IP Library Granted Patent US 9,189,034
Granted Patent B2
US 9,189,034 · App. 13/937,824 · Granted Nov 17, 2015

Electronic device

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Patent No.
US 9,189,034
App. No.
13/937,824
Granted
Nov 17, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device includes a casing to accommodate a display panel having front and back surfaces, a portion of the display surface being an effective display area; an antenna, disposed in back of a closed area of the effective display area, oriented to exhibit a directivity from the back of the effective display area toward the front surface, and to perform near field communication with an external terminal in a non-contact manner when the external terminal is close to the display panel; a scanner, disposed in the back of the effective display area, having a digitizer scanning film for accepting an input of a digitizer pen, to detect a position of the digitizer pen on the front surface of the display panel; and a shielding plate disposed in back of the scanner and the antenna such that the antenna is disposed between the digitizer scanning film and the shielding plate.

Claims (14)

1. An electronic device, comprising:

a casing configured to accommodate:

a display panel having a front surface and a back surface, the front surface being a display surface, a portion of the display surface being an effective display area;

an antenna, disposed in back of a closed area of the effective display area, the antenna being oriented so as to exhibit a directivity from the back of the effective display area toward the front surface, the antenna configured to perform near field communication with an external terminal in a non-contact manner when the external terminal is close to the display panel;

a scanner, disposed in the back of the effective display area, the scanner being configured to have a scanning film on a front surface, the scanning film being a digitizer scanning film for accepting an input of a digitizer pen, and to detect a position of the digitizer pen on the front surface of the display panel;

a shielding plate disposed in back of the scanner and the antenna such that the antenna is disposed between the digitizer scanning film and the shielding plate, and having a ground connection to the scanner, and

the display panel, the antenna, the scanner, and the shielding plate being layered in the casing.

2. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the scanner is layered over the display panel such that the scanner is closer to the display panel than the antenna is.

3. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising a signal processing section, disposed in back of the shielding plate, configured to process a signal communicated by the antenna by near field communication.

4. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising a CPU configured to perform control based on a position of the digitizer pen detected by the scanner, wherein

the CPU cancels a portion of the control based on the position of the digitizer pen detected by the scanner, when the antenna performs near field communication with the external terminal.

5. The electronic device according to claim 1 , further comprising a CPU configured to perform processing for an image to be displayed on the display panel, based on a position of the digitizer pen detected by the scanner, wherein

the CPU performs control so as not to perform the processing for the image to be displayed on the display panel based on the position of the digitizer pen detected by the scanner, when the antenna performs near field communication with the external terminal.

6. The electronic device according to claim 1 , wherein the antenna is an RFID module.

Assignments (3)
CORRECTIVE ASSIGNMENT TO CORRECT THE ERRONEOUSLY FILED APPLICATION NUMBERS 13/384239, 13/498734, 14/116681 AND 14/301144 PREVIOUSLY RECORDED ON REEL 034194 FRAME 0143. ASSIGNOR(S) HEREBY CONFIRMS THE ASSIGNMENT. Recorded Dec 24, 2020
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 056788/0362 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 10, 2014
From: PANASONIC CORPORATION
To: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 034194/0143 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 30, 2014
From: ITO, NAOYUKI; ITOTANI, TAKEHIRO
To: PANASONIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 032099/0930 →