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Photoelectric touch panel

US4868550A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateDec 30, 1987
Grant dateSep 19, 1989
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Expiry dateDec 30, 2007

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0421
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A photoelectric touch panel comprising arrays of equally spaced light emitting elements and photosensitive elements disposed in a frame configuration on the circumference of a CRT display screen in which a matrix of infrared beams is formed in front of the screen. The photoelectric touch panel has a light shielding plate formed into a comblike shape disposed such that each comb tooth thereof is interposed between said photosensitive elements.

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