Silicon Integrated Systems Corporation

Chin-Hua Kuo

Ying-Jyh Yeh

Hsin-Hsuan Yu

Jih-Ming Hsu

Jiun-Ying Yeh

Chia-Yi Chu

Chung-Lin Chiang

Min-Yan Ciou

A capacitive touch system and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch system includes a touch panel including a plurality of driving electrodes and a plurality of sensing electrodes; a touch control chip; and an external device configured to transmit data to the touch control chip. In a position detection mode, the touch control chip drives the driving electrodes, reads a sensing signal from the sensing electrodes, and determines a position of a touch according to the sensing signal. In a data receiving mode, the touch control chip receives the data transmitted by the external device after a time delay period. In the capacitive touch system and the sensing method thereof, the position detection mode and the data receiving mode can be sequentially performed by delaying the time period.

Capacitive touch system and sensing method thereof

A capacitive touch system and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch system includes a touch panel; a touch control chip; and an active pen which includes a receiving part, a transmitting part, a control unit, and a pressure sensing element. The control unit controls the transmitting unit to output a pen driving signal according to a pen sensing signal. The pressure sensing element detects a pen pressure signal. The control unit outputs a voltage signal in responsive to the pen pressure signal after a time delay period. In the capacitive touch system and the sensing method thereof, the active pan is not required to be paired with the touch panel.

A touch detection method is applied to a touch panel including sensing units and includes: detecting sensing values corresponding to the sensing units; selecting a first sensing value that is a local maximum among the sensing values; determining a first sensing unit corresponding to the first sensing value among the sensing units; selecting from the sensing units a second sensing unit located at the first side of the first sensing unit; selecting from the sensing values a second sensing value corresponding to the second sensing unit; and generating a touch coordinate according to the first sensing value, the second sensing value, a touch sensing value distribution model, and the coordinate of the first sensing unit.

Touch detection method

The disclosure provides an active stylus pen and signal transmission methods for the active stylus pen and a touch panel. The stylus has a touch module, a switching module, a signal comparison module, a control module and a pressure sensing module. The stylus determines a first signal generated by a touch panel, and compares an intensity of the first signal and a reference value through a first transmission path. When the intensity of the first signal exceeds the reference value, the stylus outputs a second signal to the touch panel. After the stylus outputs the second signal to the touch panel, the stylus switches to a second transmission path from the first transmission path. The stylus outputs a header signal to the touch panel. When determining a first time sequential distribution, the stylus outputs at least one bit of a pressure signal according to a second time sequential distribution.

Active stylus pen and signal transmission methods for stylus pen and touch panel

A capacitive touch device and a sensing method thereof are disclosed. The capacitive touch device includes a touch panel, at least one touch detection unit and a processing unit. The touch detection unit scans the touch panel, obtains an N-bit sensed data and compresses the N-bit sensed data to an L-bit sensed data. The processing unit receives the L-bit sensed data, decompresses the L-bit sensed data to the N-bit sensed data and calculates a coordinate of a touch according to the N-bit sensed data. The present invention is capable of decreasing the time for transmitting the sensed data, the power consumption and the requirements for the memory capacity of the touch detection unit and the memory capacity of the processing unit.

Capacitive touch device and sensing method thereof

A method of reducing computation of water tolerance by projecting touch data is disclosed, targeting the handheld devices. The method targets first at obtaining a difference array, followed by extracting minimum values of rows and columns of the difference array to obtain a row projection list and a column projection list respectively. By repeated implementing of mutual capacitance detection, ghost water blocks can be wiped out from the multiple water blocks. Once integrating with a local spatial boundary detection algorithm, the sensed signals of intended input located within a rectangular water block yet beyond a real water block are consequently detected. The computational algorithm of the water tolerance of this invention is successfully built into the touch panel controller due to its substantially reduced computation.

Method of reducing computation of water tolerance by projecting touch data

A method for calculating a touch coordinate on a touch panel is provided, the touch panel having a plurality of points, said method comprising: determining a group of candidate points when a touch occurs on the touch panel, each candidate point having one sensing value; assigning weights to the sensing values of the respective candidate points to obtain weighted sensing values; and calculating a coordinate by utilizing the weighted sensing values and positions of the respective candidate points. By using said method, the calculation result of the touch coordinate will be more stable.

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