G06F 3/0426
Tracking fingers with respect to a virtual keyboard projected or printed on
Official title: {tracking fingers with respect to a virtual keyboard projected or printed on the surface (virtual keyboards on touch screens G06F3/04886)}
G06F3/0426 (Tracking fingers with respect to a virtual keyboard projected or printed on) appears on 440 US grants and 582 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 440
- Published applications
- 582
- Assignees
- 233
- Inventors
- 1,209
- Latest grant
- 22 Sep 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 |
| 1999 | 0 | 0 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 5 |
| 2003 | 4 | 11 |
| 2004 | 4 | 8 |
| 2005 | 1 | 2 |
| 2006 | 6 | 8 |
| 2007 | 5 | 9 |
| 2008 | 1 | 6 |
| 2009 | 1 | 10 |
| 2010 | 2 | 17 |
| 2011 | 2 | 15 |
| 2012 | 10 | 16 |
| 2013 | 13 | 31 |
| 2014 | 12 | 42 |
| 2015 | 33 | 46 |
| 2016 | 27 | 48 |
| 2017 | 33 | 50 |
| 2018 | 33 | 45 |
| 2019 | 47 | 54 |
| 2020 | 48 | 21 |
| 2021 | 39 | 29 |
| 2022 | 32 | 32 |
| 2023 | 30 | 24 |
| 2024 | 25 | 20 |
| 2025 | 19 | 20 |
| 2026 | 9 | 13 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Systems and methods for providing on-screen virtual keyboards22 Sep 2026US 12,743,176 B2Vizio Inc.
- Finger-mounted device with sensors and haptics15 Sep 2026US 12,737,047 B2
- Dynamic updating of projected keyboard models to increase typing efficiency of a user21 Jul 2026US 12,687,953 B2International Business Machines Corporation
- Detection device and program2 Jun 2026US 12,645,325 B2Nikon Corporation
- Gesture recognition devices and methods26 May 2026US 12,638,936 B2
- Adaptable virtualized human-machine interface for a portable computer8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310341 A1Ameria AG
- Systems, devices, and methods for extended-reality surface typing24 Sep 2026US 2026/0288249 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Physical input device extraction and 3d reconstruction13 Aug 2026US 2026/0236163 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Dynamic updating of projected keyboard models to increase typing efficiency of a user9 Jul 2026US 2026/0195013 A1International Business Machines Corporation
- Display Apparatus18 Jun 2026US 2026/0169571 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Method and apparatus for entering data using a virtual input device411US 6,614,422 B1Canesta, Inc. · 2003
- Methods for enhancing performance and data acquired from three-dimensional image systems331US 6,512,838 B1Canesta, Inc. · 2003
- Quasi-three-dimensional method and apparatus to detect and localize interaction of user-object and virtual transfer device320US 6,710,770 B2Canesta, Inc. · 2004
- Method and device for optical input of commands or data303US 5,767,842 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1998
- Gloved human-machine interface253US 9,104,271 B12015