Samsung Electro-mechanics Co., Ltd.

Byoung-Won Hwang

Kang-ju Kim

Won-Tae Choi

Kyoung-Joong Min

Jong-Sik Jeong

Keun-woo Park

Keun-Woo Park

Disclosed herein is a method for processing image data of an optical mouse. In the method for processing image data of an optical mouse, direction and size values of motion vectors which are image data consecutively inputted from an image pixel array are filtered with respect to X and Y axes by a filter. A predetermined number of motion vectors converted by and outputted from the filter are accumulated, and the accumulated values are mapped to conversion values to attenuate noise components and amplify directionality of the motion vectors depending on a speed of the optical mouse by a mapper. The values mapped by the mapper in a plurality of pipes are stored, and a value obtained by adding the plural stored values to each other and dividing the added result value by a conversion factor is transmitted to a personal computer (PC) interface such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) or PS/2. Accordingly, the present invention is advantageous in that it minimizes noise components of the optical mouse, and consequently ensures the unnatural movement of a cursor on a PC screen.

Method for processing image data of optical mouse

An optical navigation sensor device and an image processing method using a 2-dimensional sequential image process are disclosed. A pre-processor stores digital voltage values of respective pixels of an image received from a pre-processor in a memory, performs a pre-process for the digital voltage values of respective pixels sequentially received from the memory, thereby producing a pre-processed current image, and extracts a pre-processed current central image from the pre-processed current image. A motion coordinate calculator stores the pre-processed current central image as X/Y-axis reference image candidates, determines replacement of X/Y-axis reference images for calculation of motion coordinate values of a next pre-processed image in accordance with X/Y-axis motions of the pre-processed current image, and compares the pre-processed current image with the X/Y-axis reference images, thereby calculating X/Y-axis motion coordinate values of the pre-processed current image.

Optical navigation sensor device and image processing method using 2-dimensional sequential image process

Disclosed herein is a single integrated circuit for an optical mouse. The circuit includes an image pixel array for recognizing light and shadow of a surface under the optical mouse, an analog-to-digital converter for receiving analog signal from the image pixel array and converting analog data into digital data, a motion vector calculation unit for converting the digital data into one-bit data and calculating a motion vector, a motion vector process unit for accumulating motion vectors, correcting errors of the motion vectors, and accumulating moving distances of the optical mouse, a timing signal generator for generating control signals to control an overall operation of the circuit and operation signals pursuant to operation states of the circuit, an interface designed to transmit values processed by the process unit into a personal computer, and a transceiver for enabling one of a universal serial bus or an IBM personal system/2 in the interface.

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Seoul, South Korea

Byoung-Won Hwang