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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 07, 2019

Filed:

May. 07, 2017
Applicant:

Neonode Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Eriksson, Stockholm, SE;

Alexander Jubner, Spånga, SE;

Rozita Teymourzadeh, Upplands Väsby, SE;

Stefan Holmgren, Sollentuna, SE;

Lars Sparf, Vällingby, SE;

Bengt Henry Hjalmar Edlund, Segeltorp, SE;

Richard Berglind, Älvsjö, SE;

Assignee:

Neonode Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/042 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0421 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04103 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04104 (2013.01); G09G 2380/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

A touch system with a curved touch surface, including light emitters projecting light beams over and across the curved surface, such that at least some of the light beams are incident upon and reflected by the curved surface, light detectors detecting reflections, by a reflective object touching the curved surface, lenses mounted such that (i) there is a particular angle of entry at which each light detector receives a maximal light intensity, and (ii) there are target positions, associated with emitter-detector pairs, on the curved surface, whereby light beams emitted by the light emitter of that pair are reflected by the object into the lens corresponding to the light detector of that pair at the particular angle of entry, and a processor calculating a location of the object touching the curved surface by determining an emitter-detector pair that detects a maximal amount of light, and identifying the associated target position.


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