KR20150063699A - Smart Pen - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a smart pen, comprising: a pressure sensor unit which is connected to one end of a typical ball pen point in the smart pen, measures the pressure applied to the ball pen point when being written on paper to determine whether the smart pen is used or not , and, if the smart pen is used, transmits electric signals and data to a control unit; an acceleration sensor unit which is connected to the control unit and operates through the transmitted electric signals and data and transmits, according to the movement of the pen point, three or more axes (X, Y, Z. etc.) electric measured data to the control unit; and a Bluetooth communications unit which uses the three or more axes electric measured data, to transmit information, such as characters or drawings made by a user, to a laptop or smartphone via Bluetooth wireless communications and to enable the information to be expressed, stored and edited on a specific application in the laptop or smartphone. The specific application can express, store and edit the characters made by a user in specifically determined fonts or the actually written fonts, or can express, store and edit the drawings made by a user in actual drawn shapes.

Description

Smart Pen {Smart Pen}

Electric / Electronic / Communication

In the meantime, there have been many cases in which a user's handwriting has been recognized and commercialized. However, there are a lot of problems in utilization and product quality. However, due to the development of various sensing technologies, measurement techniques for minute movements have also made remarkable progress, and recently, it is possible to maximize a technique of recognizing handwriting by using acceleration sensing technology which is basically applied to smart phones and the like. Because of the development of electric, electronic, and communication technologies, Bluetooth communication technology is basically installed in notebooks and smart phones, so that data on the movement of the writing implement applying the acceleration sense and the like can be transmitted to a notebook computer or a smart phone Are being developed into technologies that can be expressed, stored and edited in specific applications and applications

Recently, a user's handwriting recognition technology in a smart phone using a capacitive touch technology has been widely used. However, this allows for more precise handwriting recognition in certain products, but is often not as accurate as most products, and it also contains a lot of recognition errors. And many users still prefer to leave a record on paper using their own pen, but they may be re-edited back into a specific application or application on the notebook or smartphone. In the meantime, there were the following designs to make such effort.

In the following designs, an optical device is applied to a ball pen tip portion of a specific pen, and a specific pattern applied on a specific paper is recognized through an optical device, and when a user uses a specific pen, A method of recognizing the expression of a picture or the like and a receiver such as a separate ultrasonic wave are connected to a notebook or the like to generate a signal such as an ultrasonic wave generated by a specific pen and a receiver such as an ultrasonic wave It was designed as a structure to recognize letters and shapes.

The present invention does not require a specific optical device used in the inventions and a specific paper to which a specific pattern is applied and does not need to include a separate receiving device such as an ultrasonic receiver to recognize a user's handwriting, And a smartpen patent designed to store and edit.

Sensing device with exchangeable pen nibs 10-2002-7005296

(Application No. 10-2002-7005296)

Digital pen assembly 10-2007-7024247

(Application No.: 10-2007-7024247)

Electronic Pen with Attention-type Pen and Force Sensor

(Application No. 10-2010-7023910)

The present invention allows a user to recognize a handwriting of a user using a specific application program or application of a notebook or a smart phone through a writing instrument having a digital sensing function and a communication function, In the case of a font, it is a patent for a smart pen that can be converted into a specific font used in an application program or an application, and can be represented, stored and edited.

The digital sensing function recognizes the handwriting contents such as text and pictures through the pressure sense that can measure the pressure of the ballpoint pen and the acceleration sense that can measure the movement of the ballpoint pen core, It is designed to transmit to notebook or smart phone through function

This patent is economical because it does not require a separate additional paper and a separate receiver. It is also possible to make handwritten letters and pictures directly written on paper, etc., to a user of a smart device such as a notebook or a smart phone, Can be expressed, saved and edited on a smart device in real time. In the case of a font, the font can be changed to a specific font so that it can be expressed, stored and edited in a specific application or application of a notebook or smart phone. It also includes a function that enables conversion to the correct document, and provides the function of electronic documenting of the precise text or picture directly expressed by the user.

In addition, it can be used more economically in comparison with conventional digital pen which is designed to be replaced with a general ballpoint pen,

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As shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3, this patent is described in detail from the conceptual diagram, internal structure, and structural diagram of the present invention.

1 is a conceptual diagram of the present invention in which a user uses a smart pen 10 to easily write or draw letters or pictures on a paper 50 or the like using a commercially available general ballpoint pen located at the end of the smart pen 10. [ When the touch panel 20 is brought into contact with the surface of the paper or the like to draw a letter or a picture, the general ballpoint pen 20 is pressed by the contact, and the senses such as the pressure sense and acceleration sense inside the smart pen 10 The operation of the smart pen 10 is recognized by the user as drawing letters and pictures and the digitized data information from the recognized sensors of the letters and pictures is transmitted to the Bluetooth communication Function to the smart device such as the notebook computer 30 and the smartphone 40 through the Bluetooth communication 60 and transmits digitized data information about the transferred text and pictures to the notebook 30, Smart phone 40 completes the description of the smart pen in a particular application can be represented and stored, edited on the screen of the application program or the like.

2 and 3, a general ballpoint pen 110 and a component mounting board 180 are located inside the smart pen outer shape 100 and a specific portion of the component mounting board 180 A control unit 130, a Bluetooth communication unit 140, an acceleration sense unit 150, a charging unit 160, a power supply unit 170, and the like are electrically connected.

In the smart pen outer shape 100, a general ballpoint pen 110 used by the user can be purchased and reused by another ordinary ballpoint pen 110. The ordinary ballpoint pen 110 may be made of a paper or the like The pressure generated by contacting the surface of the ballpoint pen tip 110 with the surface of the paper or the like when the user touches the surface of the pen tip 100 is used as the pressure applied to the surface of the component mounting board 180 fixed at a specific position inside the smart pen 100 And can be measured by the pressure sensor unit 120 located at a specific portion. The pressure of the normal ballpoint pen core 110 measured by the pressure sensor 120 is transmitted to the controller 130 electrically connected to the pressure sense unit 120 through an electrical signal and measurement data. The controller 130 recognizes that the smart pen starts to operate through the electrical signal and measurement data transmitted from the pressure sense unit 120.

When the control unit 130 recognizes the start of the operation of the smart pen, the control unit 130 operates the electrically connected acceleration sensor unit 150. The acceleration sensor unit 150 may be activated and deactivated under the control of the controller 130. The acceleration sensor unit 150 may be a general ballpoint pen for the user's writing or drawing with a smart pen 110 and motion of the smart pen contour 100 are generated from three or more axes of data information about X, Y, and Z axes from a specific point of time at which the operation starts. The control unit 130 transmits information on each of three or more axes of the movement of the general ballpoint pen 110 generated by the acceleration sensor unit 150 and the motion of the smart pen contour 100 to the controller 130. The control unit 130 transmits the data information of each of the three or more axes transmitted from the acceleration sensor unit 150 to the Bluetooth communication unit 140 electrically connected to the controller 130. The Bluetooth communication unit 140 transmits And transmits data information of each of the three or more axes via the Bluetooth communication function. The data information of each of the three or more axes transmitted is transmitted to a specific notebook and a smart phone paired with Bluetooth communication, and each of the transmitted data information of three or more axes is transmitted to a specific application program or a screen And can be stored and edited.

The re-processed and displayed contents of the specific application program or application are reprocessed and displayed in a specific font used in a specific application program or application of a specific notebook and a smart phone according to a user's request, There is a function that can be edited.

There is a charging unit 160 that can connect an external power source to a specific part of the smart pen contour 100. The battery charger 160 can charge the rechargeable battery of a specific part inside the smart pen contour 100 Power is supplied to the power supply unit 170, and the rechargeable battery is charged. The power supply unit 170 including the rechargeable battery supplies power to all the electric parts of the component mounting board 180 located at a specific portion of the smart pen outer shape 100 and supplies the smart pen to a specific The power of the smart pen is cut off and the operation of extending the use time of the rechargeable battery of the power supply unit 170 is performed

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20: Common Ballpoint Pen
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40: Smartphone
50: Paper
60: Bluetooh Communications
100: smart pen appearance
110: Common ballpoint pen
120: Pressure sensor unit
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140: Bluetooth communication unit
150: Acceleration sensor unit
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180: Component mounting board

Claims (14)

In order to wirelessly transmit the handwriting contents such as letters and pictures on the surface of ordinary paper to smart devices such as notebooks and smartphones in real time, it is necessary to use general ballpoint pen and pressure sensor, acceleration sensor of more than 3 axes, Bluetooth communication part, power part, A smart pen which is controlled by the control unit and in which the electric / electronic component is electrically connected to or attached to the component mounting board The smart pen according to claim 1, wherein one side of a general ballpoint pen located inside the smart pen is interlocked with a pressure sense In the second aspect, when the user touches the surface of a paper or the like for use of the smart pen, a pressure sense from a ballpoint pen located at one side of the general ballpoint pen core detects pressure from the ballpoint pen tip, Smart pen The smart pen of claim 3, wherein the control unit receives the operation of the smart pen from the pressure sense, The accelerometer sense of three or more axes operated in the fourth aspect is a smart pen which is capable of precisely measuring the movement of the smart pen in response to a user's writing, The smart pen of claim 5, wherein the information about the movement of the smart pen accurately measured by the three-axis acceleration sensor is converted into data through a specific algorithm and transmitted to the control unit The control unit activates the Bluetooth communication unit when the data of the three-axis acceleration sensor is received, so that the smart pen communicates with the pre-paired smart device In Section 7, a smart pen that transfers data of a three-axis acceleration sensor of a smart pen to a smart device such as a notebook or smart phone connected to the Bluetooth communication portion of the smart pen The method of claim 8, wherein the data of the three-axis acceleration sensor of the smart pen received from the smart pen is transmitted to a specific application program of a smart device such as a notebook or a smart phone, A smart pen having a characteristic that a specific application program of a smart device such as a smart phone or the information such as a user's text and a picture of the smart pen are expressed, The present invention is characterized in that a specific application program of a smart device such as a smart phone or a feature of changing a character of a user of the smart pen into a specific application program or a specific font implemented by an application Smart pen The smart pen of claim 1, wherein external power is connected to the charging unit of the smart pen to supply power to the power unit including the internal rechargeable battery of the smart pen to supply the power of the rechargeable battery The power supply unit configured by the rechargeable battery or the like according to claim 12 is characterized in that it can extend the power use time of the rechargeable battery by shutting off the power of parts and circuits electrically connected to the component mounting board by detecting a specific time when the smart pen is not used Smart pen If the contents of the general ballpoint pen included in the smart pen are all used in the above item 1, a smart pen

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