METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CORRECTING TOUCH COORDINATES IN TOUCH SYSTEM

• US 20110310038A1
• Filed: 06/13/2011
• Published: 12/22/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/18/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: PARK, Jong-Kang, LEE, Chang-Ju, CHOI, Yoon-Kyung
• Application Number:
  US13/158,567
• Publication Number:
  US 20110310038A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes

Abstract

A method of operating a touch system comprises storing a lookup table for correcting a touch coordinate value of a touch panel, acquiring touch data generated in response to a touch conductor on the touch panel and calculating the touch coordinate value from the acquired touch data, measuring a size of the touch conductor, and correcting the touch coordinate value by accessing the lookup table using the touch coordinate value and the size of the touch conductor as input parameters.

Claims

1. A method of operating a touch system, comprising:

storing a lookup table for correcting a touch coordinate value of a touch panel;

acquiring touch data generated in response to a touch conductor on the touch panel and calculating the touch coordinate value from the acquired touch data;

measuring a size of the touch conductor; and

correcting the touch coordinate value by accessing the lookup table using the touch coordinate value and the size of the touch conductor as input parameters.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the lookup table comprises a direct lookup value of each pixel of the touch panel to correct the touch coordinate value.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch coordinate value is corrected using three dimensional (3D) interpolation of values obtained by accessing the lookup table using the touch coordinate value and the size of the touch conductor and as input parameters.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein measuring of the size of the touch conductor comprises summing magnitudes of acquired touch data.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a relative size of the touch conductor by identifying a size of a sensing unit of the touch panel.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch conductor comprises a finger.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch panel performs capacitive touch sensing.

8. A touch sensing system, comprising:

a lookup table storing unit that stores a lookup table used to correct a touch coordinate value of a touch panel;

a touch data acquisition unit that acquires touch data in response to a touch on the touch panel;

a processor that calculates the touch coordinate value from the acquired touch data, and measures a size of a touched conductor; and

a touch coordinate value correction unit that corrects the touch coordinate value by accessing the lookup table using the touch coordinate value and the size of the conductor as input parameters.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the lookup table comprises a direct lookup value for each pixel of the touch panel.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the lookup table comprises values for different touch coordinate values and different size of the conductor, and the touch coordinate value correction unit corrects the touch coordinate value using three dimensional (3D) interpolation of values accessed from the lookup table using the touch coordinate value and the size of the touch conductor as input parameters.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the processor determines the size of the conductor through a sum of magnitudes of the acquired touch data.

12. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

a sensing unit size acquisition unit that acquires a size of a sensing unit of the touch panel to determine a relative size of the conductor.

13. The system of claim 8, wherein the conductor comprises a stylus.

14. The system of claim 8, further comprising a display coupled to the processor.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the display comprises a liquid crystal display.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the touch coordinate value corresponds to a pixel value of the display.

17. A touch interface, comprising a three dimensional lookup table that maps a conductor size and a two dimensional coordinate of a touch input onto a two dimensional pixel coordinate.

18. The touch interface of claim 17, further comprising a plurality of touch sensors that receive the touch input and generate the two dimensional coordinate.

19. The touch interface of claim 18, wherein the conductor size is an estimated value generated by a weighted sum of signals generated by the touch sensors.

20. The touch interface of claim 17, wherein the pixel coordinate corresponds to a location on a graphical user interface.