The present invention relates in general to a page detection technology for printed matter, and more particularly to an automatic page detection method for print article and a print article using the same.
As living standards is improved, more and more parents start to focus on children's education, and they also start to seriously consider the issue of education of preschool children. In this respect, more and more preschoolers puzzle electronic products appear in the market. But most of these products are consumer electronics products. They may cause children's physical, psychological and spiritual aspects of damage in use for a long period. Further, it will cause a decline in children's reading ability. Thus, the paper book is still the main tool for early childhood education.
In order to enhance the fun of children's books and toys property, and to raise children's interest in books, an e-book appears in the market. The e-book has interactive function, such as a button for sounding the content in a page of the book. Moreover, in order to identify the page turned by user, a page detection technology is provided in the prior art.
Although the design of the optical detection type page detection device is simple, it requires a large number of photo sensors to achieve the page detection. Those photo sensors are the main costs. Also, CDS has been strictly restricted in the EU and the United States. Further, the pages in the book need to be drill through holes; it would increase an extra cost.
It is therefore an objective of the present invention to provide an automatic page detection method for print article and a print article using the same, wherein the conductor is built in each page and the conduction path for electrical signal is provided such that the page can be determined by transmitting circuit and receiving circuit.
In view of this, the present invention provides an automatic page detection method, adapted for a print article, wherein the print article includes a plurality of pages, wherein the automatic page detection method includes: providing N receiving units at N first preset positions in a specific page of the print article; providing a transmitting unit at a second preset position in the specific page of the print article; providing N thin conductors to N pages, wherein a thin conductor is set between Kth first preset position of Kth page and the second position of Kth page; sending a detection signal from the transmitting unit; and determining a present page according to a receiving unit of N receiving units in which the receiving unit receives the detection signal, wherein N and K are natural number, and K<=N.
The present invention further provides an automatic page detection method, adapted for a print article, wherein the print article includes a plurality of pages, wherein the automatic page detection method includes: providing N transmitting units at N first preset positions in a specific page of the print article; providing a receiving unit at a second preset position in the specific page of the print article; providing N thin conductors to N pages, wherein a thin conductor is set between Kth first preset position of Kth page and the second position of Kth page; respectively outputting detection signals from the transmitting units, wherein Ith transmitting unit outputs Ith detection signal; and determining a present page according to an index number of the detection signal received by the receiving unit, wherein N, I and K are natural number, and K<=N and I<=N.
The present invention further provides a print article. The print article includes N pages and a specific page. Each of the N pages includes N first preset positions and a second preset position. Each page includes a thin conductor, wherein the thin conductor is disposed between Kth first preset position of Kth page and the second position of Kth page. The specific page includes N receiving units, a transmitting unit and a control circuit. The N receiving units are respectively disposed on N first present positions. The transmitting unit is disposed on the second position. The control circuit is respectively coupled to the transmitting unit and N receiving units. The control circuit controls the transmitting unit to output a detection signal, and the control circuit determines a present page according to a receiving unit of N receiving units in which the receiving unit receives the detection signal, wherein N and K are natural number, and K<=N.
The present invention further provides a print article. The print article includes N pages and a specific page. Each page includes N first preset positions and a second preset position, wherein each page comprises a thin conductor, wherein the thin conductor is disposed between Kth first preset position of Kth page and the second position of Kth page. The specific page includes N transmitting units, a receiving unit and a control circuit. N transmitting units are respectively disposed on N first present positions. The receiving unit is disposed on the second position. The control circuit is coupled to the receiving unit and N transmitting units. The control circuit controls the N transmitting units to respectively output a first detection signal to Nth detection signal, and the control circuit determines a present page according to an index number of received detection signal received by the receiving unit, wherein N and K are natural number, and K<=N.
In the automatic page detection method for print article and the print article in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the Jth page further includes (N-J) second thin conductors, respectively disposed on the (J+1)th first preset position to Nth first preset position in Jth page for providing signal transmission paths, wherein J is a natural number and J<N. In a preferred embodiment, the transmitting unit includes a transistor, a resonant circuit and a transmitting conductor. The transistor includes a base terminal, a emitter terminal and a collector terminal, wherein the base terminal of the transistor is coupled to the control circuit for receiving a resonant pulse, wherein the emitter terminal of the transistor is coupled to a common voltage. The resonant circuit includes a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the resonant circuit is coupled to a power voltage, and the second terminal of the resonant circuit is coupled to the collector terminal of the transistor. The transmitting conductor is coupled to the second terminal of the resonant circuit.
In the automatic page detection method for print article and the print article in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the resonant circuit includes a resistor, a capacitor and an inductor. The resistor includes a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the resistor is coupled to the first terminal of the resonant circuit, and the second terminal of the resistor is coupled to the second terminal of the resonant circuit. The capacitor includes a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the capacitor is coupled to the first terminal of the resonant circuit, and the second terminal of the capacitor is coupled to the second terminal of the resonant circuit. The inductor includes a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the first terminal of the inductor is coupled to the first terminal of the resonant circuit, and the second terminal of the inductor is coupled to the second terminal of the resonant circuit.
In the automatic page detection method for print article and the print article in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, each receiving unit includes a receiving conductor, a filtering unit, a signal amplifying unit and a peak detection unit. The filtering unit is coupled to the receiving conductor, for performing a bandpass filter to output a bandpass signal. The signal amplifying unit includes an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the output terminal of the signal amplifying unit is coupled to the filtering unit, for amplifying the bandpass signal to output the amplified bandpass signal. The peak detection unit is used for detecting the amplified bandpass signal to output a detection pulse.
In the automatic page detection method for print article and the print article in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the transmitting unit includes a pulse generating circuit and a transmitting conductor. The pulse generating circuit includes an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the input terminal of the pulse generating circuit is coupled to the control circuit, for output a pulse. The transmitting conductor is coupled to the output terminal of the pulse generating circuit. In addition, Ith receiving unit includes Ith receiving conductor which is coupled to the Ith input/output pin. The impedance element is between the (I+1)th input/output pin and the Ith input/output pin. When the (I+1)th input/output pin charges the Ith input/output pin to a specific voltage, the control circuit controls the pulse generating circuit to output the pulse, and the control circuit determines the present page according to whether the voltage of the Ith input/output pin is smaller than the specific voltage or not.
The spirit of the present invention is to provide wireless signal transmitting unit(s) and wireless signal receiving unit(s), and to provide thin conductor(s) in the page(s) to be detected for providing a signal transmission path. Thus, the present page turned by user can be detected by the transmission of the wireless detection signal through the thin conductor and whether the wireless signal receiving unit receives the wireless detection signal or not.
Further scope of the applicability of the present invention will become apparent from the detailed description given hereinafter. However, it should be understood that the detailed description and specific examples, while indicating preferred embodiments of the present invention, are given by way of illustration only, since various changes and modifications within the spirit and scope of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from this detailed description.
The first thin conductors 305-1˜305-N and the second thin conductor 306 are served as the signal transmission paths. Referring to
In addition, in this embodiment, the filtering circuit 504 is a bandpass filter 603 implemented by inductor and capacitor. The passband of the bandpass filter 603 covers the frequency of the detection signal DS for filtering the noise. The amplifying circuit 505 is a common emitter amplifier 604 with collector feedback configuration, for amplifying the received detection signal DS. The peak detection and comparison circuit 506 is implemented by a quasi-peak detector 605, which is implemented by diode, resistor and capacitor, and a comparison circuit 606, which is implemented by resistor, capacitor and amplifier.
According to the implementation of the circuit, when the control circuit 304 outputs the detection pulse, the I/O (input/output) pin of the control circuit 304 receives the logic high voltage output by the comparison circuit 605, it means that the receiving unit corresponding to the I/O pin receives the detection signal DS. Thus, the control circuit can determine the present page to which user turns.
In the abovementioned embodiment, a transmitting unit with multiple receiving units is taken as example. However, to exam the detail circuit, the cost of the receiving unit is much higher than the cost of the transmitting unit. Further, the receiving unit has too many elements. It would cause that the cover becomes too thick. In order to solve those problems, the following embodiment adopts one receiving unit with multiple transmitting units to implement the present invention.
Similarly, the first thin conductors 705-1˜705-N and the second thin conductors 706 are served as the signal transmission paths. Referring to
In the abovementioned embodiment, if the signal strength is strong enough and the page number is small enough, the second thin conductors 706 or 306 may not be necessary. However, if the page number is too large, the page is too thick, or the signal strength is too weak, the second thin conductors 706 or 306 are necessary. The disadvantage of the abovementioned embodiments is that the element count of transmitting unit and receiving unit is too large and they has to be implemented by discrete circuit. It cause that the cover of the print article requires a certain thick. In the following embodiment, the use of the discrete circuits can be reduced. In order to reduce the discrete circuit, the more complex control method would be required, and the concept of hardware and software co-design is adopted.
Similarly, it is assumed that the I/O port RXIO-1 charges the receiving unit 92 of the I/O port RXIO-2 when the receiving unit 92 of the I/O port RXIO-2 is detected. When the receiving unit 92 of the I/O port RXIO-1 is charged to a specific voltage, such as half of the power voltage VDD/2, the control circuit 304 controls the transmitting unit to emit the detection pulse. If the receiving unit 92 of the I/O port RXIO-2 receives the detection pulse, the received signal's waveform would be as the waveform 1001. At this time, the I/O port RXIO-2 of the control circuit 304 would detects the detection pulse in the meantime.
According to the abovementioned embodiment, the use of discrete circuits is greatly reduced, and the thick of cover is reduced, and thus, the cost is reduced. However, the design in the abovementioned embodiment decreases the noise immunity. In order to increase the noise immunity, the detection count can be increased to enhance the noise immunity, and the misjudgment of page detection can be prevented.
In addition, comparing the embodiment in
Furthermore, the abovementioned embodiment adopts the cover page (front cover or back cover) to dispose the transmitting unit(s) and receiving unit(s). However, people having ordinary skill in the art should know that to dispose the transmitting unit(s) and receiving unit(s) in any specific page can achieve the same result. The present invention is not limited thereto.
According to the embodiment in
In step S1101, the method starts.
In step S1102, N receiving units are provided respectively at N first preset positions in a specific page, such as the front cover page or the back cover page.
In step S1103, a transmitting unit is provided at the second preset position of the specific page.
In step S1104, N thin conductors are provided respectively to N page, wherein a thin conductor is set in Kth first preset position to the second preset position of Kth page.
In step S1105, a detection signal is emitted by transmitting unit.
In step S1106, the present page is detected according to the receiving unit of N receiving units in which the receiving unit receives the detection signal.
In step S1107, the method ends.
Similarly, according to the embodiment in
In step S1201, the method starts.
In step S1202, N transmitting units are provided respectively at N first preset positions in a specific page, such as the front cover page or the back cover page.
In step S1203, a receiving unit is provided at the second preset position of the specific page.
In step S1204, N thin conductors are provided respectively to N page, wherein a thin conductor is set in Kth first preset position to the second preset position of Kth page.
In step S1205, the detection signals are respectively output from the transmitting units, wherein Ith transmitting unit outputs Ith detection signal.
In step S1206, a present page is determined according to an index number of the detection signal received by the receiving unit,
In step S1207, the method ends.
In summary, the spirit of the present invention is to provide wireless signal transmitting unit(s) and wireless signal receiving unit(s), and to provide thin conductor(s) in the page(s) to be detected for providing a signal transmission path. Thus, the present page turned by user can be detected by the transmission of the wireless detection signal through the thin conductor and whether the wireless signal receiving unit receives the wireless detection signal or not.
While the present invention has been described by way of examples and in terms of preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the present invention is not limited thereto. To the contrary, it is intended to cover various modifications. Therefore, the scope of the appended claims should be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications.
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104110041 | Mar 2015 | TW | national |
This application is a Divisional of co-pending application Ser. No. 15/081,564, filed on 25 Mar. 2016, for which priority is claimed under 35 U.S.C. § 120; and this application claims priority of Application No. 104110041 filed in Taiwan on 27 Mar. 2015 under 35 U.S.C. § 119.
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Parent | 15081564 | Mar 2016 | US |
Child | 16157632 | US |