ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,559, issued on April 8, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"Input detection apparatus, input detection method, and recording medium storing input detection program for detecting input position with respect to a display panel" was invented by Koichi Sugiyama (Sakai, Japan) and Shinya Higashi (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a first position detection pressing circuit that detects a first position of the input operation at the first sensor, a second position detection pressing circuit that detects a second position of the input operation at the second sensor, and an input position detection...