US Patent Issued to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY on Sept. 16 for "Touch panel built-in display device, and method for controlling touch panel built-in display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,994, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SHARP DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Touch panel built-in display device, and method for controlling touch panel built-in display device" was invented by Takatoshi Kira (Kameyama, Japan) and Masayuki Hata (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel built-in display device comprises a touch coordinate detection circuit. The touch coordinate detection circuit, as to each detection electrode pair, determines presence or absence of a touch by a pointer at a coordinate in a second direction where the detection electrode pair is positioned, based on a total value or ...