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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:
Feb. 19, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2007
Klony Lieberman, Jerusalem, IL;
Yossi Chay, Tel Aviv, IL;
Yuval Sharon, Jerusalem, IL;
Lumio Inc., Menlo Park, unknown;
Abstract
An optical touch panel including a support, an optical fiber illumination assembly arranged along and above at least part of a periphery of the support to define a detection region, the assembly including at least one optical fiber and a light source arranged for directing light along the at least one optical fiber, at least one light detector, arranged to detect changes in the light received from the optical fiber illumination assembly produced by the presence of a finger or stylus in the detection region and detection circuitry receiving at least one output from the at least one light detector and providing an output indication of the two dimensional location of finger or stylus impingement in the detection region.