Wearable touch device and wearable touch method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10042387-B2
Application number	US-201414441734-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 29, 2014
Priority date	Apr 28, 2014
Publication date	Aug 7, 2018
Grant date	Aug 7, 2018

Abstract

The present invention belongs to the field of control technology, particularly relates to a wearable touch device and a wearable touch method. A wearable touch device comprises a carrier, a projecting unit, a monitoring unit and a processing unit. The carrier is wearable, the projecting unit is used for projecting to a touch surface capable of being touched by a touch end, the monitoring unit is used for monitoring contact information between the touch end and the touch surface and sending the contact information to the processing unit, and the processing unit is used for processing the contact information to judge whether the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface. The wearable touch device and the corresponding wearable touch method can ensure the touch effectiveness.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A wearable touch device, comprising:
a carrier that is wearable;
a projector for projecting to a touch surface capable of being touched by a touch end;
a sensor for monitoring contact information between the touch end and the touch surface and sending the contact information to a processing unit; and
the processing unit for processing the contact information to judge whether the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface; wherein
the touch end is a human finger, and the touch surface capable of being touched by the touch end is any other human body region capable of being touched by the human finger, and
judging whether the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface includes: judging whether there is a human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface;
wherein the contact information includes contact strength information, the sensor comprises a pressure sensor or a vibration sensor, the pressure sensor or the vibration sensor is configured for monitoring the contact strength information produced between the touch end and the touch surface and sending the contact strength information to the processing unit, and
judging whether the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface further includes:
not only judging whether there is a human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface, but also judging whether the contact strength information is effective, and wherein
when it is judged that the human body closing current is formed between the touch end and the touch surface and the contact strength information is effective, it is judged that the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface; and
when it is judged that the human body closing current is formed between the touch end and the touch surface but the contact strength information is ineffective, or when it is judged that there is no human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface, it is judged that the touch end does not effectively contact the touch surface.

2. The wearable touch device of claim 1 , wherein the contact information includes resistance information, and the sensor comprises a resistance information collecting unit for collecting present resistance information of the touch end and sending the present resistance information to the processing unit.

3. The wearable touch device of claim 2 , wherein the processing unit comprises a comparison module and a judging module, an initial resistance information is pre-stored in the processing unit,
the comparison module is used for comparing the present resistance information with the initial resistance information and sending a comparison result to the judging module, the judging module judges whether there is the human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface in accordance with the comparison result.

4. The wearable touch device of claim 1 , wherein the processing unit comprises a comparison module and a judging module, and a contact strength threshold information is pre-stored in the processing unit;
the comparison module is used for comparing the contact strength information with the contact strength threshold information and sending a comparison result to the judging module, the judging module judges whether the contact strength information is effective in accordance with the comparison result.

5. The wearable touch device of claim 2 , wherein the resistance information collecting unit comprises a resistance sensor, both the resistance sensor and the processing unit are provided in the carrier, the carrier is capable of being worn on the human finger acting as the touch end, and the resistance sensor is provided on an inner surface of the carrier.

6. The wearable touch device of claim 1 , wherein the carrier is made of PVC material.

7. A wearable touch method, comprising steps of:
projecting to a touch surface capable of being touched by a touch end;
monitoring contact information between the touch end and the touch surface; and
processing the contact information to judge whether the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface; wherein
the touch end is a human finger, and the touch surface capable of being touched by the touch end is any of other human body regions capable of being touched by the human finger, and judging whether the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface includes: judging whether there is a human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface;
the contact information includes the contact strength information, and wherein
the step of monitoring the contact information between the touch end and the touch surface includes: monitoring the contact strength information produced between the touch end and the touch surface, and
judging whether the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface further includes:
not only judging whether there is a human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface, but also judging whether the contact strength information is effective, wherein
when it is judged that the human body closing current is formed between the touch end and the touch surface and the contact strength information is effective, it is judged that the touch end effectively contacts the touch surface; and
when it is judged that the human body closing current is formed between the touch end and the touch surface but the contact strength information is ineffective, or when it is judged that there is no human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface, it is judged that the touch end does not effectively contact the touch surface.

8. The wearable touch method of claim 7 , wherein the contact information includes resistance information, and
the step of monitoring the contact information between the touch end and the touch surface includes: collecting present resistance information of the touch end.

9. The wearable touch method of claim 8 , wherein the step of processing the contact information includes:
comparing the present resistance information with pre-stored initial resistance information; and
judging whether there is the human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface in accordance with a comparison result.

10. The wearable touch method of claim 9 , wherein when the comparison result indicates that the present resistance information is reduced by more than 5% with respect to the initial resistance information, it is judged that there is a human body closing current formed between the touch end and the touch surface.

11. The wearable touch method of claim 7 , wherein the step of processing the contact information includes:
comparing the contact strength information with pre-stored contact strength threshold information; and
judging whether the contact strength information is effective in accordance with a comparison result.

12. The wearable touch method of claim 11 , wherein when the comparison result indicates that the contact strength information exceeds the contact strength threshold information by 5%, it is judged that the contact strength information is effective.

Assignees

• Boe Technology Group Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Yanshun
• Zhao Tianyue
• Li Yaohui
• Xu Qiushi

Classifications

• G06F3/041

  Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means · CPC title

• G06F1/163 Primary

  Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt · CPC title

• G06F1/1639

  the display being based on projection · CPC title

• G09G2354/00

  Aspects of interface with display user · CPC title

• G06F3/045

  using resistive elements, e.g. a single continuous surface or two parallel surfaces put in contact · CPC title