KR20090030906A - A method for determining multiple touch inputs on a resistive touch screen and a multiple touch controller - Google Patents
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method for determining a multi-touch input to a resistive touch screen, wherein a first contact object and a second contact object are respectively contacted with the resistive touch screen. Determining a contact order; Calculating coordinates of a first point and coordinates of a midpoint by a voltage drop in the resistive touch screen while the first contact object is in contact with the resistive touch screen; And calculating the coordinates of the second point based on the coordinates of the first point and the coordinates of the midpoint.
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The present invention relates to a touch system and a touch digitizer (Digitiger), and more particularly to a method of determining a multi-touch input in a multi-touch controller and a resistive touch screen.
In the 1970s, touchscreens began in the United States for military use. Until the 1980s, such touchscreen technology was known and widely used in other applications. Currently, the touch screen is an input method that can replace an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse, and is being used worldwide. In particular, the touch screen technology applied to most of electronic products such as ATM (Atomatic Teller Machine), kiosks (Points of Service), home appliances, industrial electronics, etc. is widely used in many fields, such touch screen An input method such as this facilitates an interface with a user at the time of input. In addition, according to the needs of consumers, input type electronic products such as touch screens, such as PDAs, mobile phones, laptops, laptops, MP3 players, etc., are becoming lighter, thinner, smaller and lighter.
Resistive touchscreens are inexpensive and dominate the world market. This resistive touchscreen consists of a soft top layer and a hard bottom layer separated by insulating dots on the inner surface of each layer coated with a transparent metal oxide. When pressure is applied to the flexible top sheet, electrical contact is made between the resistive layers, which act as switches in the circuit. The controller controls the X and Y coordinates of the object in contact with the screen by alternating the voltage between the layers. However, the resistive touch screen has a problem in that it has a big disadvantage when performing a multi-touch function. For example, when a user touches a point A and a point B on the screen using two fingers, the soft top layer is in contact with the hard bottom layer on the line comprised between points A and B. Because of this, when detecting a midpoint, the midpoint is detected and determined on the line rather than by the exact point A or B the user wants to create.
As mentioned above, a disadvantage of the resistive touch screen is required to improve the counterpart of the multi-touch function in electronic products. Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a multi-touch controller applied to a multi-touch screen and to provide a method for determining a multi-touch input on a resistive touch screen.
In one embodiment of the present invention, the coordinate of the second point is calculated on the resistive touch screen according to the coordinate of the preceding point and the coordinate of the midpoint, and at the same time the preceding point is contacted with the resistive touch screen. The first point, and the midpoint is the point between the preceding point and the second point.
According to another embodiment of the present invention, the coordinates of the second point are calculated on the resistive touch screen according to the coordinates of the preceding point and the coordinates of the center point and the vector, and at the same time, the vector also has the coordinates of the preceding point. It calculates based on the coordinate of the said midpoint.
In order to achieve the above-mentioned feature, the present invention provides a method for determining a multi-touch input to a resistive touch screen, wherein the first contact object and the second contact object respectively contact the resistive touch screen. Determine the contact order between the first contact object and the second contact object, and the first contact object is in contact with the resistive touch screen and at the same time the coordinates and the midpoint of the first point according to the voltage drop in the resistive touch screen. The present invention provides a method of determining a multi-touch input in a resistive touch screen including calculating coordinates and calculating coordinates of a second point according to the coordinates of the first point and the coordinates of the midpoint.
In addition, the present invention provides a multi-touch controller applied to the resistive touch screen, the multi-touch controller is at least one first-in first-out for storing a set of coordinates having an X axis coordinate and a Y axis coordinate in the resistive touch screen ( FIFO) buffer; A touch sensing circuit for outputting a control signal, determining whether there are other contact points, determining whether it is larger than a threshold value, and accessing a first-in first-out buffer; A touch mode switching circuit for receiving a control signal from the touch sensing circuit to determine a state of the touch mode switching circuit; A coordinate generation circuit for accessing states of the first-in first-out buffer, coordinate selection circuit and the touch mode switching circuit to obtain values of the X-axis and the Y-axis; A coordinate register for storing X and Y axis values transmitted from the coordinate generation circuit; A coordinate selection circuit for calculating a coordinate value of the second point and querying the first-in first-out buffer and the coordinate register at the same time; A center calculation circuit for calculating the multi center points between the multi contact points on the touch screen; The present invention provides a multi-touch controller, comprising: a coordinate non-converter for transmitting a signal to the touch mode switching circuit and determining whether any contact is released.
The present invention provides a method for determining a multi-touch input to a multi-touch controller and a resistive touch screen, which is simple in design, simple in principle, and has effects such as cost reduction and re-design off. Can be.
The present invention relates to a method of determining a multi-touch input to a resistive touch screen, some embodiments of which are described with reference to FIGS. 1A to 5C. It can be understood with the description set forth below by providing various various embodiments for carrying out various features of the invention. Specific examples of components and arrangements have concise the description set forth herein. Of course, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit any way. In addition, reference numerals and terms of various embodiments described in the present invention may be repeated. This repetition is for the purpose of briefly and clearly describing the present invention and does not in itself dictate a relationship between the various embodiments and configurations described herein.
The present invention relates to a method and a multi-touch controller for determining a multi-touch input to the resistive touch screen, to be described in detail with reference to the accompanying Figures 1a to 5c.
As shown in Figs. 1A-1C, it is a schematic diagram illustrating the calculation of coordinates based on a preceding point according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1A, the preceding point P1 is determined when the finger is in contact with the resistive touch screen. Referring to FIG. 1B, the midpoint Pm is determined to detect a discontinuous voltage drop between the preceding point P1 and the second point P2 as shown in FIG. 1C. The second point P2 refers to contact with the resistive touch screen by another finger after the preceding point P1 is contacted. As mentioned above, the multi-touch controller receives two coordinates of points P1 (X1, Y1) and Pm (Xm, Ym) and calculates the coordinates of the second point P2 (X2, Y2) through a vector. The vector is also calculated by P1 (X1, Y1) and Pm (Xm, Ym).
As shown in Figs. 2A-2E, it is a schematic diagram showing the calculation of coordinates based on a preceding point according to another embodiment of the present invention. Here, a description will be given when three touch inputs are made to the resistive touch screen. First, provide a resistive touch screen, determine the contact order between P1, P2, P3 (for example, the contact order is P1, P2, P3), and coordinates of P1 and Pm1 on the same principle as described above. Is received, calculates the coordinates of P2 based on the coordinates of P1 and Pm1, receives the coordinates of Pm2, calculates the coordinates of P3 based on the coordinates of Pm1 and Pm2.
Through the above-described principle, the principle is that a leading point is determined when only one first contact (eg thumb) touches the screen and another finger (eg forefinger) after the first contact. The center of gravity is determined by the discontinuous voltage drop when contacting the resistive screen. The next point is then sequentially calculated to receive the final emphasis. That is, assuming that n-1 points are in contact with the resistive screen at the same time, the midpoint Pm n -2 is present. Then, the nth point Pn is brought into contact with the screen, and Pm n −1 becomes the center point between Pn and Pm n −2 . Since the points Pm n -1 and Pm are sequentially searched for the resistive touch screen, the points Pn can be calculated based on Pm n -1 and Pm. Generally speaking, determine the order of contact between N points (e.g., P1, P2, P3, ..., Pn), and search the coordinates of Pm1, Pm2, Pm3, ..., Pm n -1 to find Pm1. Calculate the coordinates P2, P3, ..., Pn according to, Pm2, Pm3, ..., Pm n -1 .
As shown in FIG. 3, FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating determining a multi-touch input on a resistive touch screen according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
Step S11: Start step.
Step S12: Internal circuit for initialization of each function block, initialization of coordinates.
Step S13: Search whether the resistive touch screen has been touched, and if yes, perform step S14, and if no, perform step S13.
Step S14: Receive the coordinates of the first point (leading point) and start a single point search.
Step S15: search whether a discontinuous voltage drop has occurred, which means that the second contact is simultaneously maintaining contact with the resistive touch screen; If yes, step S16 is performed. If no, step S14 is performed.
Step S16: Determine whether a single point on the resistive touch screen is the only point; If yes, step S13 is performed. If no, step S17 is performed.
Step S17: Start a multi-point search and calculate each point, midpoint and vector contacted according to the preceding point.
Step S18: Determine whether a discontinuous voltage drop has occurred. This means that a third contact is in contact with the resistive touch screen; If yes, step S14 is performed. If no, step S17 is performed.
In addition, the equation for calculating the next point based on a known point on the X-axis is:
1st point: X 1 = NEW x ;
Second point: X 2 = [(NEW x -mid x1 ) * 2] + mid x1 , above mid x1 = X 1 ;
3rd point: X 3 = [(NEW x -mid x2 ) * 2] + mid x2 ,
Above midx2 = [(X2 -midx1) / 2] + midx1 ;
4th point: X 4 = [(NEW x -mid x3 ) * 2] + mid x3 ,
Above mid x3 = [(X 3 -mid x2 ) / 2] + mid x2 ;
5th Point: X 5 = [(NEW x -mid x4 ) * 2] + mid x4 ,
The mid x4 = [(X 4 -mid x3 ) / 2] + mid x3 ;
In conclusion, the following equation can be derived:
X 1 = NEW x , mid x1 = X 1 when,
X n = [(NEW x -mid x (n-1) ) * 2] + mid x (n-1) ,
Mid x (n-1) = [(X n -1 -mid x (n-1) ) / 2] + mid x (n-1)
The Y-axis, like the X-axis, can be derived as follows:
Y 1 = NEW y , mid y1 = Y 1 when,
Y n = [(NEW y -mid y (n-1) ) * 2] + mid y (n-1) ,
Mid y (n-1) = [(Y n -1 -mid y (n-1) ) / 2] + mid y (n-1)
As shown in FIG. 4, FIG. 4 illustrates a functional relationship diagram of a multi-touch controller for a resistive touch screen according to another embodiment of the present invention.
The multi-touch controller has a
The
5A and 5C, FIGS. 5A and 5C illustrate functional relationship diagrams of a multi-touch controller showing signal transmission between blocks showing several functions according to another embodiment of the present invention.
In FIG. 5A, the coordinate values are transmitted from the first-in first-out
In FIG. 5B, the coordinate
In FIG. 5C, the coordinate
Method for determining multi-touch input to a multi-touch controller and a resistive touch screen according to the present invention, or the shape and part according to the embodiment according to the embodiment is a floppy disk, CD-ROMS, hard drive, firmware, or a machine-readable storage device It may be in the form of program code (eg, instructions) embodied on media such as ancillary means. When the program code is loaded and executed by a machine, such as a computer, the machine becomes an apparatus that can be put to practical use as disclosed in the present invention. The apparatus and method of the present invention may also be embodied in the form of program codes transmitted over a plurality of transmission media, such as via electric wires, cables or optical fibers or another transmission medium, wherein the program codes are downloaded and When executed by the same machine, the machine may be embodied in conjunction with the teachings disclosed herein. When executed in a versatile process, the program code, in conjunction with the processor, acts similarly to specific logic circuits to provide a unique device.
The invention is described in the features of the appended claims. However, a more complete understanding of the invention, when considered in conjunction with the drawings, will be obtained by reference to the description and claims, wherein like reference numerals indicate similar items throughout the figures.
The examples proposed in the present invention illustrate one form of embodiment in which the present invention is preferred and these examples are not intended to limit in any way.
1A to 1C are schematic diagrams of coordinate calculations based on preceding points in an embodiment according to the present invention.
2A to 2E are schematic diagrams of coordinate calculations based on preceding points according to another embodiment according to the present invention.
3 is a flowchart illustrating determining a multi-touch input on a resistive touch screen according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is a functional relationship diagram of a multi-touch controller for a resistive touch screen according to another embodiment of the present invention.
5A to 5C are functional relationship diagrams of signal transmission between signals showing some functions according to still another embodiment of the present invention.
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21: Touch panel 22: A / D converter
23: FIFO buffer 24: touch sensing circuit
25: touch mode switching circuit 26: coordinate generation circuit
27: coordinate selection circuit 28: coordinate register
29: key calculation circuit 30: coordinate coordinate church
31: I 2 C interface bus
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