CN106484293A

CN106484293A - A kind of applications trigger system based on proximity transducer and mobile terminal

Info

Publication number: CN106484293A
Application number: CN201610872629.4A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郑才银; 李隽�
Original assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Nubia Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2016-09-29
Filing date: 2016-09-29
Publication date: 2017-03-08

Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of applications trigger system based on proximity transducer and mobile terminal, it is related to technical field of mobile terminals, this system includes：Proximity transducer, first identification panel is provided with described proximity transducer, second identification panel, described first identification panel and described second identification panel are arranged in default applications trigger region on mobile terminal, when mobile terminal receives the gesture operation of user, judge whether described gesture operation is default handss gesture according to the capacitance on the capacitance and the second identification panel on the described first identification panel collecting, if, then trigger corresponding application, the present invention by triggering the function of user preset every empty paddling operation replacement contact action and button operation, affected by environment less, accuracy rate is high, improve the experience of user terminal interaction.

Description

Application triggering system based on proximity sensor and mobile terminal

Technical Field

The invention relates to the technical field of mobile terminals, in particular to an application triggering system based on a proximity sensor and a mobile terminal.

Background

Gesture recognition is an emerging user interface mode, and is often used in applications such as building and industrial control panels where a user can interact with a device only by moving or gestures, and is particularly important in scenes where a touch screen interface is difficult to adopt, such as in a humid environment, when the user wears gloves, or when the user hardly touches the control panel.

The traditional gesture recognition mode and the type are more, for example, gesture recognition based on vision is adopted, the technology is developed earlier and maturely, requirements on equipment and environment are strict, and limitation of use is larger.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention mainly aims to provide an application triggering system and a mobile terminal based on a proximity sensor, which can trigger a function preset by a user by replacing touch screen operation and key operation through spaced sliding operation, are less influenced by environment, have high accuracy and improve the interactive experience of the user terminal.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention provides a proximity sensor based application triggering system, including: the proximity sensor is provided with a first recognition panel and a second recognition panel, the first recognition panel and the second recognition panel are arranged in a preset application trigger area on the mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal receives gesture operation of a user, whether the gesture operation is a preset gesture or not is judged according to a collected capacitance value on the first recognition panel and a collected capacitance value on the second recognition panel, and if yes, corresponding application is triggered.

Optionally, an application trigger direction is preset in the application trigger area, a first trigger capacitance threshold value is set on the first identification panel, and a second trigger capacitance threshold value is set on the second identification panel.

Optionally, the first identification panel and the second identification panel are juxtaposed on the same plane in the application triggering area, and a line connecting a center of the first identification panel and a center of the second identification panel is parallel to the application triggering direction.

Optionally, the first trigger capacitance threshold is the same as the second trigger capacitance threshold, and the direction of the gesture operation is determined according to the trigger time of the first trigger capacitance threshold and the trigger time of the second trigger capacitance threshold.

Optionally, the first identification panel and the second identification panel are disposed in parallel on different planes in the application trigger area, and a projection line of a connecting line between a center of the first identification panel and a center of the second identification panel on the screen of the mobile terminal is parallel to the application trigger direction.

Optionally, when the distance between the first recognition panel and the mobile terminal screen is greater than the distance between the second recognition panel and the mobile terminal screen, the first trigger capacitance threshold is smaller than the second trigger capacitance threshold, and the direction of the gesture operation is determined according to the trigger time of the first trigger capacitance threshold and the trigger time of the second trigger capacitance threshold.

Optionally, the preset gesture is a swiping operation along the application triggering direction.

Optionally, the gesture operation is a contactless swiping operation, and the application is an application program or a key operation on the mobile terminal.

Optionally, the first identification panel and the second identification panel are both L-shaped, and the first identification panel and the second identification panel are arranged in the application trigger area in a mirror image manner.

As another aspect of the present invention, there is provided a mobile terminal including the application triggering system described above.

The invention provides an application triggering system based on a proximity sensor and a mobile terminal, wherein the system comprises: the mobile terminal comprises a proximity sensor, wherein a first identification panel and a second identification panel are arranged on the proximity sensor, the first identification panel and the second identification panel are arranged in a preset application triggering area on the mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal receives gesture operation of a user, whether the gesture operation is a preset gesture or not is judged according to a collected capacitance value on the first identification panel and a collected capacitance value on the second identification panel, and if yes, a corresponding application is triggered.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of a hardware structure of a mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a diagram of a wireless communication system for the mobile terminal shown in FIG. 1;

fig. 3 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary structure of a proximity sensor based application triggering system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 4 is a schematic diagram of a capacitive proximity sensor according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary structure of another proximity sensor based application triggering system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating gesture recognition between two recognition panels according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of values between two identification panels according to a second embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating an exemplary structure of a proximity sensor based application triggering system according to a third embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 9 is an enlarged cross-sectional view taken in the direction Y-Y of FIG. 8;

fig. 10 is a diagram illustrating gesture recognition between two recognition panels according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

The implementation, functional features and advantages of the objects of the present invention will be further explained with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Detailed Description

It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.

A mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of the present invention will now be described with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the following description, suffixes such as "module", "component", or "unit" used to denote elements are used only for facilitating the explanation of the present invention, and have no specific meaning in themselves. Thus, "module" and "component" may be used in a mixture.

The mobile terminal may be implemented in various forms. For example, the terminal described in the present invention may include a mobile terminal such as a mobile phone, a smart phone, a notebook computer, a digital broadcast receiver, a PDA (personal digital assistant), a PAD (tablet computer), a PMP (portable multimedia player), a navigation device, and the like, and a stationary terminal such as a digital TV, a desktop computer, and the like. In the following, it is assumed that the terminal is a mobile terminal. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the configuration according to the embodiment of the present invention can be applied to a fixed type terminal in addition to elements particularly used for moving purposes.

Fig. 1 is a schematic hardware configuration of a mobile terminal implementing various embodiments of the present invention.

The mobile terminal 100 may include a wireless communication unit 110, an a/V (audio/video) input unit 120, a user input unit 130, a sensing unit 140, an output unit 150, a memory 160, an interface unit 170, a controller 180, and a power supply unit 190, etc. Fig. 1 illustrates a mobile terminal having various components, but it is to be understood that not all illustrated components are required to be implemented. More or fewer components may alternatively be implemented. Elements of the mobile terminal will be described in detail below.

The wireless communication unit 110 typically includes one or more components that allow radio communication between the mobile terminal 100 and a wireless communication system or network. For example, the wireless communication unit may include at least one of a broadcast receiving module 111, a mobile communication module 112, a wireless internet module 113, a short-range communication module 114, and a location information module 115.

The broadcast receiving module 111 receives a broadcast signal and/or broadcast associated information from an external broadcast management server via a broadcast channel. The broadcast channel may include a satellite channel and/or a terrestrial channel. The broadcast management server may be a server that generates and transmits a broadcast signal and/or broadcast associated information or a server that receives a previously generated broadcast signal and/or broadcast associated information and transmits it to a terminal. The broadcast signal may include a TV broadcast signal, a radio broadcast signal, a data broadcast signal, and the like. Also, the broadcast signal may further include a broadcast signal combined with a TV or radio broadcast signal. The broadcast associated information may also be provided via a mobile communication network, and in this case, the broadcast associated information may be received by the mobile communication module 112. The broadcast signal may exist in various forms, for example, it may exist in the form of an Electronic Program Guide (EPG) of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting (DMB), an Electronic Service Guide (ESG) of digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H), and the like. The broadcast receiving module 111 may receive a signal broadcast by using various types of broadcasting systems. In particular, the broadcast receiving module 111 may receive digital broadcasting by using a digital broadcasting system such as a data broadcasting system of multimedia broadcasting-terrestrial (DMB-T), digital multimedia broadcasting-satellite (DMB-S), digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H), forward link media (MediaFLO @), terrestrial digital broadcasting integrated service (ISDB-T), and the like. The broadcast receiving module 111 may be constructed to be suitable for various broadcasting systems that provide broadcast signals as well as the above-mentioned digital broadcasting systems. The broadcast signal and/or broadcast associated information received via the broadcast receiving module 111 may be stored in the memory 160 (or other type of storage medium).

The mobile communication module 112 transmits and/or receives radio signals to and/or from at least one of a base station (e.g., access point, node B, etc.), an external terminal, and a server. Such radio signals may include voice call signals, video call signals, or various types of data transmitted and/or received according to text and/or multimedia messages.

The wireless internet module 113 supports wireless internet access of the mobile terminal. The module may be internally or externally coupled to the terminal. The wireless internet access technology to which the module relates may include WLAN (wireless LAN) (Wi-Fi), Wibro (wireless broadband), Wimax (worldwide interoperability for microwave access), HSDPA (high speed downlink packet access), and the like.

The short-range communication module 114 is a module for supporting short-range communication. Some examples of short-range communication technologies include bluetooth (TM), Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), infrared data association (IrDA), Ultra Wideband (UWB), zigbee (TM), and the like.

The location information module 115 is a module for checking or acquiring location information of the mobile terminal. A typical example of the location information module is a GPS (global positioning system). According to the current technology, the GPS module 115 calculates distance information and accurate time information from three or more satellites and applies triangulation to the calculated information, thereby accurately calculating three-dimensional current location information according to longitude, latitude, and altitude. Currently, a method for calculating position and time information uses three satellites and corrects an error of the calculated position and time information by using another satellite. In addition, the GPS module 115 can calculate speed information by continuously calculating current position information in real time.

The a/V input unit 120 is used to receive an audio or video signal. The a/V input unit 120 may include a camera 121 and a microphone 1220, and the camera 121 processes image data of still pictures or video obtained by an image capturing apparatus in a video capturing mode or an image capturing mode. The processed image frames may be displayed on the display module 151. The image frames processed by the camera 121 may be stored in the memory 160 (or other storage medium) or transmitted via the wireless communication unit 110, and two or more cameras 1210 may be provided according to the construction of the mobile terminal. The microphone 122 may receive sounds (audio data) via the microphone in a phone call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, or the like, and can process such sounds into audio data. The processed audio (voice) data may be converted into a format output transmittable to a mobile communication base station via the mobile communication module 112 in case of a phone call mode. The microphone 122 may implement various types of noise cancellation (or suppression) algorithms to cancel (or suppress) noise or interference generated in the course of receiving and transmitting audio signals.

The user input unit 130 may generate key input data according to a command input by a user to control various operations of the mobile terminal. The user input unit 130 allows a user to input various types of information, and may include a keyboard, dome sheet, touch pad (e.g., a touch-sensitive member that detects changes in resistance, pressure, capacitance, and the like due to being touched), scroll wheel, joystick, and the like. In particular, when the touch pad is superimposed on the display module 151 in the form of a layer, a touch screen may be formed.

The sensing unit 140 detects a current state of the mobile terminal 100 (e.g., an open or closed state of the mobile terminal 100), a position of the mobile terminal 100, presence or absence of contact (i.e., touch input) by a user with the mobile terminal 100, an orientation of the mobile terminal 100, acceleration or deceleration movement and direction of the mobile terminal 100, and the like, and generates a command or signal for controlling an operation of the mobile terminal 100. For example, when the mobile terminal 100 is implemented as a slide-type mobile phone, the sensing unit 140 may sense whether the slide-type phone is opened or closed. In addition, the sensing unit 140 can detect whether the power supply unit 190 supplies power or whether the interface unit 170 is coupled with an external device. The sensing unit 140 may include a proximity sensor 1410 as will be described below in connection with a touch screen.

The interface unit 170 serves as an interface through which at least one external device is connected to the mobile terminal 100. For example, the external device may include a wired or wireless headset port, an external power supply (or battery charger) port, a wired or wireless data port, a memory card port, a port for connecting a device having an identification module, an audio input/output (I/O) port, a video I/O port, an earphone port, and the like. The identification module may store various information for authenticating a user using the mobile terminal 100 and may include a User Identity Module (UIM), a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM), a Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM), and the like. In addition, a device having an identification module (hereinafter, referred to as an "identification device") may take the form of a smart card, and thus, the identification device may be connected with the mobile terminal 100 via a port or other connection means. The interface unit 170 may be used to receive input (e.g., data information, power, etc.) from an external device and transmit the received input to one or more elements within the mobile terminal 100 or may be used to transmit data between the mobile terminal and the external device.

In addition, when the mobile terminal 100 is connected with an external cradle, the interface unit 170 may serve as a path through which power is supplied from the cradle to the mobile terminal 100 or may serve as a path through which various command signals input from the cradle are transmitted to the mobile terminal. Various command signals or power input from the cradle may be used as signals for recognizing whether the mobile terminal is accurately mounted on the cradle. The output unit 150 is configured to provide output signals (e.g., audio signals, video signals, alarm signals, vibration signals, etc.) in a visual, audio, and/or tactile manner. The output unit 150 may include a display module 151, an audio output module 152, an alarm module 153, and the like.

The display module 151 may display information processed in the mobile terminal 100. For example, when the mobile terminal 100 is in a phone call mode, the display module 151 may display a User Interface (UI) or a Graphical User Interface (GUI) related to a call or other communication (e.g., text messaging, multimedia file downloading, etc.). When the mobile terminal 100 is in a video call mode or an image capturing mode, the display module 151 may display a captured image and/or a received image, a UI or GUI showing a video or an image and related functions, and the like.

Meanwhile, when the display module 151 and the touch pad are stacked on each other in the form of layers to form a touch screen, the display module 151 may serve as an input device and an output device. The display module 151 may include at least one of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), a thin film transistor LCD (TFT-LCD), an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) display, a flexible display, a three-dimensional (3D) display, and the like. Some of these displays may be configured to be transparent to allow a user to view from the outside, which may be referred to as transparent displays, and a typical transparent display may be, for example, a TOLED (transparent organic light emitting diode) display or the like. The mobile terminal 100 may include two or more display modules (or other display devices) according to a particular desired implementation, for example, the mobile terminal may include an external display module (not shown) and an internal display module (not shown). The touch screen may be used to detect a touch input pressure as well as a touch input position and a touch input area.

The audio output module 152 may convert audio data received by the wireless communication unit 110 or stored in the memory 160 into an audio signal and output as sound when the mobile terminal is in a call signal reception mode, a call mode, a recording mode, a voice recognition mode, a broadcast reception mode, or the like. Also, the audio output module 152 may provide audio output related to a specific function performed by the mobile terminal 100 (e.g., a call signal reception sound, a message reception sound, etc.). The audio output module 152 may include a speaker, a buzzer, and the like.

The alarm module 153 may provide an output to notify the mobile terminal 100 of the occurrence of an event. Typical events may include call reception, message reception, key signal input, touch input, and the like. In addition to audio or video output, the alarm module 153 may provide output in different ways to notify the occurrence of an event. For example, the alarm module 153 may provide an output in the form of a vibration, and when a call, a message, or some other incoming communication (incomingmunication) is received, the alarm module 153 may provide a tactile output (i.e., a vibration) to inform the user thereof. By providing such a tactile output, the user can recognize the occurrence of various events even when the user's mobile phone is in the user's pocket. The alarm module 153 may also provide an output notifying the occurrence of an event via the display module 151 or the audio output module 152.

The memory 160 may store software programs and the like for processing and controlling operations performed by the controller 180, or may temporarily store data (e.g., a phonebook, messages, still images, videos, and the like) that has been or will be output. Also, the memory 160 may store data regarding various ways of vibration and audio signals output when a touch is applied to the touch screen.

The memory 160 may include at least one type of storage medium including a flash memory, a hard disk, a multimedia card, a card-type memory (e.g., SD or DX memory, etc.), a Random Access Memory (RAM), a Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), a programmable read-only memory (PROM), a magnetic memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, and the like. Also, the mobile terminal 100 may cooperate with a network storage device that performs a storage function of the memory 160 through a network connection.

The controller 180 generally controls the overall operation of the mobile terminal. For example, the controller 180 performs control and processing related to voice calls, data communications, video calls, and the like. In addition, the controller 180 may include a multimedia module 1810 for reproducing (or playing back) multimedia data, and the multimedia module 1810 may be constructed within the controller 180 or may be constructed separately from the controller 180. The controller 180 may perform a pattern recognition process to recognize a handwriting input or a picture drawing input performed on the touch screen as a character or an image.

The power supply unit 190 receives external power or internal power and provides appropriate power required to operate various elements and components under the control of the controller 180.

The various embodiments described herein may be implemented in a computer-readable medium using, for example, computer software, hardware, or any combination thereof. For a hardware implementation, the embodiments described herein may be implemented using at least one of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), a Digital Signal Processor (DSP), a Digital Signal Processing Device (DSPD), a Programmable Logic Device (PLD), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), a processor, a controller, a microcontroller, a microprocessor, an electronic unit designed to perform the functions described herein, and in some cases, such embodiments may be implemented in the controller 180. For a software implementation, the implementation such as a process or a function may be implemented with a separate software module that allows performing at least one function or operation. The software codes may be implemented by software applications (or programs) written in any suitable programming language, which may be stored in the memory 160 and executed by the controller 180.

Up to this point, mobile terminals have been described in terms of their functionality. Hereinafter, a slide-type mobile terminal among various types of mobile terminals, such as a folder-type, bar-type, swing-type, slide-type mobile terminal, and the like, will be described as an example for the sake of brevity. Accordingly, the present invention can be applied to any type of mobile terminal, and is not limited to a slide type mobile terminal.

The mobile terminal 100 as shown in fig. 1 may be configured to operate with communication systems such as wired and wireless communication systems and satellite-based communication systems that transmit data via frames or packets.

A communication system in which a mobile terminal according to the present invention is operable will now be described with reference to fig. 2.

Such communication systems may use different air interfaces and/or physical layers. For example, the air interface used by the communication system includes, for example, Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA), Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) (in particular, Long Term Evolution (LTE)), global system for mobile communications (GSM), and the like. By way of non-limiting example, the following description relates to a CDMA communication system, but such teachings are equally applicable to other types of systems.

Referring to fig. 2, the CDMA wireless communication system may include a plurality of mobile terminals 100, a plurality of Base Stations (BSs) 270, Base Station Controllers (BSCs) 275, and a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) 280. The MSC280 is configured to interface with a Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) 290. The MSC280 is also configured to interface with a BSC275, which may be coupled to the base station 270 via a backhaul. The backhaul may be constructed according to any of several known interfaces including, for example, E1/T1, ATM, IP, PPP, frame Relay, HDSL, ADSL, or xDSL. It will be understood that a system as shown in fig. 2 may include multiple BSCs 2750.

Each BS270 may serve one or more sectors (or regions), each sector covered by a multi-directional antenna or an antenna pointing in a particular direction being radially distant from the BS 270. Alternatively, each partition may be covered by two or more antennas for diversity reception. Each BS270 may be configured to support multiple frequency allocations, with each frequency allocation having a particular frequency spectrum (e.g., 1.25MHz,5MHz, etc.).

The intersection of partitions with frequency allocations may be referred to as a CDMA channel. The BS270 may also be referred to as a Base Transceiver Subsystem (BTS) or other equivalent terminology. In such a case, the term "base station" may be used to generically refer to a single BSC275 and at least one BS 270. The base stations may also be referred to as "cells". Alternatively, each sector of a particular BS270 may be referred to as a plurality of cell sites.

As shown in fig. 2, a Broadcast Transmitter (BT)295 transmits a broadcast signal to the mobile terminal 100 operating within the system. A broadcast receiving module 111 as shown in fig. 1 is provided at the mobile terminal 100 to receive a broadcast signal transmitted by the BT 295. In fig. 2, several Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites 300 are shown. The satellite 300 assists in locating at least one of the plurality of mobile terminals 100.

In fig. 2, a plurality of satellites 300 are depicted, but it is understood that useful positioning information may be obtained with any number of satellites. The GPS module 115 as shown in fig. 1 is generally configured to cooperate with satellites 300 to obtain desired positioning information. Other techniques that can track the location of the mobile terminal may be used instead of or in addition to GPS tracking techniques. In addition, at least one GPS satellite 300 may selectively or additionally process satellite DMB transmission.

As a typical operation of the wireless communication system, the BS270 receives reverse link signals from various mobile terminals 100. The mobile terminal 100 is generally engaged in conversations, messaging, and other types of communications. Each reverse link signal received by a particular base station 270 is processed within the particular BS 270. The obtained data is forwarded to the associated BSC 275. The BSC provides call resource allocation and mobility management functions including coordination of soft handoff procedures between BSs 270. The BSCs 275 also route the received data to the MSC280, which provides additional routing services for interfacing with the PSTN 290. Similarly, the PSTN290 interfaces with the MSC280, the MSC interfaces with the BSCs 275, and the BSCs 275 accordingly control the BS270 to transmit forward link signals to the mobile terminal 100.

Based on the above mobile terminal hardware structure and communication system, the present invention provides various embodiments of the method.

Example one

As shown in fig. 3, in the present embodiment, an application triggering system based on a proximity sensor includes: the mobile terminal comprises a proximity sensor, a first recognition panel S1 and a second recognition panel S2 are arranged on the proximity sensor, the first recognition panel S1 and the second recognition panel S2 are arranged in a preset application triggering area A1 on the mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal receives gesture operation of a user, whether the gesture operation is a preset gesture or not is judged according to collected capacitance values on the first recognition panel S1 and the second recognition panel S2, if yes, corresponding application is triggered, and if not, misoperation is considered.

In the embodiment, the gesture operation is a non-contact sliding operation, namely, a user can touch an application of the mobile terminal by sliding a finger over the application at intervals.

In this embodiment, the number of the proximity sensors is one, and the proximity sensors are provided with three identification panels respectively used for acquiring capacitance data at different positions; as another embodiment, the number of the proximity sensors may be three, and each proximity sensor corresponds to one identification panel.

In this embodiment, as shown in fig. 4, the working principle of the capacitive proximity sensor is shown, and assuming that the effective projection area of the proximity object (such as a finger) on the sensor is a, the capacitance value C can be represented by the following formula:

wherein,₀and_rthe dielectric constants of vacuum and air are respectively expressed, and the effective projection area and the distance close to an object can change the value of the capacitance C according to the formula, so that some interaction states can be determined according to the change of the value of the capacitance C and the difference between a plurality of capacitances.

In this embodiment, the application triggering system further includes a gesture predefining unit, which is configured to define a specific position of the recognition panel of the proximity sensor, a capacitance threshold division, and possible gestures of the corresponding panel, where when the gesture starts to operate, a capacitance value of the recognition panel of the proximity sensor changes according to the proximity of a hand, and the gesture data acquisition unit completes distance sensing acquisition work between the proximity sensor and the hand. The proximity sensor reports the acquired original data to the gesture data processing unit for data processing; after the gesture data processing unit converts the original capacitance data, dividing and converting the original capacitance data into data identified by an algorithm according to a capacitance threshold; new data are collected after a certain time (millisecond) interval; and a group of data is formed according to the number of the recognition panels and is processed by the gesture data processing unit and is transferred to the gesture recognition unit. The gesture recognition unit performs gesture algorithm recognition through multiple groups of integrated data and performs gesture matching with the gesture predefined unit. When the defined gesture is matched in the algorithm recognition process, the corresponding trigger event is sent to the corresponding application execution unit, and the application execution unit (including the service or the application) executes the operation to be completed by the gesture.

In this embodiment, the number of the proximity sensors is one, capacitance data is collected through a first identification panel and a second identification panel, the first identification panel is provided with a first trigger capacitance threshold, the second identification panel is provided with a second trigger capacitance threshold, when a capacitance value collected by the identification panel is greater than the corresponding trigger capacitance threshold, the identification panel takes a value of 1 to indicate that an object (such as a finger) is close to the identification panel, and when the capacitance value is smaller than the corresponding trigger capacitance threshold, the identification panel takes a value of 0 to indicate that the object (such as the finger) is far away from the identification panel.

As another embodiment, a plurality of thresholds may be set for each recognition panel, and the number of recognition panels may be increased, so as to achieve finer gesture operation determination and achieve diversity of gestures.

In this embodiment, the application is an application program, such as a camera, a map, a QQ, a WeChat, and the like, or a service on the mobile terminal, such as a phone call, a short message, and the like, or a key operation on the mobile terminal, such as a home key, a return key, a confirm key, an attribute key, and the like; respectively setting a corresponding application trigger area for each application through a gesture predefined unit, presetting an application trigger direction (as shown in fig. 3) in the application trigger area, and configuring a preset gesture for each application as a sliding operation along the application trigger direction, for example, when a user slides a camera key icon on a mobile phone screen from left to right with a finger, turning on the camera to take a picture, after the picture is taken, sliding a return key icon on the mobile phone screen from left to right with the finger again, turning off the camera, and returning to a main interface; as another example, the user may also swipe a camera icon on the screen of the mobile phone from right to left across the space with a finger to turn off the camera.

As another embodiment, the identification panel of the proximity sensor can be arranged on the back and side of the mobile phone to realize the functions of volume increase and decrease, screen brightness adjustment, browsing and page turning and the like; multiple proximity sensors may also be formed into a sensor array to perform more complex gesture definition and recognition operations.

In this embodiment, the shape of the first recognition panel is rectangular, circular or triangular, and the shape of the second recognition panel is rectangular, circular or triangular, when the two shapes are the same, the recognition algorithm is simpler, but when the two shapes are not allowed in hardware, such as: the identification panel is arranged on the side face of the mobile phone, the application trigger area is too small, and the shapes of the two proximity sensors can be different.

As shown in fig. 5, the shapes of the first identification panel and the second identification panel are both L-shaped, and the first identification panel and the second identification panel are arranged in the application trigger area in a mirror image manner, so that a larger contact area, that is, an effective projection area in the above formula, can be achieved in a smaller application trigger area, so as to improve the capacitance value acquired by the identification panel, thereby facilitating the calculation of the identification algorithm.

Example two

In this embodiment, the first identification panel and the second identification panel are juxtaposed on the same plane in the application triggering area, and a connection line between a center of the first identification panel and a center of the second identification panel is parallel to the application triggering direction.

As shown in fig. 6, which is a gesture recognition diagram between two recognition panels in this embodiment, because the two recognition panels are on the same plane, and when a finger sequentially passes through the two recognition panels, capacitance values acquired by the two recognition panels are the same or approximately the same, the first trigger capacitance threshold and the second trigger capacitance threshold may be set to be the same threshold C1, and the direction of the gesture operation is determined according to the trigger time of the first trigger capacitance threshold and the trigger time of the second trigger capacitance threshold.

In fig. 6, the finger is approaching S1 panel to moving away S1, then approaching S2 panel to moving away S2; the horizontal axis is time, and the vertical axis is capacitance; c0 is the maximum saturation value, C3 is the minimum value that no gesture approaches, C1 is the first trigger capacitance threshold and the second trigger capacitance threshold, and the gesture is defined to resemble a touch screen swipe operation when the finger moves from S1 to S2 within a time Δ t, but the operation is a touchless swipe operation. The definition of the operation value is shown in fig. 7, where only a single threshold C1 is set, when the capacitance value acquired by the recognition panel is greater than the corresponding trigger capacitance threshold, the recognition panel takes a value of 1, which indicates that a finger is approaching, and is smaller than the corresponding trigger capacitance threshold, the recognition panel takes a value of 0, which indicates that a finger is far away, as can be seen from fig. 7, the hand approaches the S1 panel first and then approaches the S2 panel, the value of S1 is from 0- >1- >0, and the value of S2 is from 0- >0- >1, where the operation is a time interval of several tens to several hundreds of milliseconds (different according to the gesture movement speed).

EXAMPLE III

As shown in fig. 8, in this embodiment, the first identification panel and the second identification panel are disposed in parallel on different planes in the application trigger area, and a projection line of a connecting line between a center of the first identification panel and a center of the second identification panel on the screen of the mobile terminal is parallel to the application trigger direction.

In the present embodiment, considering that the application trigger area is small, it is difficult to place two identification panels side by side, it can be placed in a staggered manner in different planes of the application triggering area, figure 9 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of Y-Y of figure 8, in the present embodiment, the distance between the first recognition panel S1 and the screen of the mobile terminal is greater than the distance between the second recognition panel S2 and the screen of the mobile terminal, when the finger is across the screen of the mobile terminal, the capacitance value collected by the first recognition panel S1 will be smaller than the capacitance value collected by the second recognition panel S2, the first trigger capacitance threshold is therefore set to be less than the second trigger capacitance threshold, so that both can detect the swiping operation simultaneously, judging the direction of the gesture operation according to the triggering time of the first triggering capacitance threshold and the triggering time of the second triggering capacitance threshold; in the gesture recognition diagram between two recognition panels at this time, as shown in fig. 10, C1 is the first trigger capacitance threshold, and C2 is the second trigger capacitance threshold, in which case, the maximum saturation value received in S1 will be smaller than the maximum saturation value C0 of S2.

Example four

In this embodiment, a mobile terminal includes, in addition to the existing function module in fig. 1, the application trigger system in the first to third embodiments, and can trigger a function preset by a user through a spaced swipe operation instead of a touch screen operation and a key operation, so that the mobile terminal is less affected by an environment, has high accuracy, and improves the interaction experience of the user terminal.

It should be noted that, in this document, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or apparatus. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or apparatus that comprises the element.

The above-mentioned serial numbers of the embodiments of the present invention are merely for description and do not represent the merits of the embodiments.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will clearly understand that the method of the above embodiments can be implemented by software plus a necessary general hardware platform, and certainly can also be implemented by hardware, but in many cases, the former is a better implementation manner. Based on such understanding, the technical solutions of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which is stored in a storage medium (such as ROM/RAM, magnetic disk, optical disk) and includes instructions for enabling a terminal device (such as a mobile phone, a computer, a server, an air conditioner, or a network device) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present invention.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and not intended to limit the scope of the present invention, and all modifications of equivalent structures and equivalent processes, which are made by using the contents of the present specification and the accompanying drawings, or directly or indirectly applied to other related technical fields, are included in the scope of the present invention.

Claims

1. A proximity sensor based application triggering system, comprising: the proximity sensor is provided with a first recognition panel and a second recognition panel, the first recognition panel and the second recognition panel are arranged in a preset application trigger area on the mobile terminal, when the mobile terminal receives gesture operation of a user, whether the gesture operation is a preset gesture or not is judged according to a collected capacitance value on the first recognition panel and a collected capacitance value on the second recognition panel, and if yes, corresponding application is triggered.

2. The proximity sensor based application triggering system of claim 1, wherein an application triggering direction is preset in the application triggering area, a first triggering capacitance threshold is set on the first identification panel, and a second triggering capacitance threshold is set on the second identification panel.

3. The proximity sensor based application triggering system of claim 2, wherein the first identification panel and the second identification panel are juxtaposed on a same plane within the application triggering area, and a line connecting a center of the first identification panel and a center of the second identification panel is parallel to the application triggering direction.

4. The proximity sensor-based application triggering system according to claim 3, wherein the first trigger capacitance threshold is the same as the second trigger capacitance threshold, and the direction of the gesture operation is determined according to a trigger time of the first trigger capacitance threshold and a trigger time of the second trigger capacitance threshold.

5. The proximity sensor-based application triggering system according to claim 2, wherein the first recognition panel and the second recognition panel are disposed in parallel on different planes within the application triggering area, and a projection line of a connecting line between a center of the first recognition panel and a center of the second recognition panel on the screen of the mobile terminal is parallel to the application triggering direction.

6. The proximity sensor-based application triggering system according to claim 5, wherein when the distance between the first recognition panel and the mobile terminal screen is greater than the distance between the second recognition panel and the mobile terminal screen, the first trigger capacitance threshold is smaller than the second trigger capacitance threshold, and the direction of the gesture operation is determined according to a trigger time of the first trigger capacitance threshold and a trigger time of the second trigger capacitance threshold.

7. The proximity sensor based application triggering system according to claims 3-6, wherein the preset gesture is a swiping operation in the application triggering direction.

8. The proximity sensor-based application triggering system according to claim 1, wherein the gesture operation is a contactless swipe operation, and the application is an application program or a key operation on a mobile terminal.

9. The proximity sensor based application triggering system of claim 1, wherein the first identification panel and the second identification panel are both L-shaped, and the first identification panel and the second identification panel are arranged in a mirror image in the application triggering area.

10. A mobile terminal, characterized in that it comprises an application triggering system according to any one of claims 1 to 9.