KR101814477B1 - A Laser Touch Sensor for sensing the Position of an Object - Google Patents
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Abstract
A laser touch sensor using a rotation optical system according to the present invention is installed at one side of a frame of a display device constituting a screen and irradiates projection light in a direction parallel to the screen while rotating around a direction perpendicular to the screen, A control unit for recognizing the position of the pointing object on the screen using the light receiving signal, and a control unit for controlling the display unit to display the light receiving signal on the screen, And a connecting member for coupling a pair of the rotating optical unit and the control unit to the display unit, wherein the irradiation area of the projection light intersects each other on the same plane.
Therefore, in the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present invention, the projection light projected on the front side of the screen is reflected and reflected on the surface of the indicated object approaching the screen by the optical module installed on the rim of the display device, The position of the pointing object is recognized on the screen by using the reflected light. Therefore, it is not necessary to provide a separate reflecting member on the edge of the display device in comparison with the conventional technology, so that an increase in thickness of the display device can be minimized have.
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The present invention relates to a laser touch sensor using a rotating optical system, and more particularly, to a laser touch sensor using a rotating optical system, more specifically, even if a separate reflecting member is not provided at the edge of a display device, And more particularly, to a laser touch sensor using a rotating optical system capable of minimizing an increase in thickness of a display device by being configured to recognize the position of the pointed object on a display screen by using reflected light incident on the optical module.
2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a display device is used in a product that displays a screen such as a computer monitor, a television monitor, and a mobile phone. A liquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma display panel (PDP) ), A vacuum fluorescent element (VFD), and the like.
Methods of recognizing the position of an object on the screen when an arbitrary position on the screen is pointed (or contacted) with an object on the screen include a method of recognizing the position of an object by sensing a change in resistance value, A method of detecting a position of an object, and a method of recognizing the position of an object using an optical module have been developed.
Among the above methods, the method of inputting the position of the object by detecting the change of the resistance value, the method of recognizing the position of the object by detecting the change of the capacitance is difficult to apply to the large display device. There is a problem that a malfunction occurs due to damage of the display panel.
Recently, a method of using an optical module that irradiates light in parallel with a screen of a display device and recognizes an object by using the reflected light has been developed. The content of the indicated object recognizing device using such an optical module is described in [ 1].
However, the pointed object recognizing apparatus using the optical module applied in the following [Document 1] is a method of recognizing the object according to whether or not the light irradiated from the optical module is reflected on the reflecting member provided on the rim of the display device. There is a problem in that the reflective member must be separately attached and the display device must protrude to the front side by the thickness of the reflective member.
In the case of the pointed object recognition apparatus using the optical module according to Document 1 described below, since the light irradiated from the light emitting device is configured to be reflected by the prism mirror provided in front of the display screen, the overall size of the optical module is increased However, since the prism mirror is always rotated 360 degrees by the driving motor even though the light irradiation is required only in the range of 180 degrees, there is a problem that the driving power of the driving motor is wasted and reliability is lowered.
[Reference 1] Korean Patent No. 1097992 (issued on December 26, 2011)
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to provide a display device and a method of manufacturing the display device, The present invention provides a laser touch sensor using a rotary optical system that is capable of minimizing an increase in thickness of a display device by being configured to recognize the position of the pointing object on a display screen by using reflected light incident on the optical module, will be.
Another object of the present invention is to provide an optical module for recognizing an indicated object, which comprises a light emitting device for emitting projection light onto a flat plate rotated by external power, and a light receiving device for receiving the reflected light reflected by the pointed object The present invention is to provide a laser touch sensor using a rotary optical system that can reduce the overall size of the optical module.
It is still another object of the present invention to provide a method and an apparatus for rotating a turntable by rotating the turntable in a reciprocating manner only in a necessary range, thereby preventing unnecessary power consumption and reliability degradation of an external driving source for rotating the turntable, And to provide a laser touch sensor using the optical system.
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a laser touch sensor using a rotary optical system, the laser touch sensor comprising: A pair of rotating optical parts for receiving projection light from the pointed object approaching the screen and for receiving reflected light in which the projection light is regressively reflected and outputting a light receiving signal, And a connecting member for connecting the pair of rotating optical units and the control unit to each other and coupling the rotating optical unit and the control unit to each other, wherein the irradiation areas of the projection light intersect each other on the same plane.
The pair of rotating optical parts are provided so as to face each other on both side edges of one side edge of the display device, and are rotated forward and backward at a predetermined angle with reference to the opposite direction.
The rotation optical unit may include a plate-shaped base, a light emitting module mounted on one side of the base for emitting projection light, a light receiving module installed on the other side of the base for receiving the reflected light and outputting a light receiving signal, And a half mirror which is provided on the same or parallel path as the light receiving module and reflects the reflected light reflected and reflected from the indicated object toward the light receiving module, and a driving module for rotating the base.
The control unit recognizes the position of the pointing object by using the rotation angle of each of the rotation optical units with respect to a predetermined reference position.
Further, the rotation optical unit may further include a position scan unit for sensing a reference time, which is a time at which the base reaches the reference position, and the control unit may calculate the rotation angle using the reference time and the output time of the light- .
The rotating optical unit may further include a housing for housing the base, the light emitting module, the light receiving module, and the half mirror, and a rotating shaft for rotatably supporting the base on one side of the housing.
Further, an optical window for transmitting the projection light and the reflected light is formed on at least one side of the housing.
The drive module may be a motor or a solenoid.
The control unit may further include a signal filter module for separating the received light signal from external noise, a signal amplification module for amplifying the noise-removed light reception signal, and a rotation angle calculation module for calculating the rotation angle .
In addition, the connecting member is configured to have a rod shape connecting each of the rotation optical parts to both sides of the control part, and the rod length can be adjusted according to the size of the display device.
As described above, the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present invention is configured such that the projection light projected in front of the screen by the optical module installed on the rim of the display device is reflected and reflected on the surface of the pointing object approaching the screen, Since the position of the pointed object is recognized on the screen by using reflected light incident on the module, there is no need to provide a separate reflecting member on the edge of the display device in comparison with the prior art, so that the thickness increase of the display device can be minimized There is an advantage.
In addition, the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present invention includes a light emitting device that irradiates projection light on a flat plate rotated by an external power to recognize an indicated object, It is possible to omit some components such as a prism mirror when compared with the prior art, thereby making it possible to remarkably reduce the overall size of the optical module.
Further, since the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present invention is configured such that the rotation plate rotates reciprocally (i.e., normal rotation) only within a necessary range, unnecessary power waste and reliability degradation of the external drive source for rotating the rotation plate There is an advantage that it can be prevented.
1 and 2 are an exploded perspective view and a coupling view showing a state in which a laser touch sensor using a rotation optical system according to an embodiment of the present invention is mounted on a display device,
3 is an enlarged view of the "a" part of Fig. 1,
4 is a sectional view taken along the line AA in Fig. 3,
5 is a view illustrating a configuration of a rotating optical unit applied to a laser touch sensor using a rotating optical system according to an embodiment of the present invention,
FIG. 6 is a block diagram for explaining an operation of a laser touch sensor using a rotation optical system according to an embodiment of the present invention, and FIG.
7 and 8 are views for explaining the operation of the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
FIGS. 1 and 2 are an exploded perspective view and a combined view, respectively, showing a state in which a laser touch sensor using a rotation optical system according to an embodiment of the present invention is mounted on a display device, and FIG. 3 is a cross- And Fig. 4 is a cross-sectional view taken along line AA of Fig.
5 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a rotating optical unit applied to a laser touch sensor using a rotating optical system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a laser touch sensor using a rotating optical system according to an embodiment of the present invention. 7 and 8 are views for explaining the operation of the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the embodiment of the present invention.
The laser touch sensor using the rotating optical system according to the present invention includes a pair of rotating
The pair of rotating
Therefore, the projection light irradiated by the rotating
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The laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present embodiment includes a
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In order to perform the above-described functions, the connecting
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Further, the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present embodiment further includes a
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In the present embodiment, a method of removing a noise by applying a frequency filter to a light receiving signal has been described as an example. However, the present invention is not limited to this case. If necessary, an optical filter (not shown) The
In addition, the
The present invention is also applicable to a case where reflected light is received while projecting radial projected light in a direction parallel to the screen in consideration of the point that a surface of an indicated object such as a finger or a pointer is reflected by infrared rays, And the position of the pointing object is recognized on the screen. The method of calculating the position of the pointing object by using the rotation angle of the rotating
However, in the case of the related art, since the reflective member is provided on the edge of the display device and the light reflected from the reflective member is used, a process of separately recognizing the entire size (i.e., size) However, since the reflective member is not used in the present embodiment, a process of recognizing the overall size on the screen at the beginning of the operation of the
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On the other hand, when the reflected light reflected on the surface of the pointed object is received, the
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In this case, the rotation period T is a predetermined value as a characteristic value of the driving
The time at which the reflected light is received (i.e., the time t) can be obtained by using a signal processing technique such as a light receiving signal output from the light receiving module 34 and a measurement result of the
When the rotational angles of the pair of rotating
As described above, the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present invention is configured such that the projection light projected in front of the screen by the optical module installed on the rim of the display device is reflected and reflected on the surface of the pointing object approaching the screen, Since the position of the pointed object is recognized on the screen by using reflected light incident on the module, there is no need to provide a separate reflecting member on the edge of the display device in comparison with the prior art, so that the thickness increase of the display device can be minimized There is an advantage.
In addition, the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present invention includes a light emitting device that irradiates projection light on a flat plate rotated by an external power to recognize an indicated object, It is possible to omit some components such as a prism mirror when compared with the prior art, thereby making it possible to remarkably reduce the overall size of the optical module.
Further, since the laser touch sensor using the rotation optical system according to the present invention is configured such that the rotation plate rotates reciprocally (i.e., normal rotation) only within a necessary range, unnecessary power waste and reliability degradation of the external drive source for rotating the rotation plate There is an advantage that it can be prevented.
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And a controller for recognizing the position of the pointing object on the screen using the light receiving signal,
The irradiation regions of the projection light are mutually intersected on the same plane,
Wherein the rotary optical unit includes an integrated optical module, a rotary shaft coupled to the optical module in a direction perpendicular to the screen, and a driving module for rotating the rotary shaft,
The optical module includes a plate-shaped base plate parallel to the screen, a light emitting module fixed on one side of the base and irradiating projection light, a light receiving module fixedly installed on the other side of the base and receiving the reflected light, A half mirror that is fixed on a path that is the same as or parallel to the path of the projection light on the upper surface of the base and reflects the reflected light incident on the pointing object in a direction of the light receiving module, And a position scanning unit for detecting a reference time,
Wherein the control unit calculates the rotation angle of each of the rotation optical units using the reference time and the time at which the light reception signal is output and recognizes the position of the indicated object by using the calculated rotation angle Laser touch sensor using optical system.
Further comprising a connecting member for connecting the pair of rotating optical units and the control unit to each other and coupling the unit to the display device,
Wherein the pair of rotation optical parts are provided so as to face each other at both side edges of one side edge of the display device and are rotated in a forward and reverse direction at a predetermined angle with reference to the opposite direction, .
The rotating optical unit may further include a housing for receiving the optical module, the rotation axis, and the driving module therein,
And a mounting groove is formed on a bottom surface of the housing so as to be coupled to an edge of the display device.
Wherein at least one side of the housing is provided with an optical window for transmitting the projection light and the reflected light.
Wherein the driving module comprises a motor or a solenoid.
The control unit includes a signal filter module for separating the light receiving signal from external noise, a signal amplifying module for amplifying the noise-removed light receiving signal, and a rotation angle calculating module for calculating the rotation angle Laser touch sensor using rotating optical system.
Wherein the connecting member is configured to have a rod shape connecting each of the rotation optical parts to both sides of the control part, and the length of the rod can be adjusted according to the size of the display device.
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