TOUCH DISPLAY APPARATUS

• US 20130088441A1
• Filed: 07/03/2012
• Published: 04/11/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Young Optics, Inc. (Coretronic Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Young Optics, Inc. (Coretronic Corporation)
• Inventors: Lin, Wei-Szu, Tsai, Chih-Hsien, Chou, Hung-Chih, Huang, Chien-Jung, Li, Kang-Hsi, Chung, Po-Jen
• Application Number:
  US13/540,630
• Publication Number:
  US 20130088441A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04809 Textured surface identifying touch areas, e.g. overlay structure for a virtual keyboard
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A touch display apparatus including a first projecting screen and a projection apparatus is provided. The first projecting screen has a first curved surface. The first curved surface is capable of receiving a touch input instruction and has at least one tactile sense identify region. A sense of touch of the tactile sense identify region is different from a sense of touch of the other regions of the first curved surface. The projection apparatus is capable of projecting a projecting beam toward the first curved surface so as to form an image.

Claims

1. A touch display apparatus, comprising:

a first projecting screen, comprising a first curved surface, wherein the first curved surface is capable of receiving a touch input instruction and comprises at least one tactile sense identify region, and a sense of touch of the tactile sense identify region is different from a sense of touch of the other regions of the first curved surface; and

a projection apparatus, capable of projecting a projecting beam toward the first curved surface, so as to form an image.

2. The touch display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tactile sense identify region comprises a bump, a recess, or a rough surface.

3. The touch display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a material of the tactile sense identify region is an elastic material.

4. The touch display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a material of the tactile sense identify region of the first projecting screen is the same as a material of the other regions of the first curved surface of the first projecting screen.

5. The touch display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the tactile sense identify region is located at a geometrical center of the first projecting screen, and the image comprises multiple click selection blocks surrounding the tactile sense identify region.

6. The touch display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the quantity of the tactile sense identify regions is multiple, the image comprises multiple click selection blocks, and the tactile sense identify regions are respectively aligned with the click selection blocks.

7. The touch display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the first projecting screen receives the touch input instruction by using an infrared touch technology.

8. The touch display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a material of the first projecting screen is a scattering material, and the projecting beam forms the image on the first curved surface.

9. A touch display apparatus, comprising:

a first projecting screen, comprising a first curved surface, wherein the first curved surface is capable of receiving a touch input instruction and comprises at least one tactile sense identify region, and a sense of touch of the tactile sense identify region is different from a sense of touch of the other regions of the first curved surface;

a second projecting screen, comprising a second curved surface, wherein the first projecting screen covers the second projecting screen; and

a driving device, electrically connected to the first projecting screen and capable of driving the first projecting screen to move relative to the second projecting screen, so as to expose the second curved surface.

10. The touch display apparatus according to claim 9, further comprising a projection apparatus, capable of projecting a projecting beam toward the second curved surface to form an image, when the first projecting screen moves and does not cover the second projecting screen.

11. The touch display apparatus according to claim 10, wherein a material of the first projecting screen is a transparent material, and a material of the second projecting screen is a scattering material, so that the projecting beam projected on the second curved surface forms the image.