Pressure Reference Updating for Accurate Gesture Detection

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing pressure detection systems in human-computer interaction technologies face accuracy issues due to invalid pressure signals, leading to missed or false detection of user gestures, which affects user experience, especially in devices like headsets where environmental factors like temperature changes and abnormal touch durations impact the pressure reference value.

Innovation Solution

A method that determines a latest pressure reference value by analyzing amplitude and time characteristics of consecutive pressure signals, updating thresholds for positive, negative, and no-pressure conditions, and using an IIR filter to reduce environmental impacts, thereby improving the accuracy of pressure detection.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If the pressure reference value is updated using traditional methods, then the system can maintain basic pressure detection functionality, but the accuracy of pressure detection deteriorates due to invalid signals affecting the reference value

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepressure detection accuracyVSAvoidpressure reference value stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary classification of pressure signals into positive pressure signals, negative pressure signals, and no-pressure signals before calculating the pressure reference value. By identifying and excluding negative pressure signals (invalid signals) in advance, the reference value calculation is based only on valid signals, thereby improving both accuracy and stability without requiring complex post-processing corrections

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent converts the harmful effect of invalid signals by using the timing characteristics of pressure signals to distinguish between valid and invalid inputs. By analyzing whether pressure signals occur during expected gesture periods or abnormal periods, the system transforms potentially harmful invalid signals into useful information for improving detection reliability through selective inclusion in reference value calculations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #22Blessing in disguise (Convert harm into benefit)

2Adaptability or versatility

If the pressure reference value is updated frequently to adapt to environmental changes, then the adaptability improves, but the likelihood of false detections increases due to noise and invalid signals

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveenvironmental adaptation capabilityVSAvoidgesture detection accuracy
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

Before updating the pressure reference value, the system performs preliminary classification of incoming pressure signals to determine whether they represent valid gestures or invalid conditions. This preliminary action ensures that only genuinely valid pressure changes are incorporated into reference value updates, allowing the system to adapt to environmental changes while filtering out noise and preventing false detections

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system implements a feedback mechanism where the classified pressure signals continuously inform and adjust the pressure reference value. By using feedback from signal classification results to dynamically update reference values, the system maintains adaptability to environmental changes while ensuring that updates are based on validated information, thereby preventing false detections caused by noise

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Ease of operation

If traditional pressure detection methods are used, then the device complexity remains low, but missed detections and false detections occur reducing user experience

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveuser experience qualityVSAvoidsignal processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the pressure signal processing into distinct classification stages: identifying positive pressure signals, negative pressure signals, and no-pressure signals. This segmentation allows the system to handle different signal types through dedicated processing paths, improving detection accuracy and user experience while keeping each processing segment relatively simple and manageable

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentEP4068154B1Method and apparatus for determining pressure reference value, and chip and electronic device
Publication Date: 2024.09.11 SHENZHEN GOODIX TECH CO LTD
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AI summary

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for determining a pressure reference value, and a chip and an electronic device. The method includes: consecutively acquiring N pressure signals by a pressure sensor; acquiring consecutive N pressure values on the basis of the N pressure signals; and determining a latest pressure reference value on the basis of the consecutive N pressure values and time characteristics of the consecutively acquired N pressure signals; wherein each of the pressure values is a difference between a sampling value corresponding to a pressure signal and the pressure reference value, and the consecutively acquired N pressure signals are acquired within a duration where a pressure is applied to the pressure sensor once, N being a positive integer greater than 0.