JP2007207008A - Display device with touch panel - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display device with a touch panel having a calibration function automatically correcting a divergence between coordinates on a display of a display device and pressed coordinates of a touch panel differing by each user. <P>SOLUTION: The device obtains a relative height (h) between a body height of a user (A) and the height of the device, and a horizontal distance (w) between the user (A) and the device, respectively, from the body height obtained by a body height obtaining means to detect the body height of the user (A); obtains a deviation (x) among the coordinates displayed on the display of the display device and the pressed coordinates of the user (A) on the touch panel by the obtained values, and corrects the pressed coordinates of the user (A) on the touch panel by using the value of the deviation (x). <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a display device with a touch panel used for, for example, a POS (Point Of Sales) terminal, and in particular, automatic calibration for adjusting a display position of a display device and an input position on a touch panel of a user to match. The present invention relates to a display device with a touch panel provided with an image function.

  The touch panel includes a resistance film type (for example, see Patent Document 1) and an optical type. Among these, the resistance film type touch panel is widely spread due to advantages such as a simple structure and low cost. A POS terminal equipped with such a resistive film type touch panel is also widely known.

  The touch panel requires processing for matching the display position of the touch panel with the display position of the display on the lower surface of the touch panel before initial use. Therefore, conventionally, the calibration function is used to perform operations such as matching the coordinates of the touch panel with the coordinates of the display.

  For example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technique in which an adjustment image displayed on a touch panel is photographed with a camera, the position is designated, and the display position and the input position are adjusted with a calibration function.

JP 2002-149347 A

  Structurally, there is a gap between the touch panel and the display of the display device. This gap is provided in order to prevent direct influence on the display and the display device on the lower surface of the touch panel due to bending that occurs when a touch panel made of hard glass or the like is pressed. Therefore, depending on the angle at which the user views the touch panel, there may be a shift between the coordinate position indicated by the display of the display device and the coordinate position pressed by the user with a finger on the touch panel.

FIG. 6 is a schematic side view showing an example of a conventional display device 100 with a touch panel, and shows the relationship between the display device 102 having the display 101 and the touch panel 103. As can be seen from FIG. 6, the display device 102 having the display 101 and the touch panel 103 are usually installed at a certain distance t. If the x coordinate on the display 101 of the display P displayed on the display 101 at this time is p ₀ , when the user views the display P from the direction perpendicular to the display 101, that is, the display P from the line of sight 1. The x coordinate p ₁ on the touch panel 103 when viewed is exactly the x coordinate that overlaps the coordinate p ₀ on the display 101 in the vertical direction. However, when the user viewing the screen with a certain angle from the vertical direction relative to the display 101, ie, x-coordinate on the touch panel 103 when viewed from the view 2 is the position of the p _2. Therefore, when the angle of the user's line of sight with respect to the screen is different, the position of the pressed coordinate on the touch panel 103 of the same display P is different. Therefore, if the line of sight of the user has a certain angle from a direction perpendicular to the screen as the line of sight 2, pressing the coordinates p ₂ on the touch panel when the user presses the touch panel 103 to the display P Therefore, the pressure is shifted by a distance x = | p ₂ −p ₁ | from the coordinate p ₁ on the touch panel 103 of the display P.

  Note that the calibration function as described in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1 is the difference between the initial values of the touch panel attached to the display device main body, that is, the display of the touch panel and the display device as the initial work before normal use of the touch panel. The purpose is to adjust the display on the display. That is, this adjustment is to adjust the deviation between the display position of the touch panel and the display position of the display when the screen is viewed from the direction perpendicular to the screen. Therefore, no adjustment is made for the displacement of the pressed position on the display of the user of different height, for example, which is caused by a gap between the touch panel and the display of the display device. Therefore, when the users with different heights use them sequentially, there is no need to adjust each time between the display position of the display of the display device and the pressing position on the touch panel of the user with different heights.

  An object of this invention is to provide the display apparatus with a touch panel which has a calibration function which corrects automatically the difference | shift which changes for every user with the coordinate of the display of a display apparatus, and the coordinate of a touch panel.

  The display device with a touch panel according to the present invention includes a display device having a display, a touch panel that is stacked on the display by a predetermined distance, an information processing unit that executes information processing, and a user who faces the display device. A detection device that varies the physical quantity according to the height of the user, means for recognizing the height of the user according to a change in the physical quantity generated in the detection device by the information processing unit, and the height recognized by the information processing unit And a line of sight on the touch panel when the display is viewed from the vertical direction based on the acquired angle information by means of the information processing unit based on the acquired angle information. The means for acquiring the deviation of the line-of-sight position with respect to the position and the information processing unit push the user by the amount of the obtained deviation. To and a recognizing means by shifting the coordinate position on the touch panel.

  According to the present invention, with a touch panel having a calibration function that automatically corrects a deviation between the display coordinates of a display device that is different for each user and the pressing coordinates of the user on the touch panel without causing the user to work. A display device can be provided.

  An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS.

  FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram schematically showing a relationship between a POS terminal provided with a display device with a touch panel and a user according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a line of sight of the display device with a touch panel and the user. It is the schematic schematic diagram which showed. As described above, the display device with a touch panel 1 includes the touch panel 2 that is a resistive film type touch panel made of a transparent material and the display device 4 having the display 3, and the touch panel 2 has a certain distance t (see FIG. 2). ) Are installed on the display 3 of the display device 4. This is because a certain space is required so that bending when the user A presses the touch panel 2 does not directly affect the display 3 and the display device 4. Note that the distance between the touch panel 2 and the display 3 of the display device 4, that is, the length of the gap t is about 5 mm.

  The POS terminal 5 including the display device with a touch panel 1 is installed on an installation table 6 in a store or the like. The display device with a touch panel 1 attached to the POS body 7 has a tilt mechanism (not shown) and is stationary at a certain angle from the vertical direction. The user A separates a certain distance w from the POS body 7 installed on the installation table 6 (hereinafter, w is referred to as a horizontal distance between the user A and the display device 1 with a touch panel) and the display device 1 with a touch panel. The touch panel 2 of the display device with a touch panel 1 is operated. A camera 8 as a detection device is installed on the wall of the store where the POS terminal 5 is installed.

For convenience, which will be described later, the height in the vertical direction from the floor of the store or the like at this time to the upper end of the POS main body 7 installed on the installation table 6 is h ₁ , and the upper end of the head of the user A is from the floor. Up to h ₂ , and the relative height between the upper end of the POS body 7 and the upper end of the head of the user A is h (that is, h = h ₂ −h ₁ , hereinafter, h is the user A An angle formed by the horizontal direction and the upper end of the head of the user A is defined as θ ₁ . Further, θ ₂ is an angle formed between the perpendicular of the display device with a touch panel 1 and a floor (horizontal direction) of a store or the like, and is the tilt angle of the display device with a touch panel 1.

  FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing electrical connection between the POS terminal 5 and the touch panel 2. As shown in FIG. 3, the POS terminal 5 includes a microcomputer 9 (hereinafter referred to as a microcomputer 9), and the microcomputer 9 controls each unit. The microcomputer 9 includes a CPU (Central Processing Unit) 10 that centrally controls each unit, a ROM (Read Only Memory) 12 that stores fixed data such as a computer program in advance, and a work area that stores various data in a rewritable manner. And a RAM (Random Access Memory) 13 that functions as a bus line 11. Furthermore, the microcomputer 9 is connected to a touch panel 2 via a touch panel device driver (not shown), a display device 4 having a display 3 via a display driver (not shown), and a hard disk drive 14 (hereinafter referred to as HDD 14).

The HDD 14 stores a control program 15, a statistical data file 16, and a basic data file 17 used for a calibration process described later. Here, the statistical data file 16 is data obtained by statistically processing the height and arm length of the user A, and is a data file in which the height and arm length are associated with each other. . The basic data file includes a distance h ₁ from the floor at the upper end of the POS main body, a tilt angle θ ₂ of the display device 1 with a touch panel, a distance t between the touch panel 2 and the display 3, and the like. When actually used, these programs and data files are transferred to the RAM 13 and executed by the CPU 10.

  A camera 8 installed outside the POS terminal 5 is connected to the microcomputer 9 via the bus line 11, and the height data of the user A detected by the camera 8 is transmitted to the RAM 13.

  Here, the microcomputer 9 mainly composed of the CPU 10 includes the various data files stored in the RAM 13 by the CPU 10, the camera 8 and the display device 1 with a touch panel, which are detection devices for detecting the height of the user A, and the user A. The information processing unit 18 is configured by executing various information processing according to the computer program including the control program 15 described above with reference to various values acquired by a pressure sensor or the like that is a pressure detection unit that detects the distance w of .

  Next, a procedure for acquiring the deviation x between the coordinates on the display 3 of the display device 4 and the pressed coordinates of the user A on the touch panel 2 executed by the CPU 10 according to the control program 15 will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a procedure for acquiring the deviation x used for the calibration process by the CPU 10.

First, a procedure for obtaining the angle θ ₁ formed by the horizontal direction and the upper end of the user A's head will be described.

  The microcomputer 9 analyzes the captured image of the camera 8 installed on the wall of the store (step S1 in FIG. 4) and determines whether the user A stands in front of the POS terminal 5 (step S2 in FIG. 4). ). As an example of this analysis method, for example, there is a method by pattern search. In this case, a considerable number of patterns of the user A having different profile are associated with the height and registered in the HDD 14 as grayscale grayscale video data. Then, the user A detected by the camera 8 transmits image data as a physical quantity that fluctuates when the user A stands in front of the POS terminal 5 to detect a difference from the registered pattern, and is closest to the image data. This is a technique for recognizing the height of the user A by searching for a registered pattern to be performed.

Then, when the user A is detected as standing in front of the POS terminal 5 (Y in step S2 of FIG. 4) is height data h ₂ of the detected user A is transmitted to the microcomputer 9 of the POS terminal 5, It is stored in the RAM 13 (step S3 in FIG. 4). Accordingly, the CPU 10 displays a display screen adjustment start message on the display 3 (step S4 in FIG. 4), and notifies the user A that the screen adjustment (that is, the procedure for obtaining the deviation x) has started. Then, the CPU 10 controls the user A and the touch panel with the touch panel from the height h _{2 of the} user A received by the control program 15 and the height h ₁ up to the upper end of the POS main body 7 previously stored in the RAM 13 as the basic data 17. A relative height h (= h ₂ −h ₁ ) from the upper end of the POS main body 7 to the upper end of the head of the user A, which is a relative height with the display device 1, is calculated (step S5 in FIG. 4). As described above, the RAM 13 stores the statistical data file 16 in which the height and the arm length are associated with each other. Accordingly, the horizontal distance w between the user A and the display device 1 with a touch panel, which is the horizontal distance between the user A and the POS main body 7, is simulated with the arm length of the user A, and the height h of the acquired user A is obtained. _{It is obtained from} the value of ₂ and the data of the statistical data file 16 (step S6 in FIG. 4).

Next, from the calculated relative height h between the user A and the display device with a touch panel 1 and the horizontal distance w between the user A and the display device with a touch panel 1, the head of the user A is calculated according to Equation (1). obtaining an angle theta ₁ which forms the upper end and the horizontal direction (step S7 in FIG. 4).

θ ₁ = arctan (h / w) (∵ tan θ ₁ = h / w) (1)

Subsequently, the value of the deviation x is calculated. Here, the displacement x (see FIG. 2) is used at a certain angle from the direction perpendicular to the screen (line of sight 1) due to a gap (distance t) existing structurally between the touch panel 2 and the display 3 as described above. When the person A sees a certain display Q displayed on the display 3 (line of sight 2), the coordinate (q ₁ ) on the touch panel 2 that collides with the touch panel 2 in the vertical direction from the coordinate (q ₀ ) on the display 3 is a reference. The reference coordinates (q ₁ ) and the recognition coordinates (q ₂ ) when the display is recognized so as to be located at a position (q ₂ ) shifted from the reference coordinates (q ₁ ) by a certain distance. (| Q ₂ −q ₁ |). This deviation x is based on θ ₁ acquired from steps S 6 and S 7 and the tilt angle θ ₂ of the display device with a touch panel 1 stored as basic data 17 in the RAM 13 and the distance t between the touch panel 2 and the display 3. , By formula (2) (step S8 in FIG. 4).

x = t · tan (θ ₂ −θ ₁ ) (∵ tan (θ ₂ −θ ₁ ) = x / t) (2)

  Then, the obtained value of deviation x is stored in the RAM 13 (step S9 in FIG. 4). Then, the display screen adjustment end message is displayed on the display 3 (step S10 in FIG. 4), whereby the user A adjusts the display screen (that is, on the touch panel 2 caused by the angle of his / her line of sight with respect to the horizontal direction). The acquisition of the displacement x of the pressed coordinates) is completed, and it is notified that the operation on the touch panel 2 can be started.

  Thus, the procedure for obtaining the deviation x between the coordinates on the display 3 of the display device 4 and the pressed coordinates of the user A on the touch panel 2 is completed.

  When the user A presses a certain coordinate on the touch panel 2, the data of the pressed coordinate is transmitted to the RAM 13, and the CPU 10 adds or removes the deviation x related to the user A stored in the RAM 13. Calibration is performed in which the upper coordinates are converted into the coordinates on the display 3 of the display device 4.

  The process of calculating the deviation x is executed by the CPU 10 according to the flowchart of FIG. 4 every time a user A having a different height stands in front of the POS terminal 5, and information on the deviation x is transmitted to the RAM 13. Thereby, it is possible to correct the deviation x of the pressed coordinates on the touch panel 2 for each user A having a different height.

  FIG. 5 shows another application example of the embodiment of the present invention and is an external perspective view of the self-checkout system 19. In the above-described embodiment, the camera 8 for detecting the height of the user A is separately installed in the vicinity of the POS terminal 5. However, as shown in FIG. 8 may be installed in the POS terminal 5 or installed together. In the above-described embodiment, the camera 8 is used, but other sensors such as an infrared sensor may be used.

  According to the present embodiment, by using the height of the user A acquired by the camera 8, the relative height h and the horizontal distance w between the user A and the display device with a touch panel 1 are obtained, and these values are used. Since the deviation x between the coordinates displayed on the display 3 of the display device 4 and the pressing coordinates of the user A on the touch panel 2 is obtained and the pressing coordinates are corrected, the deviation x that is different for each user A is used. Can be corrected.

As a method for obtaining the deviation x, in the above embodiment, in Equation (1), θ ₁ that is an angle formed by the upper end of the user A's head and the horizontal direction is obtained, and the obtained θ ₁ is further obtained. However, for example, a data file in which a considerable number of the user A's height h ₂ and θ ₁ are associated with each other is created in advance and stored in the RAM 13. Thus, θ ₁ may be obtained directly from the height h _{2 of the} user A detected by referring to the data file without performing the processing according to the mathematical expression (1) of the control program 15.

In addition, a data file in which θ ₁ which is an angle formed by the upper end of the head of the user A and the horizontal direction is associated with the displacement x is stored in the RAM 13 in advance, so that the processing according to the above formula (2) is performed. not from De theta ₁ may obtain directly deviation x.

Moreover, there exists the method of using a pressure sensor as another method of calculating | requiring the horizontal distance w of the user's A head upper end and the display apparatus 1 with a touch panel. In this method, for example, when a plurality of sensors are arranged at regular intervals along the direction away from the touch panel 2 on the floor surface on which the user A stands facing the touch panel 2, and the user A stands on a certain sensor. By detecting the weight of the user A, the standing position of the user A can be specified, and the horizontal distance w can be obtained. According to this method, θ ₁ can be obtained with higher accuracy.

In the embodiment described above, the relative height h from the upper end of the POS main body 7 to the upper end of the head of the user A and the horizontal distance w between the POS main body 7 and the standing position of the user A are used. The misalignment x is calculated by assuming the angle θ ₁ between the user A's line of sight and the horizontal direction, and h is obtained as the relative height of the coordinates of the display device 4 to be corrected with the eye height of the user A. The adjustment accuracy of the deviation x can be further improved.

  In the embodiment described above, a resistive film type is used as the touch panel 2, but the display device with a touch panel 1 in the present invention can be applied to other types of touch panels.

As another embodiment, a data file or the like in which the height h _{2 of the} user A is associated with the displacement x can be created and stored in the RAM 13. The value of the deviation x corresponding to the height h ₂ at this time may be obtained by the procedure executed in the above-described embodiment, may be created by collecting the actual measurement values, or other methods You may ask for. Then, when the height h ₂ has been detected, with reference to the data file that associates x deviation and the height h _2, may be obtained deviation x corresponding to the obtained height h ₂ directly.

It is a schematic diagram which shows roughly the relationship between a POS terminal provided with the display apparatus with a touchscreen which is one Embodiment of this invention, and a user. It is a schematic diagram which shows schematically a display apparatus with a touch panel, and a user's eyes | visual_axis. It is a block diagram which shows the electrical connection of a POS terminal and a touchscreen. It is a flowchart which shows the procedure which acquires the shift | offset | difference x used for the calibration process by CPU. FIG. 10 is a perspective view showing an external appearance of a self-checkout system according to another application example of the embodiment of the present invention. It is the side view which showed schematically the touch panel and display apparatus in a prior art example.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Display apparatus with a touch panel, 2 ... Touch panel, 3 ... Display, 4 ... Display apparatus, 8 ... Camera, 16 ... Statistical data, A ... User, x ... Display coordinate on a display, and user's press on a touch panel Deviation from coordinates, h ₁ ... Vertical height to the upper end of the POS main body 7, h ₂ ... Vertical height from the floor to the upper end of the head of the user A, h. , W: horizontal distance between the user and the display device with the touch panel, t: distance between the touch panel and the display of the display device, θ ₁ , an angle formed by the upper end of the user's head and the horizontal direction, θ ₂ … An angle formed by the horizontal direction and the vertical line of the touch panel (tilt angle of a display device with a touch panel)

Claims (7)

A display device having a display;
A touch panel that is stacked and separated from the display by a predetermined distance;
An information processing unit for executing information processing;
A detection device that varies the physical quantity according to the height of the user facing the display device;
Means for recognizing the height of the user in accordance with a change in physical quantity generated in the detection device by the information processing unit;
Means for obtaining angle information by which the user looks at the display based on the recognized height by the information processing unit;
Means for acquiring, by the information processing unit, based on the acquired angle information, a gaze position shift with respect to a gaze position on the touch panel when the display is viewed from the vertical direction;
Means for shifting and recognizing the coordinate position on the touch panel pressed by the user by the acquired shift amount by the information processing unit;
A display device with a touch panel. For the angle information, the information processing unit
A process of calculating a relative height h by subtracting the height of the display device from the recognized height;
Referring to the statistical data file stored in the storage area that defines the relationship between the height of the user and the horizontal distance w between the user and the display device, the horizontal distance w is obtained from the recognized height. Processing to
a process of calculating an angle θ ₁ formed by the horizontal line and the user's line of sight according to θ ₁ = arctan (h / w);
The display device with a touch panel according to claim ₁ , wherein the angle θ ₁ is obtained by executing the above. A pressure detection unit that detects the standing position of the user by the pressure fluctuation of the floor surface that varies according to the standing position of the user facing the display device;
For the angle information, the information processing unit
A process of calculating a relative height h by subtracting the height of the display device from the recognized height;
A process of obtaining a horizontal distance w between the user and the display device from the detected position of the user;
a process of calculating an angle θ ₁ formed by the horizontal line and the user's line of sight according to θ ₁ = arctan (h / w);
The display device with a touch panel according to claim ₁ , wherein the angle θ ₁ is obtained by executing the above.   The angle information refers to an angle at which the information processing unit views the display corresponding to the recognized height with reference to a statistical data file stored in a storage area that defines a relationship between an angle at which the display is viewed and a height. The display device with a touch panel according to claim 1, acquired as: The shift of the line-of-sight position is a shift x obtained by x = t · tan (θ ₂ −θ ₁ ) when the information processing unit sets an angle θ ₂ between a horizontal line and a perpendicular of the display. The display device with a touch panel according to claim 2 or 3.   The shift of the line-of-sight position is stored in a storage area that defines a relationship between the angle information and the line-of-sight position shift with respect to the line-of-sight position on the touch panel when the display is viewed from the vertical direction. The display device with a touch panel according to claim 1, which is obtained as a shift of the line-of-sight position corresponding to the acquired angle information with reference to a statistical data file. A display device having a display;
A touch panel that is stacked and separated from the display by a predetermined distance;
An information processing unit for executing information processing;
A detection device that varies the physical quantity according to the height of the user facing the display device;
Means for recognizing the height of the user in accordance with a change in physical quantity generated in the detection device by the information processing unit;
The information processing unit defines a relationship between the height of the line of sight relative to the line of sight position on the touch panel when the display is viewed from the vertical direction, which is caused by a change in the viewing angle of the display, which differs depending on the height. Means for referring to a statistical data file stored in a storage area and obtaining a shift in the line-of-sight position corresponding to the recognized height;
Means for shifting and recognizing the coordinate position on the touch panel pressed by the user by the acquired shift amount by the information processing unit;
A display device with a touch panel.

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