119 results about "Proximity sensing" patented technology

The utility model discloses a multi-mode fusion touch fingertip module which comprises a supporting layer (107). The outer surface of the supporting layer (107) is provided with a proximity sense sensing layer (101) used for sensing the distance, a temperature site (102) used for sensing the temperature, a touch sense / slip sense sensing layer (103) used for sensing the touch sense, a control element (104), an electrode layer (105) used for transmitting signals and a force sensing layer (106) used for sensing the force. According to a three-dimensional force three-dimensional tactile sensing network, multi-mode sensor signals can be obtained, a multi-branch tactile neural network is constructed by using the signals, and a tactile fingertip module is formed, so that the shortages of two-dimensional tactile sensing can be made up, and three-dimensional characteristics of tactile sensing can be obtained; that is to say, richer haptic information such as output magnitude, direction, acting position, spatial distribution of force, dynamic force time sequence characteristics, spatial distribution of temperature and the like can be decoupled, various characteristics of the object are extracted, and the accuracy of object haptic recognition is improved.

The invention provides a data access control method and system based on zero-knowledge proof, and relates to the technical field of data access control. According to the method, a root key of a unique hardware identity is generated through a physical unclonable function of a data request equipment chip, and meanwhile, real-time running state data of equipment is collected; the two are subjected to cryptographic binding to form an equipment credible state voucher; secondly, detecting capacitance field disturbance when data holding equipment approaches through a capacitive proximity sensor array, and generating an interactive response mode; then, the equipment credible state certificate and the interactive response mode serve as private input to generate a composite zero-knowledge proof, and identity authenticity and physical proximity are proved to data holding equipment at the same time on the premise that sensitive information is not leaked; and after the data holding device passes verification, the data access permission is authorized immediately, and a temporary encryption communication channel is established, so that the reliability and instantaneity of security authentication between IoT devices can be improved.

The invention discloses a distributed multi-mode flexible sensor based on a Bragg fiber grating and a multi-mode sensing method, and the sensor comprises a dielectric layer which is used for enhancing the non-contact electric field response, and achieving the detection of the approaching distance of a target object; the optical fiber sensing layer is arranged below the dielectric layer and comprises distributed Bragg optical fiber grating sensors arranged in an S shape and an elastic silica gel layer, the optical fiber grating sensors are used for collecting distributed tactile force signals and temperature signals, and the elastic silica gel layer wraps the optical fiber grating sensors to achieve stress transmission; the conducting layer is arranged below the optical fiber sensing layer, is made of an array type flexible conducting material and is used for collecting and transmitting multi-mode electric signals; an encapsulation layer; wherein the dielectric layer, the optical fiber sensing layer and the conductive layer cooperatively realize multi-mode fusion of distributed proximity sensing, distributed force touch sensing and non-contact temperature sensing. The multi-modal flexible electronic skin can meet the requirements of accurate acquisition and real-time feedback of multi-modal information in a complex environment.

The bobbin yarn taking and placing device comprises a bobbin replacing conveying line, the two ends of the bobbin replacing conveying line communicate with a bobbin conveying line between the automatic winder and a spinning frame, and a bobbin taking mechanism and a bobbin placing mechanism are arranged on the side face of the bobbin replacing conveying line; proximity sensing devices are arranged below the bobbin taking mechanism and the bobbin placing mechanism to sense the positions of bobbins, and the bobbin taking mechanism drives a bobbin clamping jaw to take the bobbins through a translation mechanism and a lifting mechanism; a pipe guiding groove is formed below a stock bin of the pipe discharging mechanism, and bobbins are discharged one by one and overturned to be in a vertical state through the material pushing and overturning mechanism. The device realizes automatic taking-out of bobbins containing residual yarns and automatic putting-in of empty bobbins, improves the production efficiency, reduces the labor cost, and is suitable for modern textile production.

The invention relates to the technical field of robots, and provides a robot and a safety control method, device and equipment thereof, a storage medium and a product, the robot comprises electronic skin, the electronic skin comprises a first detection unit and a second detection unit, and the method comprises the following steps: responding to an obstacle approaching the robot, and detecting the approaching speed of the obstacle through the first detection unit; in response to the approaching speed being greater than or equal to a preset speed threshold value, controlling the robot to perform obstacle avoidance path planning and / or speed reduction; detecting a contact force and a contact moment of the obstacle through a second detection unit in response to the obstacle contacting the robot; and determining safety braking parameters of the robot based on the approaching speed, the contact force and the contact moment. Safety speed monitoring based on proximity detection and power and force limitation based on contact detection in man-machine cooperation can be achieved at the same time, a dual protection mechanism of proximity sensing and contact sensing of the robot is achieved, and safety is further improved.

Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to an analytics function apparatus for proximity sensing in wireless communication. The apparatus comprises: at least one memory; and at least one processor coupled with the at least one memory and configured to cause the analytics function apparatus to: receive a request from a consumer for proximity sensing analytics, the request including: a list of target entities for which analytics information should be provided, the target entities including target UEs and target non-UE objects; filter information including conditions for which proximity information of each target entity should be generated; and a reporting destination for the generated proximity information; determine proximity information of the targeted UEs and / or target non-UE objects; and send the generated proximity information to the reporting destination.

A mobile phone may include an enclosure including a housing component and a front cover coupled to the housing component and defining a front exterior surface of the mobile phone. The mobile phone may further include a display positioned below the front cover and a sensor module positioned below a front-facing sensor region of the front cover and including a biometric sensing system. The biometric sensing system may include a first lens, a light emitter positioned below the first lens and configured to emit light onto an object, a second lens, and a light sensor below the second lens and configured to capture an image of the object. The sensor module may further include a proximity sensing system positioned between the first lens of the biometric sensing system and the second lens of the biometric sensing system.

A robot system comprising movable parts, a casing element, a force limiting sensor, a joint position sensor, and one or more processors, wherein the casing element comprises a vibration actuator. Multiple embodiments are introduced for the implementation of the casing element include haptic warning and proximity sensing. Furthermore, means to use the casing element to guide the robot and generate haptic effect by the vibration actuator to assist the user in a human-robot collaboration and / or guiding function are also disclosed.

The invention provides an isolation device, and relates to the technical field of infectious disease prevention and control isolation, the isolation device comprises an isolation monitoring base, the top end surface of the isolation monitoring base is provided with a treading groove, and the center of the bottom surface of the inner end of the treading groove is fixedly provided with a proximity sensing assembly; through fixed installation of a matching strip block and a door plate of a room door, when an isolated person opens the room door of the room for prevention and control isolation of infectious diseases, first, information is wirelessly transmitted to a monitoring center, and second, information is transmitted to the monitoring center; therefore, an isolation prevention and control worker in the monitoring center can know the current behavior of opening the door of the isolated person at the first time, and the problem that key behaviors such as approaching or opening the door cannot be found and processed in time due to the lack of behavior supervision on the isolated person when the person is isolated in a single room is solved. And the hidden danger of virus transmission caused by isolation failure exists.

The invention relates to a proximity sensing control method and device, electronic equipment, a medium and a program product, and the method comprises the steps: obtaining the target attitude information of a terminal when a second proximity sensing value is sampled under the condition that the first proximity sensing value is greater than a proximity sensing threshold and the second proximity sensing value is greater than a far-away sensing threshold; if it is determined that the terminal is currently in a far-away state according to the target attitude information, obtaining a current bottom noise value of the proximity sensor, and updating a far-away sensing threshold and a proximity sensing threshold according to the current bottom noise value; according to the embodiment of the invention, under the condition that the first proximity induction value is greater than the proximity induction threshold, if the second proximity induction value is greater than the far-away induction threshold, but the terminal is currently in the far-away state, the far-away induction threshold and the proximity induction threshold are updated in time, so that the reliability of the proximity induction function of the terminal can be effectively improved.

Systems, methods, and devices are provided in which photodetectors disposed throughout a display are used to control the display brightness. The photodetectors are to be used for ambient light sensing, proximity sensing, or to compensate for aging OLEDs. In some embodiments, photodiodes are fabricated with OLEDs during the TFT fabrication process. In some embodiments, the photodetectors may be disposed throughout the display in zones containing OLEDs. The photodetectors are used to control the display brightness and color for the OLEDs in areas around each photodetector based on ambient light, aging, and / or nearby objects. A controller makes driving strength adjustments to the OLEDs in each zone independent of other zones. Photodetectors disposed throughout the display may improve proximity sensing and provide additional functionality to the device.

Sensing apparatus includes a projector, which projects toward a target a pattern of spots extending over a predefined angular range about a projection axis. An imaging assembly includes an image sensor and objective optics, which form on the image sensor an image of the target along an imaging axis, which is offset transversely relative to the projection axis. A processor is configured to process signals output by the image sensor so as generate, while the target is within a first span of distances from the apparatus, a depth map of the target responsively to shifts of the spots in the image, and to estimate, while the target is within a second span of distances, nearer to the apparatus than the first span, a distance to the target from the apparatus by detecting in the image a part of the pattern located at an edge of the angular range.

The utility model provides a kind of Bernoulli arm, including intermediate arm, C type support arm, multiple jet air holes, sensing component and a pair of pressure sensors, wherein, C type support arm includes the middle part being connected with intermediate arm and two branch parts extending in the direction away from intermediate arm, multiple jet air holes are interval arranged in the bottom surface of branch part, and at least one support block fixed in the bottom surface of branch part is provided between every two jet air holes;Sensing component includes first proximity sensing sensor and second proximity sensing sensor, first proximity sensing sensor is fixed in the bottom surface of middle part, second proximity sensing sensor is fixed in the bottom surface of the end of branch part away from intermediate arm, a pair of pressure sensors are respectively arranged in the end of two branch parts away from intermediate arm and interval preset distance between jet air hole, and the distance between every pressure sensor and intermediate arm is greater than half of branch length.The Bernoulli arm of the utility model can find the adsorption anomaly of wafer in time, to avoid wafer drop and breakage.

The application belongs to the technical field of instruments and meters, and particularly relates to a transistor proximity sensor based on an interdigital electrode extended gate structure. The proximity sensor is composed of a voltage source, an ammeter, a transistor, interdigital electrodes and the like. The voltage source is used for supplying power to the transistor drain and the far gate end of the interdigital electrodes, and the near gate end of the interdigital electrodes is electrically connected with the transistor gate via a conductive lead. The working mechanism of the proximity sensor of the application relies on the synergistic enhancement effect among the electrostatic induction between the target object and the interdigital electrodes, the regulation effect of the target object on the interdigital electrode capacitance and the modulation effect of the target object on the voltage division of the near gate end of the interdigital electrodes. When the charged target object or the uncharged target object approaches the extended gate end of the interdigital electrodes, the transistor source-drain current can be changed, so that the proximity sensing function is realized.

The present invention relates to the technical field of casting machines, and discloses a low-pressure casting machine anti-aluminum escape safety device, comprising an aluminum liquid storage box and a lower platen. The aluminum liquid storage box is located on the left side of the lower platen, a lower mold is fixedly installed on the top of the lower platen, and mounting guide pillars are fixedly installed on both the left and right sides of the top of the aluminum liquid storage box. The right bottom of the aluminum liquid storage box is connected to a liquid injection pipe with one end passing through the left mounting guide pillar and connected to the lower mold. A solenoid valve located between the aluminum liquid storage box and the lower platen is fixedly installed on the wall of the liquid injection pipe, and the tops of the two mounting guide pillars are fixedly connected to the mounting top plate. The low-pressure casting machine anti-aluminum escape safety device can only be pressurized to inject aluminum normally when the conditions of the high-precision proximity sensing switch and the parameter position conditions of the displacement sensing electronic ruler are met. It can only operate normally and automatically when the hardware and program conditions are met at the same time, providing dual protection, and will not cause safety problems due to human settings, making it safer to use.

This disclosure describes a method and apparatus for determining whether an object is near an electronic device. When the object is not near the electronic device, the arrangement of two sensors at different distances from a light emitter results in a higher intensity of reflected signal received in the sensor closer to the light emitter and a lower intensity of reflected signal received in the sensor farther from the light emitter. The system uses this difference in reflected signals to calculate the ratio between the signals reflected to the two sensors and uses this ratio to determine whether the object is near the electronic device.

An information handling system keyboard has plural adjacent keys of a number pad selectively extended to accept end user presses as inputs and selectively retracted to define a touchpad cursor input area. When the adjacent keys retract, a capacitive detection surface near the key cap upper surface detects finger touches with proximity sensing to receive finger touches as cursor inputs. The plural adjacent keys have ferromagnetic material, such as magnets, that retract the keys when a magnetic field is activated below the capacitive detection surface.

The application belongs to the technical field of electronic technology information sensing, and particularly relates to a proximity and contact signal identification method of a piezoelectric transistor dual-mode sensor. A piezoelectric capacitor is combined with a transistor to construct a piezoelectric transistor device to realize the integration of proximity sensing and contact sensing. However, the piezoelectric transistor cannot effectively distinguish the source of the sensing signal when working. The application proposes a dual-gate piezoelectric transistor proximity / contact dual-mode sensing device with an expanded gate structure, which is constructed by combining a dual-gate transistor with a piezoelectric capacitor. The piezoelectric capacitor serves as a sensing end of proximity and contact signals. The top electrode of the piezoelectric capacitor device is electrically connected with the gate electrode of the dual-gate transistor, and both are connected with the ground through a switching circuit. The other electrode of the piezoelectric capacitor device is connected with the other gate electrode of the transistor. Through the difference between the source-drain current signal response rules of proximity sensing and contact sensing in the periodic on / off process of the switching circuit, the effective distinction of the proximity sensing and contact sensing signals is realized.

This invention discloses a multimodal, reconfigurable, and scalable interactive flexible electronic skin. The flexible electronic skin proposed in this invention includes a flexible sensing array, a light-emitting interaction unit, a data reading and processing unit, and an array reconstruction unit. The flexible sensing array is connected to the data reading and processing unit and a microcontroller unit. The microcontroller unit is connected to the light-emitting interaction unit, the flexible electronic skin expansion interface, a bus communication unit, and the flexible electronic skin data output interface. Adjacent skin structure units are connected through the flexible electronic skin expansion interface. The microcontroller unit controls the data reading and processing unit to achieve switching and reconstruction of the sensing modes of the flexible sensing array. The flexible electronic skin of this invention features multimodal proximity sensing, intuitive visualization of detection results, and reconfigurable and scalable functions, which is beneficial for achieving large-area coverage on the robot body, ensuring the safety of the human-computer interaction process, and improving the smoothness of the human-computer interaction process.

Methods and apparatus are provided to control a body proximity sensing operation. An apparatus for a wireless communication device, the apparatus may include an interface to a radio frequency (RF) transceiver, and processing circuitry configured to: monitor one or more transmit power limitation parameters used to limit transmit power of transmissions of RF communication signals, and cause, based on a first transmit power limit including a monitored transmit power limitation parameter and a second transmit power limit, the RF transceiver to perform a body proximity sensing operation.

An electronic device according to the present invention is an electronic device which is capable of performing eye proximity sensing to sense contact of an eye with an eyepiece and line of sight detection to detect a line of sight, including: an eye proximity sensing sensor configured to receive light for the eye proximity sensing; a line of sight detection sensor configured to receive light for the line of sight detection, the line of sight detection sensor being separate from the eye proximity sensing sensor; and one or more light sources including a light source used for both the eye proximity sensing and the line of sight detection.

The invention relates to a control method of beverage equipment. The beverage equipment comprises an outlet part, a driving device, a sensing system and a controller. The driving device is used for driving the outlet part and / or the container to move so as to approach. The sensing system includes a first sensor for sensing whether the outlet portion is in contact with the container and a second sensor for contactlessly sensing whether the outlet portion reaches an approaching position relative to the container. The controller is used for executing the control method. The control method comprises the following steps: acquiring associated information; determining a sensing strategy according to the associated information, namely determining a cooperation mode of the sensor; and in the process that the outlet part is close to the container, obtaining a first sensing result according to the sensing strategy, and controlling the driving device according to the first sensing result, so that the outlet part reaches the target position relative to the container. The associated information is related to the credibility of the sensing result of the second sensor on the container, so that the sensing accuracy of the sensors on the relative position of the outlet part and the container can be improved by determining the sensing strategy.

A proximity sensor and a proximity sensing method are disclosed. The proximity sensor includes a sensing element and a sensing circuit. The sensing circuit is coupled to the sensing element and transmits a first driving signal and a second signal to the sensing element, respectively. The sensing element receives the first driving signal and the second driving signal, respectively, and generates a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal, respectively. The sensing circuit generates a proximity signal according to the first sensing signal and the second sensing signal. The accuracy of sensing the proximity of the human body whether near to the sensor is improved. In addition, the sensing circuit is further coupled to a radio-frequency circuit, and the sensing circuit transmits a driving signal or / and receives a sensing signal according to the state of the radio-frequency circuit, thereby reducing interference of the sensing circuit to the radio-frequency circuit.

The embodiment of the invention provides a light detection circuit, a proximity sensing device and electronic equipment, and the circuit comprises a first detection module, a second detection module and a light receiving module, and the light receiving module is used for converting light received in a first time period into a first current and a third current. And converting the light received in the second time period into a second current and a fourth current. The first detection module is used for outputting a first detection signal according to the first current and the second current, and the first detection signal is used for representing the distance of the light of the first preset wavelength range emitted into the light receiving module. The second detection module is used for outputting a second detection signal according to the third current and the fourth current, the second detection signal is used for indicating the intensity change of light in a second preset wavelength range in the first time period and the second time period, and if the intensity change of the light in the second preset wavelength range is larger than or equal to a preset threshold value, the first detection signal is determined to be invalid. Therefore, the influence of a flickering light source is eliminated, and the accuracy of proximity light detection is improved.

A proximity sensor system on a marine vessel includes one or more proximity sensors configured to measure proximity of objects in a predefined area around the marine vessel and generate proximity measurements, and a memory storing a zone map, wherein the zone map divides the predefined area around the marine vessel into two or more zones. A control system is configured to receive the proximity measurements, divide the proximity measurements into zone sets based the zone map, identify a closest proximity measurement in each zone set, and generate a zone-filtered dataset containing only the closest proximity measurement in each zone set.

An embodiment of the present invention relates to an electronic device and a proximity sensing method thereof, and more particularly, to an electronic device capable of improving the occurrence of flicker in a display panel at the time of proximity sensing and capable of improving a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), and a proximity sensing method thereof. The electronic device of the present invention includes: a sensor including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of receiving electrodes arranged so as to intersect the plurality of driving electrodes; and a control section configured to simultaneously drive the plurality of driving electrodes within a predetermined period of time for proximity sensing on a touch screen, and detect whether an object approaches on the touch screen based on sensing signals from the plurality of receiving electrodes, the control unit is configured such that a positive (+) drive signal is applied to some of the plurality of drive electrodes, and a negative (-) drive signal is applied to the remaining drive electrodes.

The present invention discloses an electronic device. The electronic device includes a connector and a sensing control unit. The connector includes a metal mask and at least one terminal. The sensing control unit is electrically connected to the metal mask and the at least one terminal. The sensing control unit is suitable for sensing whether the connector is connected to an external device, and includes a proximity sensing circuit connected to the metal mask. When the connector is connected to the external device, the sensing control unit enables the metal mask to be grounded. When the connector is not connected to the external device, the sensing control unit enables the metal mask to be floated, and the floated metal mask is suitable as a sensing electrode of the proximity sensing circuit.

A proximity sensing autonomous robotic system and apparatus is provided. The robot has one or more vision modules for viewing the environment for depth perception, object detection, object avoidance, and temperature detection of objects. A proximity sensing skin is layered over one or more parts of the robot. The proximity sensing skin has multiple proximity and mechanical stress sensors for collision avoidance, speed control, and slowing down of motion near detected objects, as well as recognition of contact. The proximity sensing skin can have conductive pads for contacting various materials in the composite parts to inhibit galvanic corrosion. The robot has an end effector, and various tools can be attached to the end effector to perform various tasks. The end effector has a mounting interface with connections for supplying power and for hydraulic / pneumatic control of the tools. All wiring to the sensors and vision modules is routed inside the robot.

The invention relates to the technical field of robots, in particular to a flexible thermal sense robot electronic skin system capable of improving human-computer interaction comfort. The core of the method is that a closed-loop intelligent interaction framework is constructed, and the framework is materialized into a multi-layer flexible hardware system capable of being attached to the surface of a robot. The system comprises a multi-layer flexible composite structure and a controller, wherein the multi-layer flexible composite structure comprises a top encapsulation layer, a heat conduction layer, a non-contact proximity sensing layer, a distributed active heat management layer and a bottom encapsulation layer. According to the system, the skin of the robot can be intelligent, and the contact area is actively and accurately adjusted to the comfortable temperature before user contact is predicted, so that the mechanical ice-cold feeling of a traditional robot is eliminated, and warm, natural and seamless man-machine physical interaction is achieved.

According to an aspect, there is provided a signalization apparatus, the signalization apparatus comprising a first input module comprising a capacitive proximity sensing arrangement configured to detect a gesture from a user; a second input module comprising at least one signalization interface element and configured to detect an input from the user; an analysis module coupled to the first and the second input module and configured to analyze signals received from the first and the second input module to generate a control signal; and an interface coupled to the analysis module and configured to receive the control signal and provide the control signal to a controller.