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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:
Jan. 28, 2014

Filed:

Jan. 22, 2009
Applicants:

Richard Baxter, Aylesbury, GB;

Steven Lavache, Ware, GB;

Inventors:

Richard Baxter, Aylesbury, GB;

Steven Lavache, Ware, GB;

Assignee:

Performance Designed Products LLC, Sherman Oaks, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 9/00 (2006.01); G01B 5/02 (2006.01); G01B 7/02 (2006.01); G01B 11/02 (2006.01); G01B 13/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

According to various embodiments, the invention provides a method for establishing communication between a computer program in a computing system and a controller held in a hand of a user, comprising: capturing image data in a capture area in front of a display, the capturing configured to identify a two-dimensional location of the controller in the capture area; and capturing one-way sound communication between a location proximate to the display and a location at the controller, the sound communication being used to compute a third-dimensional location of the controller in the capture area.


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