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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 1989
Filed:
Feb. 24, 1989
Hideshi Tamaru, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A touch panel apparatus having a display, a first beam generator for generating a first set of beams skewed to the right, arranged in parallel to each other and aligned from the upper left to the lower right relative to the display surface of the display, a first beam scanner coupled to the first beam generator for scanning the display surface by the first set of beams with a predetermined sequence, a second beam generator for generating a second set of beams skewed to the left, arranged in parallel to each other and aligned from the upper right to the lower left relative to the display surface of the display, a second beam scanner coupled to the second beam generator for scanning the display surface by the second set of beams with a predetermined sequence, a first calculator for determining a first address based on an interrupted beam first appearing in the alignment sequence of the first set of beams, and a second calculator for determining a second address based on an interrupted beam first appearing in the alignment sequence of the second set of beams.