Digitized controller for position locator
CA 2028381 A1 · Owner: Summagraphics Corporation · Inventors: Lasley, Daniel G.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A digitizer tablet uses sequenced wire addressing to derive time-related voltages correlated to the location of the addressed wires. The voltages are digitized and an algorithm, followed to determine by interpolation the exact position of a pointing device over the addressed wires. The algorithm employs a calculation based on determining the X-intercept of a straight line.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed October 24, 1990. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended October 24, 2010.
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