Patents Assigned to SMART Technologies ULC
  • INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM AND PEN TOOL THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20130135206
    Abstract: A pen tool for use with an interactive input system comprises an elongate body, at least one switch assembly accommodated by the body and a controller accommodated by the body and communicating with the at least one switch assembly. The at least one switch assembly is actualable when the pen tool is brought into contact with an input surface of the interactive input system. The controller is responsive to actuation of the at least one switch assembly. The at least one switch assembly comprises a contact circuit and a plunger assembly having a conductive element thereon that is generally aligned with the contact circuit. The plunger assembly is moveable into the body to bring the conductive element into contact with the contact circuit thereby actuate the at least one switch assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 30, 2013
    Applicant: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventor: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
  • DESKTOP SHARING METHOD AND SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20130132862
    Abstract: A desktop sharing system and method are provided. A desktop sharing application permits a selected display region on a first computer's desktop to be shared with other computers. The desktop sharing application permits another computer to assume control and share a selected display region of the other computer's desktop during a conference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2012
    Publication date: May 23, 2013
    Applicant: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventor: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
  • Method for determining the location of a pointer in a pointer input region, and interactive input system executing the method
    Patent number: 8446392
    Abstract: An interactive input system comprises a touch surface, and imaging system associated with the touch surface and processing structure. The imaging system comprises an optical sensor array that spans at least a portion of the area of the touch surface, and the processing structure communicates with the imaging system and analyzes images received by the imaging system to determine whether at least one pointer is near to the touch surface and the location of the at least one pointer in respect of the touch surface based at least in part on the edge sharpness of the at least one pointer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Yunqiu (Rachel) Wang, Grant McGibney, Gerald Morrison
  • DUAL MODE TOUCH SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20130120316
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a pointer includes a waveguide and a touch surface over the waveguide on which pointer contacts are to be made. At least one reflecting device extends along a first side of the waveguide and touch surface. The reflecting device defines an optical path between the interior of the waveguide and the region of interest above the touch surface. At least one imaging device looks across the touch surface and into the waveguide. The imaging device captures images of the region of interest and within the waveguide including reflections from the reflecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventor: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
  • INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20130120252
    Abstract: An interactive input system comprises at least two imaging assemblies capturing image frames of a region of interest from different vantages, each imaging assembly comprising an image sensor and signal processing circuitry implemented on an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), image data acquired by the image sensor being pre-processed by the signal processing circuitry; and processing structure processing pre-processed image data output by the imaging assemblies to determine the location of at least one pointer within the region of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2012
    Publication date: May 16, 2013
    Applicant: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventor: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
  • INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM AND PEN TOOL THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20130100022
    Abstract: A pen tool for use with a machine vision interactive input system comprises an elongate body, a tip on the body and a variable reflector disposed on the body. The variable reflector comprises a reflecting portion and an attenuating portion configured to control the amount of illumination reflected by the reflecting portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventor: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
  • Connected and overlapped shapes enhancements
    Patent number: 8427482
    Abstract: A method of ordering visual objects presented on a display includes comparing visual objects to be placed in an overlapping condition and determining from the comparison the order in which the visual objects are to be placed. The visual objects are re-ordered and placed in the overlapping condition in accordance with the determination. Methods of creating connecting links joining source and destination visual objects as well as overlapping object and object-connecting tools are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Erin Wallace, Andy Leung
  • Method for manipulating a graphic widget in a three-dimensional environment displayed on a touch panel of an interactive input system
    Patent number: 8416206
    Abstract: A method for manipulating a graphic widget in a three-dimensional environment displayed on a touch panel of an interactive input system is provided. The method includes tracking the x-y positions of two touch points associated with the graphic widget; and modifying the z-position of the graphic widget in accordance with changes in the distance between the x-y positions of the touch points. An interactive input system and computer readable medium embodying the method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Sheelagh Carpendale, Mark Stephen Hancock, Thomas Ten Cate, Tobias Isenberg
  • Touch panel and interactive input system incorporating the same
    Patent number: 8400407
    Abstract: A touch panel comprises a substrate having a forward major surface and formed of a plurality of assembled substrate segments. Cover material overlies the forward major surface to reduce the visibility of seams between adjacent substrate segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Tanya Oleskevich, Don Robertson, Nicole Martin
  • Interactive input system and bezel therefor
    Patent number: 8400415
    Abstract: An interactive input system comprises at least one imaging device having a field of view looking into a region of interest. At least one radiation source emits radiation into the region of interest. A pliable bezel at least partially surrounds the region of interest. The pliable bezel has a reflective surface in the field of view of said at least one imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Roberto A. L. Sirotich, Wallace I. Kroeker, Joyce He, Joe Wright, Sean Thompson
  • INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM AND PANEL THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20130050149
    Abstract: An interactive panel comprises an optical waveguide within which totally internally reflected (TIR) illumination propagates, a display device beneath the optical waveguide and a partially transparent layer beneath the display device. The partially transparent layer reflects backlight illumination towards the display device and at least allows TIR illumination escaping from the optical waveguide and passing through the optical waveguide and the display panel, as a result of one or more contacts made on the optical waveguide, to pass therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Robbie Rattray, David Popovich
  • METHOD FOR MANIPULATING A GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE AND INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME
    Publication number: 20130055143
    Abstract: A method comprises capturing at least one image of a three-dimensional (3D) space disposed in front of a display surface and processing the captured at least one image to detect a pointing gesture made by a user within the three-dimensional (3D) space and the position on the display surface to which the pointing gesture is aimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: David Martin, Douglas Hill, Edward Tse, Wendy Segelken
  • Passive touch system and method of detecting user input
    Patent number: 8378986
    Abstract: A passive touch system includes a passive touch surface and at least two cameras associated with the touch surface. The at least two cameras acquire images of the touch surface from different locations and have overlapping fields of view. A processor receives and processes images acquired by the at least two cameras to detect the existence of a pointer therein and to determine the location of the pointer relative to the touch surface. Actual pointer contact with the touch surface and pointer hover above the touch surface can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Gerald Morrison, Mavinder Singh
  • INTERACTIVE INPUT SYSTEM DISPLAYING AN E-BOOK GRAPHIC OBJECT AND METHOD OF MANIPULATING A E-BOOK GRAPHIC OBJECT
    Publication number: 20130021281
    Abstract: An interactive input system includes a touch panel; and processing structure displaying on the touch panel at least one graphic object depicting a book having one or more page stacks. The processing structure displays each page stack of the book graphic object with a respective width that is based on a number of pages in the page stack. A method for manipulating a book object, and computer program embodied by a computer readable medium are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: SMART TECHNOLOGIES ULC
    Inventors: Edward Tse, Jamie Duncalf, Erik Benner, Min Xin
  • Information-inputting device inputting contact point of object on recording surface as information
    Patent number: 8358872
    Abstract: Structure and function for inputting information preferably includes a display device having two cameras in respective corners thereof. At least one computer readable medium preferably has program instructions configured to cause at least one processing structure to: (i) extract an object located on a plane of the display device from an image that includes the plane of the object, (ii) determine whether the object is a writing implement by determining, when a plurality of objects are extracted from the image, that one of the plurality of objects that satisfies a prescribed condition is the writing implement, (iii) calculate a position of a contact point between the writing implement and the plane as information to be input if the object has been determined as the writing implement, and (iv) input the information representing a position on the plane indicated by the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventor: Susumu Fujioka
  • Interactive input system component
    Patent number: D675621
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Mark Andrew Fletcher, Alan Peter Boykiw, Cheng Guo, Paul Anthony Auger
  • Touch table
    Patent number: D677655
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventor: Roberto A. L. Sirotich
  • Portion of a display screen with a graphical user interface
    Patent number: D679284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Kathryn Kylie Rounding, Jennifer Christine Pipchuk, Michael John Boyle, Kenny Yu Hin Tsang
  • Display screen with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D682860
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Carl Hudson, Raul Nemes, Michael Rounding, Jackson Chan, Wendy Segelken, Jonathan Li On Wing, Julie Iannelli, Peter Yang
  • Display screen with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D682861
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: SMART Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Michael Rounding, Jackson Chan