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Sensing device

Patent 6870966 Issued on March 22, 2005. Estimated Expiration Date: Icon_subject May 23, 2020. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.

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Inventors

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Application

No. 09575174 filed on 05/23/2000

US Classes:

382/313, Hand-held382/312, IMAGE SENSING382/314, Sensing mechanism in stylus382/188Writing on ordinary surface (i.e., electronics are in pen)

Examiners

Primary: Boudreau, Leo H.
Assistant: Dang, Duy M.

Foreign Patent References

  • 2306669 GB 05/01/1997
  • WO 9918487 WO 04/01/1999
  • WO 9950787 WO 10/01/1999

International Classes

G06K009/32
G06K009/00

Abstract

A sensing device for sensing region identity data and generating movement data when the sensing device is moved relative to a region of a surface, the region identity data being indicative of an identity of the region, the movement data being indicative of the movement of the sensing device relative to the region, the surface having disposed upon it coded data indicative of at least one region associated with the surface, the sensing device including: region identity sensing means configured to sense the region identity data using at least some of the coded data; motion sensing means configured to generate the movement data; and communications means configured to communicate the region identity data and the movement data to a computer system.

Other References

  • Dymetman, M., and Copperman, M., Intelligent Paper; in Electronic Publishing, Artistic Imaging, and Digital Typography, Proceedings of EP '98, Mar./Apr. 1998, Springer Verlag LNCS 1375, pp. 392-406.
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