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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2011
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2006
Ho-joon Yoo, Goyang-si, KR;
Nam-woo Kim, Hanam-si, KR;
Ki-wan Choi, Anyang-si, KR;
Sun-gi Hong, Hwasung-si, KR;
Ho-joon Yoo, Goyang-si, KR;
Nam-woo Kim, Hanam-si, KR;
Ki-wan Choi, Anyang-si, KR;
Sun-gi Hong, Hwasung-si, KR;
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-Si, KR;
Abstract
A pointing apparatus and method and a pointer display apparatus and method using a virtual region which generate a virtual region corresponding to a detected display region, convert coordinates of a location, and display a pointer at the converted coordinates. The pointing device includes a region detector detecting a display region, which displays a pointer, using at least one received signal; a virtual region generator generating the virtual region corresponding to the display region and having an aspect ratio equal to that of the display region; a coordinate converter converting coordinates of a location, which is pointed at by the pointing device, in the virtual region into ratios of the coordinates of the location to a size of the virtual region; and a coordinate ratio transmitter transmitting the ratios.