Pixart Imaging Incorporated

Pixart Imaging Incorporation, R.o.c.

Tzung-Min Su

Chih-Hsin Lin

Ming-Tsan Kao

Ren-Hau Gu

Hsin-Chia Chen

Cho-Yi Lin

Cheng-Nan Tsai

Yi-Hsien Ko

Shu-Sian Yang

Chi-Chieh Liao

Chih-Hung Lu

Han-Ping Cheng

Tse-Chung Su

Ming-Hung Tsai

Yung-Chang Lin

Jian-Cheng Liao

Chun-Yi Lu

Chun-Chih Chen

Yu-Hao Huang

Wen-Han Yao

Hsin-Chi Cheng

Tzu-Yi Chao

Yu-Hsiang Huang

Feng-Chi Liu

Yu-Chia Lin

Teng Wei Hsu

Jia-Hong Huang

Chun-Shen Lin

Yaun-Yu Peng

Chuan-Ching Lin

Jeng-Yue Weng

Disclosed in a movement direction determination system comprising a first detection region, a second detection region and a processing circuit. The first detection region and the second detection region respectively comprises an optical sensor. The processing circuit determines a movement direction of an object according to the optical data generated by the first detection region and the second detection region. The present invention also discloses a movement direction determination system using a single detection region. The present invention also discloses an object volume computation system which can compute an object volume according to sensed optical data. The disclosed movement direction determination system can be used for various applications and the object volume computation system can assist product confirmation.

Movement direction determination system and object volume computation system

An electronic device with a function of detecting a touch state, comprising: at least one first electrode, configured to generate a first capacitance reflecting a distance between the first electrode and an object; at least one second electrode, configured to generate a second capacitance reflecting a distance between the second electrode and the object, and wherein a first distance between the first electrode and the object is smaller than a second distance between the second electrode and the object when the electronic is in a wearing state; a capacitance calculating circuit, configured to calculate the first capacitance and the second capacitance; and a processing circuit, configured to determine if the electronic device is in the wearing state based on a capacitance difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance. Via such structure, the touch state of the electronic device can be precisely acquired.

Electronic device which can detect touch state

An electronic device which can detect a touch state, comprising: a front surface for showing images; at least one first electrode, provided in a first region; at least one second electrode, provided in a second region, wherein a distance between the first region and the front surface is larger than a distance between the second region and the front surface; a capacitance calculating circuit, configured to calculate at least one first capacitance generated by the first electrode and coupled to the second electrode to calculate at least one second capacitance generated by the second electrode, wherein the capacitance calculating circuit further calculates a capacitance difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance; and a processing circuit, configured to determine the touch state according to the capacitance difference. Via such structure, the touch state of the electronic device can be precisely acquired.

A wearable electronic device which can detect a wearing state, comprising: at least one first electrode, provided in a first region of the wearable electronic device; at least one second electrode, provided in a second region of the wearable electronic device; a capacitance calculating circuit, configured to calculate first capacitances generated by the first electrode and configured to calculate second capacitances generated by the second electrode, wherein the capacitance calculating circuit further calculates a capacitance difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance; and a processing circuit, configured to determine the wearing state according to the capacitance difference. Via such structure, a wearing state, a wearing location, a wearing angle of the electronic device can be automatically detected, thus the problem caused by an improper wearing manner can be improved.

Electronic device capable of detecting wearing state or touching state

A wearable device including a skin sensor and a processor is provided. The processor is configured to receive an authentication data for authenticating a user when a wearing state of the wearable device is adjacent to a skin surface of the user, execute a predetermined function in response to a request when the authentication data matches a pre-stored data and the skin sensor determines that the wearable device does not leave the skin surface after the authentication data is received, and reject or ignore the request when the skin sensor determines that the wearable device leaves the skin surface before the predetermined function is executed.

Wearable device having higher security and skin sensor equipped thereon

An exposure mechanism of an optical touch system, which includes a plurality of image sensors and a plurality of active light sources each irradiating corresponding to the associated image sensor, includes: capturing image frames using the image sensors with a sampling cycle to allow each of the image sensors to capture a bright image, wherein the sampling cycle includes a plurality of working modes and in each of the working modes at least one of the image sensors captures the bright image in a sampling interval; simultaneously capturing a dark image using all the image sensors in a denoising sampling interval; and calculating a differential image between the bright image and the dark image captured by each image sensor.

Exposure mechanism of optical touch system and optical touch system using the same

The present invention provides an optical touch system configured to determine an object region according to a brightness information acquired by a brightness sensing unit and to identify a block information of objects within the object region according to an image information acquired by an image sensing unit. The present invention further provides an objection detection method for an optical touch system.

Optical touch system and object detection method therefor

The present invention discloses an optical touch panel system and a positioning method for positioning an object existing in a touch control area. The system includes: at least one reflective element disposed on a side of the touch control area; at least one light guide module disposed on a side of the touch control area adjacent to or opposite the reflective element and emitting light; an image sensor capturing an image of the object; a plurality of photo detectors arranged on a side of the touch control area adjacent to the image sensor and sensing the object to obtain shade information; and a processor calculating the coordinates of the object according to the image and the shade information.

Optical touch panel system and positioning method thereof

The present invention discloses an optical touch panel system, an optical sensing module, and an operation method using for the same system. The system recognizes a track of an object moving on or above a touch control surface to determine a corresponding gesture function; it includes a touch control surface, at least one image sensor, and a processor. The touch control surface includes at least two touch control areas. The image sensor captures a plurality of continuous pictures including the images of the objects. The processer determines which touch control area the object is moving on or above according to a starting position or a path of the track, and executes a gesture function corresponding to the track and the touch control area.

Optical touch panel system, optical sensing module, and operation method thereof

The present invention discloses an optical touch panel system and a positioning method for positioning an object in a touch control area. The system includes: at least two reflective elements respectively disposed on a first side and a second side of the touch control area, wherein the sum of lengths of the first side and the second side is larger than the sum of lengths of the two reflective elements; two lighting elements respectively disposed on a third side and a fourth side of the touch control area; an image sensor forming projected images by capturing an image of the object and at least one mirror image of the object formed by the two reflective elements; and a processor calculating the coordinates of the object according to geometric information of the projected images.

Optical touch panel system, optical apparatus and positioning method thereof

There is provided an optical touch system including at least one lighting unit, at least one image sensing module and a processing unit. The image sensing module is configured to capture light of a pointer and the lighting unit to generate a two-dimensional image and to convert entire of the two-dimensional image to a one-dimensional feature. The processing unit positions the pointer according to the one-dimensional feature.

Optical touch system having an image sensing module for generating a two-dimensional image and converting to a one-dimensional feature

There is provided an optical touch system including a touch surface, a plurality of image sensors and a plurality or compensation light sources, wherein each of the image sensors is adjacent to one of the compensation light sources. When one of the image sensors is capturing an image frame, the compensation light source not adjacent to and within a field of view of the image sensor which is capturing the image frame irradiates so as to compensate a brightness distribution of the image frame.

Optical touch system with brightness compensation and brightness compensation method thereof

An optical lens is configured in front of an image-capturing lens of an image-capturing device. A light-emitting unit of the image-capturing device emits a light beam. The optical lens includes a pair of peripheral compensation portions and a central diverging portion. Each peripheral compensation portion has a first convex surface and a first concave surface arranged opposite to the first convex surface. The central diverging portion is arranged between the peripheral compensation portions, and has a second concave surface and an oppositely arranged light incident surface. The second concave surface is arranged between the first convex surfaces. The light incident surface is arranged between the first concave surfaces. The optical axis of the light beam sequentially aligns with the light incident surface and the second concave surface. The light rays of the light beam pass through the first concave surface and the first convex surface in sequence.

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Tzung-Min Su