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Matched Legal Cases: ['Application No. 2003', 'application No. 10', 'Application No. 2003', 'Application No. 03790129', 'Application No. 10', 'Application No. 2005124284', 'Application No. 2005124284', 'Application No. 200380107859', 'Application No. 200380107859']

Patent US8049720 - Compact optical pointing apparatus and method - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Advanced Patent Search | Page images | Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsA display pointing device (10) includes a fingerprint sensing circuit (18) that optically senses, for example, a portion of a fingerprint or other skin texture, and a fingerprint movement detection circuit (20), operatively coupled to the fingerprint sensing circuit (18), that is operative to determine...http://www.google.com/patents/US8049720?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8049720 - Compact optical pointing apparatus and methodCompact optical pointing apparatus and method Lawrence Alan GustOverviewAbstractDrawingsDescriptionClaims Patent number: 8049720Filing date: Jul 11, 2006Issue date: Nov 1, 2011Application number: 11/456,719 Page imagesPDF
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(12) Ullitfild States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 8,049,720 B2 Gust (45) Date of Patent: Nov. 1, 2011
(54) COMPACT OPTICAL POINTINGAPPARATUS 6,219,793 B1 4/2001 L1<-.111. AND METHOD 6,400,836 B2 6/2002 Senior
6,424,407 B1 7/2002 Kinrot et al. 6,473,069 B1 10/2002 Gerpheide (75) Inventor: Lawrence Alan Gust, Round Lake Park, 6,6 r4,422 Br 9/2003 Rani er ar lL (US) 6,624,824 B1 9/2003 Tognazzini et al. 6,654,007 B2 * 11/2003 Ito ............. .. 345/175 (73) Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc., Libertyville, IL 6,677,929 B2 * l/2004 Gordon el 111- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~ 345/156 (US) (Continued) ( * ) Notice: Subject. to any disclaimer, the term of this FQREIGN PATENT DQCUMENTS patent is exltjenbded ordadjusted under 35 CN 1233791 A 3/1999 U.S.C. 154 622 . . ( ) y ays (Continued) 21 A 1. N .: 11/456 719 ( ) pp ° ’ OTHER PUBLICATIONS (22) Flled3 Jlll- 11-1 2006 Chinese Office Action for Application No. 2003/80107859.2; Jun. 8, 2007; pp. 1-10. (65) Prior Publication Data (Continued) US 2006/0244722 A1 Nov. 2, 2006 _ _ Primary Examiner — Kimnhung Nguyen Related U.S. Application Data (62) Division of application No. 10/331,432, filed on Dec. (57) ABSTRACT 30, 2002, 110W P31 N0- 7,102,617 A display pointing device (10) includes a fingerprint sensing circuit (18) that optically senses, for example, a portion of a (Sl) Int‘ Cl‘ fingerprint or other skin texture, and a fingerprint movement G06F 3/033 (200901) detection circuit (20), operatively coupled to the fingerprint (52) U-s- Cl- ~~~~~~~ ~~ 345/158; 345/156; 345/173; 345/166 sensing circuit (18), that is operative to determine a direction (58) Field Of Classification Search ........ .. 345/156—158, of movement and a rate of movement of skin texture being
345/165, 166, 173, 179, 204; 455/556-1, sensed by the fingerprint sensing circuit (18) to produce 455/556-2 pointing output data (24) for a display (12). The pointing
$66 application filf! fOr 00111131616 S6arCl1 history. output data (24) may be, for example, data representing a _ visual indication of a position on a display screen, such as a (56) Referellees Clted position of a cursor or of highlighted text, or any other suit
able position indication. A method for providing pointing
US" PATENT DOCUMENTS information for display includes sensing a fingerprint deter
5,463,725 A 10/ 1995 Henckel et al. mining a direction of movement and a rate of movement of the 517321148 A 3/1998 Keegy el el fingerprint and producing a pointing output for display based 5 ’796’858 A 8/1998 Zhou et 31' on a determined direction of movement and rate of movement 5,838,306 A 11/1998 O’Connor et al. . 5,978,495 A 11/1999 Thomopoulos et al. Ofilie sensed fingerpnnt 5,991,431 A 11/1999 Borza et al. 6,057,540 A 5/2000 Gordon et al. 20 Claims, 5 Drawing Sheets 12 DISPLAY A 26" 14 -1 USER INTERFACE 10,1 __________________ _ _ , : 2‘ : SURFACE TEXTURE | 1 SENSING CIRCUIT 22 SURFMAOCVEEMTEENXTTURE 1 I (E.G., THERMAL ) DETECTION I I SENSOR TO CIRCUH I l SENSE PORTION l ' “F SKI" PR(11Ec'i's's1111)Gii'c) ' : TEXTURE) -18 ' I‘ I I
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