Stylus driving apparatus and electronic device comprising same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12260040-B2
Application number	US-202218264274-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 19, 2022
Priority date	Feb 4, 2021
Publication date	Mar 25, 2025
Grant date	Mar 25, 2025

Abstract

Provided is an electronic device including a panel including a plurality of first electrodes extending in a Y-axis and a plurality of second electrodes extending in an X-axis, a driving part configured to individually control a direction of current flowing through the plurality of first electrode and the plurality of second electrodes so as to generate electromagnetic fields, thereby driving a stylus, and a determination part configured to receive a signal generated in the stylus so as to determine touch coordinates. Each of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes does not form a closed loop. In the electronic device and a stylus driving device according to the embodiment of the present invention, since a separate configuration such as a digitizer, an antenna, and the like is not required, the product may be miniaturized and thinned, and the manufacturing cost may be reduced.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An electronic device comprising:
a panel comprising a plurality of first electrodes extending in a Y-axis and a plurality of second electrodes extending in an X-axis;
a driving part configured to individually control a direction of current flowing through the plurality of first electrode and the plurality of second electrodes so as to generate electromagnetic fields, thereby driving a stylus; and
a determination part configured to receive a signal generated in the stylus so as to determine touch coordinates,
wherein each of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes does not form a closed loop, and
wherein the driving part is configured to control the direction of the current flowing through the first electrode and the second electrode is controlled based on a position of the first electrode or the second electrode around a tip of the stylus to generate the electromagnetic fields.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the driving part is driven so that the current flowing through the first electrode disposed on a left surface and the first electrode disposed on a right surface based on a virtual line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the Y-axis flow in opposite directions to each other, or the current flowing through the second electrode disposed on a top surface and the second electrode disposed on a bottom surface based on a virtual line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the X-axis flow in opposite directions.

3. An electronic device comprising:
a panel comprising a plurality of first electrodes extending in a Y-axis and a plurality of second electrodes extending in an X-axis;
a driving part configured to individually control a direction of current flowing through the plurality of first electrode and the plurality of second electrodes so as to generate electromagnetic fields, thereby driving a stylus; and
a determination part configured to receive a signal generated in the stylus so as to determine touch coordinates,
wherein each of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes does not form a closed loop,
wherein the current is induced in a resonance circuit of the stylus by the electromagnetic fields generated by the driving part, and magnetic fields generated by the current induced in the resonance circuit induces a current signal rotating in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction around the tip of the stylus, and
wherein the determination part is configured to receive the current signal so as to determinate the touch coordinates.

4. The electronic device of claim 3 , wherein the direction of the current flowing through the first electrode or the second electrode disposed vertically and horizontally around the tip of the stylus is determined in response to the rotation direction of the current signal.

5. The electronic device of claim 4 , wherein, due to a current signal generated in the stylus, the current flowing through the first electrode disposed on a left surface and the first electrode disposed on a right surface based on a virtual line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the Y-axis flow in opposite directions to each other, or the current flowing through the second electrode disposed on a top surface and the second electrode disposed on a bottom surface based on a virtual line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the X-axis flow in opposite directions.

6. A stylus driving device comprising:
a panel comprising a plurality of first electrodes extending in a Y-axis and a plurality of second electrodes extending in an X-axis; and
a driving part configured to individually control a direction of current flowing through the plurality of first electrode and the plurality of second electrodes so as to generate electromagnetic fields, thereby driving a stylus,
wherein each of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes does not form a closed loop, and
wherein the driving part is configured to control the direction of the current flowing the first electrode and the second electrode is controlled based on a position of the first electrode or the second electrode around a tip of the stylus to generate the electromagnetic fields.

7. The stylus driving device of claim 6 , wherein the driving part is driven so that the current flowing through the first electrode disposed on a left surface and the first electrode disposed on a right surface based on a virtual line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the Y-axis flow in opposite directions to each other, or the current flowing through the second electrode disposed on a top surface and the second electrode disposed on a bottom surface based on a virtual line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the X-axis flow in opposite directions.

8. An electronic device comprising:
a panel comprising a plurality of first electrodes extending in a Y-axis and a plurality of second electrodes extending in an X-axis; and
a determination part configured to receive a signal generated in the stylus so as to determine touch coordinates,
wherein each of the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes does not form a closed loop, and
wherein a current signal rotating in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction around a tip of the stylus is induced by electromagnetic fields generated by current induced in a resonance circuit of the stylus, and the determination part is configured to determines touch coordinates based on the current signal.

9. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein a direction of current flowing through the first electrode or the second electrode disposed vertically and horizontally around the tip of the stylus is determined in response to the rotation direction of the current signal.

10. The electronic device of claim 9 , wherein, due to a current signal generated in the stylus, the current flowing through the first electrode disposed on a left surface and the first electrode disposed on a right surface based on a virtual line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the Y-axis flow in opposite directions to each other, or the current flowing through the second electrode disposed on a top surface and the second electrode disposed on a bottom surface based on a virtual line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the X-axis flow in opposite directions.

11. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the stylus comprises an active stylus configured to resonate itself by comprising a resonance circuit and a power supply.

12. The electronic device of claim 8 , wherein the stylus comprises a passive stylus comprising a resonance circuit configured to resonate by an external signal.

13. The electronic device of claim 12 , wherein the external signal comprises an electromagnetic field signal generated in the panel.

Assignees

• Hideep Inc

Inventors

• Kim Bonkee
• Kim Seyeob
• Cho Youngho
• Kim Jongsik
• Lee Hwanhee

Classifications

• G06F3/046 Primary

  by electromagnetic means · CPC title

• G06F3/0383

  Signal control means within the pointing device · CPC title

• G06F3/03545

  Pens or stylus · CPC title

• G06F3/0446

  using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes · CPC title

• G06F3/0442

  using active external devices, e.g. active pens, for transmitting changes in electrical potential to be received by the digitiser · CPC title