KR20150054560A - Wearable device to input characters in a touch type onto glove attached to points pf contact and smart phone and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a smartphone communicating with a wearable device receiving tactile character inputs. The present invention includes: a wearable unit which has micro touch sensors installed on hand contact points of fingers; a wearable communication unit receiving the English characters, Korean characters, and digit data sensed by the micro touch sensors of the wearable unit installed on the hand contact points; and the smartphone which receives the character and digit data sensed by the micro touch sensors of the wearable unit installed on the hand contact points from the wearable communication unit through wireless communication. The input can be English characters including upper and lower case characters, Korean characters including consonants, and vowels, or digits according to the buttons on the wearable communication unit. The characters and digits are printed on the display coated on the surface of the wearable unit.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a wearable device and a method for communicating with a wearable device and a smart phone,

The present invention relates to a wearable device and a method of communicating with a wearable device and a smartphone, wherein the wearable device is provided with a touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the finger, (Wearable) communication unit to be worn on a wrist connected to a wearable wear unit having a plurality of hand contacts for each finger such that a character (consonant, vowel), alphabet (capital letter, The present invention relates to a wearable device and a method of communicating with a smartphone, which receive a contact type character of a wearable portion having hand contacts, which drives a smartphone of a wearable character input mode by providing Korean, English, and numeric input.

1 is a diagram illustrating a character input method of a keypad of a conventional mobile phone

The keypad of the mobile phone is different in character input method for each mobile communication company, and in order to input alphabet letters, alphabet letters of each number button and corresponding English alphabets are stipulated by 2 to 3 letters. That is, QZ for 1, ABC for 2, DEF for 3, GHI for 4, JKL for 5, MNO for 6, PRS for 7, TUV for 8 and WXY for 9 are set.

In the conventional character input method using a keypad having alphabetic characters, a number is input by dialing a button having a corresponding number, in the same manner as a method of using a number input button of a telephone when a number is input first.

When a character is input, the character assigned to the corresponding button is displayed by pressing the same number button successively several times after switching from the call mode to the character input mode by operating a separate function button. The alphabetic characters assigned to the corresponding buttons are sequentially changed and input. Or input characters (English, Korean, numbers, special characters) according to the contact time of the input unit can be converted.

For example, pressing the number button [3] once displays the first letter D on the LCD, pressing [3] twice consecutively displays E, and pressing three times continuously displays F, Press 3 times in succession to display 3.

In recent years, as the use of smart phones has been rapidly increasing, a technique for quickly and easily inputting characters by a touch method has been developed. Unlike ordinary phones, where users simply press a keypad to input characters, the smartphone uses a capacitive touch to fabricate a touch panel by bonding it with an OCA (Optically Clear Adhesive) film on a transparent conductive film formed with an X sensing electrode and a Y sensing electrode A touch screen and a touch sensor system are provided. In a portion of the touch panel pressed by a touch in the (X, Y) coordinates, a capacitance is generated by an electric field coupling and a capacitance multitouch controller and a host It detects the touch input by the porcessor, and recognizes the password using the pattern recognition, and inputs it by the letter, number or touch method. A smartphone equipped with a character input method using a touch screen is a smart phone that picks up or unfolds a specific part of the display screen of a smart phone by tapping, sliding, dragging and dropping, The screen view is operated using a touch gesture including pinching to enlarge or reduce the screen of the phone, and the mobile communication company uses the touch screen-based handset character input mode differently according to each mobile communication company.

In addition, as the character input technique using the touch gesture is becoming popular with the social network service (SNS) and mobile messenger, there is a growing interest in the character input technique. In order to reduce the error of the character input by effectively arranging the keyboard, Minimize the number of touches and enter letters or numbers. For example, techniques for inputting consonants only in the keypad keyboard, techniques for inputting vowels through dragging, techniques for inputting consonants derived from the basic characters in accordance with the drag direction of the keyboard, and techniques for inputting vowels by rotating stereoscopic polyhedrons have been developed have.

 In recent years, global companies have been preparing wearable computing services that use smart sensors using human body signals, and many wearable devices are being released. However, Wearable devices that are worn on the wrist and the ability to input letters and numbers were not provided.

Patent Publication No. 10-2002-0018789

In order to solve the above problems, an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for detecting wear and tear of a wearable wearable portion having a small touch sensor for each of the electrostatic pads, And a plurality of finger contacts for each finger. The wearable communication unit is connected to the wearable wearer when the wearer wears the wearer. The wearable communication unit provides input of Korean, English and numeric characters to the smartphone through Bluetooth or infrared communication, The present invention provides a wearable device and a method of communicating with a smartphone for inputting contact characters of a wearable portion to which the contact hands are attached.

In order to accomplish the above object, the present invention provides a wearable wearer having a touch sensor attached to each of hand contacts of a finger and a touch sensor attached to each hand contact point of the wearable wearer, A wearable device for inputting contact characters of a wearable portion having hand contacts communicated with a smartphone including a wearable communication portion to be transmitted.

In the above description, Hangul (consonant, vowel), English (upper case, lower case) and numeric type are selected by a button provided on the wearable communication unit, and a display display character / numeral coded on the surface of the wearable glove is printed do.

In this case, the wearable communication unit is a smart phone that is communicated with a smart phone using Bluetooth or infrared communication, operates as a master when a Bluetooth protocol is used, forms a piconet, and operates as a Bluetooth-paired slave And transmits the detected character or numeric data.

In the above, the wearable communication unit may include a button for selecting Hangul (consonant, vowel), English (upper case, lower case), and numeric type; A character input sensing unit for receiving the alphabet, Hangul character, and numerical data sensed by the touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearer and generating sensed input data; A control unit for controlling each function of the wearable device; (1), a Korean vowel input mode (2), an uppercase English input mode (3), a lowercase English input mode (4), a numeric input mode (5); a character and numeric display unit detected from a touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearer; And a communication unit for transmitting character or numerical data sensed through Bluetooth or infrared communication.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of inputting characters in a smartphone communicating with a wearable device, the wearable device being connected to the wearable device, (Consonant, vowel), alphabet (upper case, lower case), and numeric input are selected by the buttons of the wearable communication unit, and after each of the hand contacts of the wearable wear unit with the micro touch sensor Detecting contact from the attached micro touch sensors and transmitting the sensed alphabet, Hangul character, and numerical data to the wearable communication unit; Hangul characters and numeric data sensed from a micro contact sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearer from the wearable communication unit, detects the input of characters or numbers, temporarily stores the sensed data in the flash memory, Transmitting characters or numerical data sensed through Bluetooth or infrared communication from the communication unit to a communication unit of the smartphone; And alphanumeric characters from the wearable communication unit connected to the wearable wearing unit attached with the miniature contact sensors for each of the hand contacts of the finger to the smartphone through the Bluetooth or infrared communication to drive the control unit Executing a numeric input; And a wearable device to which the wearable portion is attached, the touchable wearable device being connected to the wearable device.

A smartphone and a method for communicating with a wearable device for inputting a contact character of a wearable portion having hand contacts according to the present invention are provided. The smartphone communicates with a wearable device having a miniature contact sensor, English, alphanumeric, and numeric characters from a wearable communication unit worn on a wrist connected to a wearable wearable portion of a band type having a plurality of finger contacts for each finger in English (upper case, lower case), and using Bluetooth or infrared communication So that the smartphone of the wearable character input mode is driven.

1 is a diagram illustrating a character input method of a keypad of a conventional mobile phone
FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a smart phone communicating with a wearable device that receives touch-type characters of a wearer with a touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts according to the present invention.
FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the character input sensing unit of a plurality of matrices for recognizing Korean characters, English characters, and numbers according to terminal contact of a wearer with hand contacts.
FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a character input method of a smartphone communicating with a wearable device that receives touch characters of a wearer with hand contacts according to an embodiment of the present invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The advantages and features of the present invention, and how to accomplish them, will become apparent by reference to the embodiments described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described herein but may be embodied in other forms. Rather, the embodiments disclosed herein are provided so that the disclosure can be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the invention to those skilled in the art.

The terminology used in this application is used only to describe a specific embodiment and is not intended to limit the invention. The singular expressions include plural expressions unless the context clearly dictates otherwise. In this application, the terms "comprises", "having", and the like are used to specify that a feature, a number, a step, an operation, an element, a part or a combination thereof is described in the specification, But do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

Unless otherwise defined, all terms used herein, including technical or scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. Terms such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries are to be interpreted as having a meaning consistent with the meaning in the context of the relevant art and are to be construed as ideal or overly formal in meaning unless explicitly defined in the present application Do not.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a smart phone communicating with a wearable device that receives contact characters of a wearer with hand contacts according to the present invention.

A wearable device for inputting contact characters of a wearer with hand contacts according to the present invention comprises a plurality of miniature contact sensors (for example, a smart pressure sensor) attached to a glove-shaped wearer, (A consonant, a vowel), an English (upper case, a lower case letter), and a number by contacting them with each other; And is connected to the wearer's part in a band form, and is electrically connected to the contact points of the wearer, thereby providing a Korean, English, and numeric input to the smartphone through Bluetooth or infrared communication to drive the smartphone set in the wearable character input mode And a wearable communication unit.

The wearer having the miniature contact sensor (for example, the smart pressure sensor, S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23 ...) is attached to each of the hand contacts of the finger by the button of the wearable communication unit 100, The wearable communication unit 100 receives the alphabetic characters, the Hangul characters, and the numerical data sensed by the micro touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearable portion, And is electrically connected.

The smartphone communicating with the wearable device receiving the contact character of the wearer with the hand contacts of the present invention is set to the wearable character input mode and then the character of the alphabet detected by the micro contact sensor attached to each hand contact of the wearable device, Hangul characters, and numeric data are received from the wearable communication unit 100 through the wireless communication. Hangul (consonant, vowel), English (upper case, lower case), and numeric type are selected by the button of the wearable communication unit, and a coded display display character / number is printed on the surface of the wearable wearer.

The wearable communication unit 100 includes a button 101 for selecting Hangul (consonant, vowel), English (upper case, lower case), and numeric type, an alphabetic character detected from a micro contact sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearable unit, A character input detecting unit 110 for receiving the numeric data and generating sensed input data, a control unit 120 for controlling each function of the wearable device, a control unit 120 connected to the control unit, ), A Korean word input mode (No. 2), an upper case letter input mode (No. 3), a lower case letter input mode (No. 4) and a numeral input mode (No. 5) A flash memory 130 for temporarily storing a character and a numeral display unit (not shown) sensed by the sensor, sensed data, communication for transmitting characters or numeric data sensed through Bluetooth or infrared communication, It consists of 140.

The wearable communication unit 100 communicates with the smartphone 200 using Bluetooth or infrared communication. When the wearable communication unit 100 uses the Bluetooth protocol, the wearable communication unit 100 operates as a master and is connected to a piconet, And transmits the sensed character or numeric data to the smart phone 200 operated as a Bluetooth-paired slave.

The smartphone 200 includes a control unit 210 for controlling a voice call, a character transmission / reception, and a wireless Internet packet transmission / reception function of a mobile phone; A key input unit and touch input unit 220 for inputting Korean / English letters, numbers, and special characters; The wearable communication unit 100 is connected to the wearable wearing unit having the miniature contact sensors (smart pressure sensors, S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23, A communication unit 230 for receiving Korean / English characters, numbers, and special characters through the Internet; A memory 240 for storing data; An RF transceiver 270 that includes a duplexer connected to the antenna ANT to transmit and receive voice signals and packet data wirelessly to the base station; A microphone (MIC) for receiving an analog voice signal; An A / D converter (ADC) 272 for converting an analog voice signal from a microphone (MIC) into a digital voice signal; A codec 271 that is embedded in the internal multimedia processor of the control unit or connected to the outside of the control unit and compresses and restores video and audio signals; A D / A converter (DAC) 273 for converting a digital voice signal into an analog voice signal, amplifying the digital voice signal to a set volume level and outputting the amplified voice signal to a speaker SP; A speaker SP for outputting an analog voice signal provided from the D / A converter (DAC) 273; And an LCD display unit 280 connected to the LCD driver for driving the LCD and connected to the controller to output data. For reference, the duplexer is connected to the antenna and separates the transmission / reception frequency (Tx / Rx Freq.) Of the terminal.

FIG. 3 is a diagram for explaining the operation of the character input sensing unit of a plurality of matrices for recognizing Korean characters, English characters, and numbers according to terminal contact of a wearer with hand contacts.

The wearable communication unit 100 includes a button 101 for selecting Hangul (consonant, vowel), alphabet (upper case, lower case), and numeric type. The character input sensing unit 110 is connected to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearer And generates sensed input data by receiving contact data sensed from a micro touch sensor (e.g., smart pressure sensor, S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23, S24 ...).

A display character / number is printed on the surface of the wearable wearer's part with three to five miniature semiconductor contact sensors (for example, smart pressure sensors) for each of the thumb, index finger, stop, ring and ring finger contacts of the wearable wearer And 4 × 5 matrix and 5 × 5 matrix method, it is possible to input alphabetic characters distinguishing between upper / lower case and lower case, and Korean characters, numbers and special characters distinguishing consonants and vowels according to the predetermined character input pattern.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a 5x5 matrix is applied, and a 4x5 matrix is exemplified in the figure. The embodiment matrix may be changed according to the number of cases of the character combination.

The character input pattern can be set by autonomously printing the input pattern on the wearer.

Hangul has 19 consonants and 21 vowels, totaling 40.

There are 19 such as consonants 'a, b, c, d, ㅁ,,,,,,, ㅎ,,,, ㅎ' 14 and ㄲ, ㄸ, ㅃ, ㅆ, ㅉ. .

The short vowels have ten such as' ㅣ, ㅔ, ㅐ,,, ㅜ,,, ㅓ, ㅡ, ㅟ, ㅚ ', and the double vowel is' ㅑ, ㅕ, ㅛ, ㅠ, ㅒ, ㅖ; ㅘ, ㅝ, ㅙ, ㅞ; There are 11 of them.

For example, in the case of the Hangul consonant input mode, the Hangul consonant input mode and the Hangul vowel input mode are selected according to the button selection. In the Hangul consonant input mode, S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23, If the input mode is the Korean vowel input mode, the input mode is S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23, ㅜ, ㅠ, ㅡ, l ,,, are input.

For example, the double consonants are denoted by ㄲO, ㄸP, ㅃQ, ㅆR, ㅉS.

In addition to ㅑ, ㅕ, ㅛ, and ㅠ, a dual pressure sensor is used to synthesize two or three vowels to generate ㅒ, ㅖ, ㅘ, ㅝ, ㅙ, ㅞ, ㅢ.

A, B, C, D, E, F, and G., in the order of S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23, A, b, c, d, e, f, g .... are input in the order of S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23, Since W, X, Y, Z can not be displayed, a 5x5 matrix is used.

The alphanumeric display unit is connected to the control unit of the wearable communication unit 100 and displays a Korean consonant input mode (No. 1), Korean vowel input mode (No. 2), uppercase English input mode (No. 3) , A lower case letter input mode (No. 4), and a numeral input mode (No. 5), and displays the letters and numbers detected from the touch sensor attached to each hand contact point of the wearable wearer.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a character input method of a smartphone communicating with a wearable device that receives touch characters of a wearer with hand contacts according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The method for inputting a character string of a smartphone communicated with a wearable device that receives a contact character of a wearable portion having the contact points according to the present invention converts a smartphone 200 into a wearable character input mode, (Consonant, vowel), English (upper case, lower case), and numeric input are selected (S100) by the button of the wearable communication unit 100, (S200) of detecting the contact from the micro touch sensors attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearing portion to which the wearable wearer is attached, and transmitting the detected alphabet, Hangul character, and numeric data to the wearable communication unit. Hangul characters, and numeric data detected from a touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearer from the wearable wearer 100 in band form, detects the input of characters or numbers, and temporarily stores the sensed data in the flash memory And transmitting the character or numeric data sensed through the Bluetooth or infrared communication from the wearable communication unit to the communication unit of the smart phone (S300); The wearable communication unit 100 is connected to the wearable wearing unit having the miniature contact sensors (smart pressure sensors, S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23, (Step S400) of inputting Korean / English letters, numbers, and special characters into the smart phone and driving the control unit to execute letter or number input.

As described above, the method of the present invention can be implemented as a program and recorded on a recording medium (CD-ROM, RAM, ROM, memory card, hard disk, magneto-optical disk, storage device, etc.) Lt; / RTI >

While the present invention has been particularly shown and described with reference to exemplary embodiments thereof, it is clearly understood that the same is by way of illustration and example only and is not to be taken in conjunction with the present invention. The present invention can be variously modified or modified.

S11, S12, S13, S14, S21, S22, S23 ...:
100: wearable communication section
101: Button 110: Character input detection unit
120: control unit 130: flash memory
140: communication unit 200: smart phone

Claims (5)

And a wearable communication unit for transmitting the detected alphabetic characters, Hangul characters, and numeric data from the touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearable unit, Wherein the wearable device is a wearable device that receives contact characters of a wearable portion having hand contacts communicated with the smartphone. The method of claim 1, wherein Hangul (consonant, vowel), alphabet (upper case, lower case), and numeric type are selected by a button provided on the wearable communication unit and a display display character / number coded on the wearable glove surface is printed Wherein the wearable device is provided with hand contact points communicated with a smartphone. The wearable communication unit according to claim 1 or 2, wherein the wearable communication unit is communicated with a smart phone using Bluetooth or infrared communication, operates as a master when a Bluetooth protocol is used, forms a piconet, And transmits the character or numeric data sensed by the smart phone operated as a paired slave. The wearable device according to claim 1, [2] The wearable communication device of claim 1, wherein the wearable communication unit comprises: a button for selecting Hangul (consonant, vowel), English (upper case, lower case), and numeric type; A character input sensing unit for receiving the alphabet, Hangul character, and numerical data sensed by the touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearer and generating sensed input data; A control unit for controlling each function of the wearable device; (1), a Korean vowel input mode (2), an uppercase English input mode (3), a lowercase English input mode (4), a numeric input mode (5); a character and numeric display unit detected from a touch sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearer; And a communication unit for transmitting character or numeric data sensed through Bluetooth or infrared communication. The wearable device according to claim 1, A character input method of a smartphone communicating with a wearable device that receives a contact character of a wearer with hand contacts, the method comprising: switching a smartphone into a wearable character input mode; establishing a connection between the smart phone and the wearable communication device; A touch sensor is attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wear part to which the touch sensor of the wearer is attached at each of the hand contacts of the finger after the Hangul (consonant, vowel), English (upper case, lower case) And transmitting the sensed alphabetic characters, Korean characters, and numeric data to the wearable communication unit; Hangul characters and numeric data sensed from a micro contact sensor attached to each of the hand contacts of the wearable wearer from the wearable communication unit, detects the input of characters or numbers, temporarily stores the sensed data in the flash memory, Transmitting characters or numerical data sensed through Bluetooth or infrared communication from the communication unit to a communication unit of the smartphone; And alphanumeric characters from the wearable communication unit connected to the wearable wearing unit attached with the miniature contact sensors for each of the hand contacts of the finger to the smartphone through the Bluetooth or infrared communication to drive the control unit Executing a numeric input; Wherein the wearable device is connected to the wearable device.

Images