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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
May. 21, 2014
Leap Motion, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
David Samuel Holz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin A. Horowitz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Justin Schunick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Leap Motion, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are a system and a device including a motion capture device and an input device, hereafter referred to as a stylus, which has additional functionality. The motion capture device detects the motion of the stylus and the detected motion is used as an input to a computer system. The system is able to differentiate identical movements of a stylus as different inputs by varying a detectable property of the stylus. The stylus may exhibit a variable reflective property that is detectable by the motion capture device. The variable reflective property gives the stylus additional functionality with an extended vocabulary. The extended vocabulary includes supplemental information and/or instructions detected by the motion capture device.