Earphone Touch Positioning Cover for Accurate On-Ear Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current earphones with touch control regions on the outer shell are difficult to accurately locate and operate due to their placement on the user's ears, leading to challenges in precise touch navigation.
Innovation Solution
The earphone design incorporates a decorative cover with a positioning protrusion on the outer shell, forming a touch positioning region that facilitates accurate touch detection, eliminating the need for additional detection regions and enhancing visual recognition of the touch area.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a touch control region is provided on the outer shell of the earphone, then users can control the earphone through touch operations, but it is difficult for users to accurately locate and touch the touch control region when the earphone is worn on the ear
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a positioning protrusion as an intermediary tactile element that mediates between the user's touch and the touch detection region. The positioning protrusion protrudes from the decorative cover and provides a distinct tactile reference point that guides users to accurately locate the touch control region without directly exposing the detection elements, thus resolving the contradiction between operational convenience and location precision.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs visual differentiation through the decorative cover that has a different appearance from the outer shell. This visual contrast helps users identify the touch control region's location on the earphone body, complementing the tactile positioning protrusion and enabling accurate touch operations even when the earphone is worn.
2Measurement precision
If an additional touch detection region is separately set up, then touch detection accuracy can be improved, but the size of the earphone increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the touch detection region with the decorative cover by making the decorative cover itself serve as the touch detection interface. The touch detection region is integrated into the decorative cover structure, eliminating the need for separate detection regions and reducing overall earphone size while maintaining accurate touch detection capability through the positioning protrusion guidance.
Solution Approach 2:
The decorative cover serves multiple functions: it provides aesthetic decoration, acts as the touch detection region, and incorporates the positioning protrusion for tactile guidance. This multi-functionality eliminates redundant components and reduces earphone size while maintaining touch detection accuracy through the integrated design.
3Ease of operation
If the touch detection region is made visually distinct, then user awareness and learning cost are improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses visual differentiation through the decorative cover's distinct appearance from the outer shell to make the touch detection region easily identifiable. This visual cue improves user awareness and reduces learning cost without requiring complex additional components, as the aesthetic element itself serves the functional purpose of region identification.
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AI summary
The present disclosure relates to an earphone, including: an ear hook and a core module connected to the ear hook, the core module including an outer shell, a decorative cover, and a touch module, the outer shell including an outer surface away from an ear of a user when the earphone is in a wearing state, the decorative cover being disposed on the outer surface of the outer shell and configured to form a touch positioning region for the user to perform touch positioning; a positioning protrusion being disposed on the outer shell and/or the decorative cover, the positioning protrusion being located in the touch positioning region and protruding from an outer surface of the decorative cover away from the outer shell; the touch module being disposed on the outer shell and including a touch detection region that at least partially overlaps with the touch positioning region.