Transparent coordinate input apparatus for electrostatic capacity coupling system

• US 5,083,118 A
• Filed: 04/16/1990
• Issued: 01/21/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/1990
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Pentel Kabushiki Kaisha
• Original Assignee: Pentel Kabushiki Kaisha
• Inventors: Kazama, Mitsuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Brier, Jeffery A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Liang, Regina
• Application Number:
  US07/510,286
• Time in Patent Office: 645 Days
• Field of Search: 340/706, 340/707, 340/708, 340/712, 178/18, 178/19, 178/20, 313/479
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04107 Shielding in digitiser, i.e. guard or shielding arrangements, mostly for capacitive touchscreens, e.g. driven shields, driven grounds
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes

Abstract

A transparent coordinate input apparatus for an electrostatic capacity coupling system mounted on a CRT tube surface, an LCD display surface or the like to effect input. The transparent coordinate input apparatus comprises a tablet composed of a plurality of electrode wires arranged close to the display surface of the inptu device such as CRT, LCD, etc. and arranged in an axial direction of the axis of coordinate; a control section for sequentially applying pulse signals to the electrode wires of said tablet; a coordinate indication means electrostatic-capacity coupled to the pulse applied to each of the electrode wires of said tablet to effect signal detection; a calculation section for calculating a positional coordinate from the signal detected by said coordinate indication means, and a noise preventive means for relieving a noise from the display surface of the input device such as CRT, LCD, etc., said noise preventive means having one end of each of the electrode wires of said tablet terminated at a resistor having hundreds of ohms, a pattern of each of the electrode wires of a layer close to the tube surface of CRT being increased and the gap between the electrode wires being narrowed whereby the electrode wire not applied with pulse signals functions as a shield layer.

Claims

1. A transparent coordinate input apparatus mounted on a display surface of a CRT, an LCD or the like to effect an input comprising:

a tablet composed of a first set of wider parallel electrode wires spaced apart from one another with narrow gaps therebetween and arranged close to the display surface and a second set of narrower parallel electrode wires arranged at an intersecting angle with and in front of the first set so that the wider electrode wires are closer to the display surface than the narrower electrode wires;

a control section for sequentially applying pulse signals to said electrode wires of said tablet;

coordinate indication means electrostatic-capacity coupled to the pulse signals applied to said electrode wires of said tablet to effect signal detection;

calculation means for calculating a positional coordinate from the pulse signals detected by said coordinate indication means; and

noise preventive means for relieving a noise from the display surface, the noise preventive means comprising a plurality of resistors each equivalently grounded to one end of one of said wider parallel electrode wires of said tablet;

whereby the wider parallel electrode wires that are not applied with the pulse signals act as a shield to reduce the effects of noise emanating from the display surface on the coordinate indication means.

2. A transparent coordinate input apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the resistance of each resistor is hundreds of ohms.

3. A transparent coordinate input apparatus mountable on a display surface of a CRT, and LCD or the like, comprising;

a tablet including a set of first electrodes disposed in spaced-apart relations, and a set of second electrodes disposed in spaced-apart relations, the first electrodes being disposed in intersecting relation with the second electrodes and being closer to the display surface than the second electrodes and having a width effective to shield the tablet from electromagnetic noise emanating from the display surface;

control means for sequentially applying pulse signals to the first and second electrodes;

coordinate indication means for detecting the pulse signals applied to the first and second electrodes to determine therefrom a positional coordinate; and

noise preventing means for preventing electromagnetic noise emanating from the display surface from adversely affecting the coordinate indication means, the noise preventing means comprising resistance means connected to the first electrodes for effectively grounding currents induced by the electromagnetic noise in those of the first electrodes to which a pulse signal is not being applied thereby effectively shielding the tablet from noise.

4. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the resistance means comprises a resistor having a resistance of at least one hundred ohms connected to each first electrode.

5. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the coordinate indication means includes means for detecting the pulse signals applied to the first and second electrodes by electrostatic induction.

6. An apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the first electrodes are parallel to each other, and the second electrodes are parallel to each other and perpendicular to the first electrodes.