This paper presents an image-based method for positioning a target point on a small area. The method locates the target point by analyzing the images captured from the area-associated cameras. Precisely detecting a target point on an area is one of the key points for the human computer interactive applications such as the pen-based computing input devices. Some researchers use the image-based techniques to locate the target point. The existing approaches that utilize the image-based techniques locate the target point by analyzing the images from the hanging cameras on the top of the area. There are quite restrictions on realizing or using. The image-based method proposed in this paper provides a novel design for the pen-based input device.