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US 10,241,592 B2Granted
Image projector device
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsTakashi Natori, Koichiro Ota
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Abstract
An image projector device includes a projection optical unit through which an image is projected and displayed, a recognition unit that recognizes a user's action related to processing of the image, and a control unit that generates and/or edits a drawing image based on the user's action recognized by the recognition unit and projects and displays the drawing image being generated and/or edited as a projected, displayed image through the projection optical unit.
Claims13
An image projector device comprising:
- a recognition unit that recognizes a user's action, the recognition unit being configured to detect infrared light emitted from a pen used for performing a drawing action;
- a control unit that generates an image based on the user's action recognized by the recognition unit;
- a projection optical unit that projects the image generated by the control unit;
- and
- an output control unit that outputs the image generated by the control unit to at least one of a mail server and a printing device.
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A method of controlling an image projector device comprising:
- recognizing a user's action in conjunction with the projector device by detecting infrared light emitted from a pen used for performing a drawing action;
- generating an image with a control unit based on the recognized user's action;
- projecting the image generated by the control unit with a projection optical unit;
- and
- outputting the image generated by the control unit to at least one of a mail server and a printing device from the image projector device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.