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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. 12, 1993
Filed:
Jul. 25, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Robert M McDermott, Weston, CT (US);
Assignee:
Summagraphics Corporation, Seymour, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
178 18 ; 382 48 ; 382 41 ; 382 51 ;
Abstract
A digitizer table which employs low pass filtering of raw coordinate data to reduce noise and jitter. A weighted filtering is employed, in which the new position data is averaged with a previous average or previous position data before being reported. The weighting factor applied to the new data is determined by the degree of monotonicity represented by the data, with intentional movements of the pointing device indicating high monotonicity undergoing light filtering but noise indicating low monotonicity undergoing heavy filtering.