TOUCH APPARATUS AND UNLOCKING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20160070897A1
• Filed: 08/14/2015
• Published: 03/10/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 09/05/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc. (Coretronic Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Young Lighting Technology Inc. (Coretronic Corporation)
• Inventors: Lu, Chung-Jung, Chang, Po-Chun
• Application Number:
  US14/826,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20160070897A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/32 using biometric data, e.g. fingerprints, iris scans or voiceprints
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/1365 Matching; Classification

Abstract

A touch apparatus and an unlocking method thereof are provided. It is determined whether to unlock the touch apparatus according to touch sensing data and biometric sensing data.

Claims

1. A touch apparatus, comprising:

a touch unit, adapted to sense a touch operation of an input tool to generate touch sensing data;

a biometric sensing unit, adapted to sense a biometric feature to generate biometric sensing data; and

a control unit, coupled to the touch unit and the biometric sensing unit, and adapted to determine whether the touch sensing data and the biometric sensing data match predetermined unlocking data, wherein the control unit unlocks the touch apparatus when the touch sensing data and the biometric sensing data match the predetermined unlocking data.

2. The touch apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the input tool is at least one finger of a user, the biometric sensing data comprises a biometric sensing value between the finger of the user and a specific part of the user, the predetermined unlocking data comprises a predetermined finger touch sequence and a lookup table of a plurality of finger names corresponding to a plurality of predetermined biometric values between different fingers and the specific part, the control unit compares the biometric sensing value with the lookup table to determine the fingers of the user used for performing the touch operation, and sequentially records the fingers of the user used for performing the touch operation to generate finger touch sequence data, and compares the finger touch sequence data and the predetermined finger touch sequence to determine whether the user performs the touch operation according to the predetermined finger touch sequence, wherein the predetermined finger touch sequence comprises the finger names arranged in sequence.

3. The touch apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the specific part is a wrist.

4. The touch apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the biometric sensing value and the predetermined biometric values are capacitance values or resistance values.

5. The touch apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein the touch sensing data further comprises a touch sensing position, a touch sensing time and a number of sensed touches, the predetermined unlocking data further comprises a predetermined touch position, a predetermined touch time and a number of predetermined touch, and the control unit further determines whether the touch sensing position, the touch sensing time and the number of sensed touches match the predetermined touch position, the predetermined touch time and the number of predetermined touches.

6. The touch apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the control unit further comprises a storage unit, and the storage unit is used for storing the predetermined unlocking data.

7. An unlocking method of a touch apparatus, comprising:

sensing a touch operation of an input tool to generate touch sensing data;

sensing a biometric feature to generate biometric sensing data;

determining whether the touch sensing data and the biometric sensing data match predetermined unlocking data; and

unlocking the touch apparatus when the touch sensing data and the biometric sensing data match the predetermined unlocking data.

8. The unlocking method of the touch apparatus as claimed in claim 7, wherein the input tool is at least one finger of a user, the biometric sensing data comprises a biometric sensing value between the finger of the user and a specific part of the user, the predetermined unlocking data comprises a predetermined finger touch sequence and a lookup table of a plurality of finger names corresponding to a plurality of predetermined biometric values between different fingers and the specific part, and the step of determining whether the touch sensing data and the biometric sensing data match the predetermined unlocking data comprises:

comparing the biometric sensing value with the lookup table to determine the fingers of the user used for performing the touch operation, and sequentially recording the fingers of the user used for performing the touch operation to generate finger touch sequence data; and

comparing the finger touch sequence data and the predetermined finger touch sequence to determine whether the user performs the touch operation according to the predetermined finger touch sequence, wherein the predetermined finger touch sequence comprises the finger names arranged in sequence.

9. The unlocking method of the touch apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the specific part is a wrist.

10. The unlocking method of the touch apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the biometric sensing value and the predetermined biometric values are capacitance values or resistance values.

11. The unlocking method of the touch apparatus as claimed in claim 8, wherein the touch sensing data further comprises a touch sensing position, a touch sensing time and a number of sensed touches, the predetermined unlocking data further comprises a predetermined touch position, a predetermined touch time and a number of predetermined touches, and the step of determining whether the touch sensing data and the biometric sensing data match the predetermined unlocking data comprises:

determining whether the touch sensing position, the touch sensing time and the number of sensed touches match the predetermined touch position, the predetermined touch time and the number of predetermined touches.