Pen mouse

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10901538-B2
Application number	US-201816234534-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 27, 2018
Priority date	Dec 27, 2018
Publication date	Jan 26, 2021
Grant date	Jan 26, 2021

Abstract

A pen mouse includes a housing, a rotatable actuator, an optical sensor and a processor. The rotatable actuator is movably disposed inside the housing along a structurally longitudinal direction and a structurally horizontal direction of the housing. The optical sensor is adapted to detect surface reflection of the rotatable actuator. The processor is electrically connected with the optical sensor and adapted to compute a rotating direction, a rotating angle and depth variation of the rotatable actuator via analysis of the surface reflection.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A pen mouse, comprising:
a housing;
a rotatable actuator movably disposed inside the housing along a structurally longitudinal direction and a structurally horizontal direction of the housing;
an optical sensor adapted to detect surface reflection of the rotatable actuator;
a processor electrically connected with the optical sensor and adapted to compute a rotating direction, a rotating angle and depth variation of the rotatable actuator via analysis of the surface reflection, and further adapted to utilize an analysis result of the surface reflection to detect an inclined deviation of the pen mouse and immediately compensate an inclined angle of the pen mouse so that the pen mouse outputs an accurate trace no matter how the inclined angle of the pen mouse is continuously varied.

2. The pen mouse of claim 1 , wherein the rotatable actuator is moved along the structurally longitudinal direction in response to an external pressure applied to the rotatable actuator, and further moved along the structurally horizontal direction in response to a shifting of the pen mouse.

3. The pen mouse of claim 1 , wherein the rotatable actuator comprises a holder and a roller, the holder is fixed inside the housing, and the roller is assembled with the holder in a loose fit manner.

4. The pen mouse of claim 3 , wherein the roller is rotatable at a first position of the holder and further movable between the first position and a second position of the holder.

5. The pen mouse of claim 4 , wherein the roller is rotatable at the second position.

6. The pen mouse of claim 4 , wherein the rotatable actuator further comprises a resilient component disposed between the holder and the roller, and the roller is moved from the second position to the first position by a recovering force of the resilient component.

7. The pen mouse of claim 3 , wherein the optical sensor detects position change of the roller, and the processor is adapted to discontinuously adjust a trace width of the pen mouse according to analysis of the position change.

8. The pen mouse of claim 3 , wherein the optical sensor detects an interval between the optical sensor and the roller, and the processor is adapted to continuously adjust a trace width of the pen mouse according to analysis of the interval.

9. The pen mouse of claim 1 , further comprising:
a memory electrically connected with the processor and adapted to store preset trace information of the rotatable actuator.

10. The pen mouse of claim 9 , wherein the preset trace information is the rotating direction, the rotating angle and the depth variation.

11. The pen mouse of claim 9 , wherein the processor compares a current trace generated by the rotatable actuator with the preset trace information for biological identification.

Assignees

• Pixart Imaging Inc

Inventors

• Wang Yen-Chang
• Wang Tsung-Fa

Classifications

• G06F3/03543

  Mice or pucks (G06F3/03541 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F3/0317

  in co-operation with a patterned surface, e.g. absolute position or relative movement detection for an optical mouse or pen positioned with respect to a coded surface · CPC title

• G06F21/32

  using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints · CPC title

• G06F3/0383

  Signal control means within the pointing device · CPC title

• G06F3/0312

  for tracking the rotation of a spherical or circular member, e.g. optical rotary encoders used in mice or trackballs using a tracking ball or in mouse scroll wheels (tracking relative movement in co-operation with a regularly or irregularly patterned surface, e.g. as in optical mice G06F3/0317; constructional details of scroll or thumb-wheels G06F3/0362; optical rotary encoders G01D5/3473) · CPC title