US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on June 3 for "Movement detection method and joystick device which can sensitively detect rotation and translation" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,119, issued on June 3, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Movement detection method and joystick device which can sensitively detect rotation and translation" was invented by Yi-Chung Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chao-Chien Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Chung-Yuo Wu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movement detection method, applied to a navigation input device with a navigation pattern comprising a center pattern and a radial pattern. The movement detection method comprises: (a) capturing a sensing image comprising a center pattern image and at least portion of a radial pattern image by an image sen...