Optical touch screen

• US 9,342,185 B2
• Filed: 07/12/2011
• Issued: 05/17/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 08/02/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Innotek Company Limited (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Son, Sukwoo
• Primary Examiner(s): Pappas, Claire X
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ghafari, Sepideh
• Application Number:
  US13/808,066
• Publication Number:
  US 20130100085A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,771 Days
• Field of Search: 345/175
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/042 by opto-electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0428 by sensing at the edges of the touch surface the interruption of optical paths, e.g. an illumination plane, parallel to the touch surface which may be virtual sensing beam interruptions in a planar beam grid of an optical touch-screen G06F3/0421

Abstract

The present invention relates to an optical touch screen, including a flat plate display panel, a case mounted and assembled with the flat plate display panel, brackets assembled on the case, a camera module mounted on the brackets, and an iris formed on the brackets and through which infrared incident on the camera module passes.

Claims

1. An optical touch screen, comprising:

a flat plate display panel;

a case mounted with the flat plate display panel;

a bracket assembled on the case;

an infrared light emitting diode disposed on a holder at an outer side of the bracket and emitting infrared light to an inner side of the bracket, wherein a stair unit is formed at a lateral upper surface of the holder, and the stair unit is mounted with the infrared light emitting diode;

a passage formed on the bracket and through which infrared light emitted from the infrared light emitting diode passes;

a retro reflector disposed at an inner side of the bracket and configured to reflect infrared light passing through the passage;

an iris formed on the bracket and through which infrared light reflected from the retro reflector passes; and

a sensor disposed at the outer side of the bracket and detecting infrared light passing through the iris.

2. The optical touch screen of claim 1, wherein the bracket includes first and second fixing parts fixed on the case, and a connecting part connected to the first and second fixing parts, and

wherein the passage and the iris are formed on the connecting part.

3. The optical touch screen of claim 2, wherein the connecting part is formed with guides, and the guides are fixed by an infrared filter.

4. The optical touch screen of claim 3, wherein the iris is closed by the infrared filter, and the infrared light is incident to the sensor through the infrared filter and the iris.

5. The optical touch screen of claim 1, wherein infrared light emitted from the infrared light emitting diode is emitted to an upper surface of the flat plate display panel through the passage.

6. The optical touch screen of claim 1, wherein the passage is mounted with a lens.

7. The optical touch screen of claim 6, wherein a light leakage prevention sill is formed at a connection of the bracket between the iris and the lens.

8. The optical touch screen of claim 1, further comprising:

an object lens collecting infrared light reflected from the retro reflector; and

an infrared passage filter passing a particular waveband,

wherein the sensor detects an area touched by incidence of infrared light having passed the infrared passage filter.

9. The optical touch screen of claim 8, wherein the holder is formed at one side with a first groove, formed at the other side with a second groove, and formed with an opening connecting the first groove and the second groove, and

wherein the first groove is mounted with the object lens, the second groove is mounted with the infrared passage filter, and a printed circuit board mounted with the image sensor to close the second grove is attached to the holder.

10. The optical touch screen of claim 9, wherein the infrared passage filter is implemented by coating an infrared passage filter material on a glass.

11. The optical touch screen of claim 1, wherein the case takes the shape of a square ring.

12. The optical touch screen of claim 11, wherein the bracket is disposed at a corner of the case.

13. The optical touch screen of claim 11, wherein three inner corners of the square ring-shaped case are fixed by brackets on which the infrared light emitting diode is mounted, and one inner corner of the square-ring shaped case is mounted with a dummy bracket on which the infrared light emitting diode is not mounted.

14. The optical touch screen of claim 13, wherein the retro reflector is mounted on an inner lateral surface of the case.

15. The optical touch screen of claim 1, wherein the bracket includes first and second fixing parts fixed on the case, and a connecting part connected to the first and second fixing parts, wherein the iris is formed at the connecting part.