News: Philips suing Nintendo over alleged Wii U patent infringement

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News: Philips suing Nintendo over alleged Wii U patent infringement

Added: 15.05.2014 10:42 | 0 views | 0 comments

Electronics company wants Wii U taken off the shelf.

News: Philips suing Nintendo over alleged Wii U patent infringement news

According to court documents, Philips claims that Nintendo has infringed upon two of its patents linked to the interaction with motion-detecting devices in products like the Wii U and Wii U GamePad.

One of the patents covers a "user interaction system [comprising of] a portable pointing device connected to a camera and sending pictures to a digital signal processor, capable of recognizing an object and a command given by the user by moving the pointing device in a specific way, and controlling an electrical apparatus on the basis of this recognition".

Philips claims...