Lower Panel Patents (Class 84/82)
  • Optical navigation system for rotary control based non-contact controller
    Patent number: 7763843
    Abstract: The controller of the present invention includes an optical navigation system which is responsive to movement, velocity of position of a rotatable platter. The optical navigation system is responsive to rotation of the rotatable platter and is further responsive to at least one degree of freedom of tilting of the rotatable platter. The rotatable platter typically includes a textured pattern so that the optical navigation system can acquire sequential surface images of the textured pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Stanton Magnetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Flum, James Mazur