SK500872011U1 - Multi-functional peripheral input pencil control of computer - Google Patents

Abstract

The multifunctional pencil input peripheral computer controller can be applied to all commercially produced computers and laptops. To the narrow longitudinal operating processor (1) with controllers (2) the source (3) of electricity is connected and the functionally bidirectionally separately connected output module (4), the accelerometric sensor (5), the optical sensor (6), the magnetometric sensor (7) and the gyroscopic sensor (8), while to the output module (4) is remotely functionally bidirectionally connected the USB module (9) that consists of the functionally bidirectionally linked input module (91) and the operating processor (92). The controllers (2) are formed by the tip (primary) button (21), the scroll button (22), the secondary button (23), the function button (24) and the functional switch (25), that are mounted in any mutual order. The controllers (2) can be formed even with another at least one extra button and/or switch.

Description

Technical field

The technical solution relates to a new block diagram of a multifunctional pencil input peripheral device for fast and convenient computer control.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

At present, peripheral devices, the so-called peripheral devices, are most often used position indicator "X - Y", which is commonly known as "Mouse". Using such a mouse, the computer programs are controlled faster than from the keyboard. The user holds the mouse in his hand and moves it on the pad while its movement is transmitted by special sensors to move the cursor on the computer monitor. The development of the mouse shape and the number of its buttons was very rapid - a mouse with three buttons was introduced 5 years after the first public presentation of this technical solution. The mouse usually has a position sensor located in the bottom of the body and two buttons from the top, a primary button (usually left) and a secondary button (usually right). The primary button is used most often. Most mice are also equipped with a swivel wheel between buttons to help you scroll through the contents of documents and web pages. On some mice, the scroll wheel can be axially pressed to act as a third button. More complex mice may have additional buttons to perform additional functions. The position sensor, the scroll wheel, the primary, secondary, and other mouse buttons are interconnected with a computer according to a known electrical scheme by initially connecting the mouse to the computer via various special connectors, but over time the PS / 2 connector and the mouse have stabilized. USB or COM. Nowadays, wireless mice based on radio, infrared or the latest Bluetooth wireless technology are increasingly being used. In the case of a wireless mouse, a power source, i.e. j. e.g. at least one pencil battery.

The body of such a device has a longitudinal shape of the body ergonomically designed to grip the hands from above so that the user can easily move it next to the keyboard

-2 computer on a clean and smooth surface, eg. on the mouse pad. Mouse movement is transmitted using special sensors to move the cursor on the computer monitor. Known is a classic mechanical-optical mouse, which allows the input of two-dimensional information using a position sensor in the form of a ball placed rotatable in the bottom of the mouse with a resolution of about 200 to 2400 dpi. Furthermore, an optical mouse is known in which the position sensor (ball) is replaced by a light emitter and receiver, e.g. infrared (LED-based) and the like. Also known is an ultrasonic or radio mouse, which operates on a similar principle to the optical one, with the optical position sensor replaced by ultrasonic or radio, thus allowing three-dimensional data input to the computer, because the third coordinate here defined by the distance of the mouse position sensor from the pad) and has a resolution of about 6000 dpi. The advantage of mouse and mouse-oriented programs is that most of the most commonly used functions are offered on the monitor in the form of a graphic symbol. If you want to activate the marked function, you have to press the button - mostly left (the term click is used). Using the mouse is more difficult to draw in graphics programs. Operation of the mouse must be ensured by the appropriate software, which is supplied directly by the manufacturer to this device.

Graphic drawing programs, especially intended for children, cannot be technically simply fully utilized by the aforementioned known technical devices and do not bring joy to the users as much as possible while retaining the possibility of using all their current functions.

Also known is a graphical input peripheral device in conjunction with a graphical display commonly referred to as an "optical pen". This device allows you to interact with the image on your computer. The pen has a pencil shape and is connected to a computer by a cable. In addition, it is usually equipped with so-called. confirm button. Inside the pen there is a photosensitive element (eg phototransistor). When the pen is placed on the screen at the appropriate point and confirmed with the confirmation button, the pen position is scanned. This is technically relatively simple since the activation impinge occurs when the electron beam passes through the area where the pen is. At the moment when an activation pulse is detected, the computer recalculates the position of the point at the moment of activation based on synchronization, and the coordinates of the point on the computer screen are thus unambiguously quantified and determined.

The disadvantage of such a device is that it does not allow the use of graphics programs

-3on drawing outside the computer's graphic display monitor and that it does not allow to perform other functions and options such as the common position indicator "X - Y, t. j. "Mouse".

According to SK DE 5302, a pencil input peripheral actuator is known which has a position sensor in the longitudinal pencil body, above which a microswitch rotary wheel is mounted and a secondary microswitch button next to it. A position sensor is mounted at the end of the longitudinal pencil body, and a primary microswitch button is mounted in the longitudinal pencil body next to the microswitch dial and the secondary button. Alternatively, a head with a position sensor is fixed or pivotable in the longitudinal pencil body. It can also be slidably mounted in the longitudinal pencil body or in the head, its upper position being primarily a microswitch button. A position sensor may also be mounted at the end of the longitudinal pencil body and a primary microswitch button may be mounted in the longitudinal pencil body below or above the rotary knob of the microswitch. Above the rotary knob of the microswitch, the middle button of the microswitch can also be fitted in the longitudinal pencil body. The rotary knob of the microswitch can also be axially extensible connected to the middle button of the microswitch, whereby a projection forming at least one additional microswitch button can be formed in the longitudinal pencil body above the rotary wheel or the middle microswitch button. The solution is technically complex and requires a longer user habit of use.

According to SK PÚV 50077 - 2010, a pencil input peripheral control is also known, consisting of a longitudinal pencil body with a fixed position sensor and a row vertical cursor shift button under which a primary microswitch button and a secondary microswitch button are interconnected with the computer. In this case, a position sensor is mounted in the longitudinal pencil body and a point is fixed underneath, above which a row vertical cursor push button and a secondary microswitch button are mounted on the opposite side of the longitudinal pencil body. In the longitudinal pencil body there is provided a position sensor with inclination of the axes in the range of 10 to 80 degrees and the tip inclined at an angle β in the range of 0 to 80 degrees, forming the primary microswitch button. In the longitudinal pencil body, a secondary microswitch button or at least one additional button and / or a switch and / or a switch is provided above, below or next to the row vertical cursor button. However, the specific functional diagram of this device is not yet known.

-4 All of the above solutions require the location of an input peripheral driver only on a fixed desktop near the computer display unit that can be connected, e.g. slide projector or large-screen display unit, or interactive display unit behind or. using a calibrated interactive pen connected to a computer and only partially replacing it with an input peripheral mouse. Mechanical or optical, e.g. laser pointer. However, such a pointer is inaccurate at a greater distance and does not allow the user to remotely permanently mark part of the text, move or scroll pages, etc., so users must combine their operation with the computer peripheral input device, which is impractical.

It is known to use an accelerometer to measure non-gravitational accelerations by utilizing the inertia properties of massive bodies, a magnetometer to measure the magnitude and direction of magnetic induction or magnetic moment (ie magnetization) and a gyrometer (tachometer) to evaluate the direction, velocity and course of body position. It is not known to use these devices together for remote control of the computer in its input peripheral controller - the computer mouse.

The essence of the technical solution

The above-mentioned shortcomings are substantially eliminated by the multifunctional input pencil computer peripheral controller consisting of an operating processor, drivers, power supply, output module, accelerometer sensor, optical sensor, magnetometric sensor, gyro sensor and USB module. The essence of the technical solution is that to a narrow longitudinal operating processor with drivers is connected to the power supply and functionally two-way separately connected output module, accelerometer sensor, optical sensor, magnetometric sensor and gyro sensor. At the same time, the USB module consists of a functionally bi-directional input module and a power processor remotely connected to the output module.

It is advantageous if the actuators are formed by a spike (primary) button, a scroll button, a secondary button, a function button and a function switch,

5, which are mounted in any relative order, the actuators may also comprise at least one additional button and / or switch and / or switch.

The multifunctional pencil input peripheral computer controller according to the technical solution allows for simple placement of the input peripheral controller on a fixed desktop near the computer display unit and its simple full remote control of the computer directly from the user's hand, which is advantageous especially when connecting the computer with a projector or large screen display , or an interactive display behind or. using a calibrated interactive pen independently connected to a computer. This replaces the remote use of mechanical or optical, e.g. laser pointers. The pointer is accurate and allows the user to remotely permanently mark part of the text, move or scroll pages, etc., such as a conventional mouse and a pointer combination with an input peripheral device - a computer mouse. The device according to the technical solution simplifies, cheaper and enables its faster use of computer technology by users. The technical solution shown in the block diagram is small in pencil shape and allows the user to more easily use graphics programs to draw on a computer outside his graphics display monitor, while fulfilling all other functions and options such as the common position indicator "X - Y". j. “Mouse” or “X Y-Z”, expanding the range of peripheral devices to control the computer.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

In FIG. 1 schematically depicts a specific embodiment of a block diagram of a multifunctional pencil input peripheral computer controller according to the present invention.

EXAMPLES

A specific embodiment of a block diagram of a multifunctional input pencil peripheral computer controller according to the technical solution shown in FIG. 1 is formed by an operating processor 2, controls 2, an electric power source 3, an output

- module 4, accelerometer sensor 5, optical sensor 6, magnetometric sensor 7, gyro sensor 8, and USB module 9, which consists of a functionally bi-directional input module 91 and a power processor 92. The actuators 2 consist of a spike (primary) button 21 with the scroll button 22, the secondary button 23 with the function button 24 and the function switch 25.

Actuators 2, an electric power source 3, e.g. a pen battery, an output module 4, an accelerometer sensor 5, an optical sensor 6, a magnetometric sensor 7 and a gyro sensor 8. The actuators 2 consist of a prime (primary) button 21, a scroll button 22, a secondary button 23, a function button 24 and a switch 25 With the exception of the USB module 9, all the functional parts of the device are located in a longitudinal pencil body (not shown) with a position optical sensor 6, below which a sliding tip is fixed, forming a prime button 21 of the microswitch. the vertical vertical scroll cursor button 22 and the secondary microswitch button 23 above, the microswitch function button 24 for the remote movement of the computer cursor movement, and the function switch 25 of the "Mouse / Pointer" device. A particular embodiment of the described embodiment of the technical solution results e.g. At the same time, the USB module 9 is coupled to the output module 4 according to a conventional electrical diagram for a control mouse not shown in the computer so that it can be connected to the computer in known ways, i. j. e.g. using various special connectors or PS / 2 connector, respectively. USB or COM, or using radio, infrared, or Bluetooth technology (not shown) via wireless transmission, etc.

The device according to the invention is activated in the position indicator mode "X - Y" or "X - Y - Z", ie. j. "Mouse" by switching function switch 25 to the appropriate position, thereby connecting to power source 3 while disabling the "Pointers" function. In this position, the operating processor 1 periodically reads values from each of its buttons 2 (i.e., the prime button 21) of the scroll button 22, the secondary button 23, the function button 24 of the microswitch and the function switch 25 of the device. based on the correlation of the image in the "X, Y" axes, the accelerometer sensor 5 (ie sensing the device's orientation to the gravitational field of the earth in the "X, Y, Z" axes), the magnetometric sensor 7 (ie sensing the device's orientation to the magnetic field) gyro sensor 8

-7 (i.e., sensing the rotational movement of the device). These values are then transmitted wirelessly by the output processor 4 to the output module 4 to the USB module 9. These values are then received in a manner known per se by the USB module 9 to the power processor 92 via the input module 91 of the computer. of the cursor in the "X, Y" axes. At the same time, it uses the magnetometric sensor 7 and gyroscopic sensor 8 data to correct calibration data so that the "X" and "Y" axes have the same direction even at different inclinations of the multifunctional input computer pencil peripheral controller at the user. When the scroll button 22 is pressed and held, the power processor 92 recalculates the values from the operating processor 7 and the optical sensor 6 (from the movement of the device on the pad) and sends the result to the computer as the "Z" axis. standard mouse). When the function key 24 is pressed, a special scrolling mode is activated (rolling is the default, tilt is also available), where the scrolling (changing the Z-axis value) is calculated from the values supplied by the accelerometer sensor 7, not the values from the optical sensor 6. The rolling mode is deactivated by pressing function button 24 again.

According to the invention, the user activates the device in the position indicator mode "X - Y" or "X - Y - Z", ie. j. "Mouse" by moving the function switch 25 from the zero position to the "Mouse" position and grabs the multifunctional input computer pencil peripheral controller according to the invention to the hand at a suitable inclination beyond the surface of the not shown longitudinal pencil body as when typing a thicker conventional pencil so that the tip of the prong (primary) button 21 freely moves in different directions on a clean and smooth surface, e.g. on a table, paper or, most conveniently, a commonly used mouse pad and the like. The movement of the prong (primary) button 21 is instantly automatically transmitted as a cursor movement on the computer monitor. Possible three-dimensional input of data to the computer, i. j. the third coordinate allows the device to be adjusted by the appropriate distance of the position sensor (by raising it to the required height) from the pad. At the same time, the user controls the computer in a known manner as with a conventional mouse by appropriately pressing its respective buttons, i. j. the tip of the prime (primary) button 21, by pressing or pressing with the hold down of the scroll button 22, and pressing the secondary button 23. After completion of the work, the user disables the device according to the invention by switching the function switch 25 from "Mouse" to zero ( starting position).

-8 The device according to the invention is actuated in the "Pointer" mode by switching the function switch 25 to a suitable position, thereby connecting to the power source 3 while disabling the position indicator mode of "X - Y" or "X - Y - Z ', t. j. "Mouse". In this position, the prime button 21 and the optical sensor 6 are automatically disabled. The operating processor 1 periodically reads values from its individual buttons 2 (i.e., the scroll button 22, the secondary button 23, the function button (24) and the function switch). (25), accelerometer sensor 5 (ie, sensing the device's orientation to the gravitational field of the earth in the "X, Y, Z" axes), magnetometric sensor 7 (ie, sensing the device's orientation to the earth's magnetic field) and gyroscopic sensor 8 (ie ) and calculates the orientation of the device in space and its changes, calculating the cursor shift in the "X" and "Y" axes on the computer's display unit, followed by operating processor 1 in the same way as in position indicator "X - Y" or “X-Y-Z”, ie “Mouse” sends the output mode wirelessly ulu 4 to the USB module 9. From a computational point of view, an algorithm is used which simultaneously processes the current results of the accelerometer sensor 5, the magnetometer sensor 7 and the gyroscope sensor 8, estimating the current spatial 3D orientation (i.e. j. net rotating component of position (3 degrees of freedom) of the device to the gravity and to the magnetic field of the earth. Of the detected changes in the 3D orientation of the device, the power processor 92 is in the same manner as in the position indicator mode function "X-Y" or "X-Y-Z", i. j. "Mouse" calculates the angular offset and cursor shift on the computer's display unit. The algorithms used to estimate the current 3D spatial orientation of the device in the form of analytical calculation or dynamic estimation over time are used. Both the analytical calculation and the dynamic estimation are based on the fact that the results of the accelerometer sensor 5, the magnetometer sensor 7 and the gyroscope sensor 8 measure the projection of the force field vector into the three axes of the mouse coordinate system, i. j: y = R * u, where y is the projected vector, u the gravity vector (magnetism in the world coordinate system and the R 3 orthogonal matrix 3x3 representing the 3D orientation of the device). The cursor on the display unit moves only when the microswitch push-button 22 is activated by spatial movement of the pointer device by the user. When the scroll button 22 is released, the cursor stops regardless of further movement of the device and can then be operated by the secondary button 23 (replacing the prime button 21).

Both modes use multichannel two-way wireless communication,

-9that the operating processor 1. may send acknowledgment of the data and switch the sensor mode. If this confirmation is not issued for a set time, the operating processor 1 temporarily disconnects the accelerometer sensor 5, the magnetometer sensor 7, and the gyro sensor 8 from the power source (3), thereby saving the power supply of the source (3) in the device. Multi-channel wireless communication allows several of these devices to be operated in the same room at the same time.

The user of the device according to the invention actuates the device in the "Pointer" mode by switching the function switch 25 from the zero (default) position to the "Pointer" position and grasping the multifunctional input computer peripheral controller according to the invention in the hand by the surface of the would use a laser pointer. It then presses the scroll button 22 and remotely points the tip of the prime (primary) button 21 to illustrate the computer display unit, e.g. to a projection screen or large screen, and the like, the movement of the tip of the prime (primary) button 21 is immediately automatically transmitted via the computer to move the cursor on its display unit to a suitable position where it stops when the scroll button 22 is released. Furthermore, the cursor on the display unit can be remotely operated by the user directly from the user's hand without a pad over the computer in the same way as in "Mouse" mode. Upon completion of the work, the user according to the invention disables the device by switching back the functional switch 25 from the "Pointer" position to the zero (default) position.

The described and illustrated embodiments are not the only possible solutions according to the utility model, since the actuators 2 formed by the prime button 21, the scroll button 22, the secondary button 23, the function button 24 and the function switch 25 can be mounted in the device in any relative order. they may also comprise at least one additional button and / or switch and / or switch not shown.

Industrial usability

The multi-function pencil input peripheral computer controller according to the technical solution can be used for all commonly produced computers and notebooks.

Claims (3)

PROTECTION REQUIREMENTS A multifunctional computer input pencil peripheral controller comprising an operating processor (1), drivers (2), a power source (3), an output module (4), an accelerometer sensor (5), an optical sensor (6), a magnetometric sensor (7) a gyroscope sensor (8) and a USB module (9), characterized in that an electric power supply (3) is connected to the narrow longitudinal operating processor (1) with the actuators (2) and functionally connected separately to the output module (4), an accelerometer sensor (5), an optical sensor (6), a magnetometer sensor (7) and a gyro sensor (8), the USB module (9) remotely operatively connected to the output module (4) consisting of a functionally bi-directionally connected input module (91) ) and power processor (92). Multifunctional pencil input peripheral computer controller according to claim 1, characterized in that the controls (2) consist of a spike (primary) button (21), a scroll button (22), a secondary button (23), a function button (24) and a button. a functional switch (25), which are mounted in any order. Multifunctional pencil input peripheral computer controller according to claim 2, characterized in that the controls (2) are formed by at least one additional button and / or switch and / or switch.