Patent ID: 8878821

Claim:
A system for providing object information, the system comprising: a screen having a display surface; a physical contact sensing component to generate physical contact information regarding whether at least an object has come into physical contact with the display surface of the screen; and a depth camera physically positioned to generate object location information by capturing a location of the object located in front of the display surface, the object location information including a region of the screen that the object is located in front of and further including object distance information related to the distance the object is located away from the front of the screen; and a user interface component coupled to the physical contact sensing component and to the depth camera, the user interface component to, in response to detecting a physical touch via the physical contact sensing component, determine a type of touch event based on the physical contact information and based on the object location information, the type of touch event including a first type associated with a single proximal object and a second type associated with multiple proximal objects.