 1, wherein the detection mode is a mode that, after the multiprotocol simultaneous activation uplink signal is transmitted, waits for both a first downlink signal transmitted using the first protocol and a second downlink signal transmitted using the second protocol in a frame indicated by the multiprotocol simultaneous activation uplink signal. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The position detection device according to claim 2, wherein the position detection device being operated in the detection mode determines whether a signal received in the frame indicated by the multiprotocol simultaneous activation uplink signal is the first downlink signal or the second downlink signal, after transmitting the multiprotocol simultaneous activation uplink signal. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The position detection device according to claim 2, wherein, in a case where the first downlink signal is received in the detection mode, a first communication mode for periodically transmitting a first uplink signal according to the first protocol is entered, and in a case where the second downlink signal is received in the detection mode, a second communication mode for periodically transmitting a second uplink signal according to the second protocol is entered. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The position detection device according to claim 4, wherein, in a case where the first downlink signal is not received in the first communication mode and in a case where the second downlink signal is not received in the second communication mode, the mode returns to the detection mode. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The position detection device according to claim 1, wherein the detection mode is a mode in which transmission of the multiprotocol simultaneous activation uplink signal and transmission of a second uplink signal according to the second protocol are performed according to a predetermined schedule. ### Claim 7 A stylus comprising: a first determination section that determines whether or not a first uplink signal configured to activate the stylus using a first protocol is included in a received signal; a second determination section that determines whether or not first subsequent data for activating the stylus using a second protocol different from the first protocol is added to the first uplink signal, in a case where the first determination section determines that the first uplink signal is included in the received signal; and a transmission section that transmits a downlink signal using the second protocol, in a case where the second determination section determines that the first subsequent data is added to the first uplink signal. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The stylus according to claim 7, wherein, in a case where a result of the determination by the second determination section is negative, the transmission section transmits the downlink signal using the first protocol. ### Claim 9 (depends on 7) The stylus according to claim 7, wherein the first determination section further determines whether or not a third uplink signal configured to activate the stylus using a third protocol different from any of the first protocol and the second protocol is included in the received signal, the second determination section determines whether or not second subsequent data for activating the stylus using a fourth protocol different from any of the first protocol, the second protocol, and the third protocol is added to the third uplink signal, in a case where the first determination section determines that the third uplink signal is included in the received signal, and the transmission section transmits the downlink signal using the fourth protocol, in a case where the second determination section determines that the second subsequent data is added to the third uplink signal. ### Claim 10 (depends on 7) The stylus according to claim 7, wherein the transmission section starts, in a frame subsequent to a frame indicated by the received signal including the first subsequent data, the transmission of the downlink signal using the second protocol performed in a case where the second determination section determines that the first subsequent data is added to the first uplink signal. ### Claim 11 (depends on 7) The stylus according to claim 7, wherein the stylus is configured to be operable in a detection mode in which a determination regarding a received signal is performed by the first determination section and the second determination section and in a second communication mode in which it is determined whether or not the received signal includes a second uplink signal using the second protocol, and in a case where the detection mode has been entered, the second communication mode is entered in response to a determination by the second determination section that the first subsequent data is added to the first uplink signal. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The stylus according to claim 11, further comprising: a pairing state selection section that selects whether or not to continue pairing with a position detection device in a case where the second communication mode has been entered, wherein, in a case where cancellation of the pairing with the position detection device is selected by the pairing state selection section, the mode returns to the detection mode. ### Claim 13 A position detection device configured to: set a reservation time in a frame indicated by a second uplink signal configured to activate a stylus using a second protocol of a frame system, and transmit, in the reservation time, a first uplink signal configured to activate the stylus using a first protocol different from the second protocol. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The position detection device according to claim 13, wherein a reception operation of a first downlink signal transmitted using the first protocol is performed in the reservation time. ### Claim 15 (depends on 13) The position detection device according to claim 13, wherein a reception operation of a second downlink signal transmitted using the second protocol is performed within remaining time excluding the reservation time from the frame. ### Claim 16 A stylus comprising: setting information indicating either one of a first protocol and a second protocol that are different from each other; wherein, in response to receipt of an uplink signal for activating the stylus through either one of the first protocol and the second protocol indicated by the setting information, the stylus transmits a downlink signal using the one protocol, and in response to receipt of an uplink signal for activating the stylus using the other protocol that is not the one protocol, the stylus does not transmit the downlink signal using the other protocol. ### Claim 17 (depends on 16) The stylus according to claim 16, wherein the second protocol is of a system in which the downlink signal is transmitted using a plurality of time slots set in a frame, wherein a sensor controller is configured to transmit a first uplink signal for activating the stylus using the first protocol, in a reservation time set in a frame indicated by transmission of a second uplink signal for activating the stylus using the second protocol, and in a case where the second protocol is indicated by the setting information and the second uplink signal is received, the downlink signal using the second protocol is transmitted within remaining time excluding the reservation time from the frame indicated by the second uplink signal.