Method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates

• US 9,471,186 B2
• Filed: 10/08/2013
• Issued: 10/18/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FocalTech Systems Co.,Ltd
• Original Assignee: FocalTech Systems Co.,Ltd
• Inventors: Yu, Hsiang-Cheng, Huang, Hsin-Mao, Kung, Chih-Hung, Huang, Shih-Hsin
• Primary Examiner(s): Wang, Quan-Zhen
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, David
• Application Number:
  US14/048,544
• Publication Number:
  US 20140118297A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,106 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates first reads two-dimensional raw data of a capacitive touch panel. Next, it reads a pixel and adjacent pixels of the pixel from the two-dimension raw data. Then, it determines whether the value of the pixel is great than a pre-determined threshold. If the value of the pixel is not greater than the pre-determined threshold, it then determines whether there is a value of the adjacent pixels is greater than the pre-determined threshold. If there is no value of the adjacent pixels greater than the pre-determined threshold, it sets the value of the pixel to a pre-determined value. Otherwise, it reserves the value of the pixel in order to increase the linearity of two-dimensional raw data so as to avoid the interference of noise to the two-dimensional raw data.

Claims

1. A method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates applied in a capacitive multi-touch system including a capacitive touch panel and a control device, the method comprising the steps of:

(A) the control device reading two-dimensional raw data from the capacitive touch panel;

(B) the control device reading one pixel from the two-dimensional raw data and pixels adjacent to said read pixel, wherein the pixel value of said read pixel is p(i, j), and the pixels adjacent to said read pixel have pixel values of p(i−

1, j−

1), p(i, j−

1), p(i+1, j−

1), p(i−

1, j), p(i+1, j), p(i−

1, j+1), p(i, j+1), p(i+1, j+1), where i and j are indexes respectively;

(C) the control device determining whether pixel value of said read pixel is greater than a predetermined value;

(D) if the pixel value of said read pixel is not greater than the predetermined value, the control device further determining whether at least one of the pixels adjacent to said read pixel has a pixel value greater than the predetermined value;

(E) if none of the pixels adjacent to said read pixel is greater than the predetermined value, the pixel value of said read pixel is set to be a first setting value;

(F) the control device determining whether all pixels of the two-dimensional raw data have been processed and, if no, executing step (B); and

(G) if all pixels of the two-dimensional raw data have been processed, the control device perform feature point capture on the two-dimensional raw data and, and then divide the two-dimensional raw data into at least one touch area which is assigned with an identification code.

2. The method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a step of:

(H) based on the identification code, the control device performing a coordinate conversion on the at least one touch area corresponding to the identification code so as to output a touch coordinate.

3. The method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates as claimed in claim 2, further comprising a step of:

(I) when step (C) determines that the pixel value of said read pixel is greater than the predetermined value, the control device retaining the pixel value of said read pixel and then executing step (F).

4. The method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates as claimed in claim 3, wherein when step (D) determines that the pixels adjacent to said read pixel has a pixel value greater than the predetermined value, step (I) is executed.

5. The method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates as claimed in claim 4, wherein the two-dimensional raw data is obtained by mutual capacitance sensing technique.

6. The method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates as claimed in claim 2, wherein in step (H), a first-order momentum method is employed to perform coordinate conversion so as to output the corresponding touch coordinate.

7. The method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates as claimed in claim 1, wherein the capacitive touch panel includes M first conductor lines arranged in a first direction and N second conductor lines arranged in a second direction, where the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction, and M and N are positive integers respectively.

8. The method for improving linearity of touch system coordinates as claimed in claim 7, wherein the two-dimensional raw data has M×

N pixels and said pixels has a pixel value of p(i, j), where i is in the range of 0 to (M−

1), and j is in the range of 0 to (N−

1).