If Apple works out how to enable its device to register touches without pressing the glass, then you won’t need to take off your gloves to answer the iPhone in the future. This is why people wearing gloves sometimes use their noses to answer calls, or at least why they can use them when answering calls. Now Apple wants you to keep your nose clean.
“Glove touch detection” is a newly disclosed Apple patent, mainly related to how the iPhone or other devices use close distance to detect when the user wants to press the screen. Apple stated in the patent that detecting touch can include sensing a touch signal corresponding to a short-distance object (such as a finger or a conductive object such as a stylus).
Normally, the working principle of the iPhone screen has always been to detect changes when you press the glass. It is very smart and knows when you plan to do this, and when you just accidentally pick up the phone at a certain angle.
Part of this intelligence lies in making choices. For example, the iPhone can record a press and know how close it is to an icon or button on the screen. It can know how long the user has been pressing, and it can distinguish the difference between the stab action of the finger and the grip.
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In each case, in the final analysis, there is a point at which the device thinks you are serious. Apple refers to this as the “touch detection threshold.” For example, the user may wear gloves when operating an electronic device with a touch screen, and the electronic device may not be able to detect that the gloved finger touches the touch screen, because the touch signal generated in response to the touch of the gloved finger may not reach Tuned touch detection threshold of the electronic device.
This patent proposes that if a change is registered in a certain place on the screen within a certain period of time, then it is assumed that the touch is intentional. It is sufficient when the slope corresponding to the signal density when a gloved finger touches the panel and lifts it from the panel is detected.
Most of this patent focuses on the voltage problem generated when users press Apple’s so-called “input patch” or touchable area. However, the screen on the iPhone, iPad or any other device cannot be used only by a gloved hand, it must also be used with bare fingers.
Therefore, it is advantageous to dynamically change the touch threshold according to whether the user is wearing gloves to interact with the electronic device or touching with a bare finger. Apple proposed that the device can choose one of the defaults ‘bare finger mode'” and “‘glove mode'” for operation. In this mode, it can change the degree of response to touch pressure.
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