Electronic whiteboard system using a tactile foam sensor

US6501463B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignees

• Siemens Technology-to-Business Center, LLC · US
• Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Andrew Dahley · San Francisco, US
• Victor Su · Taipei, TW
• Bjoern Magnussen · Iserlohn, DE
• Cyril Valfort · Bussy-Albieux, FR

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 15, 2000
• Grant date: Dec 31, 2002
• Expiry date: Feb 15, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99955
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An electronic whiteboard system using an electronic whiteboard having a foam sensor for measuring the input data drawn onto the whiteboard writing surface. The electronic whiteboard system includes a communications interface that allows the electronic whiteboard to serve as a network appliance. In particular, the electronic whiteboard's interface includes at least a network interface capable of communicating the measured input data, and also audio data in some embodiments, directly via a network to a server or to a networked computer, in response to a request to access a stored electronic whiteboard meeting. In some embodiments, the server stores the input data associated with an electronic whiteboard meeting and in other embodiments the electronic whiteboard has sufficient memory to store the input data of a meeting.