INDICATION DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROJECTION SYSTEM

• US 20090251623A1
• Filed: 04/07/2009
• Published: 10/08/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/08/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Original Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation (Seiko Group)
• Inventors: KOYAMA, Fumio
• Application Number:
  US12/419,476
• Publication Number:
  US 20090251623A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/789
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/046 by electromagnetic means

Abstract

An indication device includes an indication unit pointing to an indication position which is a position on an indicated surface on which first information is displayed; an information projection unit which projects second information onto the indicated surface; and a process execution unit which executes a process appropriate to an indication position pointed to by the indication unit.

Claims

1. An indication device comprising:

an indication unit pointing to an indication position which is a position on an indicated surface on which first information is displayed;

an information projection unit which projects second information onto the indicated surface; and

a process execution unit which executes a process appropriate to an indication position pointed to by the indication unit.

2. The indication device according to claim 1, wherein

the information projection unit projects information in accordance with execution details, an execution form, or an execution result of a process by the process execution unit as the second information.

3. The indication device according to claim 1 further comprising:

a storage unit which stores the second information corresponding to the first information for each position in which the first information is displayed; and

a specification unit which specifies the indication position pointed to by the indication unit, wherein

the process execution unit retrieves the second information corresponding to the indication position specified by the specification unit from the storage unit, and supplies it to the information projection unit, and

the information projection unit projects the second information supplied by the process execution unit.

4. The indication device according to claim 1, wherein

the indication unit changes the indication position in response to an operation by a user, and

the information projection unit projects information prompting an operation by the user.

5. An information projection system comprising:

an indication device having;

an indication unit pointing to an indication position which is a position on an indicated surface on which first information is displayed;

a first process execution unit which executes a process appropriate to an indication position pointed to by the indication unit; and

an information projection unit which projects second information onto the indicated surface; and

a display device having;

a display unit which displays the first information on the indicated surface; and

a second process execution unit which executes a process appropriate to an indication position pointed to by the indication unit.

6. The information projection system according to claim 5, wherein

the indication device has:

a first communication unit which carries out communication with the display device; and

a reading unit which reads position information expressing the indication position pointed to by the indication unit, wherein

the first process execution unit transmits the position information read by the reading unit, or display information corresponding to the position information, via the first communication unit to the display device, and

the display device has;

a second communication unit which carries out communication with the indication device; and

a rewriting drive unit which rewrites the first information displayed by the display unit, wherein

the second process execution unit causes the rewriting drive unit to carry out a rewriting in accordance with the position information or display information received from the indication device via the second communication unit.

7. The information projection system according to claim 5, wherein

the indication device has:

an electromagnetic wave generator which generates an electromagnetic wave, and

the display device has;

a detection unit which detects the electromagnetic wave generated by the electromagnetic wave generator in a plurality of positions on the indicated surface, and

the rewriting drive unit which rewrites the first information displayed by the display unit, wherein

the second process execution unit causes the rewriting drive unit to carry out a rewriting in accordance with the position in which the detection unit detects the electromagnetic wave.

8. The information projection system according to claim 6, wherein

the information projection unit carries out a projection in response to a reading of the position information or display information by the reading unit.

9. The information projection system according to claim 6, wherein

the indication device includes an identification unit which identifies the first information displayed on the indicated surface after the rewriting by the rewriting drive unit, and

the information projection unit carries out a projection in accordance with the identification by the identification unit.

10. The information projection system according to claim 6, wherein

the information projection unit carries out a projection in accordance with the condition of the communication by the first and second communication units.

11. The information projection system according to claim 6, wherein

the first communication unit has a primary coil which generates an electromagnetic wave,

the second communication unit has secondary coils, in a plurality of differing positions, which are electromagnetically coupled with the primary coil, and

the second process execution unit varies the form of the rewriting in accordance with the position of the secondary coil electromagnetically coupled with the primary coil.