U.S. Patent 8035624 was awarded to Intellectual Ventures I LLC on 2011-10-11 and describes a “Computer vision based touch screen.” This patent has been cited 350 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative computer technology patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

A self-contained interactive video display system. A projector projects a visual image onto a screen for displaying the visual image, wherein the projector projects the visual image onto a back side of the screen for presentation to a user on a front side of the screen. An illuminator illuminates an object near the front side of the screen. A camera detects interaction of an illuminated object with the visual image, wherein the screen is at least partially transparent to light detectable to the camera, allowing the camera to detect the illuminated object through the screen. A computer system directs the projector to change the visual image in response to the interaction. Link: U.S. Patent 8035624

This patent was originally filed on 2007-10-30 which gives it a processing time of 1442 days, compared to an average processing time of 1638 in the field. Intellectual Ventures I LLC has 604 total patents. The first named inventor is Philip L. Gleckman of Boulder, CO. The primary examiner was Vijay Shankar.

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