Inertial Sensing Input Apparatus and Method
First Claim
1. An inertial sensing input apparatus, comprising:
- an accelerometer module, structured with at least three accelerometers for detecting accelerations in three perpendicular directions with respect to a Cartesian coordinate system of X-, Y-, and Z-axes; and
a gyroscope, used for detecting a rotation measured with respect to the Z-axis;
wherein, an angle of rotation is obtained by integrating the angular velocity of the rotation detected by the gyroscope while calculating a centrifugal force as well as a centripetal force exerting upon the inertial sensing input apparatus at the moment of the rotation so as to using those for compensating acceleration signals measured along the X-axis and the Y-axis and thereafter defining movements of an object displayed on a screen of an interactive computer by the use of the compensated acceleration signals.
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Abstract
An inertial sensing input apparatus is disclosed, which includes: an accelerometer module, capable of detecting accelerations with respect to a Cartesian coordinate system of X-, Y-, and Z-axes; and a gyroscope, used for detecting a rotation measured with respect to the Z-axis. By the aforesaid input apparatus, an input method can be provided which comprises steps of: (a) zeroing each and every sensing element of the input apparatus at rest for defining base signals with respect to each of such sensing elements; (b) using a Z-axis accelerometer selected among those sensing elements to detect and determine whether Z-axis accelerations of the input apparatus measured along the Z-axis of the Cartesian coordinate system are varying; (c) enabling the input apparatus to enter a surface (2D) operating mode while no acceleration varying is detected along the Z axis, whereas an X-axis accelerometer and a Y-axis accelerometer are activated accordingly to detect an X-axis acceleration and a Y-axis acceleration in respective and thus generate an X-axis acceleration signal and a Y-axis acceleration signal correspondingly, and the same time that a gyroscope is activated to detect a rotation of the input apparatus caused when the input apparatus is moving and thus generate an angular velocity signal correspondingly for compensating the X-axis acceleration signal and the Y-axis acceleration signal; (d) enabling the input apparatus to enter a space (3D) operating mode while acceleration varying is detected along the Z axis. Hence, not only the input apparatus is freed from the limitation of operation space and is capable of compensating the unconscious rotation caused by a human operation as it is being held in a human hand, but also it is freed from the interferences caused by the electronic noises generated from the inertial sensing elements.
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16 Claims
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1. An inertial sensing input apparatus, comprising:
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an accelerometer module, structured with at least three accelerometers for detecting accelerations in three perpendicular directions with respect to a Cartesian coordinate system of X-, Y-, and Z-axes; and a gyroscope, used for detecting a rotation measured with respect to the Z-axis; wherein, an angle of rotation is obtained by integrating the angular velocity of the rotation detected by the gyroscope while calculating a centrifugal force as well as a centripetal force exerting upon the inertial sensing input apparatus at the moment of the rotation so as to using those for compensating acceleration signals measured along the X-axis and the Y-axis and thereafter defining movements of an object displayed on a screen of an interactive computer by the use of the compensated acceleration signals. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An inertial sensing input method, comprising the steps of:
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(a) zeroing an X-axis accelerometer, a Y-axis accelerometer, a Z-axis accelerometer and a gyroscope of an inertial sensing input apparatus at rest for defining BaseValue signals (BVs) with respect to those sensing elements, whereas the X-axis accelerometer, the Y-axis accelerometer, the Z-axis accelerometer are being arranged to detect accelerations of an inertial sensing input apparatus in three perpendicular directions with respect to a Cartesian coordinate system of X-, Y-, and Z-axes; (b) using the Z-axis accelerometer to detect and determine whether a Z-axis acceleration of the inertial sensing input apparatus measured along the Z-axis of the Cartesian coordinate system is varying during a specified period of time; (c) enabling the inertial sensing input apparatus to enter a surface (2D) operating mode while no acceleration varying is detected along the Z axis, whereas the X-axis accelerometer and the Y-axis accelerometer are activated accordingly to detect an X-axis acceleration and a Y-axis acceleration in respective and thus generate an X-axis acceleration signal and a Y-axis acceleration signal correspondingly; and (d) enabling the input apparatus to enter a space (3D) operating mode while acceleration varying is detected along the Z axis, whereas the gyroscope is activated for detecting a rolling of the inertial sensing input apparatus while generating an angular velocity signal accordingly and the Y-axis accelerometer is activated for detecting a pitch of the inertial sensing input apparatus while generating another Y-axis acceleration signal accordingly. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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