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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127073 | DISPLAY APPARATUS AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF A display apparatus and a control method thereof, are provided. The display apparatus includes: a camera which detects a coordinate of light projected on a screen by a pointing device projecting a light beam; an image processor which processes an image to be displayed o... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120127074 | SCREEN OPERATION SYSTEM A screen operation system obtains operation information associated with an operation performed by a user with a pointing object relative to a screen of an image display apparatus controlled by an information processing apparatus and causes the information processing app... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105326 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR GENERATING MOTION INFORMATION Provided are a method and an apparatus for generating motion information relating to motion of an object to provide reaction of a user interface to the motion of the object. The method for generating the motion information includes: detecting depth information of the ob... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105325 | CAPACITIVE FINGER NAVIGATION INPUT DEVICE A capacitive finger navigation input device uses a capacitive sensor array of capacitive sensing cells that includes only two capacitive sensing cells positioned along a linear direction. The capacitive finger navigation input device uses a drive circuit to drive at lea... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120069168 | GESTURE RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR TV CONTROL A gesture recognition system using a skin-color based method combined with motion information to achieve real-time segmentation. A Kalman filter is used to track the centroid of the hand. The palm center, palm bottom, as well as the largest distance from the palm center... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068926 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH REVERSIBLE DISPLAY AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF A display device includes a control circuit, a data driving circuit, a gate driving circuit, and a display panel comprising a display region. The control circuit determines a located orientation of the display panel, sets a display-mode state parameter according to the ... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120068925 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GESTURE BASED CONTROL Methods and apparatus are provided for gesture based control of a device. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting a first position sensor signal, the first position sensor signal detected by a first sensor, and detecting a second position sensor signal, the secon... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050161 | Methods of Launching Applications Responsive to Device Orientation and Related Electronic Devices A method of operating an electronic device may include providing first graphic output of a first application on a display. Responsive to detecting a change in orientation of the electronic device, providing second graphic output of a second application may be automatica... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050162 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING VIRTUAL OBJECT AND METHOD THEREOF An information apparatus is provided. The information processing apparatus includes a viewpoint position measurement unit configured to measure a position of a viewpoint of an operator, an operation position measurement unit configured to measure a position of an operat... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120054620 | AUTOMATED CONTROLS FOR SENSOR ENABLED USER INTERFACE A mobile unit includes a processor, a memory, and a display. The display shows a user interface including a plurality of commands. Each sensory activated command of the plurality of commands is shown with a respective icon indicative of at least one of a motion and an o... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044142 | DISPLAY HAVING AUTO-OFF FUNCTION BY PERSON INFRARED SENSING A display having an auto-off function by person infrared sensing includes a display unit, an infrared sensor module, a control unit and a power supply unit. The infrared sensor module senses whether or not a person is within a zone surrounding the display, and generates... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120047466 | INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM There is provided an information processing device including an acquisition section configured to acquire an operation vector based on a movement of a body part of a user, a correction section configured to correct a direction of the acquired operation vector, and a pro... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044141 | INPUT SYSTEM, INPUT METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, AND RECORDING MEDIUM A position of a cursor 67 is controlled so that positions of retroreflective sheets 17L and 17R in real space coincides with positions of cursors 67 in a video image projected onto a screen 21, on the screen 21 in the real space... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038552 | UTILIZATION OF INTERACTIVE DEVICE-ADJACENT AMBIENTLY DISPLAYED IMAGES A telecommunication device configured to project an ambiently displayed image at a location proximate to the telecommunication device on a surface that is substantially parallel to a plane formed by a body of the telecommunication device is described herein. The telecom... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038553 | THREE-DIMENSIONAL VIRTUAL INPUT AND SIMULATION APPARATUS The present invention relates to a three-dimensional virtual input and simulation apparatus, and more particularly to an apparatus comprising a plurality of point light sources, a plurality of optical positioning devices with a visual axis tracking function, and a contr... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120026088 | HANDHELD DEVICE WITH PROJECTED USER INTERFACE AND INTERACTIVE IMAGE Systems and methods for a device with a user interactive image projector disposed in a distal end of the device from the user are described. In one aspect, the device is operatively configured to project at least a portion of a user interactive image on a projection sur... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019443 | TOUCH SYSTEM AND TOUCH SENSING METHOD A touch system comprises a transparent panel, a first image sensing module, a second image sensing module and a processing circuit. The first image sensing module is at least partially disposed on a first flat surface of the transparent for obtaining an image above the ... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120017147 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INTERACTING WITH PROJECTED USER INTERFACE Aspect methods and systems enable interaction with projected user interface through user input gestures performed on a mobile device. The mobile device may project the user interface image on an external surface, such as from a pico projector, and detect user input gest... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120007804 | INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD A method of resolving ambiguities between at least two pointers within a region of interest comprises capturing images of the region of interest and at least one reflection thereof from different vantages using a plurality of imaging devices, processing image data to id... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20110316777 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING REGULATION OF BACKLIGHT BRIGHTNESS AND METHOD THEREOF An electronic device includes a display module, a function key, a motion sensor, a determination module, and a regulation module. The motion sensor is operable to acquire a coordinate of the electronic device. The determination module is operable to determine whether th... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316778 | POINTING DEVICE, CONTROLLING METHOD OF THE SAME, GLASSES FOR 3D IMAGE, AND DISPLAY APPARATUS A pointing device includes: a communication unit which performs communication with glasses for viewing a 3D image and a display apparatus; and a control unit which controls the communication unit to perform communication with the glasses, detects a reference distance be... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316853 | TELEPRESENCE SYSTEMS WITH VIEWER PERSPECTIVE ADJUSTMENT Described herein is a telepresence system where a real-time a virtual hologram of a user is displayed at a remote display screen and is rendered from a vantage point that is different than the vantage point from which images of the user are captured via a video camera. ... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110316776 | INPUT DEVICE WITH PHOTODETECTOR PAIRS Input devices configured to provide user interface by detecting three dimensional movement of an external object are disclosed. The input device comprises at least two photodetector pairs, a radiation source and a circuit configurable to detect differential and common m... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310125 | COMPARTMENTALIZING FOCUS AREA WITHIN FIELD OF VIEW A system and method are disclosed for selectively focusing on certain areas of interest within an imaged scene to gain more image detail within those areas. In general, the present system identifies areas of interest from received image data, which may for example be de... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310013 | INTERFACE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTACT-FREE SPACE INPUT/OUTPUT A space input/output interface apparatus includes: a proximity sensor for sensing a movement of a user's wrist; an inertial sensor for sensing a movement of the user's arm; and a controller for generating user input/output interface recognition information corresponding... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310014 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS In an image pickup apparatus, a visible light cut filter allows infrared components to pass through, and blocks visible light components. A plurality of image pickup devices receive the light transmitted through the visible light cut filter such that a plurality of colo... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304539 | REMOTE CONTROLLING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME Disclosed are a remote controlling apparatus and a method for controlling the same, the apparatus capable of intuitively and conveniently controlling a display apparatus and capable of simply and precisely performing a text input, by controlling activation of a text inp... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304541 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETECTING GESTURES A method and system for detecting user interface gestures that includes obtaining an image from an imaging unit; identifying object search area of the images; detecting at least a first gesture object in the search area of an image of a first instance; detecting at leas... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304540 | IMAGE GENERATION SYSTEM, IMAGE GENERATION METHOD, AND INFORMATION STORAGE MEDIUM An image generation system includes an image information acquisition section that acquires image information from an image sensor, a motion information acquisition section that acquires motion information about an operator based on the image information from the image s... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304538 | OPTICAL POINTING DEVICE AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE INCLUDING THE OPTICAL POINTING DEVICE An inclined plane (13) of a prism (12) serving as a light-direction changing element transmits and refracts light emitted from an LED light source (16) so that a contact surface (11) is illuminated with the light thus refracted. The light is ... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110304537 | AUTO-CORRECTION FOR MOBILE RECEIVER WITH POINTING TECHNOLOGY A mobile station and unattached work area is used with an electronic pen, which includes a transmitter, such as an acoustic transmitter. The mobile station includes a receiver that receives signals from the transmitter and orientation sensors that detect movement of the... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110298710 | HAND-HELD POINTING DEVICE, SOFTWARE CURSOR CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A MOVEMENT OF A SOFTWARE CURSOR A hand-held pointing device for controlling a movement of a software cursor comprises an acceleration detector and an image capturing unit. The acceleration detector determines an inclination parameter, wherein the movement of the software cursor in a vertical direction... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298708 | Virtual Touch Interface A user may issue commands to a computing device by moving a pointer within a light field. Sensors may capture light reflected from the moving pointer. A virtual touch engine may analyze the reflected light captured as light portions in a sequence of images by the sensor... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110298709 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIGITAL RECORDING OF HANDPAINTED, HANDDRAWN AND HANDWRITTEN INFORMATION The present invention provides method and system for recording hand-painted, hand-drawn and handwritten information defined by a hand and/or fingers movement. The system corresponding to the invented method comprises: a computing device with a display, an input device c... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110300940 | Generating Position Information Using a Video Camera Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to receive image information. A plurality of reference fields of a user-manipulated device may be identified. Each reference field of the plurality of reference fields may include reference elements. The plurality... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110300933 | METHOD FOR INTERACTING WITH A VIDEO AND GAME SIMULATION SYSTEM A method for interacting with a video by a motion detector is disclosed. First, a video-content-decomposition procedure is executed to decompose the video into a background scene and at least one foreground object. Then, at least one event database is classified accordi... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110291927 | Smart Method and Device for Adaptive User Interface Experiences A wireless communication device (200) and method (300). The method (300) can include: detecting (310) a motion signature in a wireless communication device; sensing (320) a location of the wireless communication device; and setting ( 12/01/2011 | |
| 20110291929 | COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEM Correspondence data representing correspondence between a plurality of selection target objects and the attitude of an input device is stored in an information processing apparatus. In accordance with attitude/motion data acquired from the input device, the attitude of ... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110291928 | Multifunctional flexible handwriting board and method for manufacturing the same The present invention discloses a multifunctional flexible handwriting board and its manufacturing method. The multifunctional flexible handwriting board comprises a name plate, a linear plate, a shock absorbing layer and a circuit board. The name plate is made of a fle... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110291926 | Gesture recognition system using depth perceptive sensors Acquired three-dimensional positional information is used to identify user created gesture(s), which gesture(s) are classified to determine appropriate input(s) to an associated electronic device or devices. Preferably at at least one instance of a time interval, the po... | 12/01/2011 |
