US 6,388,656 B1Granted

Remote position designation system

OwnerKwang-muk Chaeinventor

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Abstract

Disclosed is a remote position designation system for designating an optional position on a plane at a place remote from the plane. The remote position designation system includes a transmitter unit including transmitters adapted to transmit, as a position signal, signals of the same frequency, but having different phases, in a simultaneous fashion, respectively, a receiver unit for receiving the signals transmitted from the transmitters of the transmitter unit in the form of a composite signal, amplifying the received composite signal to a saturation level, and conducting a signal processing for the amplified signal to obtain position information associated with a phase shift of the amplified signal from a reference phase, and a control unit for generating a control signal adapted to display a position designated by the position signal from the transmitter unit on a screen, based on the position information from the receiver unit. The remote position designation system is applicable to a variety of electronic appliances such as TVs, computers, VCRs, LDPs, DVD players, VOD systems, cable TV terminals, communication terminals, video game machines for home use, and computers for toddlers. In this case, an easy movement of a curser can be achieved.

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Dependent claims

A remote position designation system for designating an optional position on a plane at a place remote from the plane comprising:

a transmitter unit including transmitters adapted to transmit, as a position signal, signals of the same frequency, but having different phases, in a simultaneous fashion, respectively, said transmitter unit comprising:
a switch input unit for outputting an input signal in accordance with a switching operation thereof;
a transmitting-end control unit for generating a control signal, based on an output signal from the switch input unit;
a clock frequency divider for generating a clock of a predetermined frequency under a control of the transmitting-end control unit;
a square wave generating unit for generating square waves respectively having a sine waveform and a cosine waveform in response to the clock generated from the clock frequency divider;
a selection unit for receiving the sine and cosine square waves from the square wave generating unit, and outputting a selected one of the received square waves under a control of the transmitting-end control unit;
a distribution unit for receiving one of the square waves from the square wave generating unit along with the selected square wave from the selection unit, and outputting the received signals in the form of distributed signals under a control of the transmitting-end control unit;
a current amplifying unit for amplifying the distributed signals from the distribution unit;
and
the transmitters for transmitting frequency signals respectively based on the amplified signals from the current amplifying unit, the transmitters being arranged at upper, lower, left and right positions, respectively;
a receiver unit for receiving the signals transmitted from the transmitters of the transmitter unit in the form of a composite signal, amplifying the received composite signal to a saturation level, and conducting a signal processing for the amplified signal to obtain position information associated with a phase shift of the amplified signal from a reference phase;
and
a control unit for generating a control signal adapted to display a position designated by the position signal from the transmitter unit on a screen, based on the position information from the receiver unit.

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A remote position designation system for designating an optional position on a plane at a place remote from the plane comprising:

a transmitter unit including transmitters adapted to transmit, as a position signal, signals of the same frequency, but having different phases, in a simultaneous fashion, respectively;
a receiver unit for receiving the signals transmitted from the transmitters of the transmitter unit in the form of a composite signal, amplifying the received composite signal to a saturation level, and conducting a signal processing for the amplified signal to obtain position information associated with a phase shift of the amplified signal from a reference phase wherein the receiver unit comprises:
an amplifying unit for receiving the frequency signals from the transmitter unit, and amplifying the received frequency signals;
and
a digital signal processing unit for processing an output signal from the amplifying unit in a digital fashion;
an infrared receiver grounded at one terminal thereof;
an impedance converting/amplifying unit coupled to the other terminal of the infrared receiver and adapted to amplify a signal, having an intensity lower than that of ambient natural light, received from the transmitter unit while reducing loss of the received signal during the amplification;
a gain control unit adapted to remove noise from the amplified signal outputted from the impedance converting/amplifying unit while amplifying AC components of the amplified signal;
a bandpass filter unit adapted to filter an output signal from the gain control unit, thereby outputting desired frequency components of the received signal;
a control unit adapted to control the gain control unit based on the frequency components outputted from the bandpass filter unit, thereby controlling an amplification degree for the frequency components outputted from the bandpass filter unit;
a first amplifier unit adapted to amplify the frequency components outputted from the bandpass filer unit;
and
a second amplifier unit adapted to ultimately amplify an output signal from the first amplifier unit to a saturation level, thereby outputting a square wave.

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A remote position designation system for designating an optional position on a plane at a place remote from the plane comprising:

a transmitter unit including transmitters adapted to transmit, as a position signal, signals of the same frequency, but having different phases, in a simultaneous fashion, respectively;
a receiver unit for receiving the signals transmitted from the transmitters of the transmitter unit in the form of a composite signal, amplifying the received composite signal to a saturation level, and conducting a signal processing for the amplified signal to obtain position information associated with a phase shift of the amplified signal from a reference phase wherein the receiver unit comprises:
an amplifying unit for receiving the frequency signals from the transmitter unit, and amplifying the received frequency signals;
and
a digital signal processing unit for processing an output signal from the amplifying unit in a digital fashion, wherein the digital signal processing unit comprises:
a clock oscillating unit adapted to generate a clock signal of a desired frequency;
a phase locked loop circuit for receiving the square wave signal from the amplifying unit, and serving to transmit a phase value of a reference signal to a phase difference counting circuit at every rising edge of the input square wave signal as the phase value of a reference phase signal, left-right phase signal or upper-lower phase signal;
a frequency dividing circuit adapted to conduct a frequency division in sync with the clock signal from the clock oscillating unit;
a digital bandpass filter unit adapted to filter the square wave signal outputted from the amplifying unit;
a frequency discriminating unit adapted to discriminate whether or not the counted value of a frequency counter for the square wave signal is within a predetermined range corresponding to a carrier frequency, thereby discriminating whether or not the input square wave signal has a carrier frequency;
a demodulating unit adapted to demodulate an output signal from the frequency discriminating unit;
a serial/parallel converting circuit adapted to convert the demodulated signal outputted in the form of serial data from the demodulating unit into parallel data in sync with an output signal from the frequency dividing circuit;
a transmitter code comparator adapted to receive an output signal from the serial/parallel converting circuit, thereby comparing an input transmitter code with a set transmitter code;
an R-S flip-flop for receiving an output signal from a phase comparison interval generator at one input terminal thereof and a control signal from a receiving-end control unit at the other input terminal thereof, and outputting a signal generated based on the received signals to the control unit;
the phase comparison interval generator adapted to generate an interval signal for measurement for position signals in response to an output signal from the transmitter code comparator;
a phase difference counting circuit adapted to receive the input square wave signal received from the amplifying unit, the output signal from the phase locked loop circuit, and the output signal from the phase comparison interval generator, thereby generating an integrated reference phase value, an integrated left-right phase value, and an integrated upper-lower phase value;
a phase difference calculating unit for receiving the integrated phase values outputted from the phase difference counting circuit, thereby calculating a left-right phase difference and an upper-lower phase difference;
a position value memory register for storing the calculated phase differences outputted from the phase difference calculating unit;
a serial/parallel interface for conducting a serial/parallel processing for an output signal from the position value memory register, and applying the resultant signal to the receiving -end control unit;
and
a system reset circuit for maintaining a reset state in response to a system reset control signal.

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