US 12,496,725 B2 · Touch screen testing platform for engaging a dynamically positioned target feature

Abstract

A touch screen testing platform may be used to engage a dynamically positioned target feature being displayed on a touch screen enabled device during a testing protocol. The platform may record imagery displayed by the touch screen device and then analyze the imagery to locate the target feature within a reference coordinate system. The platform may recognize that the target feature is missing from the imagery and respond by causing the touch screen device to scroll through a command menu and/or toggle through virtual screens. Once located, the platform may instruct a robotic device tester to select the target feature by contacting the touch screen at the identified location using a conductive tip designed to simulate a user's fingertip, Prior to running a test, the camera may be focused to a point that is offset from the display screen of the touch screen device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system for testing a touch screen device, the system comprising:

a camera configured to record one or more images of a touch screen of the touch screen device;
a robot configured to move a tip to contact the touch screen;
and
a controller configured to control movement of the tip by the robot by:
receiving, from the camera, a first image of the touch screen;
determining, based at least in part on the first image, a first coordinate location of a first target feature displayed on the touch screen;
causing the robot to provide a first input to the touch screen device by moving the tip to contact the touch screen at the first coordinate location to engage with the first target feature on the touch screen;
receiving, from the camera, a second image of the touch screen;
determining, based at least in part on the second image, a second coordinate location of a second target feature displayed on the touch screen;
and
causing the robot to provide a second input to the touch screen device by moving the tip to contact the touch screen at the second coordinate location to engage with the second target feature on the touch screen.

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A method for testing a touch screen device comprising:

receiving, by a controller and from a camera, a first image of a touch screen of a touch screen device;
determining, by the controller and based at least in part on the first image, a first coordinate location of a first target feature displayed on the touch screen;
causing, by the controller, a robot to provide a first input to the touch screen device by moving a tip to contact the touch screen at the first coordinate location to engage with the first target feature on the touch screen;
receiving, by the controller and from the camera, a second image of the touch screen;
determining, by the controller and based at least in part on the second image, a second coordinate location of a second target feature displayed on the touch screen;
and
causing, by the controller, the robot to provide a second input to the touch screen device by moving the tip to contact the touch screen at the second coordinate location to engage with the second target feature on the touch screen.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/355,277Filed 19 Jul 2023 · continuation

Priority

9 Dec 2010

Published

US 2023/0364799 A116 Nov 2023

Granted

16 Dec 2025

Term ends

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Classification12 codes

B25J 11/00
Manipulators not otherwise provided for
B25J 9/02
Program-controlled manipulators: characterised by movement of the arms, e.g. cartesian coordinate type
G06F 3/0412
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: digitisers structurally integrated in a display
G06F 11/2221
Using arrangements specific to the hardware being tested: to test input/output devices or peripheral units

Family

Application12/964,427Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 9 Dec 2010

Application14/314,339Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 25 Jun 2014

US 8,996,166 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 31 Mar 2015

Application15/208,536Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Jul 2016

US 9,652,077 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 16 May 2017

Application16/170,824Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Oct 2018

US 10,120,474 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 6 Nov 2018

Application17/199,986Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Mar 2021

US 10,953,550 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 23 Mar 2021

US 2023/0364799 A1Pre-grant publication · published 16 Nov 2023

US 11,724,402 B2Parent of this continuation

Application15/208,536Parent of this continuation-in-part

US 2012/0146956 A1Published application

US 2014/0309775 A1Published application

US 2016/0320889 A1Published application

US 2019/0064981 A1Published application

US 2021/0197392 A1Published application

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Touch screen testing platform for engaging a dynamically positioned target feature

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Touch screen testing platform for engaging a dynamically positioned target feature

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Abstract

Claims20