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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2008
Chul Kweon, Daejeon, KR;
Joo-yeong Yoon, Daejeon, KR;
Chul Kweon, Daejeon, KR;
Joo-Yeong Yoon, Daejeon, KR;
Combustec Co., Ltd, Seoul, KR;
Other;
Abstract
A touch screen using infrared cameras hardly affected by external disturbance light includes an infrared radiation base having a plurality of infrared emitting elements and the infrared cameras, thereby preventing malfunction resulting from the external disturbance light. The touch screen includes a body having a screen part to which an image is output, an infrared radiation base having a plurality of infrared emitting elements and disposed around the screen part in transverse and longitudinal directions, and infrared cameras receiving the infrared light emitted from the infrared emitting elements of the infrared radiation base and detecting the position of an object touched on the screen part according to whether or not the infrared light emitted from each infrared emitting element is received.