Positional information correction device, touch sensor, positional information correction method, and program

• US 8,836,657 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2012
• Issued: 09/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yamamoto, Kazuyuki, Noda, Takuro, Yamano, Ikuo
• Primary Examiner(s): Olson, Jason
• Assistant Examiner(s): HOFFNER, LINH NGUYEN
• Application Number:
  US13/346,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20120182257A1
• Time in Patent Office: 981 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-178, 178/18.02, 178/18.06
• US Class Current: 345/173
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• 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 positional information correction device includes a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information showing a position of an operation body, which is detected by a position detection unit, from a touch sensor that includes a plurality of first electrodes wired along a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes wired along a second direction, and the position detection unit that detects the position of the operation body that approaches the first and second electrodes, based on capacitance on the first and second electrodes, a capacitance value acquisition unit configured to acquire a capacitance value showing a value of the capacitance on the first and second electrodes from the touch sensor, and a positional information correction unit configured to correct the positional information by using a first correction function that includes a first periodic function and a second correction function that includes a second periodic function.

Claims

1. A positional information correction device, comprising:

a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information showing a position of an operation body, the position being detected by a position detection unit, from a touch sensor that includes a plurality of first electrodes wired along a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes wired along a second direction that is approximately orthogonal to the first direction, and the position detection unit that detects the position of the operation body that approaches the first and second electrodes, based on capacitance on the first and second electrodes;

a capacitance value acquisition unit configured to acquire a capacitance value showing a value of the capacitance on the first and second electrodes from the touch sensor; and

a positional information correction unit configured to correct the positional information that is acquired by the positional information acquisition unit, by using a first correction function that includes a first periodic function having a first amplitude A1 of which a period is a wiring interval of the first electrodes and that corresponds to the capacitance value acquired by the capacitance value acquisition unit and a second correction function that includes a second periodic function having a second amplitude A2 of which a period is a wiring interval of the second electrodes and that corresponds to the capacitance value acquired by the capacitance value acquisition unit.

2. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second amplitudes increase as the capacitance value decreases.

3. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein the first and second amplitudes have a constant value in a region in which the capacitance value is smaller than a predetermined value, and the first and second amplitudes increase as the capacitance value decreases in a region in which the capacitance value is larger than the predetermined value.

4. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein

the first correction function further includes a third periodic function that has a period, the period being K times (K is an odd number equal to or larger than 3) as large as the period of the first periodic function, and has a third amplitude A3 corresponding to the capacitance value acquired by the capacitance value acquisition unit,

the second correction function further includes a fourth periodic function that has a period, the period being K times as large as the period of the second periodic function, and has a fourth amplitude A4 corresponding to the capacitance value acquired by the capacitance value acquisition unit, and

a rate of the third amplitude with respect to the first amplitude (A3/A1) and a rate of the fourth amplitude with respect to the second amplitude (A4/A2) increase as the capacitance value decreases.

5. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein the positional information correction unit corrects a first coordinate showing a position along the first direction, based on the first correction function, and corrects a second coordinate showing a position along the second direction, based on the second correction function, among the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition unit.

6. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, further comprising:

a speed calculation unit configured to calculate a moving speed of the operation body based on the positional information that is corrected by the positional information correction unit.

7. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein

the first correction function further includes a third periodic function that has a period, the period being twice as large as the period of the first periodic function, and has a third amplitude A3 corresponding to the capacitance value acquired by the capacitance value acquisition unit,

the second correction function further includes a fourth periodic function that has a period, the period being twice as large as the period of the second periodic function, and has a fourth amplitude A4 corresponding to the capacitance value acquired by the capacitance value acquisition unit, and

a rate of the third amplitude with respect to the first amplitude (A3/A1) and a rate of the fourth amplitude with respect to the second amplitude (A4/A2) have an approximately constant value.

8. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein the periodic functions included in the first and second correction functions are sine functions.

9. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein

the first correction function is used for correcting an interval of positions, the positions being detected by the position detection unit when the operation body is moved at a constant speed along the first direction while keeping the capacitance value constant, so as to bring the interval close to constant, and

the second correction function is used for correcting an interval of positions, the positions being detected by the position detection unit when the operation body is moved at a constant speed along the second direction while keeping the capacitance value constant, so as to bring the interval close to constant.

13. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein the wiring interval of the first electrodes is a distance between adjacent electrodes of the first electrodes in the first direction, and the wiring interval of the second electrodes is a distance between adjacent electrodes of the second electrodes in the second direction.

17. The positional information correction device according to claim 1, wherein the positional information correction unit corrects the positional information to compensate for a waving of amplitude of the acquired capacitance on the first and second electrodes appearing on a trajectory of the detected position of the operation body.

10. A touch sensor, comprising:

a plurality of first electrodes that are wired along a first direction;

a plurality of second electrodes that are wired along a second direction that is approximately orthogonal to the first direction;

a capacitance detection unit configured to detect a value of capacitance on the first and second electrodes;

a position detection unit configured to detect a position of an operation body that approaches the first and second electrodes, based on the value of capacitance that is detected by the capacitance detection unit; and

a position correction unit configured to correct information of the position that is detected by the position detection unit, by using a first correction function that includes a first periodic function of which a period is a wiring interval of the first electrodes and that has a first amplitude corresponding to the value of the capacitance and a second correction function that includes a second periodic function of which a period is a wiring interval of the second electrodes and that has a second amplitude corresponding to the value of the capacitance.

14. The touch sensor according to claim 10, wherein the wiring interval of the first electrodes is a distance between adjacent electrodes of the first electrodes in the first direction, and the wiring interval of the second electrodes is a distance between adjacent electrodes of the second electrodes in the second direction.

11. A positional information correction method, comprising:

acquiring positional information showing a position of an operation body, the position being detected by a position detection unit, from a touch sensor that includes a plurality of first electrodes wired along a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes wired along a second direction that is approximately orthogonal to the first direction, and the position detection unit that detects the position of the operation body that approaches the first and second electrodes, based on capacitance on the first and second electrodes;

acquiring a capacitance value showing a value of the capacitance on the first and second electrodes from the touch sensor; and

correcting the positional information that is acquired in acquiring the positional information, by using a first correction function that includes a first periodic function having a first amplitude A1 of which a period is a wiring interval of the first electrodes and that corresponds to the capacitance value acquired in acquiring the capacitance value and a second correction function that includes a second periodic function having a second amplitude A2 of which a period is a wiring interval of the second electrodes and that corresponds to the capacitance value acquired in acquiring the capacitance value.

15. The positional information correction method according to claim 11, wherein the wiring interval of the first electrodes is a distance between adjacent electrodes of the first electrodes in the first direction, and the wiring interval of the second electrodes is a distance between adjacent electrodes of the second electrodes in the second direction.

12. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a program, which when executed by a computer causes the computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

acquiring positional information showing a position of an operation body, the position being detected by a position detection unit, from a touch sensor that includes a plurality of first electrodes wired along a first direction, a plurality of second electrodes wired along a second direction that is approximately orthogonal to the first direction, and the position detection unit that detects the position of the operation body that approaches the first and second electrodes, based on capacitance on the first and second electrodes;

acquiring a capacitance value showing a value of the capacitance on the first and second electrodes from the touch sensor; and

correcting the positional information that is acquired in acquiring the positional information, by using a first correction function that includes a first periodic function having a first amplitude A1 of which a period is a wiring interval of the first electrodes and that corresponds to the capacitance value acquired in acquiring the capacitance value and a second correction function that includes a second periodic function having a second amplitude A2 of which a period is a wiring interval of the second electrodes and that corresponds to the capacitance value acquired in acquiring the capacitance value.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium according to claim 12, wherein the wiring interval of the first electrodes is a distance between adjacent electrodes of the first electrodes in the first direction, and the wiring interval of the second electrodes is a distance between adjacent electrodes of the second electrodes in the second direction.