# US 10,120,464 B2 · Optical touch system and optical touch method > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,120,464 B2 - Document ID: US10120464B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 14/522,598 - Filed: 2014-10-24 - Published: 2016-02-04 - Granted: 2018-11-06 - Earliest claimed: 2014-08-01 - Assignees: Wistron Corporation - Applicants: Wistron Corporation - Inventors: Yu-Yen Chen; Po-Liang Huang; Pei-Chen Chin - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10120464B2 ## CPC - G06F 3/03542: {Light pens for emitting or receiving light} - G06F 3/0421: {by interrupting or reflecting a light beam, e.g. optical touch-screen} - G06F 2203/04104: Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) ## Abstract An optical touch system includes two touch devices, two optical sensing devices, and a processing module. When the optical touch system is in use according to an optical touch method, the two touch device are used to touch a touch surface and emit first light and second light with different wavelengths respectively. The two optical sensing devices are disposed at the circumference of the touch surface and individually receive the first light and the second light to generate an optical sensing signal. The processing module receives the two optical sensing signals and determines a touch position on the touch surface for each touch device according to the two optical sensing signals. Therefore, the touching by each touch device is independent, so the optical touch system and the optical touch method can allow touch operations for different purposes to be performed simultaneously. ## Claims ### Claim 1 An optical touch system for sensing two touches performed on a touch surface, the optical touch system comprising: two touch devices for performing the two touches on the touch surface respectively, one of the touch devices being capable of emitting first light when the touch device touches the touch surface, the other touch device being capable of emitting second light when the touch device touches the touch surface, a central wavelength of the first light being different to a central wavelength of the second light; two optical sensing devices disposed at a circumference of the touch surface, each optical sensing device comprising an optical sensing unit, a first optical filter, and a second optical filter, a first sensing area and a second sensing area being defined on the optical sensing unit, the first optical filter being disposed above the first sensing area, the second optical filter being disposed above the second sensing area, the first optical filter allowing light within a first wavelength band to pass, the second optical filter allowing light within a second wavelength band to pass, the central wavelength of the first light being within the first wavelength band but not within the second wavelength band, the central wavelength of the second light being within the second wavelength band but not within the first wavelength band, each optical sensing device using the optical sensing unit to sense the first light and the second light and generating an optical sensing signal relative to the first light and the second light; and a processing module electrically connected to the optical sensing devices, the processing module receiving the two optical sensing signals from the two optical sensing devices and determining a touch position of each touch device on the touch surface. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The optical touch system of claim 1, wherein the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band are separate. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The optical touch system of claim 2, wherein a wavelength distribution of the first light is within the first wavelength band, and a wavelength distribution of the second light is within the second wavelength band. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The optical touch system of claim 1, wherein the optical sensing signal comprises a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal, the optical sensing device receives the first light only through the first sensing area of the optical sensing unit to generate the first sensing signal, the optical sensing device receives the second light only through the second sensing area of the optical sensing unit to generate the second sensing signal, according to the two first sensing signals, the processing module determines the touch position of the touch device emitting the first light on the touch surface, and according to the two second sensing signals, the processing module determines the touch position of the touch device emitting the second light on the touch surface. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The optical touch system of claim 1, wherein the first sensing area and the second sensing area are adjacent in a direction perpendicular to the touch surface. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The optical touch system of claim 1, wherein each optical sensing device comprises a housing having an opening, the optical sensing unit is disposed in the housing, the first optical filter and the second optical filter cover the optical sensing unit and seal the opening. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The optical touch system of claim 1, wherein each touch device comprises a switch, when the touch device touches the touch surface, the switch is triggered so that the touch device emits the first light or the second light correspondingly. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The optical touch system of claim 7, wherein the switch is a tactile switch. ### Claim 9 An optical touch method for an optical touch system to sense two touches on a touch surface, the optical touch system comprising two optical sensing devices, two touch devices, and a processing module electrically connected to the optical sensing devices, the two optical sensing devices being disposed at a circumference of the touch surface, each optical sensing device having an optical sensing unit, a first optical filter and a second optical filter, a first sensing area and a second sensing area being defined on the optical sensing unit, the first optical filter being disposed above the first sensing area, the second optical filter being disposed above the second sensing area, the first optical filter allowing light within a first wavelength band to pass, the second optical filter allowing light within a second wavelength band to pass, one of the touch devices being capable of emitting first light when the touch device touches the touch surface, the other touch device being capable of emitting second light when the touch device touches the touch surface, a central wavelength of the first light being different to a central wavelength of the second light, the central wavelength of the first light being within the first wavelength band but not within the second wavelength band, the central wavelength of the second light being within the second wavelength band but not within the first wavelength band, the optical touch method comprising the following steps: (a) using the two touch devices to perform the two touches on the touch surface and emit the first light and the second light respectively; (b) using the optical sensing unit of each optical sensing device to receive the first light and the second light and generate an optical sensing signal relative to the first light and the second light; and (c) using the processing module to receive the two optical sensing signals from the two optical sensing devices and determine a touch position of each touch device on the touch surface. ### Claim 10 (depends on 9) The optical touch method of claim 9, wherein the first wavelength band and the second wavelength band are separate. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The optical touch method of claim 10, wherein a wavelength distribution of the first light is within the first wavelength band, and a wavelength distribution of the second light is within the second wavelength band. ### Claim 12 (depends on 9) The optical touch method of claim 9, wherein the optical sensing signal comprises a first sensing signal and a second sensing signal, in the step (b), each optical sensing device receives the first light only through the first sensing area of the optical sensing unit to generate the first sensing signal and each optical sensing device receives the second light only through the second sensing area of the optical sensing unit to generate the second sensing signal, and in the step (c), according to the two first sensing signals, the processing module determines the touch position of the touch device emitting the first light on the touch surface, and according to the two second sensing signals, the processing module determines the touch position of the touch device emitting the second light on the touch surface. ### Claim 13 (depends on 9) The optical touch method of claim 9, wherein each touch device comprises a switch, in the step (a), the switch is triggered by the touch device touching the touch surface, so that the touch device emits the first light or the second light correspondingly.