US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on May 20 for "Electrostatic capacitance type touch panel system and method based on environmental temperature and second derivative of a pressing force" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,055, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Electrostatic capacitance type touch panel system and method based on environmental temperature and second derivative of a pressing force" was invented by Takuma Yamamoto (Kameyama, Japan), Takenori Maruyama (Kameyama, Japan), Shinji Yamagishi (Kameyama, Japan), Kazutoshi Kida (Kameyama, Japan), Yasuhiro Sugita (Kameyama, Japan) and Hiroshi Fukushima (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a touch panel system including a touch panel and a controller. The controller includes a signal acquisition unit that acquires a signal va...