Touch screen using infrared camera hardly affected by external distrubance light

• US 20090066671A1
• Filed: 09/10/2008
• Published: 03/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chul Kweon, Combustec Co., Ltd., Joo-Yeong Yoon
• Original Assignee: Chul Kweon, Combustec Co., Ltd., Joo-Yeong Yoon
• Inventors: Yoon, Joo-Yeong, Kweon, Chul
• Granted Patent: US 8,139,046 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/175
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0421 by interrupting or reflecting a light beam, e.g. optical touch-screen

Abstract

A touch screen using infrared cameras hardly affected by external disturbance light includes an infrared radiation base having a plurality of infrared emitting elements and the infrared cameras, thereby preventing malfunction resulting from the external disturbance light. The touch screen includes a body having a screen part to which an image is output, an infrared radiation base having a plurality of infrared emitting elements and disposed around the screen part in transverse and longitudinal directions, and infrared cameras receiving the infrared light emitted from the infrared emitting elements of the infrared radiation base and detecting the position of an object touched on the screen part according to whether or not the infrared light emitted from each infrared emitting element is received.

Claims

1. A touch screen comprising:

a body having a screen part to which an image is output;

an infrared radiation base disposed around the screen part in transverse (X axis) and longitudinal (Y axis) directions and divided into a plurality of sub-bases including at least one infrared emitting element emitting infrared light in order to prevent malfunction caused by external disturbance light; and

infrared cameras receiving the infrared light emitted from the infrared emitting element of each sub-base of the infrared radiation base, and detecting a position of an object touched on the screen part according to whether or not the infrared light emitted from the infrared emitting element is received.

2. The touch screen according to claim 1, wherein two infrared cameras are provided, each of which has an intersecting orientation angle at one edge of the screen part at which the infrared radiation base is not disposed.

3. The touch screen according to claim 2, wherein each infrared camera includes:

an infrared detector having a plurality of infrared receiving cells;

a lens having an angle of view for receiving the infrared light incident onto the entire screen part;

a band-pass filter filtering the infrared light with a wavelength band passing through the lens to pass only the filtered infrared light;

an infrared receiver receiving the infrared light filtered by the band-pass filter; and

an interface, when the infrared detector detects a touch of an object, outputting the detected results to the body.

4. The touch screen according to claim 2, wherein the infrared detector includes one of a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor and a charge coupled device (CCD) image sensor.

5. The touch screen according to claim 2, wherein the infrared detector is installed on the screen part so as to have the orientation angle of 90 degrees or more, and receives the infrared light emitted from each infrared emitting element within a corresponding orientation angle.

6. The touch screen according to claim 2, wherein the infrared detector includes the plurality of infrared receiving cells, each of which is installed so as to have a different orientation angle and receives the infrared light emitted from each infrared emitting element of the infrared radiation base.

7. The touch screen according to claim 2, wherein the infrared radiation base further includes a diffusing unit for diffusing the infrared light, the diffusing unit being installed on a front face of the infrared radiation base toward which each infrared emitting element is directed.