Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Apparatus, method, and program product for determining the location of a portable electronic device on a display
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Application No.: US14964145Application Date: 2015-12-09
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Publication No.: US10606413B2Publication Date: 2020-03-31
- Inventor: Susumu Shimotono
- Applicant: LENOVO (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
- Applicant Address: SG New Tech Park
- Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
- Current Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
- Current Assignee Address: SG New Tech Park
- Agency: Kunzler Bean & Adamson
- Priority: JP2014-248629 20141209
- Main IPC: G06F3/042
- IPC: G06F3/042 ; G06F3/14 ; G06F3/0488

Abstract:
The position of a smartphone placed on a touchscreen is determined. Smartphones are placed on a touchscreen of a table PC, and user interface images are displayed respectively around the smartphones to perform cooperation. The table PC displays a position pattern to determine the position of a smartphone being placed. The position pattern includes a pattern of two tones. A camera of the smartphone captures a blurred image of a predetermined location of the position pattern. The table PC identifies the position of the smartphone, from a tone value of the captured image received wirelessly from the smartphone. The table PC can thus determine the position of the smartphone without using special hardware.
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