Method carried out by stylus, method carried out by dual stylus and dual controller, and dual stylus
AssigneeWacom Co., Ltd.
InventorsHideyuki Hara, Sadao Yamamoto
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Abstract
An active stylus includes an elongated body, an electrode provided at a tip end of the elongated body, an indicator, and a controller coupled to the electrode and the indicator. The controller is configured to operate, in a mutually exclusive manner, either in a first mode of operation to transmit a signal of a first system via the electrode and to receive an uplink signal transmitted from a sensor which detects, based on the signal of the first system, a position of the active stylus, or in a second mode of operation to transmit a signal of a second system via the electrode. The controller is configured to control the indicator responsive to a detection of the uplink signal.
Claims9
An active stylus comprising:
- an elongated body,
- an electrode provided at a tip end of the elongated body,
- an indicator, and
- a controller, which is coupled to the electrode and the indicator and which is configured to operate, in a mutually exclusive manner, either in a first mode of operation to transmit a signal of a first system via the electrode and to receive an uplink signal transmitted from a sensor which detects, based on the signal of the first system, a position of the active stylus, or in a second mode of operation to transmit a signal of a second system via the electrode,
- wherein the controller is configured to control the indicator responsive to a detection of the uplink signal.
An active stylus, for use with a sensor controller, the active stylus comprising:
- an elongated body,
- an electrode provided at a tip end of the elongated body, and
- a controller, which is coupled to the electrode and which is configured to operate in a first mode of operation to transmit a signal of a first system via the electrode and to switch, responsive to an uplink signal transmitted from the sensor controller which detects the signal of the first system, to operate in a second mode of operation to transmit a signal of a second system.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.