DISPLACEMENT DETECTING DEVICE AND POWER SAVING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140278216A1
• Filed: 08/19/2013
• Published: 09/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporated
• Original Assignee: PixArt Imaging Incorporated
• Inventors: CHEN, CHUN-WEI, HSIEH, MENG-HUAN
• Application Number:
  US13/969,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20140278216A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/150
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3231 Monitoring the presence, absence or movement of users
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3259 Power saving in cursor control device, e.g. mouse, joystick, trackball
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 10/00 Energy efficient computing, e.g. low power processors, power management or thermal management
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/50 in wire-line communication networks, e.g. low power modes or reduced link rate

Abstract

The present invention discloses a displacement detecting device including a displacement sensing module, an input module, a distance sensing module, and a processing module, and a power saving method thereof. The processing module is electrically connected to each module. The input module is used to supply non-contact operation. The distance sensing module is used to detect the distance between a body and the displacement detecting device, and then produces a sensing value. The processing module selectively control the displacement sensing module and the input module to be turned on or turned off according to the sensing result of the distance sensing module. The displacement detecting device turns on the displacement sensing module when the sensing value is less than a first default value, and turns on the input module and turns off the displacement sensing module when the sensing value is greater than a second default value.

Claims

1. A displacement detecting device, comprising:

a displacement sensing module;

an input module providing non-contact operations to the displacement detecting device;

a distance sensing module sensing a distance between a target and the displacement detecting device to generate a sensing value; and

a processing module electrically connected to the displacement sensing module, the input module and the distance sensing module, the processing module selectively controlling the displacement sensing module and the input module to be on or off according to the sensing value generated by the distance sensing module;

wherein, when the sensing value is smaller than a first predetermined value, the displacement sensing module is switched on, when the sensing value is greater than a second predetermined value, the input module is switched on and the displacement sensing module is switched off.

2. The displacement detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the second predetermined value is greater than or equal to the first predetermined value.

3. The displacement detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the input module is a gesture sensing module, for sensing a hand gesture.

4. The displacement detecting device according to claim 3, wherein the gesture sensing module is an image sensor, for capturing an image of the hand gesture.

5. The displacement detecting device according to claim 3, wherein the gesture sensing module comprises a plurality of proximity sensors.

6. The displacement detecting device according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of proximity sensors is arranged in a matrix in the displacement detecting device, for the gesture sensing module identifying a multi-direction hand gesture.

7. The displacement detecting device according to claim 5, wherein the plurality of proximity sensors is arranged linearly in the displacement detecting device.

8. The displacement detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the distance sensing module comprises at least a proximity sensor.

9. The displacement detecting device according to claim 1, wherein when the sensing value is greater than a third predetermined value and the third predetermined value is greater than the second predetermined value, the processing module switches off the displacement sensing module and the input module.

10. The displacement detecting device according to claim 1, wherein when the sensing value is smaller than the first predetermined value, the input module is switched off.

11. The displacement detecting device according to claim 1, wherein the displacement detecting module further comprising:

a storage module electrically connected to the processing module and storing a relationship information between a gesture of the target and a corresponding functional operation; and

a transmission module electrically connected to the processing module for transmitting information obtained from the displacement sensing module and the input module back to a host device that performs a corresponding operation.

12. A power saving method of a displacement detecting device, the displacement detecting device having a displacement sensing module and an input module providing non-contact operations to the displacement detecting device, the power saving method comprising:

detecting a distance between a target and the displacement detecting device, for generating a sensing value; and

selectively turning on or off the displacement sensing module and the input module according to the sensing value, wherein when the sensing value is smaller than a first predetermined value, the displacement sensing module is turned on and when the sensing value is greater than a second predetermined value, the input module is turned on and the displacement sensing module is turned off.

13. The power saving method of the displacement detecting device according to claim 12, wherein the second predetermined value is greater than or equal to the first predetermined value.

14. The power saving method of the displacement detecting device according to claim 12, wherein the input module is a gesture sensing module for sensing a hand gesture.

15. The power saving method of the displacement detecting device according to claim 14, wherein the gesture sensing module comprises a plurality of proximity sensors.

16. The power saving method of the displacement detecting device according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of proximity sensors is arranged in a matrix in the displacement detecting device for the gesture sensing module identifying a multi-direction hand gesture.

17. The power saving method of the displacement detecting device according to claim 15, wherein the plurality of proximity sensors is arranged linearly in the displacement detecting device.

18. The power saving method of the displacement detecting device according to claim 12, wherein detecting the distance between the target and the displacement detecting device is performed by a proximity sensor.

19. The power saving method of the displacement detecting device according to claim 12, wherein when the sensing value is greater than a third predetermined value and the third predetermined value is greater than the second predetermined value, the displacement sensing module and the input module are turned off.

20. The power saving method of the displacement detecting device according to claim 12, wherein when the sensing value is smaller than the first predetermined value, the input module is turned off.