G06F 3/0308
Comprising a plurality of distinctive and separately oriented light emitters or reflectors
Official title: {comprising a plurality of distinctive and separately oriented light emitters or reflectors associated to the pointing device, e.g. remote cursor controller with distinct and separately oriented LEDs at the tip whose radiations are captured by a photo-detector associated to the screen}
G06F3/0308 (Comprising a plurality of distinctive and separately oriented light emitters or reflectors) appears on 305 US grants and 378 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Remote control system322US 5,554,980 AMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha · 1996
- Universal remote TV mouse197US 6,753,849 B1Ken Curran & Associates · 2004
- Light pencil161US 4,565,999 APrime Computer, Inc. · 1986
- Dynamically-activated optical instrument for producing control signals having a self-calibration means141US 5,442,168 AInteractive Light, Inc. · 1995
- Input device for a display system using phase-encoded signals140US 4,745,402 ARCA Licensing Corporation · 1988