Summagraphics Corporation

Daniel G Lasley

Robert M McDermott

In a digitizer and method for laying out and using the tablet of the digitizer, wherein the tablet provides unambiguous binary code outputs. The digitizer may employe a cordless transducer and signal processing circuitry providing relative phase detection for determining coarse location of the transducer. An unambiguous binary code output is obtained with a grid layout which generates a set of unique binary codes, none of which is the the same or the binary inverse of any other member of the set.

Digitizer tablet using relative phase detection

A digitizer tablet using a pressure-sensitive pointing device preferably containing a linear transducer is provided with the means to convert linear pressure signals to logarithmically-related output counts. The conversion means is programmable to allow outputting of a logarithmically or a linearly related count for use by an application program.

Digitizer tablet with pressure stylus

A digitizer tablet uses sequenced wire addressing to derive time-related voltages correlated to the location of the addressed wires. The voltages are digitized, and an algorithm followed to determine by interpolation the exact position of a pointing device over the addressed wires. The algorithm employs a calculation based on determining the X-intercept of a straight line.

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Daniel G Lasley