Combination mouse and area imager
CA 2189700 C · Owner: Dickinson, Alexander George · Inventors: Dickinson, Alexander George
Overview
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Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A hand-held device such as a mouse is provided for inputting into a computer relative positional information during movement of the device over a generally planar surface and for inputting an optical image of an object located thereunder. The device includes a housing adapted to be grasped by a user and moved along the surface. A positional transducer is mounted in the housing for generating first signals representative of the amount of movement of the device over the surface. An area imager is located within the housing for recording an image of an object and for generating second signals representative of the image.
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Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed November 6, 1996 and granted June 20, 2000. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended November 6, 2016.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by November 6, 2018.
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