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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2012
Kiyoshi Tashiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyoshi Tashiro, Kanagawa, JP;
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A position detecting device includes a device specifying unit, a motion obtaining unit, and a relative position detecting unit. The device specifying unit specifies plural information processing devices that have been brought into contact with one another. The motion obtaining unit obtains information about a motion of any one of the plural information processing devices. The relative position detecting unit detects, on the basis of a motion produced when the any one of the plural information processing devices specified by the device specifying unit is brought into contact with another of the plural information processing devices, relative positions of the plural information processing devices specified by the device specifying unit.