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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 17, 2018

Filed:

Nov. 19, 2015
Applicant:

Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kasra Khazeni, San Jose, CA (US);

Damien Berget, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Joseph Kurth Reynolds, Alviso, CA (US);

Assignee:

SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0418 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04104 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein provide a device and method of using the device that is able to improve the detection of user input provided to an input device while one or more sources of noise are present during the detection process. One or more of the embodiments disclosed herein may include a scanning process and a signal processing technique that is able to more reliably detect the presence and position of an input object by reducing the effect of noise on a resulting signal that is generated during a capacitive sensing process. In some configurations, the scanning and signal processing techniques disclosed herein can be improved by increasing a capacitive sensing device's ability to detect the presence of an input object by improving the signal-to-noise ratio of the data collected during a capacitive sensing process.


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