Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a non-touch control apparatus and a control method thereof.
In a related art, in order to achieve identification and position tracking of a gesture on a monitoring display screen, a camera is added on the display screen or an infrared technology is adopted to carry out identification and position tracking of the gesture. However, the camera and the infrared technology are relatively high in cost, and a hole or an opening needs to be formed on the display screen, which influences aesthetics of overall design.
In short, in the prior art, position tracking of gesture can be achieved by mounting a camera or other external devices on the display screen so as to achieve user command input, thereby increasing cost of a device, and influencing aesthetics of the device.
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a non-touch control apparatus, comprising: a main control integrated circuit, an ultrasonic generating circuit, a first transducer device and a second transducer device, wherein the main control integrated circuit is configured to, in response to a condition that the device is in a non-touch control mode, switch on the ultrasonic generating circuit so as to control the second transducer device to send out a first acoustic wave signal, the first transducer device is configured to be capable of receiving a second acoustic wave signal including the first acoustic wave signal, converting the second acoustic wave signal into a first electric signal, and outputting the first electric signal, wherein, the main control integrated circuit is configured to be capable of receiving a second electric signal derived from the first electric signal.
Another embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for controlling the above non-touch control apparatus, comprising:
by the main control integrated circuit, switching on the ultrasonic generating circuit, when the device is in a non-touch control mode;
by the ultrasonic generating circuit, controlling the second transducer device to generate and send a first acoustic wave signal;
by the first transducer device, receiving acoustic wave signal, converting the acoustic wave signal into the first electric signal, and outputting the first electric signal; and
by the main control integrated circuit, receiving second electric signal derived from the first electric signal, judging whether an ultrasonic electric signal is included in the second electric signal, comparing whether a frequency of the ultrasonic electric signal is the same with a preset frequency if the ultrasonic electric signal is included in the second electric signal, and determining a generation position of the ultrasonic wave corresponding to the ultrasonic electric wave if the frequency of the ultrasonic electric signal is different from the preset frequency.
In order to clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the present disclosure, the drawings of the embodiments will be briefly described in the following; it is obvious that the described drawings are only related to some embodiments of the present disclosure and thus are not limitative of the disclosure.
In order to make objects, technical details and advantages of the embodiments of the disclosure apparent, the technical solutions of the embodiment will be described in a clearly and fully understandable way in connection with the drawings related to the embodiments of the disclosure. It is obvious that the described embodiments are just a part but not all of the embodiments of the disclosure. Based on the described embodiments herein, those skilled in the art can obtain other embodiment(s), without any inventive work, which should be within the scope of the disclosure.
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a non-touch control apparatus and a control method thereof, so as to achieve non-touch control. The device not only can be in a loudspeaker working mode, but also can be in a non-touch control mode. The device can track a position of a gesture so as to achieve user command input without adding an external device and a touch screen, thereby facilitating reducing cost of the device and improving aesthetics of the device.
With reference to
The main control integrated circuit 11 is configured to:
in response to a condition that the all-in-one machine is in the loudspeaker mode, control the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit 12 to be switched off, and control the at least one first piezoelectric ceramic device and/or the at least one second piezoelectric ceramic device to be in an electro-acoustic conversion mode; and
in response to a condition that the all-in-one machine is in the non-touch control mode, control the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit 12 to be switched on, control the at least one first piezoelectric ceramic device to be in an acoustic-electro conversion mode, and control the at least one second piezoelectric ceramic device to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode.
For example, the input device and the output device provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure are arranged oppositely, and with reference to
The piezoelectric ceramic device provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure is relatively light and thin, thus can be laid out according to a practical application and not influenced by a size of a screen. A 180-degree view field is formed in the detection region between the first piezoelectric ceramic device in the input device and the second piezoelectric ceramic device in the output device, so that no blind spots exist in the detection region, and the non-touch control all-in-one machine is more convenient to use. It should be noted that the non-touch control all-in-one machine in the embodiment and in subsequent embodiments are examples of a non-touch control apparatus. It should be understood that under a condition that the non-touch control apparatus comprising corresponding devices and circuits is of a divided structure, the corresponding advantageous technical effects also can be achieved.
The non-touch control all-in-one machine provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure adopts two working modes, one working mode is the loudspeaker mode, and the other working mode is the non-touch control mode. The priorities of the two working modes can be set by a user according to practical application. The main control integrated circuit can identify which working mode the all-in-one machine is in.
According to the non-touch control all-in-one machine provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the main control integrated circuit determines the all-in-one machine is in the loudspeaker mode, by controlling the first piezoelectric ceramic device and/or the second piezoelectric ceramic device to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode, the first piezoelectric ceramic device and/or the second piezoelectric ceramic device is used as loudspeakers for outputting an audio so as to achieve the loudspeaker working mode of the all-in-one machine; and when the main control integrated circuit determines the all-in-one machine is in the non-touch control mode, by controlling the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit to be switched on, controlling the first piezoelectric ceramic device to be in the acoustic-electro conversion mode and controlling the second piezoelectric ceramic device to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode, so that the second piezoelectric ceramic device is used as ultrasonic generating apparatus, and the first piezoelectric ceramic device is used as ultrasonic receiving apparatus. When the gesture action occurs in the detection region between the input device and the output device, the position of the gesture is tracked so as to achieve user command input and complete the non-touch control mode of the all-in-one machine, thereby facilitating reducing cost of the device and improving aesthetics of the device.
With reference to
When the all-in-one machine is in the loudspeaker mode:
For example, the main control integrated circuit 11 is configured for sending an audio to the signal processing device 14;
For example, the signal processing device 14 is configured for outputting the audio by the input device 15 and/or the output device 16 after carrying out amplifying processing on the audio,
Wherein the low-power-consumption digital audio processor 142 is configured for forming an amplified audio after carrying out amplifying processing on the received audio and sending the amplified audio to the audio output circuit 141, and the audio output circuit 141 is configured for converting the amplified audio into an analog signal and sending the analog signal to the input device 15 and/or the output device 16; and
The input device 15 and/or the output device 16 can be used as the loudspeaker for converting the analog signal into the acoustic wave signal to output.
For example, in the embodiment of the present disclosure, the audio, the digital signal and the analog signal is all in an electric signal form.
It should be noted that when the all-in-one machine is in the loudspeaker mode, the input device 15 can be separately controlled as the loudspeaker to convert the analog signal into the acoustic wave signal to output; the output device 16 also can be separately controlled as the loudspeaker to convert the analog signal into the acoustic wave signal to output; or the input device and the output device are simultaneously controlled as the loudspeakers to convert the analog signal into the acoustic wave signal to output.
When the working mode of the all-in-one machine is the non-touch control mode:
The low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit 12 is switched on to control at least one second piezoelectric ceramic device of the output device 16 to generate and send the acoustic wave signal (e.g. the ultrasonic wave) with a preset frequency;
The input device 15 is configured for receiving the acoustic wave signal, converting the acoustic wave signal into the analog signal and sending the analog signal to the amplifying and filtering circuit 13, wherein the analog signal include: an ultrasonic analog signal with the preset frequency and/or an analog signal of a controlled sound, and an analog signal of an interfering sound;
The amplifying and filtering circuit 13 is configured for forming digital signal by processing the analog signal, and sending the digital signal to the signal processing device 14, wherein the digital signal is the digital signal obtained by carrying out amplifying and analog-to-digital conversion on the ultrasonic analog signal with the preset frequency and/or the analog signal of the controlled sound;
For example, in the amplifying and filtering circuit 13, the amplifying circuit 131 is configured for receiving the analog signal, processing the analog signal to obtain the amplified analog signal, and sending the amplified analog signal to the band-pass filter circuit 132; the band-pass filter circuit 132 filters the amplified analog signal to obtain the filtered and amplified analog signal, and sends the filtered and amplified analog signal to the analog-to-digital conversion circuit 133; the analog-to-digital conversion circuit 133 converts the filtered and amplified analog signal into the digital signal, and sends the digital signal to the low-power-consumption digital audio processor 142;
The signal processing device 14 is configured for processing the received digital signal to form a low-power-consumption digital signal, and sends the low-power-consumption digital signal to the main control integrated circuit 11, wherein the low-power-consumption digital audio processor 142 in the signal processing device 14 processes the digital signal to form the low-power-consumption digital signal;
The main control integrated circuit 11 is configured for judging whether an ultrasonic digital signal is included in the low-power-consumption digital signal, comparing whether the frequency of the ultrasonic digital signal is the same with the preset frequency if the ultrasonic digital signal is included in the low-power-consumption digital signal, and determining a generation position of the ultrasonic wave corresponding to the ultrasonic digital signal if the frequency of the ultrasonic digital signal is different from the preset frequency, wherein the main control integrated circuit 11 judging whether the ultrasonic digital signal is included in the low-power-consumption digital signal, for example, is performed as: the main control integrated circuit 11 judging whether the ultrasonic digital signal is included in the low-power-consumption digital signal according to the frequency of the ultrasonic wave and/or the controlled sound.
With reference to
It should be noted that under a condition that the all-in-one machine comprises the loudspeaker 17, when the working mode is the loudspeaker mode, the analog signal output by the audio output circuit 141 can be only sent to the loudspeaker 17 without being sent to the input device 15 and/or the output device 16, as shown in
For example, in another embodiment, with reference to
From the above, according to the non-touch control all-in-one machine provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the main control integrated circuit determines the all-in-one machine is in the loudspeaker mode, the audio is sent to the signal processing device, then is sent to the input device and/or the output device after being amplified by the signal processing device, and is output by the input device and/or the output device, thereby achieving the loudspeaker working mode of the all-in-one machine; and when the main control integrated circuit determines the all-in-one machine is in the non-touch control mode, the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit is configured for controlling the output device to generate and send the ultrasonic wave with the preset frequency, so that the input device receives the acoustic wave signal, the acoustic wave signal is converted into the digital signal after processed by the amplifying and filtering circuit and the signal processing device, the digital signal is sent to the main control integrated circuit, and the main control integrated circuit, according to analysis on the digital signal, judges whether the ultrasonic digital signal is included the digital signal, and if yes, determines the generation position of the ultrasonic wave according to the frequency of the ultrasonic digital signal so as to determine the position of the gesture, thereby achieving user command input and completing the non-touch control mode of the all-in-one machine.
A connection relationship of respective modules in the all-in-one machine will be introduced in details in the following.
With reference to
A first end B1 of the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit 12 is connected with the main control integrated circuit 11; and the second end B2 of the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit 12 is connected with the output device 16 for controlling the second piezoelectric ceramic device(s) of the output device 16 to generate and send the ultrasonic wave with the preset frequency.
A first end D1 of the amplifying and filtering circuit 13 is connected with a first end E1 of the input device 15 for receiving the analog signal sent by the input device 15; and a second end D2 of the amplifying and filtering circuit 13 is connected with the signal processing device 14 for sending the digital signal to the signal processing device 14.
The first end C1 of the signal processing device 14 is connected with the fourth end A4 of the main control integrated circuit 11 for sending the low-power-consumption digital signal to the main control integrated circuit 11, and a second end C2 of the signal processing device 14 is connected with the input device 15 and/or the output device 16 so that the amplified audio is converted into the acoustic wave signal by the input device and/or the output device to output.
The first end E1 of the input device 15 is connected with the first end D1 of the amplifying and filtering circuit 13 for sending the analog signal to the amplifying and filtering circuit 13; a second end E2 of the input device 15 is connected with the signal processing device 14 for receiving the amplified audio which is sent by the signal processing device 14; and a third end E3 of the input device 15 is connected with the second end A2 of the main control integrated circuit 11; and
The output device 16 is connected with the main control integrated circuit 11, and is also connected with the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit 12,
Wherein the first end C1 of the signal processing device 14 is connected with an input/output end F of the low-power-consumption digital audio processor 142, and the second end C2 of the signal processing device 14 is connected with an output end G of the audio output circuit 141; the first end D1 of the amplifying and filtering circuit 13 is connected with an input end H of the amplifying circuit 131; and a second end D2 of the amplifying and filtering circuit 13 is connected with an output end 1 of the analog-to-digital conversion circuit 133, and the band-pass filter circuit 132 is connected between the amplifying circuit 131 and the analog-to-digital conversion circuit 133.
It is understandable that connection between the respective modules can be achieved in a wireless communication mode.
By using the non-touch control all-in-one machine provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, with reference to
S701: by the main control integrated circuit, controlling the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit to be switched on, controlling the at least one first piezoelectric ceramic device to be in the acoustic-electro conversion mode, and controlling the at least one second piezoelectric ceramic device to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode, when the main control integrated circuit determines a working mode of the all-in-one machine is a non-touch control mode;
S702: by the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit, controlling the at least one second piezoelectric ceramic device of the output device to generate and send an ultrasonic wave with a preset frequency;
S703: by the at least one first piezoelectric ceramic device of the input device receiving an acoustic wave signal, converting the acoustic wave signal into analog signal and sending the analog signal to the amplifying and filtering circuit;
S704: by the amplifying and filtering circuit, processing the analog signal to form a digital signal, and sending the digital signal to the signal processing device;
S705: by the signal processing device, processing the digital signal to form a low-power-consumption digital signal, and sending the low-power-consumption digital signal to the main control integrated circuit; and
S706: by the main control integrated circuit, judging whether an ultrasonic digital signal is included the low-power-consumption digital signal, comparing whether a frequency of the ultrasonic digital signal is same with the preset frequency if the ultrasonic digital signal is included the low-power-consumption digital signal, and determining a generation position of the ultrasonic wave if the frequency of the ultrasonic digital signal is different from the preset frequency.
According to the method for controlling the non-touch control all-in-one machine, which is provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure, when the main control integrated circuit determines that the working mode of the all-in-one machine is the non-touch control mode, firstly, the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit is controlled to be switched on, the first piezoelectric ceramic device are controlled to be in an acoustic-electro conversion mode, and the second piezoelectric ceramic device are controlled to be in an electro-acoustic conversion mode; secondly, the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit controls the output device to generate and send the ultrasonic wave with the preset frequency; and then, after the input device receives the acoustic wave signal, the acoustic wave signal is converted into the digital signal by processing of the amplifying and filtering circuit and the signal processing device, and the digital signal is sent to the main control integrated circuit; and finally, the main control integrated circuit, according to frequency characteristics of the ultrasonic wave and sound, extracts the ultrasonic wave from the received digital signal, and determines a position where the ultrasonic wave is changed due to a gesture action when determining the frequency of the ultrasonic wave is different from the preset frequency, thereby determining user command input corresponding to the position.
For example, the control method further comprises:
by the main control integrated circuit, controlling the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit to be switched off, controlling the at least one first piezoelectric ceramic device and the at least one second piezoelectric ceramic device to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode, and sending an audio to the signal processing device, when the main control integrated circuit determines the working mode of the all-in-one machine is a loudspeaker mode; and
by the signal processing device, outputting the audio through the input device and/or the output device, after carrying out amplifying processing on the audio.
A working process of the non-touch control all-in-one machine is described by the embodiments in the following.
When the main control integrated circuit 11 determines the working mode of the all-in-one machine is the loudspeaker mode, the working process of the all-in-one machine can be referred to
The main control integrated circuit 11 controls the piezoelectric ceramic device(s) in the input device 15 and/or the output device 16 to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode, and when determining an audio to be output, the main control integrated circuit 11 sends the audio to the low-power-consumption digital audio processor 142;
The low-power-consumption digital audio processor 142 receives the audio, amplifies the audio, and sends the amplified audio to the audio output circuit 141;
The audio output circuit 141 receives the amplified audio, converts the amplified audio into the analog signal, and sends the analog signal to the input device 15 and/or the output device 16; and
The input device 15 and/or the output device 16 output(s) the analog signal.
When the main control integrated circuit 11 determines the working mode of the all-in-one machine is the non-touch control mode, the working process of the all-in-one machine can be referred to
The main control integrated circuit 11 controls the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit 12 to be switched on, and the main control integrated circuit 11 controls the first piezoelectric ceramic device in the input device 15 to be in the acoustic-electro conversion mode, and controls the second piezoelectric ceramic device in the output device 16 to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode;
The low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit 12 sends a control signal to the output device 16 for controlling the second piezoelectric ceramic device(s) in the output device 16 to generate the ultrasonic wave with the preset frequency;
After receiving the control signal, the second piezoelectric ceramic device(s) in the output device 16 generate the ultrasonic wave with the preset frequency;
When no gesture action occurs in the detection region between the input device 15 and the output device 16, the input device 15 receives the ultrasonic wave with the preset frequency, which is sent by the output device 16; and when the gesture action occurs in the detection region, the frequency of the ultrasonic wave with the preset frequency will be changed due to influence of the gesture, the frequency of the ultrasonic wave received by the input device 15 is changed, the input device 15 simultaneously receives controlled sound and outside interfering sound. That is, the acoustic signal received by the input device 15 includes ultrasonic wave, controlled sound and outside interfering sound. for example, the frequency of the ultrasonic wave is 80 KHZ, and a frequency of the controlled sound is 500 HZ to 3 KHZ;
The input device 15 converts the acoustic wave signal into analog signal and sends the analog signal to the amplifying circuit 131;
The amplifying circuit 131 receives the analog signal, amplifies the analog signal and then sends the amplified analog signal to a band-pass filter circuit 132;
The band-pass filter circuit 132 filters out interference from the received amplified analog signal according to different acoustic wave frequencies, and sends the filtered analog signal to the analog-to-digital conversion circuit 133;
The analog-to-digital conversion circuit 133 converts the received filtered analog signal into digital signal, and sends the digital signal to the low-power-consumption digital audio processor 142;
The low-power-consumption digital audio processor 142 converts the received digital signal into low-power-consumption digital signal, and sends the low-power-consumption digital signal to the main control integrated circuit 11. For example, the digital signal sent by the analog-to-digital conversion circuit 133 is a high-power digital signal. However, an input signal of the main control integrated circuit 11 has a power range. In order to enable power of the input signal not to exceed the power range, the digital signal sent by the analog-to-digital conversion circuit 133 need to be converted into the low-power-consumption digital signal, and then the low-power-consumption digital signal is sent to the main control integrated circuit 11;
The main control integrated circuit 11 judges whether an ultrasonic digital signal is included in the received low-power-consumption digital signal, compares whether a frequency of the ultrasonic wave is the same with the preset frequency of the ultrasonic wave sent by the output device if the ultrasonic digital signal is included in the received low-power-consumption digital signal, and determines, according to a position of the ultrasonic wave in the received acoustic wave signal, a position of the gesture which changes the ultrasonic wave if the frequency of the ultrasonic wave is different from the preset frequency of the ultrasonic wave sent by the output device, thereby determining an input command corresponding to the gesture.
From the above, the non-touch control all-in-one machine provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the main control integrated circuit, the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit, the amplifying and filtering circuit, the signal processing device, the input device consisting of at least one first piezoelectric ceramic device, and the output device consisting of at least one second piezoelectric ceramic device. When the main control integrated circuit determines the working mode of the all-in-one machine is the loudspeaker mode, the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit is controlled to be switched off by the main control integrated circuit, the first piezoelectric ceramic device(s) and/or the second piezoelectric ceramic device(s) is/are controlled to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode, and the audio is sent to the signal processing device, is amplified by the signal processing device, and is output by the input device and/or the output device; when the main control integrated circuit determines the all-in-one machine is in the non-touch control mode, by controlling the low-power-consumption ultrasonic generating circuit to be switched on, controlling the first piezoelectric ceramic device(s) to be in the acoustic-electro conversion mode, and controlling the second piezoelectric ceramic device(s) to be in the electro-acoustic conversion mode, the second piezoelectric ceramic device is used as ultrasonic generating apparatus, the first piezoelectric ceramic device is used as acoustic wave signal receiving apparatus, the acoustic wave signal received by the input device are converted into digital signal by processing of the amplifying and filtering circuit and the signal processing device, the digital signal is sent to the main control integrated circuit, and the main control integrated circuit, according to frequency characteristics of the ultrasonic wave and sound, extracts the ultrasonic wave from the received digital signal, and determines the position where the ultrasonic wave is changed due to the gesture action when determining the frequency of the ultrasonic wave is different from the preset frequency, thereby determining user command input corresponding to the position. Therefore, under the condition of not adding the external device and not using the touch screen, the position of the gesture is tracked, so that cost of the device is reduced, and aesthetics of the device is improved.
It is evident that one person skilled in the art can make various changes or modifications to the present invention without departure from the spirit and scope of the invention. Thus, if these changes and modifications to the present invention are within the scope of the claims of the present invention and equivalent technologies, the present invention also intends to include all such changes and modifications within its scope.
The application claims priority of Chinese Patent Application No. 201510282889.1 filed on May 28, 2015, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety as part of the present application.
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