US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Oct. 27 for "Electronic apparatus for obtaining contact information for an object by displacement of markers on contact portion and control method thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,048, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus for obtaining contact information for an object by displacement of markers on contact portion and control method thereof" was invented by Daehwan Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sahnggyu Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunseok Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a contact portion including a plurality of markers, a camera, and at least one processor configured to identify, based on at least one surface of the contact portion contacting an object, at least one displ...