JP5750598B2 - Scanner mouse - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a mouse device that has a pen scanner function and easily realizes the function of the pen scanner with the mouse device.

  Among image input devices, the pen scanner has the advantage that only necessary information can be input regardless of the shape of the medium in which the input information is described and the position of the input information on the medium. It is used for practical use.

  Here, the pen scanner is a means for capturing a locus image of a locus on the paper at the tip of the pen scanner. The mouse operates the mouse operation surface to control the mouse cursor. The presence of a pen scanner and mouse on the desk is cumbersome, and if you provide a pen scanner function on the mouse and switch between the pen scanner function and the mouse function, you can escape from this complexity and use both functions by switching between them. It is possible and convenient.

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Panasonic KX-FS10N Hand Scanner Instruction Manual

  Since the bar code reading device of the pen scanner can be obtained by providing the bar code reading function in the pen scanner, these will be collectively referred to as a pen scanner hereinafter.

By providing the pen scanner for the barcode reading function on the mouse that is almost equipped with the computer, the pen scanner can be held by hand and break away from the conventional reading style applied to the barcode. .

After that, you do not have to hold the pen scanner by hand. If the pen scanner is equipped with a mouse and is compatible with a commercially available pen scanner that uses a line sensor such as a CCD according to the reading method, place the mouse on the barcode surface. In the case of a pen scanner that uses a point sensor, such as a photo reflector, with a click instead of one-touch, hold the mouse on the barcode surface, and drag the mouse to drag the barcode image. Make it available.

For scanning the barcode surface, mark a predetermined part of the mouse, for example, on the left and right, or above, and use it to determine where the barcode is present, or make the predetermined part or all of the mouse transparent. That's fine.

In addition, with light emitting and receiving optical mice that are now on the market, the movement direction of the mouse is compared by comparing the time-dependent changes in the fine surface that cannot be distinguished visually by the optical sensor port but can be distinguished by the microscope. Mouse information is indexed with the mouse information indexing function. Separately, for the pen scanner function, for example, a slit of a CCD line sensor or a pen scanner port is provided in the vicinity of the optical sensor port, and the mouse function and the pen scanner function can be switched and selected by the mouse / scanner switching means. You may do it.

Further, the captured image captured at the optical sensor port of the optical mouse is used for the mouse information indexing function and the pen scanner function such as the pen scanner port. Switching may be performed by switching means. Specifically, it is only necessary to switch whether the captured image obtained from the optical sensor port is used for mouse information indexing or barcode decoding as image processing.

Importantly, the captured image of the micro area obtained from the optical sensor mouth of the optical mouse is stored in a pair with the positional information obtained by processing the mouse information by the mouse information indexing function, It is assumed that the extremely small areas are connected with the position information, finished in a scanned image, and scanned with a pen scanner.

Although the following is a schematic story, there is a magnification difference of at least several tens of times between visual accuracy and microscope accuracy in terms of improving the processing speed. A few 0.1mm for visual recognition, and a few 0.001mm for movement detection on a clean office desk surface by a microscope.
right. For this reason, from the aspect of improving the processing speed, the number of processing data is reduced by thinning out at a specific sampling time interval from the captured images from all the optical sensor ports, and the magnification conversion from the software or hardware side. It is also possible to make adjustments. Thus, the microscopic vast surface is reduced and returned by the magnification conversion, and the microscopic surface usually obtained by visually observing the surface under the mouse, and the microscopic surface obtained by thinning out by appropriate sampling. The concatenation of the surfaces forms a captured image of the scan line with a normal pen scanner.

According to the present invention, since the pen scanner function is provided in the mouse device, the image sensor function of the pen scanner is provided on the bottom surface of the mouse.

In order to provide an image sensor function on the bottom of the mouse, it is possible to provide a barcode reading window of a size that can be read with a single touch, or even an optical mouse. Correspondingly, a pen scanner port for a point image reader is provided.

Next, add the pen scanner function to the mouse,
A pen scanner switching switch that can be used by switching between a mouse and a pen scanner is also conceivable. As the pen scanner function, there are a one-touch read method using a CCD line sensor and a one-scan read method on a barcode, for example, which is an object to be read using a pen scanner.

A pen scanner port may not be provided separately, and the reading image of the optical sensor port with an optical mouse may be used for both the mouse movement distance indexing function and the pen scanner function.

  In order to provide the pen scanner function in the mouse device, a pen scanner port for the image sensor function is provided on the bottom surface of the mouse, and the mouse function and the pen scanner function can be selected by the switching means, and there is no need to separately provide a pen scanner. .

In particular, with an optical mouse, it is possible to add a pen scanner function at the software level without changing hardware.

For example, when using a pen scanner for barcode reading work, it is necessary to lift the pen scanner and scan the barcode. However, if the mouse has a pen scanner function, it can be slid without lifting the mouse. Since the mouse is moved to the reading object and the reading operation is merely slid, there is no emotional tension.

  An image sensor port for image reading is formed at the bottom of the mouse, the shape is a rectangular slit that can be read by a barcode for applications such as barcodes, and the scanning location can be read for applications that only capture images. It is only necessary to provide a size hole and a means to capture the image entering from here.

FIG. 1 shows an example in which a pen scanner port is provided at the bottom of the mouse 50 to form a barcode reading port 31. A mouse / reading switch 53 is provided for switching functions of the mouse 50 and barcode reading. Since the mouse 50 is supported on the four support portions 52 and used on the desk, the barcode reading port 31 is provided at the bottom of the mouse 50 so that the barcode and the pattern can be easily read on the desk.

In this case, since the barcode is read with a single touch, movement synchronization (
Since it is difficult to keep the scanning speed of a pen scanner constant, it is necessary to have a means of knowing how much it has moved.

Regarding the movement synchronization, in the handy scanner of Non-Patent Document 1, three rubber rings are rotatable on the same axis on the bottom, and when the handy scanner is moved, the rubber ring rotates. It is used to calculate the travel distance. If there is no rubber ring, it cannot be determined which position on the scanning object the image captured by the handy scanner corresponds to.

For this reason, when a scanning object is scanned with a pen scanner or the like, a means for obtaining a scanning position corresponding to the scanning image is necessary, and this means is expressed as the movement synchronization.

FIG. 2 shows an embodiment in which a pen scanner port 56 is provided at the bottom of the mouse 50 instead of the barcode reading port 31.

In this case, the movement synchronization is necessary, and a method using rotation of a mouse ball is possible.

FIG. 3 shows an embodiment in which a pen scanner port 56 is provided at the optical sensor port 61 of the optical mouse 60. The output signal is switched by the mouse / scanner switching switch 62.

In this case, the movement synchronization is necessary, and movement detection image information of the optical sensor port 61 of the optical mouse 60 may be used.

FIG. 4 shows a sensor port 61 and a pen scanner port 56 in FIG.
In this embodiment, the pen scanner port 56 is not provided separately, and the image captured from the sensor port 61 is used for both the sensor and the pen scanner in terms of software.

As for the combined use, an image taken from the optical sensor port 61 for the optical mouse 60 (mouse image)
Is microscopic and so fine that it cannot be seen, and the captured image (pen scanner image) from the pen scanner port 56 is at the visual level. At the same time, the magnification conversion from the mouse image to the pen scanner image is performed. In the mouse mode, a mouse operation signal is output, and in the scanner mode, the magnification-converted pen scanner image is output. . The magnification conversion is not necessary for the optical mouse itself, but is a function necessary for converting the mouse image into the pen scanner image.

The magnification conversion method uses the original function of an optical mouse to obtain mouse movement information from a microscope-level captured image, and at the same time, temporarily transfers the mouse movement information to the computer body according to the movement. It consists of a connecting operation of capturing a pair with the micro image at an appropriate sampling interval and connecting the micro image with a computer body to form a thick line, and a reduction operation of reducing this to a visual level.

If the mouse image, which is a microscopic image of an optical mouse, cannot be put into practical use even if the pen scanner image is obtained by the magnification conversion function, the mouse image capture area is slightly reduced from the beginning. By adopting an optical mouse with an enlarged optical system, the pen scanner image may be improved to withstand practical use.

In summary, the light mouse calculates the amount of mouse movement from the mouse image and controls the mouse cursor, but at the same time, the mouse image is a series of images (which becomes quite long) by the connection operation. In this reduction operation, specifically, it is thinned out and reduced to the size of the visual level, so that the pen scanner image is made to have the size of the level traced by the pen scanner.

It is the schematic which provided the barcode reading port in the mouse | mouth bottom part. It is the schematic which provided the pen scanner mouth in the bottom part of the mouse | mouth of a rotating ball system. It is the schematic which provided the pen scanner opening | mouth in the bottom part of the optical mouse in the vicinity of the optical sensor opening | mouth. It is the schematic at the time of using the light reception image from the optical sensor mouth of the bottom part of an optical mouse for both a mouse | mouth movement distance indexing function and an image capture function.

31 Barcode reading port 50 Mouse 53 Mouse / reading switching switch 55 Mode switching switch 56 Pen scanner port 60 Optical mouse 61 Optical sensor port 62 Mouse / scanner switching switch

Claims (1)

An image having a mouse function provided with an image capturing function and switching between the mouse function and the image capturing function. The image capturing function converts the captured image into a scanned image. In order to obtain movement synchronization, the image conversion function uses the captured image from the optical sensor port as the mouse function and the image capture function, and uses the captured image. A mouse device for obtaining position information of the mouse function, storing the captured image in combination with the position information, connecting the captured images with the position information, and finishing the scanned image.

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