Touch sensitive mat of a system with a projector unit

• US 10,268,318 B2
• Filed: 01/31/2014
• Issued: 04/23/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/31/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Kang, Jinman, Short, David Bradley, Tretter, Daniel R, Tan, Kar-Han, Tang, Yun, Sievert, Otto
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, William
• Application Number:
  US15/112,608
• Publication Number:
  US 20160334938A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,908 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/10 Projectors with built-in or built-on screen
• CPC Class Codes: G03B 21/28 Reflectors in projection beam in illumination beam G03B21/2066
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1639 the display being based on projection
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1631 Panel PC, e.g. single housing hosting PC and display panel
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0425 using a single imaging device like a video camera for tracking the absolute position of a single or a plurality of objects with respect to an imaged reference surface, e.g. video camera imaging a display or a projection screen, a table or a wall surface, on which a computer generated image is displayed or projected tracking a projected light spot to determine a position on a display surface G06F3/0386
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3185 Geometric adjustment, e.g. keystone or convergence optical or mechanical adjustment of convergence H04N9/317; using scanning means H04N3/22; optical or mechanical adjustments of projectors not peculiar to the presence of an electronic spatial light modulator G03B21/14
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/3194 including sensor feedback

Abstract

Examples disclosed herein relate to aligning content displayed from a projector on to a touch sensitive mat. Examples include detecting a border of the mat, wherein the mat includes a surface area of a first spectral reflectance characteristic on to which the projector is to project the content, and the border of a second spectral reflectance characteristic different from the first spectral reflectance characteristic surrounding a perimeter of the surface area. As an example, detecting the border of the mat generally includes differentiating the second spectral reflectance characteristic of the border from the first spectral reflectance characteristic of the surface area. Examples include detecting a border of the content displayed on to the mat, and adjusting projector settings for the border of the content displayed on to the mat to fit within the detected border of the mat.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a support structure including a base, an upright member extending upward from the base, and a cantilevered top extending outward from the upright member and including a fold mirror and sensors;

a projector unit attachable to the upright member;

a computing device attachable to the projector unit, wherein;

the computing device attaches via a coupling member of the projector unit;

the computing device blocks a view of the projector unit when viewing the computing device from a viewing angle facing a display on a front side of the computing device; and

a touch sensitive mat communicatively coupled to the computing device, wherein;

the mat includes a surface area of a first spectral reflectance characteristic (SRC) on to which the projector is to project an image and a border of a second SRC surrounding a perimeter of the surface area;

the projector is to project the image upward to reflect off the mirror and on to the mat;

the image projected onto the mat is different than the image displayed on a screen of the computing device; and

wherein the computing device is to cause;

the sensors to detect the border of the mat by differentiating the second SRC of the border of the mat from the first SRC of the surface area of the mat;

the sensors to detect a border of the image reflected on to the mat; and

the projector to adjust settings for the border of the image reflected on to the mat to fit within the detected border of the mat.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the border of the mat of the second SRC comprises corners of the touch sensitive mat, wherein the surface area of the first SRC is enclosed within the corners of the second SRC.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein at least the border of the touch sensitive mat includes an IR-absorbing coating as a fiducial object for detection of the border of the mat by an IR camera.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of sensors to detect the border of the image reflected on to the touch sensitive mat comprises at least an RGB camera.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is to realign mapping between the detected border of the touch sensitive mat and the border of the image reflected on to the touch sensitive mat.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the computing device is to cause the projector to adjust the settings based on the realigned mapping.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the computing device is to cause the plurality of sensors to realign with the projector according to a comparison of the border of the image reflected on to the touch sensitive mat and a border of an image previously projected on to the touch sensitive mat.

8. A method to align content displayed from a projector on to a touch sensitive mat, the method comprising:

detecting a border of the mat, wherein the mat includes a surface area of a first spectral reflectance characteristic (SRC) on to which the projector is to project the content and the border of a second SRC surrounding a perimeter of the surface area, and wherein detecting the border of the mat comprises differentiating the second SRC of the border from the first SRC of the surface area, wherein;

a computing device attaches to the projector via a coupling member of the projector;

the computing device blocks a view of the projector when viewing the computing device from a viewing angle facing a display on a front side of the computing device;

detecting a border of the content displayed on to the mat;

adjusting projector settings for the border of the content displayed on to the mat to fit within the detected border of the mat;

detecting corners of the touch sensitive surface;

detecting corners of the projector display space; and

determining a correspondence between the two sets of corners, based, at least in part, on homography.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein at least the border of the touch sensitive mat includes an IR-absorbing coating as a fiducial object for detection of the border of the mat.

10. The method of claim 8, comprising realigning mapping between the detected border of the touch sensitive mat and the border of the image reflected on to the touch sensitive mat.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the projector settings are adjusted based on the realigned mapping.

12. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium comprising instructions executable by a processing resource of a computing system to align content displayed from a projector on to a touch sensitive mat, the instructions executable to:

detect a border of the mat, wherein the mat includes a surface area of a first spectral reflectance characteristic SRC) on to which the projector is to project the content and the border of a second SRC surrounding a perimeter of the surface area, and wherein detecting the border of the mat comprises differentiating the second SRC of the border from the first SRC of the surface area, wherein;

a computing device attaches to the projector via a coupling member of the projector;

the computing device blocks a view of the projector when viewing the computing device from a viewing angle facing a display on a front side of the computing device;

detect a border of the content displayed on to the mat; and

adjust projector settings for the border of the content displayed on to the mat to fit within the detected border of the mat;

detecting corners of the touch sensitive surface;

detecting corners of the projector display space; and

determining a correspondence between the two sets of corners, based, at least in part, on homography.

13. The storage medium of claim 12, wherein at least the border of the touch sensitive mat includes an IR-absorbing coating as a fiducial object for detection of the border of the mat.

14. The storage medium of claim 12, comprising instructions executable to realign mapping between the detected border of the touch sensitive mat and the border of the image reflected on to the touch sensitive mat.

15. The storage medium of claim 14, wherein the instructions executable to adjust the projector settings are based on the realigned mapping.