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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. 28, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 26, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:
Takeshi Furihata, Okaya, JP;
Kazunori Hiramatsu, Okaya, JP;
Kunio Yoneno, Shiojiri, JP;
Junichi Nakamura, Shiojiri, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/08 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/08 ;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a pointing position detection device that can automatically sense a pointing position within a display region. This pointing position detection device comprises a CCD camera acquiring an image of a display region in which an image has been displayed; a binary-data processing section for detecting a pointing position of a shadow region or an actual image region that is an image region of a pointing image included within an image-acquisition area, based on an image-acquisition signal of the CCD camera ; and a pointing coordinates detection section.