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US 2013/0153747 A1Published application
Input device
AssigneeSamsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd.
InventorsVictor YURLOV, Ho Seop JEONG, Seong Woo KIM, Chul CHOI, Ju Sung PARK, Kwang Yun CHOI
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Abstract
There is provided an input device including: a housing having a surface on which a plurality of grids are disposed; a light emitting unit irradiating light onto the surface of the housing; a light receiving element detecting the light irradiated from the light emitting unit and reflected from the surface; and a control unit determining information regarding an object contacting the surface from the light detected by the light receiving element.
Claims11
An input device comprising:
- a housing having a surface on which a plurality of grids are disposed;
- a light emitting unit irradiating light onto the surface of the housing;
- a light receiving element detecting the light irradiated from the light emitting unit and reflected from the surface;
- and
- a control unit determining information regarding an object contacting the surface from the light detected by the light receiving element.
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An input device comprising:
- a housing having a surface on which an optical filter is disposed;
- a light emitting unit irradiating light onto the surface of the housing;
- a light receiving element detecting the light irradiated from the light emitting unit and reflected from the surface;
- and
- a control unit determining information regarding an object contacting the surface from the light detected by the light receiving element.
2 more elements
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.