Electronic device applicable to interaction control

• US 10,664,086 B2
• Filed: 10/12/2018
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 06/07/2018
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Acer, Inc.
• Inventors: Ko, Chueh-Pin
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhou, Hong
• Application Number:
  US16/158,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20190377451A1
• Time in Patent Office: 592 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1643 the display being associated to a digitizer, e.g. laptops that can be used as penpads details related to the relative motion of the display enclosure with respect to the body enclosure, e.g. to move between laptop and tablet PC configuration G06F1/1615
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1686 the I/O peripheral being an integrated camera
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0414 using force sensing means to determine a position
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041

Abstract

Electronic devices applicable to interaction control are provided. A first electronic device includes a first force-sensitive component, a camera module, and a processing circuit, and a second electronic device includes a second force-sensitive component, a display module, and a processing circuit. At least one component within the first force-sensitive component and the second force-sensitive component is arranged to detect a contact event between the first electronic device and the second electronic device. The display module displays at least one predetermined image, and the camera module captures at least one partial image of the aforementioned at least one predetermined image, to allow the first electronic device to determine at least one relative location of the first electronic device with respect to the second electronic device, for use of the second electronic device, and more particularly, the display module displays a display content corresponding to the aforementioned at least one relative location.

Claims

1. A first electronic device, applicable to interact with a second electronic device, comprising:

a first force-sensitive component, arranged to detect a contact event between the first electronic device and the second electronic device;

a camera module, arranged to capture at least one partial image of at least one predetermined image, wherein a display module of the second electronic device displays said at least one predetermined image; and

a processing circuit, coupled to the first force-sensitive component and the camera module;

wherein the predetermined image is a moving image comprising a series of predetermined images, the processing circuit determines at least one relative location of the first electronic device with respect to the second electronic device according to said at least one partial image for the second electronic device to use, a total display period of the series of predetermined images, and a time period comprising a time between the contact event and a time the camera module captures the partial image, and the display module of the second electronic device displays a display content corresponding to said at least one relative location.

2. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein when the first force-sensitive component detects the contact event, the first force-sensitive component is arranged to sense a pressure between the first electronic device and the second electronic device;

and the contact event is confirmed when the pressure falls within a predetermined pressure range.

3. The first electronic device of claim 2, wherein the contact event is confirmed when the pressure falls within a predetermined pressure range, wherein a period the pressure falls within the predetermined pressure range is longer than a predetermined time threshold.

4. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the first electronic device stores said at least one predetermined image and determines said at least one relative location according to at least one location of said at least one partial image on said at least one predetermined image.

5. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein said at least one partial image comprises a location information for indicating said at least one relative location;

and the first electronic device obtains the location information from said at least one partial image in order to determine said at least one relative location according to the location information.

6. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the processing circuit determines at least one relative location of the first electronic device with respect to the second electronic device according to a ratio between the time period and the total display period.

7. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the series of predetermined images comprise a downwardly-moving horizontal black stripe, the time the camera module captures the partial image corresponds to a time the camera module captures an image comprising the horizontal black stripe, and the relative location of the first electronic device with respect to the second electronic device is a Y co-ordinate value.

8. The first electronic device of claim 1, wherein the series of predetermined images comprise a sideways-moving vertical black stripe, the time the camera module captures the partial image corresponds to a time the camera module captures an image comprising the vertical black stripe, and the relative location of the first electronic device with respect to the second electronic device is an X co-ordinate value.

9. A second electronic device, applicable to interact with a first electronic device, comprising:

a second force-sensitive component, arranged to detect a contact event between the first electronic device and the second electronic device;

a display module, arranged to display at least one predetermined image, wherein a camera module of the first electronic device captures at least one partial image of said at least one predetermined image, the predetermined image being a moving image comprising a series of predetermined images, in order to allow the first electronic device to determine at least one relative location of the first electronic device with respect to the second electronic device for the second electronic device to use, a total display period of the series of predetermined images, and a time period comprising a time between the contact event and a time the camera module captures the partial image; and

a processing circuit, coupled to the second force-sensitive component and the display module;

wherein the processing circuit controls the display module to display said at least one predetermined image, and controls the display module to display a display content corresponding to said at least one relative location.

10. The second electronic device of claim 9, wherein when the second force-sensitive component detects the contact event, the second force-sensitive component is arranged to sense a pressure between the first electronic device and the second electronic device;

and the contact event is confirmed when the pressure falls within a predetermined pressure range.

11. The second electronic device of claim 10, wherein the contact event is confirmed when the pressure falls within a predetermined pressure range, wherein a period the pressure falls within the predetermined pressure range is longer than a predetermined time threshold.

12. The second electronic device of claim 9, wherein the second electronic device stores said at least one predetermined image for the display module to display;

and the first electronic device stores said at least one predetermined image, and determines said at least one relative location according to at least one location of said at least one partial image on said at least one predetermined image that is stored in the first electronic device.

13. The second electronic device of claim 9, wherein said at least one partial image carries location information for indicating said at least one relative location;

and the first electronic device obtains the location information from said at least one partial image, in order to determine said at least one relative location according to the location information.