Optical scanning-type touch panel
First Claim
1. An optical scanning-type touch panel comprising:
- an optical scanning unit for angularly scanning light in a plane substantially parallel to a predetermined region;
a deflecting unit for deflecting scanning light of said optical scanning unit; and
a light receiving unit for receiving the deflected scanning light, for detecting a scanning light cut-off position, which is produced in said predetermined region by an indicator, based on a light receiving output of said light receiving unit that corresponds to a scanning angle, said optical scanning-type touch panel being characterized in that said deflecting unit has an asymmetrical shape about an optical axis.
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Abstract
Laser light emitted by a light emitting element is made parallel light by a collimation lens, passes through an aperture of an aperture mirror, and is then angularly scanned in a plane substantially parallel to a display screen by rotation of a polygon mirror and projected onto a recurrence reflection sheet. Then, after the reflected light from the recurrence reflection sheet is reflected by the polygon mirror and aperture mirror, the light is focused by a condenser lens to enter a light receiving element. The aperture mirror has an asymmetrical shape in the scanning direction and/or the vertical direction about the optical axis, according to a scanning surface opening width of the polygon mirror.
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1. An optical scanning-type touch panel comprising:
- an optical scanning unit for angularly scanning light in a plane substantially parallel to a predetermined region;
a deflecting unit for deflecting scanning light of said optical scanning unit; and
a light receiving unit for receiving the deflected scanning light, for detecting a scanning light cut-off position, which is produced in said predetermined region by an indicator, based on a light receiving output of said light receiving unit that corresponds to a scanning angle, said optical scanning-type touch panel being characterized in that said deflecting unit has an asymmetrical shape about an optical axis.
- an optical scanning unit for angularly scanning light in a plane substantially parallel to a predetermined region;
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2. The optical scanning-type touch panel as set forth in claim
wherein the shape of said deflecting unit is asymmetrical in a scanning direction.
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3. The optical scanning-type touch panel as set forth in claim
wherein the shape of said deflecting unit is asymmetrical in a height direction.
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6. An optical scanning-type touch panel comprising:
- an optical scanning unit for angularly scanning light in a plane substantially parallel to a predetermined region;
a deflecting unit for deflecting scanning light of said optical scanning unit; and
a light receiving unit for receiving the deflected scanning light, for detecting a scanning light cut-off position, which is produced in said predetermined region by an indicator, based on a light receiving output of said light receiving unit that corresponds to a scanning angle, said optical scanning-type touch panel being characterized by satisfying a conditiond/2+w<
D tan δwhere D is a distance from said optical scanning unit to said deflecting unit, w is a width on said deflecting unit from a path of said scanning light to an end on said predetermined region side , d is a beam width of said scanning light , and δ
is a scanning start angle.
- an optical scanning unit for angularly scanning light in a plane substantially parallel to a predetermined region;
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7. An optical scanning-type touch panel comprising:
- a light retro-reflector provided outside a predetermined region;
an optical scanning unit for angularly scanning light in a plane substantially parallel to said predetermined region; and
a light receiving unit for receiving reflected light of scanning light of said optical scanning unit from said light retro-reflector, for detecting a scanning light cut-off position, which is produced in said predetermined region by an indicator, based on a light receiving output of said light receiving unit that corresponds to a scanning angle, said optical scanning-type touch panel being characterized in that said optical scanning unit is provided with a protective film having a maximum reflectance at an angle of incidence corresponding to a scanning angle at which a quantity of said reflected light is minimum.
- a light retro-reflector provided outside a predetermined region;
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