Pixart Imaging Incorporated

Ming-Hung Tsai

Ren-Hau Gu

Tzung-Min Su

Sung-Han Wu

Tse-Chung Su

Hsin-Chia Chen

Yu-Han Chen

Meng-Lin Yu

Che-Chia Hsu

Yen-Po Chen

Chun-Yang Chen

A force sensing method, applied to a force sensing system comprising a plurality of force sensors and a touch sensing surface, comprising: (a) determining a first location of a first object on the touch sensing surface; (b) defining a first force sensing region according to the first location; and (c) computing a first system sensing force which the first object causes to the touch sensing surface according to the first location, and according to at least one sensor sensing force of a first part of the force sensors corresponding to the first force sensing region. The present invention also discloses a force sensing system which uses the above-mentioned force sensing method, and an efficient force sensor calibration method. Noises can be reduced and power consumption can be decreased, since only sensor sensing forces of force sensors near the object are used for computing the system sensing force.

Force sensing method, force sensing system and force sensor calibration method

An electronic device with a function of detecting a touch state, comprising: at least one first electrode, configured to generate a first capacitance reflecting a distance between the first electrode and an object; at least one second electrode, configured to generate a second capacitance reflecting a distance between the second electrode and the object, and wherein a first distance between the first electrode and the object is smaller than a second distance between the second electrode and the object when the electronic is in a wearing state; a capacitance calculating circuit, configured to calculate the first capacitance and the second capacitance; and a processing circuit, configured to determine if the electronic device is in the wearing state based on a capacitance difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance. Via such structure, the touch state of the electronic device can be precisely acquired.

Electronic device which can detect touch state

An electronic device which can detect a touch state, comprising: a front surface for showing images; at least one first electrode, provided in a first region; at least one second electrode, provided in a second region, wherein a distance between the first region and the front surface is larger than a distance between the second region and the front surface; a capacitance calculating circuit, configured to calculate at least one first capacitance generated by the first electrode and coupled to the second electrode to calculate at least one second capacitance generated by the second electrode, wherein the capacitance calculating circuit further calculates a capacitance difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance; and a processing circuit, configured to determine the touch state according to the capacitance difference. Via such structure, the touch state of the electronic device can be precisely acquired.

A wearable electronic device which can detect a wearing state, comprising: at least one first electrode, provided in a first region of the wearable electronic device; at least one second electrode, provided in a second region of the wearable electronic device; a capacitance calculating circuit, configured to calculate first capacitances generated by the first electrode and configured to calculate second capacitances generated by the second electrode, wherein the capacitance calculating circuit further calculates a capacitance difference between the first capacitance and the second capacitance; and a processing circuit, configured to determine the wearing state according to the capacitance difference. Via such structure, a wearing state, a wearing location, a wearing angle of the electronic device can be automatically detected, thus the problem caused by an improper wearing manner can be improved.

Electronic device capable of detecting wearing state or touching state

A compensation method for an induced amount in a touch sensor and a touch panel thereof are provided. The compensation method uses a fake finger circuit to simulate the situations when a user touches the sensing nodes of the touch sensor with a finger, and obtains the gain coefficient of each of the sensing nodes, which are used to compensate for the induced capacitance generated by the sensing nodes as a result of being touched by an external object. In this way, the extra effects caused by the difference in basic capacitance can be eliminated by the gain coefficient.

Compensation method for an induced amount in a touch sensor and touch panel thereof

There is provided a capacitive touch device including a touch panel, a detection circuit and a processing unit. The touch panel includes a plurality of drive electrodes and a plurality of receiving electrodes configured to form a coupling electric field with an external touch panel, and the receiving electrodes are respectively configured to output a detection signal. The detection circuit is coupled to one of the receiving electrodes and configured to modulate the detection signal with two signals to generate two detection components. The processing unit is configured to obtain a phase value according to the two detection components to accordingly decode transmission data.

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Ming-Hung Tsai