Content detection devices

• US 10,222,502 B2
• Filed: 05/02/2017
• Issued: 03/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Quanta Computer
• Original Assignee: Quanta Computer
• Inventors: Lin, Mao-Sung, Liaw, Jia-Chen, Li, Chi-Li, Lien, Chun-Hao
• Primary Examiner(s): Tang, Minh N
• Application Number:
  US15/584,124
• Publication Number:
  US 20180172864A1
• Time in Patent Office: 672 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 1/02 Purses
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 15/00 Purses, bags, luggage or other receptacles covered by groups A45C1/00 - A45C11/00, combined with other objects or articles A45C1/08, A45C3/14, A45C11/321, A45C13/28 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A45C 3/00 Flexible luggage; Handbags collapsible or extensible luggage, bags or the like A45C7/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 3/08 operating with magnetic or electric fields produced or modified by objects or geological structures or by detecting devices with electromagnetic waves G01V3/12
• CPC Class Codes: G01V 3/088 operating with electric fields G01V3/082 takes precedence

Abstract

A content detection device is provided. The content detection device includes a first sensor and a controller. The first sensor is disposed near a space. The controller is coupled to the first sensor and detects a state of the first sensor. The controller performs a determination operation to determine whether an object is disposed in the space according to the detected state of the first sensor.

Claims

1. A content detection device comprising:

a first sensor disposed near a space; and

a controller coupled to the first sensor and detecting a state of the first sensor,

wherein the controller performs a determination operation to determine whether an object is disposed in the space according to the detected state of the first sensor,

wherein the space is an internal space of a pocket, and the first sensor comprises;

a first conductive element disposed on a first wall of the pocket;

a second conductive element disposed on a second wall of the pocket which is opposite to the first wall of the pocket; and

a first magnetic element connecting with the first conductive element or the second conductive element,

wherein the first conductive element is coupled to a ground terminal, and the controller is coupled to the second conductive element to detect a contact state between the first conductive element and the second conductive element.

2. The content detection device as claimed in claim 1, wherein when the controller detects that the contact state indicates that the first conductive element and the second conductive element of the first sensor are in contact with each other, the controller determines that the object is in the space.

3. The content detection device as claimed in claim 1 further comprising:

a second sensor disposed near the space,

wherein the controller detects a state of the second sensor and performs the determination operation to determine whether the object is disposed in the space according to the detected state of the first sensor and the detected state of the second sensor.

4. The content detection device as claimed in claim 3, wherein the second sensor comprises:

a third conductive element disposed on the first wall of the pocket;

a fourth conductive element disposed on the second wall of the pocket; and

a second magnetic element connecting with the third conductive element or the third conductive element,

wherein the third conductive element of the second sensor is coupled to the ground terminal, and

wherein the second conductive element of the first sensor and the fourth conductive element of the second sensor are coupled to a voltage source.

5. The content detection device as claimed in claim 4,

wherein the second conductive element of the first sensor and the fourth conductive element of the second sensor are coupled together through a conductive line and coupled to the controller through the conductive line;

and

wherein the controller detects a voltage of the conductive line to represent the state of the first sensor and the state of the second sensor.

6. The content detection device as claimed in claim 5,

wherein when the voltage of the conductive line is equal to a predetermined voltage, the controller determines that the object is in the space, and

wherein the predetermined voltage is different from a voltage of the ground terminal.

7. The content detection device as claimed in claim 4 further comprising:

a resistor having a first terminal coupled to the voltage source and a second terminal coupled to the second conductive element of the first sensor and the fourth conductive element of the second sensor.

8. The content detection device as claimed in claim 4,

wherein the second conductive element of the first sensor is coupled the controller through a first conductive line, and the fourth conductive element of the second sensor is coupled the controller through a second conductive line,

wherein the controller detects a voltage of the first conductive line to indicate the state of the first sensor and detects a voltage of the second conductive line to indicate the state of the second sensor,

wherein when at least one of the voltage of the first conductive line and the voltage of the second conductive line is equal to a predetermined voltage, the controller determines that the object is in the space, and

wherein the predetermined voltage is different from a voltage of the ground terminal.

9. The content detection device as claimed in claim 1,

wherein the controller generates a determination result according to a result of the determination operation, and

wherein when the determination result which is generated when the controller currently performs the determination operation is different from the determination result which was generated when the controller previously performed the determination operation, the controller generates a notification signal to an external electronic device.