CONTROL SYSTEM FOR DISPLAY SCREEN, INPUT APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD

• US 20150058811A1
• Filed: 01/14/2014
• Published: 02/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/20/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Utechzone Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Utechzone Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Tsou, Chia-Chun, Lin, Chieh-Yu, Chen, Yi-Wen
• Application Number:
  US14/154,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20150058811A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0325 using a plurality of light emitters or reflectors or a plurality of detectors forming a reference frame from which to derive the orientation of the object, e.g. by triangulation or on the basis of reference deformation in the picked up image

Abstract

A control system for a display screen, an input apparatus and a control method are provided. An image capturing unit is used to continuously capture an image toward a first side of a display apparatus, and a processing unit is used to execute an image analyzing process for the captured image. The image analyzing process includes the following steps. Whether an object enters an initial sensing space located at the first side is detected. A virtual operating plane is established according to a location of the object when the object enters the initial sensing space is detected, wherein a size of the virtual operating plane is proportioned to a size of the display screen. A movement information of the object in the virtual operating plane is detected for controlling content of the display screen through the movement information.

Claims

1. A control method of a display screen, comprising:

continuously capturing an image toward a first side faced by a display screen of a display apparatus through an image capturing unit; and

executing an image analyzing process for the image captured by the image capturing unit via a processing unit, wherein the image analyzing process comprises;

detecting whether an object has entered an initial sensing space, wherein the initial sensing space is located at the first side, and the initial sensing space is located within an image capturing range of the image capturing unit;

establishing a virtual operating plane according to a location of the object when the object enters the initial sensing space is detected, wherein a size of the virtual operating plane is proportioned to a size of the display screen; and

detecting a movement information of the object in the virtual operating plane for controlling contents of the display screen through the movement information.

2. The control method as recited in claim 1, wherein, before the step of establishing the virtual operating plane according to the location of the object when the object enters the initial sensing space is detected, further comprises:

determining whether the object is to obtain a control of the display screen, comprising;

obtaining a feature block based on the object entered the initial sensing space;

determining whether an area of the feature block is greater than a preset area; and

determining that the object is to obtain the control of the display screen if the area of the feature block is greater than the preset area.

3. The control method as recited in claim 2, wherein the step of establishing the virtual operating plane according to the location of the object comprises:

using a boundary position of the feature block as a reference, and using a specified range to determine a centroid calculation block of the object;

calculating a centroid of the centroid calculation block; and

establishing the virtual operating plane by using the centroid as a center point, and by being proportional to the size of the display screen.

4. The control method as recited in claim 3, wherein after the step of detecting the movement information of the object in the virtual operating plane, further comprises:

transmitting the movement information to a calculation device of the display apparatus, and transforming a virtual coordinate of the centroid in the virtual operating plane into a display coordinate corresponded to the display screen through the calculating device.

5. The control method as recited in claim 3, wherein after the step of detecting the movement information of the object in the virtual operating plane, further comprises:

transforming a virtual coordinate of the centroid in the virtual operating plane into a display coordinate corresponded to the display screen.

6. The control method as recited in claim 2, wherein the step of determining whether the object is to obtain the control of the display screen further comprising:

calculating distances from the object and from another object to the display screen, respectively, when the another object has simultaneously entered the initial sensing space and when an area of the feature block of the another object is also greater than the area of the preset area, so that the one being closest to the display screen in distance is determined to obtain the control of the display screen.

7. The control method as recited in claim 1, wherein after the step of establishing the virtual operating plane, further comprises:

moving a cursor of the display screen to the center of the display screen.

8. The control method as recited in claim 1, wherein after the step of establishing the virtual operating plane, further comprises:

release the control of the object when the object leaves the virtual operating plane over a preset time, so as to remove a setting of the virtual operating plane.

9. The control method as recited in claim 1, further comprising:

defining the initial sensing space according to a calibration information of the image capturing unit; and

executing a background removal to the initial sensing space.

10. An input apparatus, comprising:

an image capturing unit continuously capturing an image toward a first side faced by a display screen of a display apparatus;

a processing unit coupled to the image capturing unit, detecting whether an object has entered an initial sensing space by analyzing the image captured by the image capturing unit, and establishing a virtual operating plane according to a location of the object when the object enters the initial sensing space is detected, so as to detect a movement information of the object in the virtual operating plane, wherein the initial sensing space is located at the first side, the initial sensing space is located within an image capturing range of the image capturing unit, a size of the virtual operating plane is proportioned to a size of the display screen, and the virtual operating plane is parallel to the display screen; and

a transmission unit coupled to the processing unit, configured to transmit the movement information to a calculating device corresponded by the display apparatus for controlling contents of the display screen.

11. The input apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein the processing unit obtains a feature block based on the object entered the initial sensing space, and determines that the object is to obtain a control of the display screen when an area of the feature block is greater than a preset area.

12. The input apparatus as recited in claim 11, wherein the processing unit uses a boundary position of the feature block as a reference and uses a specified range, to determine a centroid calculation block of the object, and calculates a centroid of the centroid calculation block, so as to establish the virtual operating plane by using the centroid as a center point, and by being proportional to the size of the display screen.

13. The input apparatus as recited in claim 12, wherein the processing unit transforms a virtual coordinate of the centroid in the virtual operating plane into a display coordinate corresponded to the display screen, and the transmission unit transmits the display coordinate to the calculating device.

14. The input apparatus as recited in claim 12, wherein the transmission unit transmits a virtual coordinate of the centroid in the virtual operating plane to the calculating device.

15. The input apparatus as recited in claim 11, wherein the processing unit calculates distances from the object and from another object to the display screen, respectively, when simultaneously detects that the object has entered the initial sensing space, and a the another object has also entered the initial sensing space, and when an area of the respective features block of the object and the another object is greater than the preset area, so as to determine that the one being closest to the display screen in distance is to obtain the control of the display screen.

16. The input apparatus as recited in claim 10, wherein the processing unit releases the control of the object when detects that the object leaves the virtual operating plane over a preset time, and removes a setting of the virtual operating plane.

17. A control system for a display screen, comprising:

a display apparatus displaying a display screen;

a calculating device coupled to the display apparatus for controlling content of the display screen; and

an input apparatus coupled to the calculating device and comprises;

an image capturing unit continuously capturing an image toward a first side faced by the display screen of the display apparatus;

a processing unit coupled to the image capturing unit, detecting whether an object has entered an initial sensing space by analyzing the image captured by the image capturing unit, and establishing a virtual operating plane according to a location of the object when the object enters the initial sensing space is detected, so as to detect a movement information of the object in the virtual operating plane, wherein the initial sensing space is located at the first side, the initial sensing space is located within an image capturing range of the image capturing unit, a size of the virtual operating plane is proportioned to a size of the display screen, and the virtual operating plane is parallel to the display screen; and

a transmission unit coupled to the processing unit, and configured to transmit the movement information to the calculating device so that the calculating device controls contents of the display screen according to the movement information.

18. A control system for a display screen, comprising:

a display apparatus displaying a display screen;

an image capturing unit continuously capturing an image toward a first side faced by the display screen; and

a calculating device coupled to the image capturing unit and the display apparatus, detecting whether an object has entered an initial sensing space by analyzing the image captured by the image capturing unit, and establishing a virtual operating plane according to a location of the object when the object enters the initial sensing space is detected, so as to detect a movement information of the object in the virtual operating plane for controlling the content of the display screen through the movement information;

wherein, the initial sensing space is located at the first side, the initial sensing space is located within an image capturing range of the image capturing unit, a size of the virtual operating plane is proportioned to a size of the display screen, and the virtual operating plane is parallel to the display screen.