845 results about "Touchpad" patented technology

The invention relates to the field of vibration detection technology, and discloses a vibration detection method and device for a force-sensing touch pad of a notebook computer. The method comprises collecting an original signal of the force-sensing touch pad based on an acceleration sensor, filtering the original signal to obtain an acceleration signal of the force-sensing touch pad, performing multi-level decomposition on the amplitude and phase information of each frequency component, converting all feature data of a multi-scale feature matrix into standard data with zero mean and unit variance, performing covariance matrix calculation on the standardized acceleration feature data, performing classification prediction processing on the reduced-dimensional feature matrix, obtaining a classification result and a confidence score, and generating a detection report in combination with the classification result and the confidence score; the vibration characteristics of the force-sensing touch pad in different areas are accurately captured, and the amplitude and phase characteristics of the vibration signal of the force-sensing touch pad can be accurately analyzed, thereby comprehensively reflecting the vibration intensity distribution in different areas, and effectively enhancing the detection capability of the vibration intensity deviating from the design value.

A touch pad device includes a base unit, a touch unit and a resilient unit. The base unit includes a bottom plate and a supporting member disposed on the bottom plate. The touch unit includes a touch pad, a circuit board connected to the touch pad, and a switch button disposed the circuit board. The switch button corresponds in position to the supporting member. The resilient unit is disposed between the bottom plate and the circuit board, and includes a resilient plate connected to the bottom plate, and a reinforcing frame connected between the resilient plate and the circuit board. The resilient plate has two resilient piece portions, and an abutment portion connected to the resilient piece portions and supported by the supporting member. The abutment portion is positioned between the switch button and the supporting member. The reinforcing frame is connected to the resilient piece portions.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a pressure touchpad and a pressure sensing detection method thereof, and relates to the technical field of touchpads, the pressure touchpad comprises a substrate layer, an FPC, a touch layer, a touch sensing layer and a piezoelectric layer; the touch layer is arranged above the touch control sensing layer; the touch sensing layer is arranged above the substrate layer; the piezoelectric layer is arranged below the substrate layer; the FPC is arranged on one side of the substrate layer, and the FPC is electrically connected with the touch net and the piezoelectric layer; wherein the piezoelectric layer vibrates under the excitation of an electric signal of the FPC; the piezoelectric layer receives external force above the piezoelectric layer to deform and generate an electric signal; and the touch sensing layer is used for sensing capacitance change to generate an electric signal. The pressure touch panel is simple in structure, the thickness is greatly reduced, and the cost is also reduced.

The invention relates to a touchpad pressure measurement and touch vibration system and electronic equipment. The touchpad pressure measurement and touch vibration system comprises a driving circuit, a touchpad chip, a plurality of integrated sensors connected with the driving circuit and the touchpad chip, and a capacitance scanning and finger recognition device connected with the touchpad chip. Wherein the integrated sensor comprises a first electrode arranged on the touchpad and a second electrode arranged on piezoelectric ceramic, and the piezoelectric ceramic and the touchpad are separated by a plurality of gaskets to form a cavity structure; the touchpad chip is used for measuring the pressure on the touchpad according to the capacitance value between the first electrode and the second electrode, and determining whether to start the capacitance scanning and finger identification device for fingerprint identification according to the pressure and identifying whether the touchpad is touched or not; and the driving circuit is used for driving the corresponding piezoelectric ceramics to perform touch vibration according to the integrated sensor subjected to touch control.

A light-emitting module includes a light-blocking sheet and a light guide sheet that are arranged on a circuit board. The circuit board includes a light-emitting element. The light-blocking sheet has a hollow portion and a light-blocking portion. The light guide sheet is arranged in the hollow portion, and has a light incident portion and a light guide portion, where the light incident portion includes a first side surface, a second side surface, and a third side surface, the first side surface is adjacent to the light-emitting element, the second side surface and the third side surface are separately connected to the first side surface, the angle formed between the second side surface and third side surface, the angle is smaller than a light-emitting angle of the first light-emitting element, and the light-blocking portion is arranged adjacent to the second side surface or the third side surface.

A touchpad and palm rest base chassis assembly for an information handling system may comprise a base chassis for enclosing the information handling system including a keyboard opening, and a plurality of palm rest support surfaces, and a composite substrate of woven glass fiber impregnated with polycarbonate material forming a touchpad surface, through which haptic feedback may be provided and touch may be sensed by capacitive sensors including a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) operatively connected to the composite substrate having a light emitting diode (LED) disposed within an etched opening on the underside of the composite substrate formed to guide LED light into the light transmissive composite substrate of the touchpad surface to illuminate an icon opening within an inked surface of the composite substrate to negate need of a separate light guide layer, and the touchpad and palm rest base chassis assembly affixed to the base chassis.

A touchpad device includes a substrate, a touch panel, and a balancing assembly. The substrate is provided with an elastic resilient member. The touch panel is disposed above the substrate and has an inner surface, and the inner surface has a first corner, a second corner, a third corner, and a fourth corner. The balancing assembly is disposed between the touch panel and the substrate and includes a first balancing bar, a second balancing bar, a third balancing bar, and a fourth balancing bar. Two ends of the first balancing bar, two ends of the second balancing bar, two ends of the third balancing bar, and two ends of the fourth balancing bar are respectively adjacent to the elastic resilient member and the first corner, the elastic resilient member and the second corner, the elastic resilient member and the third corner, and the elastic resilient member and the fourth corner.

According to the touch structure, the touchpad and the electronic equipment, the covering layer makes contact with a finger or a touch pen of a user, the touch layer is touched on the covering layer to generate the touch electric signal, in order to respond to excitation of the electric signal of the corresponding touch layer, the piezoelectric layer vibrates, the touch layer generates the excitation signal and transmits the excitation signal to the upper mechanism, and therefore the touch control effect is achieved. The piezoelectric layer is made of piezoelectric glass and vibrates after being powered on, vibration replaces arrangement of a vibration motor or several discrete piezoelectric ceramic pieces in the prior art, occupation of the structure space is obviously reduced, the overall thickness of the structure is reduced, consideration of traditional design on the whole touchpad structure is greatly simplified through the vibration mode, and the design cost is reduced. And the vibration design of the touch panel is almost standardized. More importantly, the mode of utilizing the whole plane to vibrate integrally avoids the user experience of inconsistent vibration handfeel at different positions of the touch panel due to different placement positions of the vibration motor, and greatly improves the vibration feedback experience of the user.

A portable information handling system is assembled and disassembled by a keystone assembly that couples at an upper surface of the portable housing to overlap a keyboard assembly that covers processing components disposed in the portable housing. The keyboard assembly includes a membrane having a first portion with key press detection sensors contiguous to a second portion with a touch detection sensor that supports a touchpad. In one embodiment, the membrane integrates a printed circuit board that couples a key matrix controller and a touch detection controller interfaced with a communications hub, such as a USB hub, to communicate key and touchpad inputs to a motherboard through a flexible connector portion of the membrane.

The invention relates to the field of touchpad film materials, and discloses a preparation process of a touchpad mylar and a product. The preparation process of the touch panel mylar comprises the following steps: S1, transferring a texture layer on one side surface of a base material layer by using UV transfer printing glue; s2, carrying out three times of silk-screen printing on the other side surface of the base material layer to sequentially form a first metal ink layer, a second metal ink layer and an insulating ink layer; s3, performing vacuum coating on the texture layer to form a wear-resistant anti-fingerprint layer; and S4, adhering an adhesive layer with a release film to the insulating ink layer, and performing die cutting to obtain the touch panel mylar. The prepared touchpad mylar has good metal texture, wear resistance, smoothness and insulativity, the ink layer and the base material layer are stably attached, the ink layer is not prone to falling off and layering under the use conditions of long-term environment temperature and frequent screen touching of the touchpad mylar, and the touch sensitivity is good.

An operating apparatus and an input apparatus for an ultrasound imaging system, and an ultrasound imaging system. The operating apparatus includes a plurality of operating surfaces, wherein at least one of the plurality of operating surfaces is mounted with a trackball assembly and at least one other of the plurality of operating surfaces is mounted with a touchpad assembly, and the operating apparatus can be flipped so that one of the trackball assembly and the touchpad assembly can be selected for controlling the ultrasound imaging system.

Methods and computing devices for estimating a force F exerted on a touchpad are disclosed. In one example, a method comprises determining that the touchpad is not being touched. At least on condition of determining that the touchpad is not being touched, a no-touch capacitance value of the PCB is calculated. After calculating the no-touch capacitance value, the method includes determining that the touchpad is being touched. At least on condition that the touchpad is being touched, the no-touch capacitance value and a touch-based capacitance value are used to estimate the force F exerted on the touchpad.

A digital assistance system, method and device for assisting users. The digital assistance system includes an assistance device having a finger touch pad and sensors operably coupled with the finger touch pad and configured to measure at least one of a heart rate, a blood-oxygen level and a temperature of the user. The digital assistance device is also able to include a communication application for providing non-character based format media data communication via a Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) communication protocol.

Described techniques enable a virtual touchpad for a wearable device by receiving, in response to a touch event, a sensor signal from a motion sensor coupled to the wearable device, the wearable device providing a user interface with a rendering space that is defined relative to the wearable device. The touch event may be associated with a contact space of a contact map defined with respect to the wearable device, based on the sensor signal, and a user interface event of the user interface that corresponds to the contact space may be rendered within the rendering space.

The invention relates to the technical field of touch pad handwriting positioning, and discloses a method for positioning a handwriting position based on a computer touch pad, and the method comprises the steps: S1, collecting related contact parameters of the touch pad in real time through a first pressure sensor, and dynamically switching a cursor control mode and a handwriting positioning mode; parameters such as contact duration, pressure values and click times are collected in real time through a pressure sensor matrix, cursor control and handwriting positioning modes are dynamically switched, a coordinate mapping model of the touchpad and a screen is established by adopting the least square dynamic calibration parameters, a handwriting starting point is accurately positioned in combination with a mean filtering algorithm, and in the handwriting fitting stage, the handwriting matching precision is improved. The number of Bezier curve control points is determined through curvature and speed calculation, track point coordinates are collected through a pressure sensor matrix, smooth handwriting is constructed, full-process control over handwriting input of the touch pad is achieved, and the method has the advantages of being intelligent in mode switching, high in positioning precision, natural and smooth in handwriting and the like.

The present application relates to the technical field of information, and provides a lid open / close detection method. The method comprises: in each detection cycle, sending a driving signal to a first touch electrode of a touchpad or a second touch electrode of a touch screen, and detecting a mutual capacitance generated between the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode; on the basis of the mutual capacitance and a first mapping relationship, determining a folding angle range of an electronic device, the first mapping relationship representing correspondences between capacitances and folding angle ranges; and on the basis of the folding angle range of the electronic device, determining a lid open / close state of the electronic device. By using the method to detect the mutual capacitance between the touchpad and the touch screen of the electronic device, lid open / close detection for the electronic device can be implemented, effectively improving the efficiency of lid open / close detection while reducing costs.

A touchpad module includes an elastic bracket, a touch member, a plurality of connecting elements and a pressure sensing unit. The elastic bracket includes a plurality of cantilevers. The plurality of cantilevers have respective free ends and respective fixed ends. The plurality of connecting elements are connected with the respective free ends and the touch member. When the touch member is pressed in response to an external force, the external force is transmitted to at least one free end through at least one connecting element, the at least one free end is rotated relative to the at least one fixed end in a direction away from the touch member, and the pressure sensing unit is subjected to deformation. According to the deformation, the pressure sensing unit senses a magnitude of a pressing force exerted on the touch member and generates a corresponding pressure sensing signal.

A touch pad and a sensing module thereof are provided. The sensing module defines an annular signal channel along a thickness direction. The sensing module includes a grounding layer and an electrode layer located at one side of the grounding layer. The electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of metal pads that are spaced apart from the first electrodes and the second electrodes. The first electrodes are arranged in rows parallel to each other, the second electrodes are arranged in columns parallel to each other, and at least one of the rows and at least one of the columns are arranged across the annular signal channel that is provided without any metal pad therein. A projection space defined by orthogonally projecting the grounding layer along the thickness direction is overlapped with the first electrodes and the second electrodes.

A touchpad assembly comprises a cover plate, a touch circuit board, a carrying mechanism, a magnet group, and vibration isolators. The touch circuit board is disposed under the cover plate and comprises a first touch electrode layer, a second touch electrode layer, and a single-layer embedded coil layer. The carrying mechanism has a central accommodating portion. The magnet group is disposed in the central accommodating portion and constitutes a vibration module with the single-layer embedded coil layer. A pressing gap is formed between the touch circuit board and the magnet group. The vibration isolators are disposed between the touch circuit board and the carrying mechanism.

The present invention provides an occupant state detection device to which a touchpad and a grip sensor are both provided and in which the grip sensor and the touchpad can operate normally and a computer program. The occupant state detection device comprises: a steering wheel having a touchpad that can be operated using electrostatic capacitance and a grip sensor that detects whether a driver is gripping a rim portion; an operation determination unit that makes an operation determination regarding whether the touchpad is being operated; and a grip determination unit that makes a grip determination regarding whether the rim portion of the steering wheel is being gripped.

Described are devices that provide thermal haptic feedback. A touchpad, touchscreen or other such device may receive an indication of an adjustment at a first portion of a touch user interface, and in response, determine a temperature setting based on the adjustment. Voltage supplied to a matrix of temperature actuating elements at the touch user interface may then automatically control the haptic temperature feedback. Color and brightness correction may be provided to account for the heat of the temperature actuating elements. Also, the thermal haptic feedback may be provided by a trackball. In response to an adjustment of a value of a parameter effected by the trackball, the medium may automatically control one or more temperature actuating elements in the trackball to provide a haptic temperature feedback.

The invention discloses a touchpad and electronic equipment. The touchpad comprises a covering layer; the FPC board is provided with an induction area and an extension area, the induction area is attached to the lower portion of the covering layer, a reinforcing layer is attached to the bottom of the induction area, and a processor is arranged on the extension area; the piezoelectric layer is arranged at the bottom of the reinforcing layer and is electrically connected with the processor; the FPC board is lighter and thinner than the PCB, the piezoelectric layer is lighter and thinner than the combination of the linear motor and the mass block, the touch panel with vibration feedback is formed by the structure that the four layers of the covering layer, the FPC board, the reinforcing layer and the piezoelectric layer are attached to one another, the touch panel is obviously lighter and thinner than a touch panel in the prior art, and when the touch panel is lighter and thinner, the vibration feedback effect of the touch panel is greatly improved. The notebook is not limited by the thickness of the touch panel, so that the notebook is designed to be lighter and thinner, and the light and thin development requirement of the notebook is met.

A lighting touchpad is provided. The lighting touchpad includes a substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, a plurality of bonding pads and a plurality of lighting devices. The plurality of first electrodes, the plurality of second electrodes and the plurality of bonding pads are arranged on the substrate, and the first electrodes, the second electrodes, and the bonding pads are alternately arranged in a sensing area without overlapping with one another. The pluralities of lighting devices are connected to a part of the bonding pads. The sensing area includes a plurality of sensing cells, and the first electrodes, the second electrodes and the bonding pads are arranged according to a predetermined spatial characteristic for each of the sensing cells.

A touchpad system including a touchpad and a touch controller. The touchpad includes a plurality of force sensors and a touch sensor. The touch controller is in electrical communication with the touchpad and is configured to obtain a touch signal from the touch sensor and determine a signal-to-noise ratio of the touch signal. The touch controller is further configured to determine whether to enter a high noise mode based on the signal-to-noise-ratio of the touch signal. Upon determining to enter the high noise mode, the touch controller is further configured to obtain a force signal from the plurality of force sensors, determine a weighting of the touch signal and force signal based on the signal-to-noise ratio of the touch sensor, aggregate the touch signal and force signal based on the weighting, and determine a contact position of a user touch on the touchpad using the aggregated touch and force signals.

Eyewear configured to control an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). In one example, a user interacts with the eyewear to generate control signals that are transmitted to the UAV to control the flight path, speed, orientation, and to communicate other instructions to the UAV. An input of the eyewear is controlled by the user to control the UAV, such as a touchpad, a microphone, a head movement tracker and a camera. The user is also able to configure and customize the eyewear to send specific control signals to the UAV as a function of user actions. This includes specific head movements and head gestures of the user as a method of controlling the UAV. This allows the user to control the UAV in a more natural and convenient way.

A controller includes a housing, and a handle extends from a portion of the housing. The housing defines an internal cavity. The housing includes a thumb plate, wherein the thumb plate comprises a touchpad, one or more actuators, and / or a joystick. The one or more actuators comprise buttons. The controller includes a logic board including a processor oriented in the internal cavity. The controller comprises a switch assembly oriented in the internal cavity and configured to engage the logic board. The handle comprises at least one trigger oriented for movement into the internal cavity. The trigger can include a magnet and magnetic sensor.

The invention discloses a touch panel key module which comprises a base, at least two main fluctuation rods and an auxiliary fluctuation rod, the middle of each main fluctuation rod is pivoted to the base, and the auxiliary fluctuation rod is arranged between the main fluctuation rods and is pivoted to one end of each main fluctuation rod; when the end, away from the auxiliary fluctuation rod, of each main fluctuation rod is stressed, the main fluctuation rods pivot relative to the base and drive the auxiliary fluctuation rods to move up and down relative to the base, and therefore the auxiliary fluctuation rods make contact with the touch panel to achieve triggering. The lever formed by the main fluctuation rod is used for compensating the pressing stroke, the problem that the pressing stroke is too long or pressing fails due to deformation of the touch panel can be effectively compensated, it is ensured that triggering can be achieved when the edge or the corner of the touch panel is subjected to small pressing force, triggering can be achieved only through the small pressing force, and the time and labor are saved. The triggering is more sensitive, and the pressing hand feeling is increased. The invention further discloses a touchpad module with the touchpad key module.

A base chassis assembly for an information handling system for replacement of power and input / output (IO) connectors or a battery may comprise a base chassis top cover joined to a base chassis bottom cover and including a replaceable IO and power pin / port connector module and a removable palm rest and touchpad assembly enclosing a battery disposed within base chassis assembly. A connector module circuit board operably connected to power and IO connectors in the replaceable IO and power pin / port connector module slidable to slide the power and IO connectors into sidewall apertures of the base assembly upon installation of the replaceable IO and power pin / port connector module in the base chassis assembly and the removable palm rest and touchpad assembly removable with removal of at least one fastener to access and service the battery providing for simple servicing or replacement of parts for the information handling system.

The utility model belongs to the field of notebook computer detection, particularly relates to a notebook computer touch pressing detection device, and aims to solve the problems that a computer is adsorbed and fixed through a negative pressure system in the prior art, the negative pressure system depends on sealing performance to maintain pressure difference, a sealing element is possibly aged or damaged after long-term use, and the adsorption force is reduced. In order to solve the problems that in the prior art, the abrasion condition of a negative pressure system needs to be checked regularly, and the maintenance or replacement cost is high, the following scheme is provided that the device comprises a workbench and a detection module, the top of the workbench is provided with a clamping mechanism used for clamping a computer, and the workbench is provided with a moving mechanism used for moving the detection module; the two clamping plates can stably clamp a computer, the computer touchpad is prevented from shaking or being damaged in the detection process, the cleaning plate and the wiping cotton can be driven to move up and down, the cleaning plate and the wiping cotton are matched with the moving frame in a moving mode, the touchpad can be comprehensively cleaned, and interference of impurities such as dust on the detection result is reduced.

The present invention relates to the technical field of electronic digital data processing, and discloses a method and system for designing an interactive interface of a MINI PC product with an integrated touch panel, the method comprising: sensing the finger-interface distance between a user's finger and the integrated touch panel; calculating the touch success rate of the user's finger, and determining the interface size of the interactive interface in the integrated touch panel; identifying the user's finger's touch habit from the user's touch data, and using the user's touch habit to count the effective interface layout of the interactive interface from the interface layout data; analyzing the user's finger's layout requirements for the interactive interface, and using the user's touch habit to count the effective interface color of the interactive interface from the interface color data, and analyzing the user's finger's color requirements for the interactive interface according to the user's touch habit and the effective interface color; and designing the interactive interface for the MINI PC product with an integrated touch panel. The present invention can improve the immediacy of the interactive interface design of the MINI PC product with an integrated touch panel.