摘要:
It is an object to provide a portable coordinates input apparatus which can be manufactured at low costs. An input pen applies a voltage to a desired position in a coordinate input area on a vibration propagating plate having a piezoelectric performance and having a first surface including the coordinate input area and a second area that faces the first surface. A vibration generated by the voltage is detected as an electric signal by a vibration detecting electrode arranged out of the coordinate input area.
摘要:
A high-precision coordinate input apparatus having a small circuit construction. A vibrating pen transmits vibration onto a vibration transmitting tablet, then vibration sensors provided at corners of the vibration transmitting tablet detect the vibration. One of the vibration sensor is used as a reference sensor. Time difference between vibration detecting timing by this reference sensor and detecting timing by one of the other sensors is measured. This measurement is performed on all the vibration sensors with respect to the reference sensor. The obtained time differences are converted into distance differences for calculation of the coordinates of the position in which the vibration has been generated. The vibrating pen has a power source and it operates independent of the apparatus main body. The vibrating pen changes its frequency of vibration in accordance with the voltage of the power source. The apparatus main body captures this change in the vibration frequency and obtain the state of the vibration pen power source.
摘要:
A distance measuring device is capable, even utilizing the Lamb wave with velocity fluctuating from device to device, of easily setting an approximate wave velocity and of effecting precise distance calculation even with such approximate wave velocity. There is employed a system of measuring the thickness d of the wave transmitting plate, then determining the group velocity Vg of the Lamb wave from the measured thickness, then determining the phase velocity Vp of the Lamb wave from the plate thickness d and the frequency f of the Lamb wave, and deriving the distance from Vg, Vp and the arrival delay time of the Lamb wave.
摘要:
When vibration is entered on a vibration transmitting tablet, the vibration is sensed by vibration sensors attached at four corners of the tablet. When this is done, a time delay from entry of the vibration to detection thereof is measured, and the distance between each sensor and the source of the vibration is calculated in dependence upon the time delay. At this time the vibration sensors also sense reflected waves resulting from reflection of the vibration at the end face of the tablet. The larger the angle of reflection, the greater the magnitude of the reflected waves sensed. Accordingly, sensors most likely to sense reflected waves are excluded from calculation, and coordinates are calculated based upon vibration sensed by the remaining sensors only. As a consequence, a discontinuity in coordinates occurs at the boundary of a region decided by whichever of the sensors are excluded. For this reason, a weighted mean is computed of a set of coordinates calculated based upon data obtained from a set of a plurality of sensors, and the value of the weighted mean is adopted as the coordinates sought.
摘要:
In a coordinates input apparatus in which a vibration input from a vibration pen is detected by a plurality of vibration sensors attached to a transparent vibration propagating plate such as an acrylic or glass plate and the coordinate position of the vibration pen is detected from the vibration propagation times until the vibration sensors, the sensors and the vibration proof material are arranged in a manner such that a distance between the attaching boundary surface of the vibration proof material attached to the peripheral portion of the vibration propagating plate and the center of each sensor which is attached to the input side than the attaching boundary surface of the vibration proof material lies within a range from 0.5 time to a value less than 1.0 time as large as the diameter of the sensor, preferably, within a range from 1.0 mm to a value less than 2.0 mm.
摘要:
A coordinate input apparatus for detecting a vibration transmitted from a vibration input pen by a plurality of vibration sensors arranged on a vibration transmission member, and for determining coordinates of the vibration input pen from vibration propagation times required between the position of the vibration input pen to the positions of the vibration sensors, includes a vibration-isolating member formed in a peripheral portion of the vibration transmission member. The vibration-isolating member has a multi-layered structure consisting of a plurality of vibration-isolating layers formed so that a layer nearer to the vibration transmission plate has a lower acoustic impedance than that of a layer farther from the vibration transmission plate.
摘要:
There is provided a coordinates input apparatus in which a vibration input from a vibration pen having a piezoelectric transducer is detected by a plurality of vibration sensors attached to a vibration propagating plates such as an input tablet and the coordinates of this pen on the plate are detected. The tip of the vibration input pen is made of a material of a resin of the polyamideimide system such as thermoplastic polyamideimide or aromatic polyamideimide. With this material, a desired image can be smoothly input to the input tablet without scratching the glass surface thereof and the accurate coordinates can be detected.
摘要:
A coordinate input apparatus in which a vibration which was input by a vibration input pen is detected by vibration sensors attached to a vibration propagating plate such as a transparent glass plate or the like and the coordinates of the position of the pen on the plate are detected. The apparatus includes an envelope output circuit to output envelope signals of detection signals of the sensors; a filter circuit for filtering the envelope signals; a gate signal output circuit for detecting a portion, exceeding a predetermined threshold value, of the envelope signal output from the filter circuit and for outputting a gate signal; a first detector for detecting the peak of the envelope signal output from the envelope output circuit and for detecting the envelope signal by using the peak as a reference; a second detector for detecting a phase signal of the detection signal by using the leading edge of the phase signal as a reference in the period of time during which the gate signal output from the gate signal is output circuit; and a calculating circuit to calculate the position coordinates of the input pen on the basis of the propagation time of the envelope signal detected by the first detector and the propagation time of the phase signal detected by the second detector.
摘要:
A vibrating input pen used for a coordinate input apparatus for detecting a coordinate of an input position of a vibration by detecting the vibration input from the vibrating input pen to a vibration transmitting plate includes a vibration generating element for generating a vibration and a horn member forming a pen point of the vibrating input pen for transmitting the vibration generated from the vibration generating element. A positioning member positions the vibration generating element in relation to the horn member so that the direction of vibration of the vibration generating element coincides with the direction of vibration of the horn member and the axis of the vibration generating element coincides with the axis of the horn member.
摘要:
There is provided a coordinates input apparatus for detecting the coordinates of a point indicated by an instruction pen on a vibration transmitting plate made of a transparent tablet on the basis of the vibration transmission times on this plate. This apparatus comprises: a pen as vibration generating means for generating a vibration; a tablet as a vibration transmitting plate to transmit the vibration generated by the pen; vibration sensors which are arranged on the tablet and detect at a plurality of positions the vibrations transmitted by making the pen come into contact with the tablet; a microcomputer for obtaining the vibration transmission distances from the vibration transmission times of the vibrations detected by the sensors and for calculating the coordinate point on the tablet with which the pen is come into contact; an output device to output the coordinate point calculated by the microcomputer; an erroneous detection discriminating circuit to discriminate whether the coordinate point calculated is the erroneously detected coordinate point or not; and a controller for allowing a correction point calculating means to calculate and output a correction point in place of the erroneously detected coordinate point.