Method of adjusting pointing position during click operation and 3D input device using the same

• US 7,333,087 B2
• Filed: 01/27/2005
• Issued: 02/19/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Soh, Byung-seok, Lee, Sang-goog
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen; Jimmy H
• Application Number:
  US11/043,423
• Publication Number:
  US 20050174326A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,118 Days
• Field of Search: 345156-167
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/014 Hand-worn input/output arrangements, e.g. data gloves

Abstract

A method of adjusting a pointing position on a display during click operation is performed by using a 3D input device including a first unit for detecting movement of a hand and a second unit for detecting movement of a finger, the method including detecting and outputting a hand movement signal by using the first unit, and locating the pointing position on the display based on the hand movement signal; waiting for a click signal generated from the second unit during a second time period if the hand movement signal is not detected during a first time period; and outputting the click signal and preventing the hand movement signal generated from the first unit during the second time period from being output if the click signal is generated during the second time period.

Claims

1. A method of adjusting a pointing position on a display during click operation using a three-dimensional input device comprising a first unit for detecting movement of a hand and a second unit for detecting movement of a finger, the method comprising:

detecting and outputting a hand movement signal by using the first unit,

locating the pointing position on the display based on the hand movement signal;

waiting for a click signal generated from the second unit during a second time period if the hand movement signal is not detected during a first time period; and

outputting the click signal and preventing the hand movement signal generated from the first unit during the second time period from being output if the click signal is generated during the second time period.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein whether the hand movement signal is detected depends on whether the amplitude of the hand movement signal is larger than a predetermined threshold value.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the click signal is generated if the amplitude of the output signal of the second unit is larger than a second threshold value.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the hand movement signal is output without waiting for the click signal if the hand movement signal is detected during the first time period.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the click signal is not output if the click signal is generated after the hand movement signal is detected during the first time period.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein the hand movement signal generated in the first unit during the second time period is output if the click signal is not generated during the second time period.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the hand movement signal generated in the first unit during a third time period is not output if the click signal is generated during the second time period.

8. A three-dimensional input device comprising:

an angular velocity sensor capable of being provided on a part of a hand, wherein said angular velocity sensor detects movement of the hand;

at least one accelerometer sensor capable of being provided on a part of a finger, wherein said accelerometer sensor detects movement of the finger; and

a transmitting unit configured so that if an amplitude of the output signal of the angular velocity sensor is smaller than or equal to a first threshold during a second time period, and the amplitude of the output signal of the accelerometer sensor is larger than or equal to a second threshold during the second time period;

then the transmitting unit outputs the output signal of the accelerometer sensor and does not output the output signal of the angular velocity sensor during a first time period.

9. The 3D input device according to claim 8, wherein the transmitting unit outputs the output signal of the angular velocity sensor and does not output the output signals of the accelerometer sensors if the amplitude of the output signal of the angular velocity sensor is larger than the first threshold during the first time period.

10. The 3D input device according to claim 8, wherein the transmitting unit outputs the output signal of the angular velocity sensor and does not output the output signal of the accelerometer sensor sensors if the amplitudes of the output signal of the accelerometer sensor is smaller than the second threshold value during the second time period.

11. The 3D input device according to claim 8, wherein the transmitting unit does not output the output signal of the angular velocity sensor during a third time period if the amplitude of the output signal of the angular velocity sensor is smaller than or equal to the first threshold during the first time period, and if the amplitudes of the output signals of the accelerometer sensor is larger than or equal to the second threshold during the second time period.

12. The 3D input device according to claim 8, wherein the at least one accelerometer sensors comprises a plurality of accelerometer sensors, each of the plurality of accelerometer sensor capable of being provided on a respective finger of a plurality of fingers of the hand, and each of the accelerometer sensors detects movement of the respective finger.

13. The 3D input device according to claim 12, wherein if the amplitude of the output signal of the angular velocity sensor is larger than the first threshold during the first time period, then the transmitting unit outputs the output signal of the angular velocity sensor and does not output the output signals of the accelerometer sensors.

14. The 3D input device according to claim 12, wherein if the amplitude of the output signal of the accelerometer sensor is smaller than the second threshold value during the second time period, then the transmitting unit outputs the output signal of the angular velocity sensor and does not output the output signals of the accelerometer sensors.

15. The 3D input device according to claim 12, wherein if the amplitude of the output signal of the angular velocity sensor is smaller than or equal to the first threshold during the first time period, and if the amplitude of the output signals of the accelerometer sensors are larger than or equal to the second threshold during the second time period, then the transmitting unit does not output the output signal of the angular velocity sensor during a third time period.