Elan Microelectronics Corporation

Po-Hao Kuo

Chia-Hsing Lin

Yi-Hsin Tao

Hsin-Shieh Tsai

Tsz-Hsuan Chao

Ching-Ting Chiu

Yi-Shiang Lu

Min-Jhih Lin

Yi-Shu Li

A clustered scan method of a capacitive touch device has steps of simultaneously providing driving signals in one driving cycle to multiple driving lines including the (i&#x2212;j)drive line to the (i+k)drive line, and simultaneously providing driving signals in a next driving cycle to the drive lines including some of the drive lines driven in the previous driving cycle with a sum of the driving signal in each driving cycle greater than zero. When the stimulated drive lines include a bordering drive line, the driving lines are determined according to a relationship among i, j and k. Accordingly, the signal to noise ratio of the touch device can be increased and the adverse effect for common ground occurring between a measuring system and a human body can be reduced so that the multi-finger positioning issue can be resolved.

Clustered scan method of a capacitive touch device

A detecting method for a touch device, the method includes the steps of reading all sensed values of a frame associated with the touch device, computing a difference between a maximum sensed value and a minimum sensed value of all the sensed values of the frame, comparing the difference with a base value to generate a comparison result and executing a corresponding operation based on the comparison result.

Detecting method for a touch device

For a capacitive touch device having a capacitive touch sensor to be sensed to generate sensed values, a sensing apparatus and method statistically analyze the sensed values generated in a certain time period to evaluate the sensing quality thereof, discard the poor reliable sensed values, and re-sense the capacitive touch sensor to generate new sensed values, by which the resultant output signal will have improved reliability.

Statistical analyzing method and statistical quality indicator for reliability improvement of a capacitive touch device

Ghost resolution sensing methods are provided for capacitive touch panels. When ghost is detected involving two points on a capacitive touch panel, for each of the two points, the intersected traces at that one are concurrently charged to sense the capacitance value from either one of the intersected traces, and according thereto, a real point and a ghost point can be distinguished from each other. Alternatively, the intersected traces are crisscross driven by two synchronous and in phase signals or synchronous but out of phase signals, to sense the capacitance values at the two points. Preferably, intersectional calibration is performed in conjunction therewith, to recognize the real points.

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