Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090278812 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF MULTIPLE DEGREES OF FREEDOM OF A DISPLAY - A method for controlling multiple degrees of freedom of a display using a single contiguous sensing region of a sensing device is disclosed. The single contiguous sensing region is separate from the display. The method comprises: detecting a gesture in the single contiguous sensing region; causing rotation about a first axis of the display if the gesture is determined to comprise multiple input objects concurrently traveling along a second direction; causing rotation about a second axis of the display if the gesture is determined to comprise multiple input objects concurrently traveling along a first direction; and causing rotation about a third axis of the display if the gesture is determined to be a type of gesture that comprises multiple input objects. The first direction may be nonparallel to the second direction. | 11-12-2009 |
20100177053 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONTROL OF MULTIPLE DEGREES OF FREEDOM OF A DISPLAY - A method for controlling multiple degrees of freedom of a display using a single contiguous sensing region of a sensing device is disclosed. The single contiguous sensing region is separate from the display. The method comprises: detecting a gesture in the single contiguous sensing region; causing rotation about a first axis of the display if the gesture is determined to comprise multiple input objects concurrently traveling along a second direction; causing rotation about a second axis of the display if the gesture is determined to comprise multiple input objects concurrently traveling along a first direction; and causing rotation about a third axis of the display if the gesture is determined to be a type of gesture that comprises multiple input objects. The first direction may be nonparallel to the second direction. | 07-15-2010 |
20110109552 | MULTI-TOUCH MULTI-DIMENSIONAL MOUSE - A method for combining at least two touch signals in a computer system is disclosed. The method includes receiving touch signals from two touch pads and creating at least two touch signals having coordinates in the same coordinate system. Then, using these coordinates, a computer system generates a touch command message that is recognizable by a computer application program. Also disclosed is, a computer mouse having two touch pads disposed thereon. | 05-12-2011 |
20110205169 | MULTI-TOUCH INPUT APPARATUS AND ITS INTERFACE METHOD USING HYBRID RESOLUTION BASED TOUCH DATA - A method is disclosed for mapping finger movements on a touch pad to a display screen. The method includes receiving touch data from a touch pad. The touch data identifies the absolute coordinates of one or more finger touch points on the touch pad. The method also designates a portion of the display screen as a portion mapping area. The size of the portion mapping area is less than the size of the entire display screen area. The method then maps the coordinates of the one or more finger touch points of the touch data to the coordinates of the portion mapping area. The method includes use of a primary touch pad and a secondary touch pad to generate multi-touch finger gestures. | 08-25-2011 |
20120169671 | MULTI-TOUCH INPUT APPARATUS AND ITS INTERFACE METHOD USING DATA FUSION OF A SINGLE TOUCH SENSOR PAD AND AN IMAGING SENSOR - A system and method for generating a multi-touch command using a single-touch sensor pad and an imaging sensor is disclosed. The imaging sensor is disposed adjacent to the single-touch sensor pad and captures images of a user's fingers on or above the single-touch sensor pad. The system includes firmware that acquires data from the single-touch sensor pad and uses that data with the one or more images from the imaging sensor to generate a multi-touch command. | 07-05-2012 |
20120320198 | IMAGING SENSOR BASED MULTI-DIMENSIONAL REMOTE CONTROLLER WITH MULTIPLE INPUT MODE - A method for generating a TV input command using a remote controller having an imaging sensor is presented. The method identifies the corners of a TV display screen from a graphical image captured by an imaging sensor of the remote controller. The method can then perform edge detection and segmentation of the graphical image using reference TV dimensions of the TV display screen to identify the pixel coordinates of the four corners of the TV display screen in the graphical image. The method can then map a camera center position in the pixel coordinates to virtual TV coordinates using a cross ratio algorithm, and then map a location of a cursor in the virtual TV coordinates to the coordinates of the TV display screen. | 12-20-2012 |
20130127719 | MULTI-TOUCH MOUSE - A multi-touch mouse includes a mouse body, a touch pad, and a controlling unit. In a case that the touch pad is not touched and the touch state is OFF, the multi-touch mouse is in a conventional two-dimensional mouse mode. In a case that the touch state of the touch pad is ON in response to a touch action and the mouse body is moved, the controlling unit switches the control mode of the multi-touch mouse to a touch gesture control mode and generates a touch gesture command. | 05-23-2013 |
20130249802 | TOUCH KEYBOARD - A touch keyboard includes an overlay frame, a touch pad, and a feedback device. The touch pad and the feedback device are disposed under the overlay frame. The overlay frame has plural openings for providing the keystrokes of the touch keyboard. When the user's finger is penetrated through a corresponding opening to touch the touch pad, the touch pad generates a key signal, and the feedback device generates a feedback signal to the user. The touch keyboard is thin and lightweight, and is easily carried. Moreover, due to the keystrokes provided by the overlay frame and the feedback device, the touch keyboard is more user-friendly. | 09-26-2013 |
20140317659 | Method and apparatus for providing interactive augmented reality information corresponding to television programs - Techniques related to displaying augmented reality (AR) based multi-media content are described. The AR content is corresponding to a television (TV) program being displayed on a TV screen. One embodiment of the techniques does not need to scan any AR markers or related images to retrieve the specific AR contents. An AR system for TV broadcasting programs comprises a mobile device, a digital TV or an Internet TV set and a cloud computing based TV-AR management server. The TV-AR management server is configured to provide correct AR contents for the TV program that is being broadcasted and received in a TV set being used by a user at the time. | 10-23-2014 |