US Patent Issued to PixArt Imaging on July 15 for "Optical navigation device and method capable of accurately avoiding stationary cursor jitter noise" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,612, issued on July 15, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Optical navigation device and method capable of accurately avoiding stationary cursor jitter noise" was invented by Willie Song (Penang, Malaysia) and Siew Chin Lee (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical navigation method includes: providing an optical sensor to operate in a run mode to sense pixel images to perform a displacement calculation; performing a low feature detection upon the sensed pixel images; and, controlling the optical sensor switching from the run mode into a rest mode in which the optical sensor does not perform th...