Display apparatus and method of controlling display apparatus

• US 8,854,338 B2
• Filed: 03/27/2013
• Issued: 10/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2012
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Inventors: Omura, Katsuyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Lao, Lun-Yi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hegarty, Kelly B
• Application Number:
  US13/851,283
• Publication Number:
  US 20130257816A1
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 345/175, 345/178, 345/158, 345/207, 178/18.09, 178/19.05, 250/200
• US Class Current: 345/175
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1614 Image rotation following screen orientation, e.g. switching from landscape to portrait mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0421 by interrupting or reflecting a light beam, e.g. optical touch-screen
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0428 by sensing at the edges of the touch surface the interruption of optical paths, e.g. an illumination plane, parallel to the touch surface which may be virtual sensing beam interruptions in a planar beam grid of an optical touch-screen G06F3/0421

Abstract

A display apparatus includes a pointing device including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit to detect a position of an object inserted into an optical path between the light emitting unit and a light receiving unit, wherein the pointing device includes an optical intensity store unit configured to store an optical intensity distribution detected by the light receiving unit in a memory unit upon detection of a change in a position or location of a display, and a position calculating unit configured to detect the position of the object by detecting a dark point in the optical intensity distribution caused by the insertion of the object based on a difference between the optical intensity distribution stored in the memory unit and an optical intensity distribution subsequently detected by the light receiving unit.

Claims

1. A display apparatus, comprising:

a pointing device including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit to detect a position of an object inserted into an optical path between the light emitting unit and a light receiving unit,

wherein the pointing device includes;

an optical intensity store unit configured to store an optical intensity distribution detected by the light receiving unit in a memory unit upon detection of a change in a position or location of a display; and

a position calculating unit configured to detect the position of the object by detecting a dark point in the optical intensity distribution caused by the insertion of the object based on a difference between the optical intensity distribution stored in the memory unit and an optical intensity distribution subsequently detected by the light receiving unit.

2. The display apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the pointing device further includes a reflection unit configured to reflect light in a direction the same as a direction in which the light is incident from the light emitting unit, and the light receiving unit is disposed to receive the light reflected by the reflection unit.

3. A display system, comprising:

the display apparatus of claim 1; and

an information processing apparatus configured to output a video signal to the display apparatus and to receive a signal indicative of the position of the object from the pointing device.

4. A method of controlling a display apparatus having a pointing device including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit to detect a position of an object inserted into an optical path between the light emitting unit and a light receiving unit, the method comprising:

an optical intensity store step of storing an optical intensity distribution detected by the light receiving unit in a memory unit upon detection of a change in a position or location of a display; and

a position calculating step of detecting the position of the object by detecting a dark point in the optical intensity distribution caused by the insertion of the object based on a difference between the optical intensity distribution stored in the memory unit and an optical intensity distribution subsequently detected by the light receiving unit.