|Publication number||US7203384 B2|
|Application number||US 10/640,942|
|Publication date||Apr 10, 2007|
|Filing date||Aug 13, 2003|
|Priority date||Feb 24, 2003|
|Also published as||CA2517168A1, CA2517168C, CN1774690A, CN1774690B, EP1611502A2, US7474809, US20040164972, US20080080791, WO2004077107A2, WO2004077107A3|
|Publication number||10640942, 640942, US 7203384 B2, US 7203384B2, US-B2-7203384, US7203384 B2, US7203384B2|
|Inventors||Stewart R. Carl|
|Original Assignee||Electronic Scripting Products, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (102), Non-Patent Citations (15), Referenced by (118), Classifications (10), Legal Events (10)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
This application claims priority from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 60/450,244 filed on Feb. 24th, 2003.
The present invention relates generally to acquisition of information written, drawn, sketched or otherwise marked on a jotting or writing surface by a user with the aid of a hand-held implement, such as a writing implement.
The art of writing and drawing is ancient and rich in traditions. Over the ages various types of implements have been used for writing down words as well as drawing, sketching, marking and painting. Most of these implements have a generally elongate shape, an essentially round cross-section and they are terminated at one end by a writing nib or tip. They are typically designed to be hand-held and operated by the user's preferred hand (e.g., by the right hand for right-handed persons). More specifically, the user moves the implement across a writing or jotting surface such that the writing nib leaves a visible trace marking its motion on the surface. The marking can be produced by a material deposited from the nib, e.g., through abrasion of the marking material (such as charcoal in the case of a pencil) or by direct wetting of the surface by an ink (as in the case of the pen). The marking can also include any other physical trace left on the surface.
The most widely used writing and drawing implements include pens and pencils while the most convenient jotting surfaces include sheets of paper of various sizes and other generally planar objects capable of being marked. In fact, despite the tremendous advances in sciences and engineering, pen and paper remain among the simplest and most intuitive devices for writing, drawing, marking and sketching even in the electronic age.
The challenge of communicating with electronic devices is in the very input interface to the electronic device. For example, computers take advantage of input devices such as keyboards, buttons, pointer devices, mice and various other types of apparatus that encode motion and convert it to data that the computer can process. Unfortunately, none of these devices are as user-friendly and accepted as pen and paper.
This input interface problem has been recognized in the prior art and a variety of solutions have been proposed. Most of these solutions attempt to derive electronic, i.e., digital data from the motions of a pen on paper or some other writing surface, e.g., a writing tablet. Of these prior art teachings the following references are of note:
U.S. Pat. Nos.
U.S. Published applications: 2002-0001029 2002-0028017 2002-0118181 2002-0148655 2002-0158848 2002-0163511
European Patent Specifications: 0,649,549B1
International Patent applications:
WO 02/017222 A2
WO 02/058029 A2
WO 02/064380 A1
WO 02/069247 A1
WO 02/084634 A1
Although the above-referenced teachings provide a number of approaches they are cumbersome to the user. Many of these approaches provide the user with pens that are difficult to handle, impose special writing and/or monitoring conditions and/or they require cumbersome auxiliary systems and devices to track and digitize the information written on the writing surface. Thus, the problem of a user-friendly input interface based on a writing implement has not been solved.
The present invention provides a jotting implement that infers hand-jotted information from a jotting surface. For the purposes of this invention, hand-jotted information comprises any information marked on the jotting surface as a result of any of the following actions: writing, jotting, drawing, sketching or in any other manner marking or depositing marks on the jotting surface. Additionally, hand-jotted information for the purposes of this application also means information traced on the jotting surface without leaving any markings on the jotting surface. The jotting implement has a nib for jotting and an arrangement for determining when the nib is jotting on the jotting surface. Further, the implement has an optical unit for viewing the jotting surface. The optical unit is preferably mounted at a distal end of the implement with respect to the nib and indexed to it. For the purposes of this invention indexed to the nib means that the optical axis of the optical unit is referenced to the nib, e.g., the optical axis of the optical unit passes through the nib. The implement also has a processing unit for receiving optical data of said jotting surface from said optical unit and for determining from said optical data the physical coordinates of the nib with respect to at least one corner of the jotting surface and at least one edge of the jotting surface.
It should be noted that in contrast to the prior art the implement of the invention infers the physical coordinates of the nib indirectly, i.e., from the optical data of the jotting surface obtained from the optical unit. Therefore, any optical data about the jotting surface sufficient to make the determination of the physical coordinates of the nib can be used. For example, optical data of all corners or a number of corners, edges or portions thereof can be used. Alternatively, landmarks or any optically recognizable features on the jotting surface can be used as well.
The arrangement for determining when the nib is jotting on the jotting surface preferably comprises a pressure sensitive unit mounted in the jotting implement. Strain gauges, mechanical pressure sensors, piezoelectric elements and other types of arrangements recognizing contact between the nib and the jotting surface can be used for this purpose.
In the preferred embodiment the optical unit is an imaging unit for imaging the jotting surface or a portion thereof. It is further preferred that the imaging unit be equipped with a photodetector array for projecting an image of the jotting surface thereon. The processing unit has an edge detection unit or circuit (e.g., firmware in a microprocessor of the processing unit) for detecting edges and corners of the jotting surface in the image.
The jotting implement is further equipped with an image transformation unit for applying one or more transformations to the image. Specifically, the image transformation unit can include appropriate physical optics (e.g., lenses) for correcting the image as well as software routines for correcting the image and performing various operations on the image. For example, the image transformation unit has an image deformation transformer that corrects the image for a plane projection. Alternatively, the image transformation unit has an image deformation transformer that corrects the image for a spherical projection. In the same or a different embodiment, the image transformation unit has an image transformer for determining Euler angles of the jotting implement with respect to the jotting surface.
In the preferred embodiment the corrections and transformations are applied only to the edges and/or corners of the image that are identified by the edge detection unit. In other words, only a part of the image corresponding to the jotting surface and in particular its edges, corners, landmarks or other optically recognizable features and/or their portions are corrected and transformed.
A ratio computation module belonging to the processing unit determines the physical coordinates of the nib from the image. Again, in the preferred embodiment this determination is made from the relevant part of the image corresponding to the jotting surface and in particular its edges, corners, landmarks or other optically recognizable features and/or their portions.
The photodetector array can be any suitable array of photodetectors, including a photodiode or phototransistor array and preferably a CMOS photodetector array. The optics used by the imaging unit can include refractive and/or reflective optics and preferably include a catadioptric system. In any event, the field of view of the optics should be substantially larger than the area of the jotting surface such that the imaging unit can always detect at least one edge and one corner of the jotting surface for any possible position of the jotting implement when the nib is in contact with the jotting surface.
In order to determine the physical coordinates of the nib at a sufficient rate to determine what the user has written, sketched or drawn the implement has a frame control unit.
The frame control unit sets a certain frame rate at which the jotting surface is imaged. Preferably, this frame rate is at least 15 Hz, and more preferably it is in excess of 30 Hz.
Finally, the jotting implement is provided with a device for communicating the physical coordinates of the nib with an external unit. The device for communicating these coordinates can include any type of data transmission port including but not limited to infra-red (IR) ports, ultrasound ports, optical ports and the like. The external unit can be a computer, a hand-held device, a network terminal, a downloading unit, an electronic gateway into a wide area network (WAN) (e.g., the internet) or a local area network (LAN), a storage device, a printer or any other external unit which can store, print, relay and/or further process the physical coordinates of the nib. It should be noted that, depending on the application and requirements, the physical coordinates of the nib can be processed in real time or not.
In the preferred embodiment the implement is further equipped with an arrangement for initializing and recognizing the jotting surface. Of course, the sizes and types jotting surfaces can also be selected or input by the user. The arrangement for initializing and recognizing can include the optical unit and processing unit described above and a memory with standard sizes of likely jotting surfaces. For example, when the jotting surfaces are expected to be sheets of paper of standard sizes, the images of such sheets can be stored in the memory. Preferably, these stored images are taken at well-known positions and orientations of the jotting implement with respect to the jotting surface. In other words, they are taken at known physical coordinates of the nib on the jotting surface and known spatial orientation of the jotting implement (e.g., at known Euler angles).
The details of the invention will now be explained in the attached detailed description with reference to the attached drawing figures.
The present invention will be best understood by initially referring to the side view of
In general, jotting surface 12 is a sheet of planar material on which implement 10 can perform a jotting function as defined above. For geometrical reasons, it is preferable that jotting surface 12 be rectangular. In the present embodiment jotting surface 12 is a sheet of paper of any standard or non-standard dimensions laying flat on a support surface 18. In cases where jotting surface 12 is a digitizing tablet such as a tablet of a PDA device, a computer screen or any other sturdy surface then support surface 18 may not be required. It is important, however, that jotting surface 12 have optically recognizable features such as corners, edges, landmarks or the like. It is also important that these features not change their position with respect to the remainder of jotting surface 12 during the jotting operation.
Implement 10 has a nib 20 terminating in a ball-point 22. A pressure sensor 24 is mounted proximate nib 20 for determining when nib 20 is jotting. Jotting occurs when ball-point 22 is in contact with jotting surface 12. Conveniently, pressure sensor 24 is a strain gauge. Alternatively, pressure sensor 24 is a mechanical pressure sensor or a piezoelectric element. A person skilled in the art will recognize that other pressure sensors can also be used. Implement 10 also has an initialization switch 26. Switch 26 is provided for the user to communicating whether jotting is occurring on the same jotting surface 12 or on a new jotting surface (not shown).
An optical unit 30 is mounted at a distal end 32 of implement 10. Optical unit 30 is designed for viewing jotting surface 12 and it has a field of view 34 demarked by a delimiting line that extends beyond jotting surface, as described in more detail below. In the present embodiment optical unit 30 is mounted on three support members 36. Members 36 can have any construction that ensures mechanical stability and obstructs a negligible portion of field of view 34. Optical unit 30 has an optical axis 39 that is indexed to nib 20. More specifically, optical axis 39 passes through nib 20. Thus, field of view 34 of optical unit 30 is centered on nib 20. Alternatively, optical axis 39 can be indexed to nib 20 at some predetermined offset. For reasons of symmetry of field of view 34, however, it is preferred that optical unit 30 be indexed to nib 20 by passing optical axis 39 through nib 20 and through the center of ball-point 22.
Implement 10 has a device 38 for communicating with an external unit 40 (see
Referring now to
A number of features 44A, 44B, 44C are defined by corresponding vectors v1, v2, v3 drawn from the origin of the Cartesian system. In the present case features 44A, 44B, 44C are three corners of jotting surface 12. Alternatively, features 44 can include any edge 43 of jotting surface 12 or any other optically recognizable landmark or feature of jotting surface 12. It should be noted that features produced on jotting surface 12 by the user, including any marks jotted by implement 10, are legitimate features for this purpose.
The polar coordinate system is used to define the orientation of implement 10 with respect to jotting surface 12. The Z-axis of the polar system is coincident with the Z-axis of the Cartesian system. Since optical axis 39 is indexed to nib 20 it passes through the origins of the two coordinate systems.
Thus, in the polar system optical axis 39 defines the polar coordinate r and the length of r, i.e., |r| is the length of implement 10. The inclination of implement 10 with respect to the Z-axis is expressed by polar angle θ, hereafter referred to as inclination angle θ. The angle of rotation of implement 10 about the Z-axis is expressed by polar angle φ.
It is preferred that optical unit 30 be an imaging unit, as shown in the plan view of
Imaging optics 46 define an image plane 50 as indicated by the dashed line. Imaging unit 30 is further equipped with a photodetector array 52 positioned in image plane 50. An image 12′ of jotting surface 12 is projected onto array 52 by imaging optics 46. Preferably, array 52 is a CMOS photodetector array. Of course, other types of photodetector arrays including arrays employing photodiodes or phototransitors of various types can be used as photodetector array 52. A CMOS photodetector array, however, tends to be more efficient, responsive and it tends to consume less power. In addition CMOS arrays have a small pitch thus enabling high resolution.
Field of view 34 afforded by optics 46 is substantially larger than the area of jotting surface 12. In fact, field of view 34 is large enough such that image 12′ of entire jotting surface 12 is always projected onto array 52. This condition holds for any jotting position that may be assumed by jotting implement 10 during a jotting operation performed by the user, such as writing near an edge or corner of jotting surface 12 at a maximum possible inclination angle θ (e.g., θ≈40°). Thus, forward and backward portions y1, y2 of jotting surface 12 are always imaged on array 52 as portions y′1, y′2 as long as not obstructed by user's hand 16 or by other obstacles.
It is noted that for purposes of clarity primed reference numbers are used herein to denote parts in image space corresponding to parts bearing the same but unprimed reference numbers in physical space. As additional transformations and operations are applied to parts in the image space, more primes are added to the reference numbers.
Jotting implement 10 has a processing unit 54, which is illustrated in more detail in
To achieve its function processing unit 54 is equipped with an image processor 56, a frame control 58, a memory 60 as well as an uplink port 62 and a downlink port 64. Ports 62, 64 belong to communication device 38. Image processor 56 preferably includes an edge detection unit 66, an origin localization unit 68, an image transformation unit 70 and a ratio computation unit 72, as better shown in
During operation, the user moves implement 10. Once nib 20 of implement 10 is brought in contact with jotting surface 12 pressure sensor 24 activates the acquisition mode of optical unit 30. In the acquisition mode processing unit 54 receives optical data i.e.image 12′ of jotting surface 12 as imaged on the pixels of array 52.
Now, image processor 56 captures raw image data 76 of image 12′ at a certain frame rate. The frame rate is controlled by frame control 58. The frame rate is fast enough to accurately track the jotting activity of the user. To achieve this the frame rate is set by frame control 58 at 15 Hz or even at 30 Hz or higher.
In contrast with the prior art, the information jotted by the user is not determined by inspecting or imaging the information itself. Rather, the jotted information is inferred by determining the physical coordinates of nib 20 or, more precisely of ball-point 22 with respect to optically recognizable features of jotting surface 12. These recognizable features can include corners, edges or any other landmarks or features produced by the user on jotting surface 12. To determine all information jotted by the user the physical coordinates of nib 20 with respect to the recognizable features are acquired at the set frame rate whenever the acquisition mode is activated by pressure sensor 24.
In the present embodiment, the physical coordinates of nib 20 are determined with respect to three corners 44A, 44B and 44C of jotting surface 12 parametrized with the aid of vectors v1, v2 and v3 (see
In a first step image processor 56 of processing unit 54 demultiplexes raw image data 76 from row and column blocks 78A, 78B of array 52 with the aid of demultiplexer 74. Next, image processor 56 sends image data 76 to edge detection unit 66. Edge detection unit 66 identifies the edges and corners of image 12′ of jotting surface 12. This process is better illustrated in
In practice, user's hand 16 is an obstruction that obscures a portion of jotting surface 12. Hence, a corresponding shadow 16′ is present in image 12′. Another shadow 17′ (or a number of shadows) will frequently be produced by other objects covering jotting surface 12 or located between jotting surface 12 and optical unit 30. Such objects typically include the user's other hand and/or body parts such as hair (not shown). For the purposes of the present invention it is only necessary that image 12′ have a few unobstructed portions 80′ of imaged edges 43′, preferably including two or more corners, e.g., 44A′, 44B′ and 44C′ to enable recovery of vectors v1, v2 and v3 and consequent determination of the physical coordinates of nib 20.
Thus, despite shadows 16′ and 17′ several unobstructed portions 80′ of imaged edges 43′ are available to edge detection unit 66. A number of pixel groups 82 whose optical data 76 can be used by edge detection unit 66 for edge detection purposes are indicated. It should be noted that in some circumstances a pixel group 83 which is obscured by a shadow, e.g., by shadow 16′ may become visible and can then be used to detect corner 44D′.
Edge detection unit 66 recognizes edges 43′ and describes them in terms of their vector equations or other suitable mathematical expressions with reference to a center 84 of field of view 34. In order to serve as reference, center 84 is set with the aid of origin localization unit 68. This can be performed prior to operating jotting implement 10, e.g., during first initialization and testing of jotting implement 10 and whenever re-calibration of origin location becomes necessary due to mechanical reasons. The initialization can be performed with the aid of any suitable algorithm for fixing the center of an imaging system. For further information the reader is referred to Carlo Tomasi and John Zhang, “How to Rotate a Camera”, Computer Science Department Publication, Stanford University and Berthold K. P. Horn, “Tsai's Camera Calibration Method Revisited”, which are herein incorporated by reference and attached as appendices hereto.
In accordance with the invention center 84 coincides with optical axis because optical unit 30 is indexed to nib 20. Hence, for any orientation of jotting implement 10 in physical space, i.e., for any value of inclination angle θ and polar angle φ, center 84 of field of view 34 is always coincident with the position of nib 20 and its image 20′. Systems having this property are commonly referred to as central systems in the art and they include various types of central panoramic systems and the like. It should be noted that image 20′ of nib 20 is not actually visible in field of view 34, because body 14 of jotting implement 10 obscures center 84 at all times.
Due to optical effects including aberration associated with imaging optics 46, the detected portion of image 12′ will exhibit a certain amount of rounding of edges 43′, as indicated in dashed lines. This rounding can be compensated optically by lenses 48A, 48B and/or by any additional lenses (not shown) as well as electronically by processing unit 54. Preferably, the rounding is accounted for by applying a transformation to detected portion of image 12′ by image transformation unit 70. For example, image transformation unit 70 has an image deformation transformer based on a plane projection to produce a perspective view. Alternatively, image transformation unit 70 has an image deformation transformer based on a spherical projection to produce a spherical projection. Advantageously, such spherical projection can be transformed to a plane projection with the aid of well-known methods, e.g., as described by Christopher Geyer and Kostas Daniilidis, “A Unifying Theory for Central Panoramic Systems and Practical Implications”, www.cis.upenn.edu, Omid Shakernia, et al., “Infinitesimal Motion Estimation from Multiple Central Panoramic Views”, Department of EECS, University of California, Berkeley, and Adnan Ansar and Kostas Daniilidis, “Linear Pose Estimation from Points or Lines”, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania which are herein incorporated by reference and attached as appendices hereto.
Now, once image 12′ is recognized and transformed the orientation of jotting implement 10 is determined. This can be done in a number of ways. For example, when working with the spherical projection, i.e., with the spherical projection of unobstructed portions image 12′, a direct three-dimensional rotation estimation can be applied to recover inclination angle θ and polar angle φ. For this purpose a normal view of jotting surface 12 is stored in memory 60, such that it is available to transformation unit 70 for reference purposes. The transformation then yields the Euler angles of jotting implement 10 with respect to jotting surface 12 by applying the generalized shift theorem. This theorem is related to the Euler theorem stating that any motion in three-dimensional space with one point fixed (in this case the point where nib 20 is in contact with jotting surface 12 is considered fixed for the duration of each frame) can be described by a rotation about some axis. For more information about the shift theorem the reader is referred to Ameesh Makadia and Kostas Daniilidis, “Direct 3D-Rotation Estimation from Spherical Images via a Generalized Shift Theorem”, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, which is herein incorporated by reference.
Alternatively, when working with a plane projection producing a perspective view of unobstructed portions of image 12′ one can use standard rules of geometry to determine inclination angle θ and polar angle φ. Several geometrical methods taking advantage of the rules of perspective views can be employed in this case.
One geometrical method is shown in
Another geometrical method is shown in
Yet another geometrical method is shown in
Still another geometrical method is shown in
In the case where imaging optics 46 invert image 12′ with respect to the physical orientation of jotting surface 12 image 12′ needs to be inverted, as illustrated in
A transformed and inverted (as necessary) image 12″ is illustrated in
At this point image 12″ is corrected for rotations by angles θ and φ to obtain final transformed and corrected image 12′″, as shown in
Now the physical coordinates of nib 20 can be determined directly from vectors v′″1, v′″2, v′″3 and/or vector v′″n. This function is performed by ratio computation unit 72, which takes advantage of the fact that the proportions of image 12′″ to jotting surface 12 are preserved.
Specifically, computation unit 72 employs the following ratios:
These values can be obtained from the vectors and the scaling factor due to the magnification M of imaging optics 46 can be used, as shown in
Jotting implements according to the invention admit of numerous other embodiments. For example, an alternative optical unit 100 employing a catadioptic system with a parabolic (or hyperbolic) mirror 102 and a lens 104 is shown in
Jotting implement 10 can take advantage of features and landmarks other than corners and edges of a jotting surface 120. For example, as shown in
In this embodiment, during operation, edge detection algorithms described above and any other algorithms for detecting high-contrast points are applied to localize the lines and corners in the image and locate feature 122, landmark 124 and corner 128. Then, angles θ, φ are determined and the corresponding transformations applied to imaged vectors v′q, v′r and v′s of the image of jotting surface 120, as described above. The physical coordinates of nib 20 are determined from the transformed vectors.
Of course, a person skilled in the art will recognize that the number of features and landmarks tracked will generally improve the accuracy of determining physical coordinates of nib 20 on jotting surface 120. Thus, the more landmarks and features are tracked, the more processing effort will be required. If real-time operation of jotting implement 10 is required, e.g., in cases where the jotting action is transmitted from jotting implement 10 to a receiver in real time, the number of features and landmarks should be limited. Alternatively, if the information jotted down can be downloaded by the user at a later time and/or no real-time processing is required, then more landmarks and features can be used to improve the accuracy with which the physical coordinates of nib 20 are determined. This will generally lead to an improved resolution of jotting surface 120. It should also be kept in mind, that the features and landmarks have to provide absolute references, i.e., their positions on jotting surface 120 can not change in time. However, it should be remembered that the landmarks or features being used for determining the physical coordinates of nib 20 need not be the same from frame to frame.
It will be evident to a person skilled in the art that the present invention admits of various other embodiments.
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