HiDeep Inc.

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a stylus pen including: a body portion; a conductive tip configured to be exposed from an inside of the body portion to an outside thereof; a ground portion configured to be electrically connected to a user; and a resonant circuit portion in the body portion, electrically connected between the conductive tip and the ground portion, and including one or more resonance circuits that resonate with electrical signals of different frequencies transferred from the conductive tip to output resonance signals of different frequencies.

A fingerprint sensing method based on touch pressure in a black screen mode of a touch input device according to the embodiment of the present invention includes: sensing first pressure which has a value equal to or greater than a first predetermined threshold value and is applied by an object in the black screen mode; determining continuously after sensing the first pressure whether second pressure which has a value equal to or greater than a second predetermined threshold value and is different from the first pressure is sensed or not; recognizing a fingerprint of the object when the second pressure is sensed; determining whether or not the recognized fingerprint is identical to a fingerprint previously registered in the touch input device; and performing a predetermined operation when the recognized fingerprint is identical to the previously registered fingerprint.

A touch input device capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface may be provided. The touch input device includes: a display module; and a pressure sensor which is disposed at a position where a distance between the pressure sensor and a reference potential layer is changeable according to the touch on the touch surface. The distance is changeable according to a pressure magnitude of the touch. The pressure sensor outputs a signal including information on a capacitance which is changed according to the distance. The pressure sensor includes a plurality of electrodes to form a plurality of channels. The pressure magnitude of the touch is detected on the basis of a change amount of the capacitance detected in each of the channels and an SNR improvement scaling factor assigned to each of the channels.

A touch input device capable of detecting touch pressure according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a display module and a pressure sensor layer disposed on a lower portion of the display module, wherein an adhesive layer is present between the display module and the pressure sensor layer to adhere the pressure sensor layer to the display module, and the pressure sensor layer includes a structure in which a first strain gauge is formed on an upper surface of a substrate and a second strain gauge is formed on a lower surface of the substrate. When pressure is applied to the display module, the display module is bent, the electrical properties of each of the first strain gauge and the second strain gauge are changed as the display module is bent, and the Young's Modulus of the substrate is greater than the Young's Modulus of the adhesive layer.

An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a stylus pen including: a body; a conductive tip configured to be exposed from an inside of the body to an outside thereof; and a resonance circuit connected to the conductive tip to resonate an electrical signal transferred from the conductive tip. An inductor unit of the resonance circuit includes a ferrite core and a coil wound in multiple layers over at least a portion of the ferrite core. The ferrite core includes nickel, and the coil can be formed by a litz wire with adjacent winding layers that are wound to be inclined in a zigzag form.

A method for manufacturing a touch input device may be provided. The method includes: a display forming step of forming, on a single carrier substrate, a flexible display for each of a plurality of display devices, cutting the flexible display into individual pieces, and separating the flexible display from the carrier substrate; a separate structure different from electrodes used to detect touch position forming step of forming, under a single substrate, a separate structure different from electrodes used to detect touch position for each of the plurality of display devices and cutting the substrate for the separate structure into individual pieces; and an adhering step of adhering each of the individual pieces of the separated flexible display to an individual piece of the substrate for the separate structure. The substrate for the separate structure may not be relatively easily bent as compared to the flexible display.

A stylus pen includes: a first body with a first opening at one end and a second opening at the other end; a stylus tip, at least part of which protrudes from the first opening and has conductivity; a guide portion attached to the second opening and including a cavity; and a conductive member that extends through the cavity within the first body, with one end attached to the stylus tip, and that is electrically connected to the cavity.

A touch input device according to an embodiment is capable of detecting a pressure of a touch on a touch surface and may include: a display module; and a pressure sensor which is disposed at a position where a distance from a reference potential layer may vary according to the touch for the touch surface, the distance is changeable according to a pressure magnitude of the touch, the pressure sensor may output a signal including information on a capacitance which is changed according to the distance, the pressure sensor may include a plurality of electrodes to form a plurality of channel, and detect the magnitude of the pressure for the touch based on a change amount of a capacitance detected in the each channel and an SNR improvement scaling factor assigned to each of the channels.

A hybrid stylus communicating with a touch input device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a conductive tip that forms a capacitance with at least one of a plurality of electrodes in the touch input device, a first mode operation unit that operates with the touch input device based on a predetermined power, a second mode operation unit that operates by using a change in capacitance for at least one of the plurality of electrodes in the touch input device by the conductive tip, a switch configured to connect the conductive tip to the first mode operation unit or the second mode operation unit, a power supply unit that provides the predetermined power to the first mode operation unit, a communication unit that transmits mode conversion information for converting an operation mode of the touch input device to the touch input device, and a controller that checks the remaining amount of the power to control the switch to connect the conductive tip to the first mode operation unit when a remaining amount of the power is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value and to control the switch to connect the conductive tip to the second mode operation unit when the remaining amount of the power is less than the predetermined threshold, and controls the communication unit to transmit the mode conversion information to the touch input device.