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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 01, 2016
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0485 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/04812 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a pointer display device, including, a touch panel provided on a display screen of a display section, a pointer display section configured to detect a contact point in a touch operation on the touch panel and to display a pointer in an area containing the contact point, and a hotspot detection section configured to detect as a hotspot a position corresponding to one part of the pointer exclusive of the contact point.