ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,824, issued on March 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Projector and method for controlling the same" was invented by Hyungchul Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A projector including at least one sensor; a memory storing one or more instructions; and at least one processor to execute the instructions to detect a projection direction of the projector, when the detected projection direction is toward a surface on which the projector is placed, detect a touch input on a projection surface to which the projector projects an image, recognize the touch input as a user input...