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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.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012

Filed:

Oct. 26, 2004
Applicants:

John E. Adcock, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Laurent Denoue, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jonathan J. Trevor, Santa Clara, CA (US);

David M. Hilbert, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Inventors:

John E. Adcock, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Laurent Denoue, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Jonathan J. Trevor, Santa Clara, CA (US);

David M. Hilbert, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention include a video server that can detect and track the image of a pointing indicator in an input video stream representation of a computer display. The video server checks ordered frames of the video signal and determines movements for a pointing indicator such as a mouse arrow. Certain motions by the pointing indicator, such as lingering over a button or menu item or circling a button or menu item can provoke a control action on the server.


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