Patent · US Expired

Image displaying apparatus

US5550560A · kind A · utility

24Cited by
2References
10Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateSep 29, 1995
Grant dateAug 27, 1996
Priority date
Expiry dateSep 29, 2015

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F3/0321
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for detecting when an operator selects one of multiple objects from a projected image. Image data, object data and relative position data drive a liquid crystal unit to form on a screen a composite display of both image and objects. When the operator presses a switch, a signal including the state of brightness from an optical sensor is entered into a brightness determinator of a personal computer. The brightness determinator initiates the determination of the brightness and then the object controller varies the brightness of each object. Along with the change in the brightness of objects, the brightness determinator decides the object indicated based on the brightness detected by the optical sensor to cause an object correspondence processor to effect the processing (conversion of a display) corresponding to the object selected by the operator.

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.