Invention Grant
US08482547B2 Determining the location of one or more objects on a touch surface
有权
确定触摸表面上的一个或多个对象的位置
- Patent Title: Determining the location of one or more objects on a touch surface
- Patent Title (中): 确定触摸表面上的一个或多个对象的位置
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Application No.: US12737016Application Date: 2009-06-22
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Publication No.: US08482547B2Publication Date: 2013-07-09
- Inventor: Tomas Christiansson , Ola Wassvik , Mattias Bryborn
- Applicant: Tomas Christiansson , Ola Wassvik , Mattias Bryborn
- Applicant Address: SE Lund
- Assignee: Flatfrog Laboratories AB
- Current Assignee: Flatfrog Laboratories AB
- Current Assignee Address: SE Lund
- Agency: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C.
- Priority: SE0801467 20080623; SE0900138 20090205
- International Application: PCT/EP2009/057724 WO 20090622
- International Announcement: WO2010/006883 WO 20100121
- Main IPC: G06F3/042
- IPC: G06F3/042

Abstract:
A device operates on output signals from a light sensor arrangement in a touch-sensing apparatus to determine a position of an object on a touch surface. The apparatus includes a light transmissive panel that defines the touch surface and an opposite surface. A light source arrangement provides sheets of light inside the panel, wherein each sheet comprises light that propagates by internal reflection between the touch surface and the opposite surface from one or more incoupling points to a set of outcoupling points. The light sensor arrangement generates the output signals, which represent light reaching the outcoupling points. The apparatus is configured such that an object touching the touch surface locally attenuates at least two sheets of light. To determine the position, the device identifies, in the output signals, a set of signal profiles originating from said object. The device determines at least part of an attenuated light path across the panel based on each signal profile, and identifies the position of the object on the touch surface based on the thus-determined attenuated light paths. In determining the attenuated light path, the device applies a predetermined width function which is representative of a dependence of signal profile width on distance to the incoupling point due to light scattering caused by at least one of the touch surface and the opposite surface.
Public/Granted literature
- US20110090176A1 DETERMINING THE LOCATION OF ONE OR MORE OBJECTS ON A TOUCH SURFACE Public/Granted day:2011-04-21
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