Infrared touching device
[technical field]
The present invention relates to infrared touch system or touch-screen, particularly relates to a kind of infrared touching device as wireless input device.
[background technology]
Generally speaking, for infrared ray touch system or touch-screen, the determining of touch location determined by infrared emission component and infrared receiver component.And operating body can be a finger or a pencil etc., only need be deep into to block infrared ray light in the framework and just can carry out input operation.Detect on the principle and do not require that operating body and any panel contact.
For the principle and the composition of infrared touch system, existing multinomial Chinese patent is set forth, and also has more document that this technology is described in detail abroad, repeats no more herein.
In prior art infrared ray touch system, the receiving element quantity that the quantity of the radiated element of arranging around the screen equals to arrange on the opposite edges, radiated element concentrates on the same side of framework, and Dui Ying receiving element concentrates on opposite side with it, as shown in Figure 1.The 101st, the touch-screen framework, the fired infra-red component array 102 of detecting operation body horizontal coordinate position is relative respectively with receiving element array 103 to be installed on the upper and lower frame of framework 101, forms vertical wire grating 106 during work in frame window.The fired infra-red component array 104 of the vertical coordinate position of detecting operation body is relative respectively with receiving element array 105 to be installed on the left side and left frame of framework 101, forms horizontal wire grating 107 during work in frame window.The middle window of framework partly is complete empty, has only Infrared to pass through, and does not have any entity component.
Prior art adopts the arrange layout type of infrared emission component and receiving element of symmetrical expression can simplify circuit, and the volume of whole device can be controlled at a less numerical value.But because the distance problem of the density of infrared tube physical distribution causes some dead angle problems; And departing from the consistency problem of emission axle center apart from the threshold voltage of receiving tube far away, and the complicacy of computing method can bring some errors, and this error can cause the resolution of existing product the problems such as flatness of consistency problem and target acquisition to occur in sensing range.
Adopt the cancellated detection method of level and vertical raster simultaneously, can only detect the single operating body of identification, just be difficult to realize and a plurality of operating bodies are needed to detect identification simultaneously, this has limited the usable range of outer red touching technique to a certain extent.
Prior art is subjected to the influence of infrared emission component emissive power and collimation, its surveyed area is mostly in the scope of 100 inches of diagonal line, if will enlarge surveyed area, must use powerful infrared emission component, but along with the increase of high-power radiated element quantity, production cost also can significantly increase.
In addition, prior art products, in order to improve the precision of detection, often higher to the accuracy requirement of infrared emission component and receiving element, announced a kind of infrared transmitting tube that is used for infrared touch panel July 16 calendar year 2001 as domestic patent 0123146.7, by improved design, the tube core of infrared transmitting tube is installed on the focus of convex lens, to improve the collimation of emission light.Though this method can be improved the focusing performance of infrared components to a certain extent, also improved manufacturing cost simultaneously.
Therefore, prior art is improved, a kind of accuracy of detection height is provided, can detects a plurality of operating bodies of identification, circuit simply can be expanded and the infrared touching device that can combine with the jumbotron display device is real in necessary.
[summary of the invention]
The purpose of this invention is to provide a kind of high measurement accuracy, the simple infrared touching device of circuit, it can determine the position of operating body in surveyed area exactly, and does not need to increase the quantity of infrared components, does not also need the outer red radiated element of high collimation.
Another object of the present invention provides a kind of infrared touching device, the accurately shape of decision operation body and size, and do not need to increase other auxiliary equipment or device.
A further object of the present invention provides a kind of infrared touching device that can detect the single operating body of identification or a plurality of operating body position in surveyed area.
A further object of the present invention provides and a kind ofly can be applied on the jumbotron display screen and lower-cost infrared touching device.
To achieve these goals, the present invention adopts following technical scheme:
A kind of infrared touching device is provided, it comprises the circuit board with driving circuit and signal processing circuit, infrared emission component that is connected with circuit board and infrared receiver component, have that existing infrared emission component has infrared receiver component again on two limits around the surveyed area of infrared touching device at least, an infrared emission component on one side on its relative edge to a plurality of infrared receiver components should be arranged, promptly an infrared emission component on limit acts on a plurality of infrared receiver components on the relative edge, and the infrared light of each infrared emission component emission receives by a plurality of infrared receiver components.
This infrared emission component is arranged in ad-hoc location in the surveyed area, and the arrangement mode of infrared emission component and infrared receiver component can be as follows:
This infrared receiver component is arranged in surveyed area four limits, infrared emission component is intervally arranged between infrared receiver component and is distributed in the junction on surveyed area four limits, promptly be distributed in four corners of surveyed area, the infrared receiver component that is arranged in four limits receives the infrared signal of the infrared emission component in four corners.
Or, this infrared receiver component is arranged in surveyed area four limits, infrared emission component is arranged on the different straight lines with infrared receiver component, infrared emission component is arranged in after the infrared receiver component, and the infrared receiver component that is arranged in four limits receives and is arranged in the infrared signal of the infrared emission component of the opposite side of ad-hoc location thereafter.
Or be, the surveyed area of infrared touching device has two relative edges to adopt an infrared emission component and a plurality of infrared receiver components space to arrange, and an infrared emission component on limit is corresponding with a plurality of infrared receiver components on the opposite side; Single respectively infrared emission component or the infrared receiver component of arranging of two other relative edge, the infrared emission component on both sides and infrared receiver component are corresponding one by one.
Can also be, four limits around the surveyed area of infrared touching device be intervally arranged respectively an infrared emission component and a plurality of infrared receiver component, one side on an infrared emission component corresponding with a plurality of infrared receiver components on the opposite side.
Each infrared emission component is launched a branch of taper infrared light under slave mode, the infrared receiver component in particular range on the other side all can receive the infrared light of infrared emission component emission.And the angle of the taper light that radiated element is launched only is decided by the self-characteristic of radiated element, need be by such as external unit or devices such as lens.
Adopt this kind arrangement mode, take into full account the emissive power and the collimation problem of infrared emission component, detecting the bigger infrared emission component of employing power on the distance direction far away, can realize infrared touching device at the jumbotron display device as the use on 200 cun display wall, though the cost of single infrared emission component is higher, but adopt this kind arrangement mode can significantly reduce the quantity of infrared emission component with respect to prior art, compared with prior art, the application on jumbotron can reduce cost greatly.
The judgement of the position of single operation body in surveyed area, be to determine that by the position of calculating the receiving element that output signal changes operating body is in the angle with respect to frame edge, thereby calculate the position of the center of operating body at surveyed area, again according to the position conversion table that is determined by experiment, be converted to the X that computing machine can be discerned, the Y coordinate signal.And to the identification of single operation body size, the position that is the receiving element that changes with respect to output signal by calculating operation body centre coordinate is determined, owing to adopt a plurality of radiated elements, therefore can calculating operation body size in different directions, so accurately the shape of identifying operation body with big or small.
A plurality of operating bodies position, size identification are judged, be on single operation body base of recognition, to carry out, because infrared emission component and infrared receiver component adopt the asymmetric arrangement mode, receiving element is all arranged around surveyed area, determine that by the position of detecting the receiving element that four edge output signals of framework change each operating body is in the angle with respect to frame edge, thereby calculate the position of the center of each operating body at surveyed area, again according to the position conversion table that is determined by experiment, be converted to the X that computing machine can be discerned, the Y coordinate signal; Therefore need not increase extra device or equipment to the judgement identification of a plurality of operating bodies can realize.And, be to determine by the position of calculating the receiving element that each operating body centre coordinate changes with respect to output signal to the identification of a plurality of operating body sizes.
Concrete computing method will be described in detail in conjunction with specific embodiments.
Compared with prior art, the present invention has following beneficial effect:
Infrared emission component and infrared receiver component around the surveyed area of infrared touching device of the present invention are arranged with ad hoc fashion, an infrared emission component is to there being a plurality of infrared receiver components, by around the position of the receiving element that changes of output signal determine that each operating body is in the angle with respect to frame edge, thereby calculate the position of the center of each operating body at surveyed area, and need not increase extra device or equipment to the judgement identification of a plurality of operating bodies can realize, simple and accurate, eliminated the blind area to a certain extent, and be not subjected to the influence of infrared emission component emissive power and collimation, can low-costly increase surveyed area.
[description of drawings]
Fig. 1 is the structural representation of prior art products;
Fig. 2 is the synoptic diagram of the embodiment one of infrared touching device of the present invention;
Fig. 3 is the embodiment of the invention one a simple target location Calculation synoptic diagram;
Fig. 4 is that more than one target localization of the embodiment of the invention calculates synoptic diagram;
Fig. 5 is the synoptic diagram of the embodiment two of infrared touching device of the present invention;
Fig. 6 is the synoptic diagram of the embodiment three of infrared touching device of the present invention;
Fig. 7 is the synoptic diagram of the embodiment four of infrared touching device of the present invention;
Fig. 8 is the synoptic diagram of the embodiment five of infrared touching device of the present invention.
[embodiment]
Please refer to Fig. 2, be a kind of embodiment of the present invention, infrared receiver component 203 be arranged in framework 201 around, four infrared emission components 204,205,206,207 are arranged in upper left, upper right, bottom right, four corners, lower-left of framework 201 respectively, when operating body 202 enters surveyed area, the taper infrared beam that upper left corner infrared emission component 204 is sent is operated body 202 and has blocked a part, and the output signal of receiving element 209 and adjacent some receiving elements is changed; The cone-shaped beam that upper right corner infrared emission component 205 is sent also is operated body 202 and has blocked a part, make the output signal of receiving element 208 and adjacent some receiving elements change, the cone-shaped beam that infrared emission component sent in other corner also can be subjected to blocking in various degree, make corresponding receiving element output signal change, the position of single operation body and the detection identification computing method of shape size are described below in conjunction with the figure of simplifying.
Please refer to Fig. 3, it is the location Calculation synoptic diagram of simple target, the cone-shaped beam that upper right corner infrared emission component 301 is sent is operated body 303 and has blocked a part, make that the output signal of the receiving element 307 changes from receiving element 306 to receiving element, by angle and the receiving element position corresponding tables of determining according to experiment before searching, can determine the angle theta 306 of operating body edge line and framework lower limb, θ 307, also can calculate the angle 309 of operating body center line and framework lower limb easily, this angle mark is α; The cone-shaped beam that upper left corner infrared emission component 302 is sent is operated body 303 and has blocked a part, make that the output signal of the receiving element 305 changes from receiving element 304 to receiving element, by angle and the receiving element position corresponding tables of determining according to experiment before searching, can determine the angle theta 304 of operating body edge line and framework right hand edge, θ 305, also can calculate the angle 308 of operating body center line and framework right hand edge easily, this angle mark is β; Can accurately measure apart from 310D between upper left corner radiated element 302 and the upper right corner radiated element 301, certainly, the distance between the upper left corner and the lower left corner radiated element also can accurately be measured.
So, the horizontal level coordinate X of operating body centre distance surveyed area left hand edge, the vertical position coordinate Y of distance detecting zone coboundary can calculate by following formula:
X=Y?tanβ
Y=D?tanα/(1+tanαtanβ)
The size of operating body in upper right corner radiated element 301 cone-shaped beam scopes is:
R1=Y?tan[(θ306-θ307)/2]/sinα
The size of operating body in upper left corner radiated element 301 cone-shaped beam scopes is:
R2=Y?tan[(θ304-θ305)/2]/cosβ
In like manner, can calculate position coordinates and the shape size of operating body center in the lower left corner, lower right corner infrared emission component cone-shaped beam scope.
Computing through above-mentioned can accurately calculate position and the shape size of single operation body in surveyed area.
The identification of a plurality of operating bodies position, size is judged that synoptic diagram sees also Fig. 4, infrared emission component 404,405,406,407 are arranged in upper left, upper right, bottom right, the lower-left corner location of framework 401 respectively, infrared receiver component 408 be distributed in framework around, operating body 402 and another operating body 403 are simultaneously in surveyed area.Detection identification to a plurality of operating bodies position, size is to carry out on single operation body base of recognition, because infrared emission component and infrared receiver component adopt the asymmetric arrangement mode, receiving element is all arranged around surveyed area, determine that by the position of detecting the receiving element that four edge output signals of framework change each operating body is in the angle with respect to frame edge, thereby calculate the position of the center of each operating body at surveyed area, again according to the position conversion table that is determined by experiment, be converted to the X that computing machine can be discerned, the Y coordinate signal; Therefore need not increase extra device or equipment to the judgement identification of a plurality of operating bodies can realize.Concrete computing method and formula are referring to mentioned above.
Fig. 5 is second kind of embodiment of the present invention, six infrared emission components 502 are arranged on the framework 501 with illustrated method, framework 501 long limits are placed with four infrared emission components 502, minor face is placed with two infrared emission components 502, infrared receiver component 503 be distributed in framework around, the scope that cone-shaped beam covered of infrared emission component emission as shown in the figure, adopt this kind arrangement mode, the position size identification of single or multiple operating bodies is judged that computing method are with identical described in the embodiment one.
Fig. 6 is the third embodiment of the present invention, infrared emission component 602 is arranged on the framework 601 with illustrated method, framework 601 every limits all are placed with an infrared emission component 602, infrared receiver component 603 be distributed in framework around, the scope that cone-shaped beam covered of infrared emission component emission as shown in the figure, adopt this kind arrangement mode, the position size identification of single or multiple operating bodies is judged that computing method are as described in the embodiment one.
Accompanying drawing 7 is the 4th kind of embodiment of the present invention, infrared emission component 702 is arranged on the framework 701 with illustrated method with infrared receiver component 703, be spaced with five infrared receiver components 703 and an infrared emission component 702, the grating that forms between radiated element and the receiving element is shown in 704.Adopt this kind arrangement mode, can use better simply mode to carry out to the position of operating body and the judgement of shape size, can carry out simple conversion to the computing formula among the embodiment one can use, conversion for formula, personnel with certain mathematical knowledge all can finish, herein no longer narration.
Accompanying drawing 8 is the 5th kind of embodiment of the present invention, infrared emission component 802 is arranged on framework 801 opposed edges with illustrated method with infrared receiver component 803, be spaced with five infrared receiver components 803 and an infrared emission component 802, the grating that radiated element and receiving element form in the horizontal direction is shown in 806.And on other direction, infrared emission component 804 is arranged on the framework 801 with illustrated method with infrared receiver component 805, infrared emission component 804 is arranged in framework on one side, and infrared receiver component 805 is arranged in the framework another side, and the grating that in the vertical direction forms is shown in 807.Adopt this kind arrangement mode, also can use better simply mode to carry out to the position of operating body and the judgement of shape size, can carry out simple conversion to the computing formula among the embodiment one can use, conversion for formula, personnel with certain mathematical knowledge all can finish, herein no longer narration.
Adopt the arrangement mode of the foregoing description, take into full account the emissive power and the collimation problem of infrared emission component, detecting the bigger infrared emission component of employing power on the distance direction far away, can realize infrared touching device at the jumbotron display device as the use on 200 cun display wall, though the cost of single infrared emission component is higher, but adopt above-mentioned arrangement mode can significantly reduce the quantity of infrared emission component with respect to prior art, compared with prior art, the application on jumbotron can reduce cost greatly.
Above-described several embodiment is several preferred embodiment of the present invention, and protection scope of the present invention is not limited thereto.For example, the arrangement method that other form can also be arranged arranging of infrared emission component, can utilize the triangle formula conversion to simplify computing formula, the detection of operating body position, size is judged and can be finished or the like by consulting the numerical tabular that calculating is good in advance, so the non-material change that the those skilled in the art in this area are done according to the present invention includes in interest field of the present invention.