Stylus driving apparatus and electronic device comprising same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025271960-A1
Application number	US-202519074777-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 10, 2025
Priority date	Feb 4, 2021
Publication date	Aug 28, 2025
Grant date	—

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 including a plurality of first electrodes extending in the Y-axis and a plurality of second electrodes extending in the X-axis; and a determination part that determines a position coordinate of a stylus based on a signal received from a stylus through the pane, wherein one ends of the second electrodes disposed above a center of the panel among the plurality of second electrodes are electrically connected to the determination part through wiring, and the other ends of the second electrodes disposed below the center of the panel are electrically connected to the determination part through wiring, wherein the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are configured to induce a current signal that rotates clockwise or counterclockwise around a tip of the stylus by an electromagnetic field from the stylus, and wherein the determination part is configured to determine the position coordinate based on the current signal.

2 . The electronic device of claim 1 ,
wherein the determination part is configured to detect two currents in opposite directions induced in at least two first electrodes located on both sides of a point where the tip of the stylus is located among the plurality of first electrodes, or to detect two currents in opposite directions induced in at least two second electrodes located on both sides of the point where the tip of the stylus is located among the plurality of second electrodes, and determine the position coordinate.

3 . The electronic device of claim 1 ,
wherein the determination part is configured to detect coordinates based on differential values of currents flowing in two first electrodes located on both sides of a point where the tip of the stylus is located among the plurality of first electrodes, or to detect coordinates based on differential values of currents flowing in two second electrodes located on both sides of the point where the tip of the stylus is located among the plurality of second electrodes, and determine the position coordinate.

4 . The electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising a driving part configured to individually control the direction of current flowing through the plurality of first electrodes or the plurality of second electrodes to generate an electromagnetic field to drive the stylus.

5 . The electronic device of claim 4 ,
wherein the driving part is configured to generate an electromagnetic field by controlling the direction of current flowing through the first electrode or the second electrode based on the position of the first electrode or the second electrode centered on the tip of the stylus.

6 . The electronic device of claim 4 ,
wherein the driving part is configured such that current flowing through the first electrode arranged on one side and the first electrode arranged on the other side are in opposite directions based on an imaginary line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the Y-axis, or such that current flowing through the second electrode arranged on one side and the second electrode arranged on the other side are in opposite directions based on an imaginary line passing through the tip of the stylus and parallel to the X-axis.

7 . The electronic device of claim 1 ,
wherein, in response to the rotational direction of the current signal, the direction of the current flowing through the first electrode or the second electrode arranged up, down, left, and right around the tip of the stylus is determined.

Assignees

• Hideep Inc
• Seongnam Si

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