CONTACT DETECTING DEVICE, RECORD DISPLAY DEVICE, NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, AND CONTACT DETECTING METHOD

• US 20130093698A1
• Filed: 04/27/2012
• Published: 04/18/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/12/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fujifilm Business Innovation Corp. (Fujifilm Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Fuji Xerox Company Limited (Xerox Holdings Corp.)
• Inventors: ICHIBOSHI, Akira, ISHII, Tsutomu, TAKEUCHI, Takayuki, SASAKI, Shigehiko, SATO, Masahiro, TOMODA, Kyotaro, NAITO, Takao, MITSUI, Minoru
• Granted Patent: US 9,092,083 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/038 Control and interface arrangements therefor, e.g. drivers or device-embedded control circuitry
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text

Abstract

A contact detecting device includes a plurality of detecting elements, a generating unit, and a determining unit. The plurality of detecting elements are related to one another in a two-dimensional configuration on a predetermined contacted surface, and respectively detect a contact of an object with the contacted surface. The generating unit generates, on the basis of the result of detection by the plurality of detecting elements, feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a contact of an object with the contacted surface. The determining unit determines whether or not the feature information generated by the generating unit corresponds to previously registered specific contact feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a specific contact of an object with the contacted surface.

Claims

1. A contact detecting device comprising:

a plurality of detecting elements that are related to one another in a two-dimensional configuration on a predetermined contacted surface, and respectively detect a contact of an object with the contacted surface;

a generating unit that generates, on the basis of the result of detection by the plurality of detecting elements, feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a contact of an object with the contacted surface; and

a determining unit that determines whether or not the feature information generated by the generating unit corresponds to previously registered specific contact feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a specific contact of an object with the contacted surface.

2. The contact detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the specific contact corresponds to a correct contact predetermined as a correct contact with the contacted surface or an incorrect contact predetermined as an incorrect contact with the contacted surface.

3. The contact detecting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an associating unit that associates identification information identifying the trajectory with the trajectory,

wherein the determining unit determines, for each trajectory identified by the identification information, whether or not the feature information generated by the generating unit corresponds to the specific contact feature information.

4. The contact detecting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an identifying unit that identifies, on the basis of the result of determination by the determining unit, the trajectory representing the specific contact with the contacted surface.

5. The contact detecting device according to claim 4, wherein, on the basis of the number of determinations made by the determining unit during a predetermined period that the feature information generated by the generating unit corresponds to the specific contact feature information, the identifying unit identifies the trajectory representing the specific contact with the contacted surface.

6. The contact detecting device according to claim 5, wherein, if the number of determinations made by the determining unit during the predetermined period that the feature information generated by the generating unit corresponds to the specific contact feature information is more than the number of determinations made by the determining unit during the predetermined period that the feature information generated by the generating unit does not correspond to the specific contact feature information, the identifying unit identifies the trajectory drawn on the contacted surface during the predetermined period as the trajectory representing the specific contact.

7. The contact detecting device according to claim 5, wherein the predetermined period corresponds to the period from the contact of an object with the contacted surface to the separation of the object from the contacted surface.

8. The contact detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the feature information corresponds to at least one of magnitude information representing the magnitude of the trajectory, degree information representing the degree of variation of the magnitude of the trajectory, and duration-based information derived on the basis of the time of a continuous contact of an object with the contacted surface.

9. The contact detecting device according to claim 8, wherein the magnitude information corresponds to information representing at least one of the area of the trajectory and the length of the trajectory,

wherein the degree information corresponds to at least one of trajectory area statistical information representing the variance or standard deviation of the area of the trajectory and trajectory length statistical information representing the variance or standard deviation of the length of the trajectory, and

wherein the duration-based information corresponds to trajectory number information representing the number of contact points in the trajectory.

10. The contact detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the determining unit determines, with the use of a decision tree configured to include the specific contact feature information, whether or not the feature information generated by the generating unit corresponds to the specific contact feature information.

11. The contact detecting device according to claim 1, further comprising:

an applying unit that applies to the trajectory a weight according to a contact time,

wherein the determining unit further determines whether or not the weight applied by the applying unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined weight.

13. A record display device comprising:

the contact detecting device according to claim 1; and

a display that has the contact detecting device superimposed on a screen thereof, and displays on the screen an image according to the result of detection by the contact detecting device.

14. The record display device according to claim 13, further comprising:

a deleting unit that deletes from the screen an image displayed at a position corresponding to a trajectory identified on the basis of the result of determination by the determining unit.

12. A contact detecting device comprising:

a plurality of detecting elements that are related to one another in a two-dimensional configuration on a predetermined contacted surface, and respectively detect a contact of an object with the contacted surface;

a generating unit that generates, on the basis of the result of detection by the plurality of detecting elements, feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a contact of an object with the contacted surface; and

a determining unit that determines whether or not the feature information generated by the generating unit is included in a previously registered specific contact feature area representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a specific contact of an object with the contacted surface.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for detecting a contact, the process comprising:

controlling a contact detecting device including a plurality of detecting elements related to one another in a two-dimensional configuration on a predetermined contacted surface to respectively detect a contact of an object with the contacted surface;

generating, on the basis of the result of detection, feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a contact of an object with the contacted surface; and

determining whether or not the generated feature information corresponds to previously registered specific contact feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a specific contact of an object with the contacted surface.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for detecting a contact, the process comprising:

controlling a contact detecting device including a plurality of detecting elements related to one another in a two-dimensional configuration on a predetermined contacted surface to respectively detect a contact of an object with the contacted surface;

generating, on the basis of the result of detection, feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a contact of an object with the contacted surface; and

determining whether or not the generated feature information is included in a previously registered specific contact feature area representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a specific contact of an object with the contacted surface.

17. A contact detecting method comprising:

relating a plurality of detecting elements to one another in a two-dimensional configuration on a predetermined contacted surface to respectively detect a contact of an object with the contacted surface;

generating, on the basis of the result of detection, feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a contact of an object with the contacted surface; and

determining whether or not the generated feature information corresponds to previously registered specific contact feature information representing a feature of a trajectory drawn on the basis of a specific contact of an object with the contacted surface.