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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 25, 2005
Emily Weil, New York, NY (US);
Greg Thomas, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
S. Joy Mountford, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas J. Dougherty, Los Altos, CA (US);
Daniel E. Cummings, San Francisco, CA (US);
Emily Weil, New York, NY (US);
Greg Thomas, Santa Cruz, CA (US);
S. Joy Mountford, Mountain View, CA (US);
Thomas J. Dougherty, Los Altos, CA (US);
Daniel E. Cummings, San Francisco, CA (US);
Vulcan Patents LLC, Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A computerized interactor system uses physical, three-dimensional objects as metaphors for input of user intent to a computer system. When one or more interactors are engaged with a detection field, the detection field reads an identifier associated with the object and communicates the identifier to a computer system. The computer system determines the meaning of the interactor based upon its identifier and upon a semantic context in which the computer system is operating.