Wearable input device

• US 20110090148A1
• Filed: 01/04/2010
• Published: 04/21/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/21/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KYE Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: KYE Systems Corporation
• Inventors: Liu, Chih-Min, Lee, Tsu-Nan, Li, Sheau-Lin
• Application Number:
  US12/654,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20110090148A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/158
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/163 Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/0331 Finger worn pointing device
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/011 Arrangements for interaction with the human body, e.g. for user immersion in virtual reality blind teaching G09B21/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0354 with detection of 2D relative movements between the device, or an operating part thereof, and a plane or surface, e.g. 2D mice, trackballs, pens or pucks
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means

Abstract

A wearable input device includes a body and a soft battery. The body is connected to the soft battery to form a collar range, and the soft battery surrounds a hand of a user. The soft battery supplies an electric power to a finger-contact control module and a wireless transmitter in the body, such that the finger-contact control module senses a movement of an object (for example, a finger) on the body, and generates a control signal corresponding to a moving position of the object, and then the wireless transmitter transmits the control signal to a computer host, thus manipulating a cursor on an operating system frame of the computer host.

Claims

1. A wearable input device, comprising:

a body, having a finger-contact control module and a wireless transmitter disposed therein, for performing a wireless signal transmission; and

a soft battery, having one end connected to the body, and the other end forming a collar range between the other end of the soft battery and the body;

wherein the soft battery surrounds a hand of a user through the collar range, and supplies an electric power for the body, such that the finger-contact control module senses a movement of an object and generates a corresponding control signal, and the wireless transmitter transmits the control signal to a computer host for manipulating a displacement of a cursor.

2. The wearable input device according to claim 1, wherein the finger-contact control module is an optical finger-contact control module, and the optical finger-contact control module further comprises:

a circuit board, disposed in the body;

a light transmissive sheet, installed on the body, for the object to contact with and move thereon;

an optical sensing element, electrically disposed on the circuit board and corresponding to the light transmissive sheet;

an imaging lens, disposed between the light transmissive sheet and the optical sensing element; and

a light emitting element, emitting a sensing ray to the light transmissive sheet;

wherein the light emitting element emits the sensing ray to the light transmissive sheet, the object reflects the sensing ray to the imaging lens, the imaged sensing ray is refracted to the optical sensing element, and the optical sensing element senses the movement of the object and generates the corresponding control signal.

3. The wearable input device according to claim 2, wherein the light transmissive sheet is a light transmissive plate, a lens, or a biconvex lens.

4. The wearable input device according to claim 2, wherein the optical sensing element is a charged coupled device (CCD) or a complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS).

5. The wearable input device according to claim 2, wherein the light emitting element is a vertically-emitting light emitting diode (LED) or a side emitting LED.

6. The wearable input device according to claim 1, wherein the finger-contact control module is a track ball device or a touch pad device.

7. The wearable input device according to claim 1, further comprising a microprocessor and a circuit board, wherein the microprocessor and the circuit board are disposed in the body, the microprocessor is electrically disposed on the circuit board, the microprocessor is used to receive the control signal transmitted by the finger-contact control module and send the control signal to the wireless transmitter for transmission.

8. The wearable input device according to claim 7, further comprising a plurality of keys, electrically disposed on the circuit board, and exposed out of the body for being pressed by the object.

9. The wearable input device according to claim 1, wherein the other end of the soft battery is joined to the body through a hook-and-loop fastener, so as to form the collar range.

10. The wearable input device according to claim 1, wherein the body has at least one fixing buckle, the soft battery has at least one buckle hole, and the fixing buckle of the body is buckled in the buckle hole of the soft battery, so as to form the collar range.