Patents by Inventor Adrian J. Cable
Adrian J. Cable has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 9557855Abstract: We describe a touch sensitive holographic image display device for holographically projecting a touch sensitive image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed. The device includes holographic image projection optics comprising at least one coherent light source illuminating a spatial light modulator (SLM), output optics to project a hologram onto an acute angle surface, and a remote touch sensing system to remotely detect a touch of a location within or adjacent to the holographically displayed image. A control system is configured to provide data defining an image for display, to receive detected touch data, and to control the device responsive to remote detection of a touch of a the displayed image.Type: GrantFiled: July 3, 2013Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: Promethean LimitedInventors: Nicholas A. Lawrence, Paul R. Routley, Adrian J. Cable
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Patent number: 9298320Abstract: A touch sensitive device, the device comprising: a touch sensor light source to project a plane of light above a surface; a camera directed to capture a touch sense image from a region including at least a portion of said plane of light, said touch sense image comprising light scattered from said plane of light by a plurality of said objects simultaneously approaching or touching said surface; a signal processor coupled to said camera, to process a said touch sense image from said camera to identify a lateral location of each of said objects; and an output object position output, to provide output object positions for said plurality of objects; and wherein said signal processor is further configured to: input a succession of said touch sense images; process each said touch sense image to identify a plurality of candidate object touch positions; and filter said candidate object touch positions from said successive touch sense images to link said candidate object touch positions to previously identified outputType: GrantFiled: June 15, 2012Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: Promethean LimitedInventors: Gareth John McCaughan, Paul Richard Routley, John Andrew, Euan Christopher Smith, Adrian J. Cable
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Patent number: 8947402Abstract: We describe a touch sensitive image display device for projecting a touch sensitive displayed image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed. The device comprises: light sources to project two-dimensional first and second light distributions in respective first and second planes; and a multi-pixel sensor system to remotely detect touch of an area of said surface within or adjacent to the displayed image by detecting light from the first distribution to provide a detected touch signal. The multi-pixel sensor system also remotely detects presence of an object within the second light distribution to provide a detected presence signal. The device is configured to multiplex projection of the first light and second distributions. A controller has an input to receive the detected touch and detected presence signals and is configured to control the device responsive to these signals.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Light Blue Optics LtdInventors: Nicholas A. Lawrence, Raul Benet Ballester, Adrian J. Cable, James E. G. Wright
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Patent number: 8947401Abstract: We describe a touch sensitive image display device for projecting a touch sensitive displayed image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed, the device comprising: a first light source to project a first light distribution; a second light source to project a second light distribution; a touch sensor system to remotely detect touch of an area of said surface within or adjacent to said displayed image by detecting change of said first light distribution, and having an output to provide a detected touch signal; a presence sensor system to remotely detect presence of an object at least partially within said second light distribution by detecting change of said second light distribution, and having an output to provide a detected presence signal; a controller configured to control said device responsive to said detected touch signal and further configured to control said device responsive to said detected presence signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Light Blue Optics LtdInventors: Nicholas A. Lawrence, Raul Benet Ballester, Adrian J. Cable, James E. G. Wright
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Publication number: 20130293516Abstract: We describe a touch sensitive holographic image display device for holographically projecting a touch sensitive image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed. The device includes holographic image projection optics comprising at least one coherent light source illuminating a spatial light modulator (SLM), output optics to project a hologram onto an acute angle surface, and a remote touch sensing system to remotely detect a touch of a location within or adjacent to the holographically displayed image. A control system is configured to provide data defining an image for display, to receive detected touch data, and to control the device responsive to remote detection of a touch of a the displayed image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 3, 2013Publication date: November 7, 2013Applicant: LIGHT BLUE OPTICS LTDInventors: Nicholas A. Lawrence, Paul R. Routley, Adrian J. Cable
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Publication number: 20120062518Abstract: The invention relates to techniques for sensing of touch events near to a surface using position data from a pair of two-dimensional sensors (a camera and a quadrature detector).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventor: Adrian J. Cable
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Publication number: 20120008181Abstract: We describe a method of determining an aberration correction for a holographic image display system using a spatial light modulator (SLM) to display a hologram. Embodiments of the invention measure the corrections needed for a particular projection system, using the same system SLM as used to generate the images to provide wavefront-sensing holograms. The projector's projection optics are used to provide the wavefront sensor and there is no need for lenslets. Embodiments of the invention use a plurality of successive holograms directing light from differently-located patches on the hologram into the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Adrian J. Cable, Gareth J. McCaughan
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Publication number: 20110254811Abstract: We describe a touch sensitive image display device for projecting a touch sensitive displayed image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed, the device comprising: a first light source to project a first light distribution; a second light source to project a second light distribution; a touch sensor system to remotely detect touch of an area of said surface within or adjacent to said displayed image by detecting change of said first light distribution, and having an output to provide a detected touch signal; a presence sensor system to remotely detect presence of an object at least partially within said second light distribution by detecting change of said second light distribution, and having an output to provide a detected presence signal; a controller configured to control said device responsive to said detected touch signal and further configured to control said device responsive to said detected presence signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventors: Nicholas A. Lawrence, Raul Benet Ballester, Adrian J. Cable, James E.G. Wright
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Publication number: 20110248963Abstract: We describe a touch sensitive image display device for projecting a touch sensitive displayed image at an acute angle onto a surface on which the device is placed. The device comprises: light sources to project two-dimensional first and second light distributions in respective first and second planes; and a multi-pixel sensor system to remotely detect touch of an area of said surface within or adjacent to the displayed image by detecting light from the first distribution to provide a detected touch signal. The multi-pixel sensor system also remotely detects presence of an object within the second light distribution to provide a detected presence signal. The device is configured to multiplex projection of the first light and second distributions. A controller has an input to receive the detected touch and detected presence signals and is configured to control the device responsive to these signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2009Publication date: October 13, 2011Inventors: Nicholas A. Lawrence, Raul Benet Ballester, Adrian J. Cable, James E. G. Wright