U.S. patent application number 15/324903 was filed with the patent office on 2018-03-15 for wearable device and method of controlling the same.
The applicant listed for this patent is BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.. Invention is credited to Zicheng HUANG.
Application Number | 20180074640 15/324903 |
Document ID | / |
Family ID | 54451988 |
Filed Date | 2018-03-15 |
United States Patent
Application |
20180074640 |
Kind Code |
A9 |
HUANG; Zicheng |
March 15, 2018 |
WEARABLE DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME
Abstract
The present disclosure discloses a wearable device and method of
controlling the same, the wearable device including a thermal
sensing acquisition module for receiving a touch operation by a
user and acquiring a thermal sensing distribution curve of the
touch operation as a current thermal sensing distribution curve, a
thermal sensing processing module for determining a function
corresponding to the current thermal sensing distribution curve as
a current function based on the current thermal sensing
distribution curve and preset corresponding relationships between
thermal sensing distribution curves and functions, an instruction
generating module for generating an invoking control instruction
corresponding to the current function according to the current
function, and an execution module for executing the invoking
control instruction to perform the current function. The wearable
device and method of controlling the same provided by the present
disclosure may be applied to a wearable device where touch
operations are used.
Inventors: |
HUANG; Zicheng; (Beijing,
CN) |
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Applicant: |
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BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD. |
Beijing |
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CN |
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Prior
Publication: |
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Publication Date |
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US 20170205938 A1 |
July 20, 2017 |
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Family ID: |
54451988 |
Appl. No.: |
15/324903 |
Filed: |
January 4, 2016 |
PCT Filed: |
January 4, 2016 |
PCT NO: |
PCT/CN2016/070026 PCKC 00 |
371 Date: |
January 9, 2017 |
Current U.S.
Class: |
1/1 |
Current CPC
Class: |
G06F 3/041 20130101;
G06F 1/163 20130101; G01K 7/22 20130101; G06F 3/0416 20130101; G06F
2203/04104 20130101; G06F 3/0487 20130101 |
International
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G06F 3/041 20060101
G06F003/041; G06F 1/16 20060101 G06F001/16 |
Foreign Application Data
Date |
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Application Number |
Aug 31, 2015 |
CN |
201510548945.1 |
Claims
1. A wearable device, comprising: a thermal sensing acquisition
module configured to receive a touch operation by a user, and
acquire a thermal sensing distribution curve of the touch operation
as a current thermal sensing distribution curve; a thermal sensing
processing module configured to determine a function corresponding
to the current thermal sensing distribution curve as a current
function based on the current thermal sensing distribution curve
and preset corresponding relationships between a set of thermal
sensing distribution curves and a set of functions; an instruction
generating module configured to generate an invoking control
instruction corresponding to the current function according to the
current function; and an execution module configured to execute the
invoking control instruction to perform the current function.
2. The wearable device according to claim 1, wherein the set of
functions is a set of detecting modes.
3. The wearable device according to claim 2, further comprising: a
presetting module configured to preset thermal sensing distribution
curves which respectively have 1 through N peaks to correspond to a
first through N.sup.th detecting modes respectively, where N is a
positive integer; wherein the thermal sensing module is further
configured to, when the current thermal sensing distribution curve
has n peaks, determine the current detecting mode to be an n.sup.th
detecting mode, where n is a positive integer and
1.ltoreq.n.ltoreq.N.
4. The wearable device according to claim 2, further comprising: at
least one measuring module configured to, when the current
detecting mode runs, measure one or more detecting parameters
corresponding to the current detecting mode.
5. The wearable device according to claim 2, further comprising: an
instruction receiving module configured to receive a detecting mode
changing instruction for changing a detecting parameter of the
detecting mode; and a changing module configured to change the
detecting parameter of the detecting mode according to the
detecting mode changing instruction.
6. The wearable device according to claim 2, wherein the thermal
sensing acquisition module comprises a metal electrode layer, a
thermistor layer under the metal electrode layer, and an insulating
heat-conducting adhesive layer between the metal electrode layer
and the thermistor layer.
7. The wearable device according to claim 6, wherein the thermistor
layer comprises at least two thermistor portions which are
separated from each other, wherein each thermistor portion consists
of multiple broken line or curved line-shaped thermistors with
similar shapes and sequentially increasing lengths encircling one
after another, any two of the broken line or curved line-shaped
thermistors being separated from each other.
8. The wearable device according to claim 6, wherein the insulating
heat-conducting adhesive layer has the same shape and size as the
metal electrode layer.
9. The wearable device according to claim 7, wherein the insulating
heat-conducting adhesive layer comprises multiple linear-shaped
insulating heat-conducting adhesives, the linear-shaped insulating
heat-conducting adhesives corresponding to the broken line or
curved line-shaped thermistors in a one-to-one manner.
10. A method of controlling a wearable device, comprising:
receiving a touch operation by a user, and acquiring a thermal
sensing distribution curve of the touch operation as a current
thermal sensing distribution curve; determining a function
corresponding to the current thermal sensing distribution curve as
a current function based on the current thermal sensing
distribution curve and preset corresponding relationships between a
set of thermal sensing distribution curves and a set of functions;
generating an invoking control instruction corresponding to the
current function according to the current function; and executing
the invoking control instruction to perform the current
function.
11. The method of controlling a wearable device according to claim
10, wherein the set of functions is a set of detecting modes.
12. The method of controlling a wearable device according to claim
11, wherein the method further comprises, prior to determining a
detecting mode corresponding to the current thermal sensing
distribution curve as a current detecting mode based on the current
thermal sensing distribution curve and preset corresponding
relationships between thermal sensing distribution curves and
detecting modes: presetting thermal sensing distribution curves
which respectively have 1 through N peaks to correspond to a first
through N.sup.th detecting modes respectively, where N is a
positive integer; wherein the determining a detecting mode
corresponding to the current thermal sensing distribution curve as
a current detecting mode based on the current thermal sensing
distribution curve and preset corresponding relationships between
thermal sensing distribution curves and detecting modes comprises:
when the current thermal sensing distribution curve has n peaks,
determining the current detecting mode to be an n.sup.th detecting
mode, where n is a positive integer and 1.ltoreq.n.ltoreq.N.
13. The method of controlling a wearable device according to claim
11, further comprising: when the current detecting mode runs,
measuring one or more detecting parameters corresponding to the
current detecting mode.
14. The method of controlling a wearable device according to claim
11, further comprising: receiving a detecting mode changing
instruction for changing a detecting parameter of the detecting
mode; and changing the detecting parameter of the detecting mode
according to the detecting mode changing instruction.
Description
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a National Stage Entry of
PCT/CN2016/070026 filed Jan. 4, 2016, which claims the benefit and
priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 201510548945.1, filed on
Aug. 31, 2015, the disclosures of which are incorporated by
reference herein in their entirety as part of the present
application.
BACKGROUND
[0002] Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of
electronic information technology, and in particular to a wearable
device and method of controlling the same.
[0003] With the development of the electronic information
technology, the touch technology has become an important research
aspect in the development of terminals. The touch technology is
employed in more and more fields such as architecture, medicine,
entertainment, etc. Wearable devices are also heavily promoted
because of their portability.
[0004] During operating a wearable device, a user enters a
functional interface corresponding to an icon of a specific
function by touching to click on the icon, and then touches to
click on various options within the functional interface, so as to
perform various operations. However, when the user desires that the
wearable device realizes one of multiple functions, the user
generally needs to touch to click multiple times for selection, and
needs to accurately touch to click on the icon or another
identifier corresponding to this function. As such, the touch
operations are relatively complicated, and their poor accuracy
leads to their low flexibility.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION
[0005] The present disclosure provides a wearable device and method
of controlling the same, so as to simplify the touch operations of
the wearable device and enhance the flexibility of operations.
[0006] The technical solution provided by embodiments of the
present disclosure is as follows.
[0007] In an aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure
provides a wearable device, which includes a thermal sensing
acquisition module configured to receive a touch operation by a
user, and acquire a thermal sensing distribution curve of the touch
operation as a current thermal sensing distribution curve, a
thermal sensing processing module configured to determine a
function corresponding to the current thermal sensing distribution
curve as a current function based on the current thermal sensing
distribution curve and preset corresponding relationships between
thermal sensing distribution curves and functions, an instruction
generating module configured to generate an invoking control
instruction corresponding to the current function according to the
current function, and an execution module configured to execute the
invoking control instruction to perform the current function.
[0008] In another aspect, an embodiment of the present disclosure
provides a method of controlling a wearable device, which includes
receiving a touch operation by a user, and acquiring a thermal
sensing distribution curve of the touch operation as a current
thermal sensing distribution curve, determining a function
corresponding to the current thermal sensing distribution curve as
a current function based on the current thermal sensing
distribution curve and preset corresponding relationships between
thermal sensing distribution curves and functions, generating an
invoking control instruction corresponding to the current function
according to the current function, and executing the invoking
control instruction to perform the current function.
[0009] According to the wearable device and method of controlling
the same provided in embodiments of the present disclosure, the
thermal sensing acquisition module receives a touch operation by a
user to acquire a current thermal sensing distribution curve of the
touch operation, the thermal processing module determines a current
function corresponding to the current thermal sensing distribution
curve, the instruction generating module generates an invoking
control instruction corresponding to the current function, and the
execution module performs the current function. In comparison to a
wearable device which requires touching to click for selection to
be performed multiple times to perform one of multiple functions,
the wearable device according to the present disclosure only
requires the user to perform one touch operation to perform a
function thereof. The wearable device performs different functions
based on different thermal sensing distribution curves of touch
operations, such that the touch operations are simpler and more
flexible.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0010] The illustrative drawings herein, provided for further
understanding of the present disclosure, is used for explaining the
present disclosure together with schematic embodiments and
description thereof, but not to limit the present disclosure. In
the drawings:
[0011] FIG. 1 is a structure view of a wearable device provided in
a first embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0012] FIG. 2 is a flow chart of a method of controlling a wearable
device provided in the first embodiment of the present
disclosure;
[0013] FIG. 3 is a structure view of a wearable device provided in
a second embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0014] FIG. 4 is a flow chart of a method of controlling a wearable
device provided in the second embodiment of the present
disclosure;
[0015] FIG. 5 is a first schematic view of a touch operation in an
embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0016] FIG. 6 is a schematic view of a thermal sensing distribution
curve corresponding to FIG. 5;
[0017] FIG. 7 is a second schematic view of a touch operation in an
embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0018] FIG. 8 is a schematic view of a thermal sensing distribution
curve corresponding to FIG. 7;
[0019] FIG. 9 is a structure view of a wearable device provided in
a third embodiment of the present disclosure;
[0020] FIG. 10 is a flow chart of a method of controlling a
wearable device provided in the third embodiment of the present
disclosure;
[0021] FIG. 11 is a structure view of a wearable device provided in
a fourth embodiment of the present disclosure; and
[0022] FIG. 12 is a structure view of a metal electrode layer and a
thermistor layer provided in the fourth embodiment of the present
disclosure.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0023] Detailed description is provided hereafter in combination
with the accompanying drawings, to further describe the wearable
device and method of controlling the same provided in embodiments
of the present disclosure.
First Embodiment
[0024] With reference to FIG. 1, a wearable device 10 provided in
an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a thermal sensing
acquisition module 11, a thermal sensing processing module 12, an
instruction generating module 13, and an execution module 14.
[0025] The thermal sensing acquisition module 11 is used for
receiving a touch operation by a user, and acquiring a thermal
sensing distribution curve of the touch operation as a current
thermal sensing distribution curve. The touch operation by the user
may be an operation of touching on the thermal sensing acquisition
module 11 with a finger by the user. The thermal sensing
distribution curve represents a distribution of heat generated by
the touch operation on the thermal sensing acquisition module 11.
The current thermal sensing distribution curve is the thermal
sensing distribution curve generated by a current touch operation
by the user.
[0026] The thermal sensing processing module 12 is used for storing
preset corresponding relationships between a set of different
thermal sensing distribution curves and a set of functions that can
be performed by the wearable device. The function corresponding to
the current thermal sensing distribution curve is determined as the
current function based on the current thermal sensing distribution
curve and the preset corresponding relationships between the
thermal sensing distribution curves and the functions.
[0027] The preset corresponding relationships between the thermal
sensing distribution curves and the functions are stored in the
wearable device 10. Specifically, there may be a one-to-one,
one-to-many, or many-to-one corresponding relationships between the
set of thermal sensing distribution curves and the set of
functions.
[0028] The set of functions may include any types of functions or
specified types of functions which can be performed by the wearable
device 10, for example, various types of functions such as a
detecting function, an output function, an input function, etc. If
a certain type of functions includes more than one function, each
function may be set as one mode. For example, when there are
multiple detecting functions, each function may be referred to as a
detecting mode.
[0029] Taking a wearable device applied in the field of medicine as
an example and assuming that a function is specifically a detecting
mode, a thermal sensing distribution curve B corresponds to a first
detecting mode in which the pulse of the user is detected, and a
thermal sensing distribution curve C corresponds to a second
detecting mode in which the pulse and blood pressure of the user is
detected. After the thermal sensing processing module 12 obtains
the current thermal sensing distribution curve, the thermal sensing
processing module 12 searches for a detecting mode corresponding to
the current thermal sensing distribution curve, i.e., a current
detecting mode, in the preset thermal sensing distribution curves
and the detecting modes.
[0030] The present disclosure is described below by taking as an
example the type of functions as a detection function which is
specifically a detecting mode.
[0031] The instruction generating module 13 is used for generating
an invoking control instruction corresponding to the current
detecting mode based on the current detecting mode. Here, various
detecting modes correspond to various invoking control
instructions. The instruction generating module 13 generates a
corresponding control instruction based on the current detecting
mode.
[0032] The execution module 14 is used for executing the invoking
control instruction and running the current detecting mode. For
example, when the current detecting mode indicates detecting the
pulse and blood pressure of the user, the execution module 14
executes the invoking control instruction corresponding to the
current detecting mode, and the wearable device 10 detects the
pulse and blood pressure of the user.
[0033] With reference to FIG. 2, the method of controlling the
above wearable device 10 provided in an embodiment of the present
disclosure will be described below. The method of controlling
includes the following:
[0034] Step 201: a touch operation by a user is received, and a
thermal sensing distribution curve of the touch operation is
acquired as a current thermal sensing distribution curve.
[0035] Step 202: a detecting mode corresponding to the current
thermal sensing distribution curve is determined as a current
detecting mode based on the current thermal sensing distribution
curve and preset corresponding relationships between thermal
sensing distribution curves and detecting modes.
[0036] Step 203: an invoking control instruction corresponding to
the current detecting mode is generated based on the current
detecting mode.
[0037] Step 204: the invoking control instruction is executed and
the current detecting mode runs.
[0038] The above method of controlling a wearable device 10 may be
described with reference to the above specific description of the
modules of the wearable device and will not be repeated here.
[0039] According to the wearable device 10 and method of
controlling the same provided in embodiments of the present
disclosure, the thermal sensing acquisition module 11 receives a
touch operation by a user to acquire a current thermal sensing
distribution curve of the touch operation, the thermal processing
module 12 determines a current detecting mode corresponding to the
current thermal sensing distribution curve, the instruction
generating module 13 generates an invoking control instruction
corresponding to the current detecting mode, and the execution
module 14 runs the current detecting mode. In comparison to a
wearable device 10 which requires touching to click to be performed
multiple times to perform one of various functions, the wearable
device 10 according to embodiments of the present disclosure only
requires the user to perform one touch operation to perform a
function thereof. The wearable device 10 performs different
functions based on different thermal sensing distribution curves of
touch operations, such that the touch operations are simpler and
more flexible.
Second Embodiment
[0040] As shown in FIG. 3, the wearable device in the above
embodiment may further include a presetting module 15, which is
used for presetting a thermal sensing distribution curve with one
peak to correspond to a first detecting mode, presetting a thermal
sensing distribution with two peaks to correspond to a second
detecting mode, and so on, presetting a thermal sensing
distribution with N peaks to correspond to an N.sup.th detecting
mode, where N is an integer greater than 2.
[0041] Correspondingly, the thermal sensing processing module 12
specifically determines, based on the current thermal sensing
distribution curve, the current detecting mode in the following
way: the thermal sensing processing module 12 is specifically used
for: when the current thermal sensing distribution curve has one
peak, determining the current detecting mode to be the first
detecting mode, when the current thermal sensing distribution curve
has two peaks, determining the current detecting mode to be the
second detecting mode, and so on, when the current thermal sensing
distribution curve has N peaks, determining the current detecting
mode to be the N.sup.th detecting mode.
[0042] With reference to FIG. 4, corresponding to the above
presetting module 15 and the thermal sensing processing module 12,
on the basis of the first embodiment, steps 205 to 207 may be added
prior to the step 202 in the method of controlling a wearable
device, and step 202 may be further sub-divided into steps 2021 to
2023:
[0043] Step 205: a correspondence between a thermal sensing
distribution curve with one peak and a first detecting mode is
preset. Here, the difference between thermal sensing distribution
curves is caused by the distribution of a touch in a touch
operation on the thermal sensing acquisition module 11, and a
thermal sensing distribution curve with one peak corresponds to a
first detecting mode, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, for example. In
FIG. 5, the touch operation by the user is a touch operation with a
finger, and corresponding to the touch operation in FIG. 5, the
thermal sensing distribution curve in FIG. 6 has one peak.
[0044] Step 206: a correspondence between a thermal sensing
distribution curve with two peaks and a second detecting mode is
preset. For example, as shown in FIG. 7, the touch operation by the
user is a touch operation with two fingers, and corresponding to
the touch operation in FIG. 7, the thermal sensing distribution
curve in FIG. 8 has two peaks.
[0045] Step 207: and so on, a correspondence between a thermal
sensing distribution curve with N peaks and an N.sup.th detecting
mode is preset, where N is an integer greater than 2. The specific
content is similar to steps 205 and 206, and will not be repeated
here.
[0046] Step 2021: when the current thermal sensing distribution
curve has one peak, the current detecting mode is determined to be
the first detecting mode. For example, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6,
the touch operation by the user is a touch operation with one
finger and the thermal sensing distribution curve has one peak, so
the first detecting mode corresponding to the thermal sensing
distribution curve with one peak is determined to be the current
detecting mode.
[0047] Step 2022: when the current thermal sensing distribution
curve has two peaks, the current detecting mode is determined to be
the second detecting mode. For example, as shown in FIGS. 7 and 8,
the touch operation by the user is a touch operation with two
fingers, so the second detecting mode corresponding to the thermal
sensing distribution curve with two peaks is determined to be the
current detecting mode.
[0048] Step 2023: and so on, when the current thermal sensing
distribution curve has N peaks, the current detecting mode is
determined to be the N.sup.th detecting mode. The current thermal
sensing distribution curve has N peaks corresponds to the N.sup.th
detecting mode. The specific content is similar to steps 2021 and
2022, and will not be repeated here.
Third Embodiment
[0049] With reference to FIG. 9, specifically, the wearable device
10 in the above embodiment may further include an instruction
receiving module 16 for receiving a mode changing instruction from
the user and a changing module 17 for changing a detection
parameter of the detecting mode, which enables the wearable device
10 to be configurable and further improves the flexibility of the
touch operation, as well as a measuring module 18 for measuring a
detecting parameter of the current detecting mode.
[0050] Here, the instruction receiving module 16 is used for
receiving a detecting mode changing instruction. The instruction
receiving module 16 may communicate with the outside using a
communication technique such as Bluetooth and wireless network. The
detecting mode changing instruction is used for changing a
detecting parameter of the detecting mode. The detecting parameter
may be a detecting parameter required to be measured in the
detecting mode. For example, for a wearable device 10 applied in
the field of medicine, the detecting parameter may be heartbeat,
pulse, blood pressure, sleep time, etc.
[0051] The changing module 17 is used for changing a detecting
parameter of the detecting mode according to the detecting mode
changing instruction. For example, for the wearable device 12
applied in the field of medicine, the detecting parameters
corresponding to the detecting mode D include sleep time and blood
pressure. When the instruction receiving module 16 receives a
detecting mode changing instruction instructing changing the
detecting parameter corresponding to the detecting mode D to sleep
time, the changing module 17 changes the detecting parameter
corresponding to the detecting mode D to sleep time, such that the
wearable device 10 only detects sleep time when the detecting mode
D is invoked.
[0052] The measuring module 18 is used for measuring one or more
detecting parameters corresponding to the current detecting mode
when the current detecting mode runs. The measuring module 18 is
associated with the detecting parameter of the current detecting
mode. For example, if the detecting parameter required to be
detected in the current detecting mode is sleep time, a measuring
module 18 for detecting sleep time is invoked, and if the detecting
parameters required to be detected in the current detecting mode
are sleep time and blood pressure, a measuring module 18 for
detecting sleep time and a measuring module 18 for detecting blood
pressure are invoked.
[0053] With reference to FIG. 10, corresponding to the instruction
receiving module 16, the changing module 17 and the measuring
module 18 of the wearable device 10 in the above embodiment, on the
basis of the first embodiment, the method of controlling a wearable
device 10 may further include steps 208, 209 and 210 as
follows.
[0054] Step 208: a detecting mode changing instruction is received.
Specifically, the wearable device 10 can receive a detecting mode
changing instruction from another control terminal. The detecting
mode changing instruction is used for changing a detecting
parameter of the detecting mode. For example, the control terminal
may be a mobile phone, which may receive a customized operation
from the user and sends a detecting mode changing instruction for
changing the detecting parameter in the wearable device 10 to the
wearable device 10.
[0055] Step 209: the detecting parameter of the detecting mode is
changed according to the detecting mode changing instruction.
[0056] Step 210: when the current detecting mode runs, a detecting
parameter required for the current detecting mode is measured.
[0057] The specific content of steps 208 to 210 may be described
with reference to the description of the instruction receiving
module 16, the changing module 17 and the measuring module 18 of
the wearable device 10 and will not be repeated here. It is noted
that steps 208 to 209 and steps 201 to 204 are independent of each
other and thus do not have any specific sequential relationship.
FIG. 7 only illustrates one possible sequential relationship, while
other sequential relationships between steps 208 to 209 and steps
201 to 204 which can realize the present disclosure are also within
the scope of the present disclosure.
Fourth Embodiment
[0058] With reference to FIGS. 11 and 12, a specific structure of
the wearable device 10 is shown in FIG. 11. However, embodiments of
the present disclosure are not limited to the specific structure of
the wearable device 10 in FIG. 11. The thermal sensing acquisition
module 11 in the first to third embodiments includes a metal
electrode layer 111 and a thermistor layer 112 located under the
metal electrode layer 111, as well as an insulating heat-conducting
adhesive layer interposed between the metal electrode layer 111 and
the thermistor layer 112 and used for bonding the metal electrode
layer 111 and the thermistor layer 112. The insulating
heat-conducting adhesive layer is not shown in FIGS. 11 and 12
since its thickness is very small. The metal electrode layer 111
can conduct the heat during the touch operation by the user to the
thermistor layer 112, so that the thermistor layer 112 may generate
a thermal sensing distribution curve.
[0059] Specifically, in order to enhance the accuracy of the
thermal sensing distribution curve generated by the thermistor
layer 112, the thermistor layer 112 includes at least two
thermistor portions separated from each other, e.g., thermistor
portions R1 and R2 as shown in FIGS. 11 and 12. Each thermistor
portion consists of multiple broken line or curved line-shaped
thermistors of similar shapes and sequentially increasing lengths
encircling one after another, any two of which are separated from
each other. Specifically, the broken line shape may be an
acute-angle, right-angle, obtuse-angle or broken-line wavy shape.
The curved line shape may be a semi-circular, semi-elliptical or
curved wavy shape. For example, as shown in FIG. 12, the thermistor
portions R1 and R2 have the same shape and size. The thermistor
portions R1 and R2 each consists of multiple semi-circular
thermistors with sequentially increasing lengths encircling one
after another. The thermistor portion R1 consists of semi-circular
thermistors A.sub.l to A.sub.6, any two of which are separated from
each other. The thermistor portion R2 consists of semi-circular
thermistors A.sub.7 to A.sub.12, any two of which are separated
from each other. When the heat of the touch operation by the user
is conducted to the thermistor layer 112, since the thermistors
A.sub.1 to A.sub.12 are separated from each other, it may be
deduced apparently which thermistors receive relatively more heat
from the thermal sensing distribution curve. Thus, different touch
operations may be identified according to different thermal sensing
distribution curves, so as to invoke different detecting modes. For
example, as shown in FIGS. 5 and 6, the touch operation with one
finger in FIG. 5 makes the heat mainly concentrated between the
thermistors A.sub.4 to A.sub.11, with the thermistors A.sub.7 and
A.sub.8 receiving the most heat. As shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, the
touch operation with two fingers in FIG. 7 makes the heat
concentrated between the thermistors A.sub.2 to A.sub.11, with the
thermistors A.sub.4 to A.sub.5 and A.sub.8 to A.sub.9 receiving the
most heat. Thus, different touch operations may be accurately
identified according to the thermal sensing distribution curves.
And different detecting functions may be performed based on
different thermal sensing distribution curves in a single touch
operation.
[0060] In addition, in order to achieve the functions of insulation
and heat-conduction of the insulating heat-conducting adhesive
layer interposed between the metal electrode layer 111 and the
thermistor layer 112, the shape and size of the insulating
heat-conducting adhesive layer may be the same as that of the metal
electrode layer 111. For example, when the metal electrode layer
111 is a circular disk-like metal electrode, the insulating
heat-conducting adhesive layer has the same shape and size as the
circular disk-like metal electrode. In view of economizing on the
usage of the insulating heat-conducting adhesive in the insulating
heat-conducting adhesive layer and enhancing the accuracy of the
thermal sensing distribution curve, the insulating heat-conducting
adhesive layer may include multiple linear-shaped insulating
heat-conducting adhesives which correspond to the broken line or
curved line-shaped thermistors in a one-to-one corresponding
relationship. In other words, the insulating heat-conducting
adhesive layer only covers the surface of the broken line or curved
line-shaped thermistors, and the linear-shaped insulating
heat-conducting adhesives in the insulating heat-conducting
adhesive layer are also separated from each other. This reduces the
heat diffused to the surroundings from the insulating
heat-conducting adhesive layer and thus enhances the accuracy of
the thermal sensing distribution curve.
[0061] In the description of the above embodiments, specific
features, structures, materials and characteristics may be combined
in appropriate manners in any one or more embodiments or
examples.
[0062] The above description is merely specific implementation of
the present disclosure, the scope of which is not limited thereto.
The variations and alternatives which may be easily conceived by a
skilled person in the art in the technical scope disclosed by the
present disclosure are within the scope of the present disclosure.
Therefore, the scope of protection of the present disclosure is
defined in the appended claims.
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