Capacitive stylus and tilt angle detecting method thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9965060-B1
Application number	US-201715401731-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Jan 9, 2017
Priority date	Nov 10, 2016
Publication date	May 8, 2018
Grant date	May 8, 2018

Abstract

This instant disclosure is related to a capacitive stylus and a tilt angle detecting method thereof. The capacitive stylus is acting on a touch pad. The capacitive stylus includes a sensing electrode unit and a driving electrode unit, or the capacitive stylus is provided with a first sensing electrode unit and a second sensing electrode unit. The capacitive stylus further includes a tilt angle corresponding table and a direction corresponding table to determine the tilt angle and tilt direction of the capacitive stylus on the touch pad.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A capacitive stylus acting on a touch pad, comprising:
a battery;
a micro-controller coupled to the battery, the micro-controller having a tilt angle corresponding table;
a sensing and driving signals processing unit coupled to the micro-controller;
a sensing electrode unit coupled to the sensing and driving signals processing unit; and
a driving electrode unit coupled to the sensing and driving signals processing unit;
wherein the sensing electrode unit is acting on the touch pad to generate a first axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and a second axis signal of the sensing electrode unit; the driving electrode unit is acting on the touch pad to generate a first axis signal of the driving electrode unit and a second axis signal of the driving electrode unit; and a tilt angle of the capacitive stylus on the touch pad is obtained by corresponding the first axis signal of the sensing electrode unit, the first axis signal of the driving electrode unit, the second axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and the second axis signal of the driving electrode unit to the tilt angle corresponding table.

2. The capacitive stylus according to claim 1 , wherein the micro-controller has a direction corresponding table for obtaining a tilt direction of the capacitive stylus on the touch pad.

3. The capacitive stylus according to claim 2 , wherein the direction corresponding table is configured to obtain the tilt direction by receiving a first axis signal and a second axis signal; the first axis signal is related to the first axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and the first axis signal of the driving electrode unit; the second axis signal is related to the second axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and the second axis signal of the driving electrode unit.

4. A capacitive stylus acting on a touch pad, comprising:
a battery;
a micro-controller coupled to the battery, the micro-controller having a tilt angle corresponding table;
a sensing and driving signals processing unit coupled to the micro-controller;
a first sensing electrode unit coupled to the sensing and driving signals processing unit; and
a second sensing electrode coupled to the sensing and driving signals processing unit;
wherein the first sensing electrode unit is acting on the touch pad to generate a first axis signal of the first sensing electrode unit and a second axis signal of the first sensing electrode unit; the second sensing electrode unit is acting on the touch pad to generate a first axis signal of the second sensing electrode unit and a second axis signal of the second sensing electrode unit; and a tilt angle of the capacitive stylus on the touch pad is obtained by corresponding the first axis of first sensing electrode unit, the first axis signal of the second sensing electrode unit, the second axis signal of the first sensing electrode unit and the second axis signal of the second sensing electrode unit to the tilt angle corresponding table.

5. The capacitive stylus according to claim 4 , wherein the micro-controller has a direction corresponding table for obtaining a tilt direction of the capacitive stylus on the touch pad.

6. The capacitive stylus according to claim 5 , wherein the direction tilt corresponding table is configured to obtain the tilt direction by receiving a first axis signal and a second axis signal; the first axis signal is related to the first axis signal of the first sensing electrode unit and the first axis signal of the second sensing electrode unit; the second axis signal is related to the second axis signal of the first sensing electrode unit and the second axis signal of the second sensing electrode unit.

7. A tilt angle detecting method applied to the capacitive stylus according to claim 1 , comprising:
turning-on the capacitive stylus and disposing the capacitive stylus on a touch pad;
retrieving a first axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and a first axis signal of the driving electrode unit;
retrieving a second axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and a second axis signal of the driving electrode unit;
corresponding the first axis signal of the sensing electrode, the first axis signal of the driving electrode unit, the second axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and the second axis signal of the driving electrode unit to the tilt angle corresponding table; and
obtaining a tilt angle of the capacitive stylus;
wherein the step of corresponding the first axis signal of the sensing electrode unit, the first axis signal of the driving electrode unit, the second axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and the second axis signal of the driving electrode unit to the tilt angle corresponding table is carried out by a micro-processer disposed in the capacitive stylus.

8. The tilt angle detecting method according to claim 7 , after the step of retrieving a second axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and a second axis signal of the driving electrode unit, further comprising:
retrieving a sum of the first axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and the first axis signal of the driving electrode unit as a first axis signal;
retrieving a sum of the second axis signal of the sensing electrode unit and the second axis signal of the driving electrode unit as a second axis signal;
corresponding the first axis signal and the second axis signal to a direction corresponding table; and
obtaining a tilt direction of the capacitive stylus.

9. The tilt angle detecting method according to claim 8 , wherein the direction corresponding table is built-into the micro-controller of the capacitive stylus, and the step of corresponding the first axis signal and the second axis signal to the direction corresponding table is carried out by the micro-controller.

10. The tilt angle detecting method according to claim 8 , wherein the direction corresponding table comprises a plurality of directions corresponding to four quadrants on the touch pad.

Assignees

• Waltop Int Corp

Inventors

• Yeh Chia-Jui
• Wang Hung-I

Classifications

• G06F3/03545 Primary

  Pens or stylus · CPC title

• G06F3/0416

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/0383 Primary

  Signal control means within the pointing device · CPC title

• G06F3/0446

  using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes · CPC title

• G06F3/0442

  using active external devices, e.g. active pens, for transmitting changes in electrical potential to be received by the digitiser · CPC title