US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on June 23 for "Touching operator identification system and information processing system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,541, issued on June 23, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Touching operator identification system and information processing system" was invented by Teiichi Ichikawa (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multiple infrared-light LEDs are aligned in the left-right direction, below the display surface of a display, and the approach position Gx of an object approaching the display surface is calculated from the distribution of the respective intensities of infrared light beams emitted from the LEDs in a front, oblique direction. Based on the horizontal coordinate Tx of a touch position on the touch panel and the a...