Advanced Silicon Sa

Sylvain Maréchal

Hussein Ballan

Marc Pastre

The present invention concerns a clickable knob which can be placed on a touch sensor for providing a physical clickable knob on the touch sensor. The detection of the user input of the clickable knob, i.e. the click state and the rotation state, is detected based on a detection of corresponding click and rotation detection points of the clickable knob by touch pixels of the touch sensor.

Clickable knob for touch sensors

The invention concerns a system comprising a touch sensor and a touch interactor, wherein the touch sensor comprises a touch sensitive surface configured to detect the position of a touch of an object on the touch sensitive surface, wherein the touch interactor comprises a support surface for placing the touch interactor on the touch sensitive surface and an activation member for generating a user input command for the touch sensor by its movement relative to the touch sensitive surface, wherein the touch interactor comprises an active detection point for transmitting an active signal, wherein the touch sensor is configured to determine a coverage, position, orientation and/or identity of the touch interactor on the basis of the active signal, when the touch interactor is placed on the touch sensitive surface.

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Prilly, Switzerland

Sylvain Maréchal