Shenzhen Goodix Technology Co., Ltd.

Yingsi Liang

Ya-Nan Wen

Fu-Chiang Yang

Yanan Wen

Hsin-Jui Chou

Hong Jiang

Fuchiang Yang

A noise sensing circuit is provided according to the disclosure. The noise sensing circuit includes a first filter, which is coupled to a plurality of receiving electrodes, and configured for receiving a plurality of reception signals corresponding to the plurality of receiving electrodes, and performing a high pass filtering operation or a band pass filtering operation on the plurality of reception signals to generate a filtering result; a down-sampling unit, which is coupled to the first filter, and configured for performing a down-sampling operation on the filtering result to generate a down-sampling result; and a noise detection unit, which is coupled to the down-sampling unit, and configured for determining a first operating frequency of the touch device according to the down-sampling result.

Noise sensing circuit and touch device

The present application provides a noise detection circuit, including: a mixing module, configured to perform a mixing operation based on a plurality of frequencies to an integrated signal, to generate a plurality of in-phase signals and a plurality of quadrature signals; a computing module, wherein when the touch control system uses the first frequency to perform the touch control, the computing module performs a signal cancellation operation to a first in-phase signal and a first quadrature signal to calculate and output a first output signal corresponding to the first frequency; and a determination module, configured to select a best output signal from the plurality of output signals and output a best frequency.

Noise detection circuit, noise detection method and detection circuit

The present disclosure is applied to touch technology, and provides an integrating circuit. The integrating circuit comprises an impedance unit, an amplifier, an integration capacitor, a discharge capacitor, a first switch and a second switch. The amplifier comprises a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal configured to output an output signal; the integration capacitor is coupled between the first input terminal and the output terminal; the first switch is coupled between the first input terminal of the amplifier and the second terminal of the discharge capacitor; and the second switch is coupled between the first terminal and the second terminal of the discharge capacitor.

Integrating circuit and capacitance sensing circuit

The present disclosure provides a mobile device. The mobile device includes a casing, configured to accommodate or support the mobile device; a thin touchscreen, including at least one driving electrode and at least one receiving electrode, wherein the driving electrode is configured to receive a driving signal, and the receiving electrode is configured to generate a sensing signal to sense a touch operation; a capacitive sensing system, including a sense circuit, coupled to the at least one receiving electrode and configured to generate the driving signal and receive the sensing signal to determine the touch operation; and a power supply unit, configured to output a supply voltage and a ground voltage; and an isolation module, configured to isolate the supply voltage from the ground voltage.

Capacitive sensing system and mobile device

The present application provides a non-orthogonal demodulation module, receiving a received signal and the received signal is related to a summation of a plurality of transmitted signals. The plurality of transmitted signals are corresponding to a plurality of frequencies, and the plurality of transmitted signals are not orthogonal to each other. The non-orthogonal demodulation module comprises a mixing-and-integrating unit, configured to perform mixing operations and integrating operations on the received signal respectively at the plurality of frequencies, to generate a plurality of in-phase components and a plurality of quadrature components corresponding to the plurality of frequencies; and a decoding unit, configured to generate at least a decoding matrix, and compute a plurality of energies corresponding to the plurality of transmitted signals according to the at least a decoding matrix, the plurality of in-phase components and the plurality of quadrature components.

Non-orthogonal demodulation module, touch system and non-orthogonal demodulation method

A touch controller () includes: a signal generating module (), coupled to a plurality of transmit electrodes (TE&#x2dc;TEM) of a touch panel, and is configured to output a first transmitting signal to a first transmit electrode (TEa) and simultaneously output a second transmitting signal to a second transmit electrode (TEb), wherein the first transmitting signal has a first phase, the second transmitting signal has a second phase; and a demodulating module (), coupled to a plurality of receive electrodes (RE&#x2dc;REN) of the touch panel, and is configured to calculate a first amplitude (A) corresponding to the first phase and a second amplitude (B) corresponding to the second phase of the receiving signal according to a receiving signal (RXn) of a receive electrode (REn) of the plurality of receive electrodes.

Touch controllers, demodulation methods and touch systems

The present disclosure provides a capacitance detection circuit, which includes a sense circuit coupled to a plurality of receive electrodes and configured to generate a plurality of sense results, the plurality of sense results being associated with capacitance between a plurality of transmit electrodes and the plurality of receive electrodes; and a first driving circuit coupled to the plurality of transmit electrodes; wherein when the first driving circuit keeps at least one first transmit electrode of the plurality of transmit electrodes floating, the first driving circuit generates at least one first driving signal and sends the least one first driving signal to at least one second transmit electrode of the plurality of transmit electrodes, to compensate a baseline current between the plurality of receive electrodes and a ground terminal.

Capacitance detection circuit and electronic device

A capacitive detection circuit is provided according to the disclosure. The capacitive detection circuit is applied to an electronic device. The electronic device includes a touch screen, and the touch screen comprises a plurality of receiving electrodes. The capacitive detection circuit includes: a phase detection circuit for detecting a phase of a reception signal and generating a time signal, wherein the receiving electrode receives a transmission signal and generates the reception signal; a mixing module for performing a mixing operation on the reception signal according to the time signal so as to generate an output signal; and a back-end processing module for determining a capacitance corresponding to the receiving electrode according to the output signal. The time signal instructs the mixing module to perform the mixing operation on the reception signal after a first time point.

Capacitive detection circuit and electronic device

The present disclosure provides a converting module formed in a first die. The first die is coupled to a bus having a bus bit width. The converting module includes an analog-to-digital converter, configured to generate a first digital signal having a first bit width different from the bus bit width; and a sigma-delta modulator, coupled to the analog-to-digital converter, and configured to generate a second digital signal according to the first digital signal. The second digital signal has a bit width equal to the bus bit width. The sigma-delta modulator includes a filter and a quantizer. The number of bits outputted by the quantizer is equal to the bus bit width.

Converting module and converting circuit

As applied to the field of touch control technology, a capacitance sensing circuit for sensing a detection capacitor of a detecting circuit, includes: a capacitance judging circuit coupled to the detecting circuit for judging the capacitance of the detection capacitor according to the output signal; and an input signal generator coupled to the detecting circuit for generating the input signal according to noise. The input signal generator includes: a phase detection unit for receiving the noise and detecting a first phase of the noise; a phase calculation unit coupled to the phase detection unit for receiving the noise and the first phase and calculating an optimum phase according to the noise and the first phase; and a first waveform generator coupled to the phase calculation unit for generating the input signal according to the optimum phase.

Capacitance sensing circuit

A capacitance sensing circuit includes: a front-end circuit, a first subtracting and summing circuit and a capacitance judging circuit; wherein the front-end circuit is coupled to the detection circuit; the first subtracting and summing circuit is coupled between the front-end circuit and the capacitance judging circuit, and includes: a subtracting unit; a summing unit, coupled to the subtracting unit; a first converter, coupled between the summing unit and the capacitance judging unit; and a second converter, coupled between the first converter and the subtracting unit; and the capacitance judging circuit is configured to judge a capacitance change of the detection capacitor. According to the present application, resistance against noise may be improved.

Capacitance sensing circuit and touch panel for sensing capacitance changes

The present application provides a window function processing module including an integrating circuit, configured to receive an integrating input signal, the integrating circuit comprising an operational amplifier; an integrating capacitor, coupled to an output terminal and a first input terminal of the operational amplifier; and an adjustable impedance module, coupled between the first input terminal of the operational amplifier and an integrating input terminal of the integrating circuit, wherein the adjustable impedance module is controlled by at least one control signal to adjust an impedance value of the adjustable impedance module; and a control unit, coupled to the integrating circuit, configured to generate the at least one control signal according to a window function, to adjust the integration gain of the integrating circuit, such that the integrating output signal is related to an operation result of the integrating input signal and the window function.

Window function processing module

A mixing module () comprises a switching mixer (), controlled by a switch signal and configured to receive an inputting signal and generate an outputting signal; a modulating unit (), coupled to the switching mixer () and configured to generate the switch signal; wherein a switching frequency of the switch signal is higher than an and is a specific multiple of inputting frequency of the inputting signal. The mixing module () controls the switching mixer () by using the switch signal which is much higher than the inputting frequency of the inputting signal; oversampling is performed on the inputting signal, so that the spectrum energy of the outputting signal is more concentrated, which can avoid the additional noise due to the introduction of sidelobes or harmonics.

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