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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2016
Applicant:
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Inventors:
Thomas Calatayud, Cambridge, MA (US);
Carlo Van Niekerk, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Sonos, Inc., Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/26 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 1/18 (2006.01); H03K 17/955 (2006.01); H03K 17/94 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3231 (2013.01); G01R 27/2605 (2013.01); G06F 1/1656 (2013.01); G06F 1/1684 (2013.01); G06F 1/1688 (2013.01); G06F 1/1698 (2013.01); G06F 1/182 (2013.01); G06F 1/3265 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); H03K 17/955 (2013.01); H03K 17/941 (2013.01); H03K 2217/945 (2013.01); H03K 2217/960765 (2013.01); Y02D 10/153 (2018.01); Y02D 10/173 (2018.01);
Abstract
Embodiments of a capacitive sensor configuration for proximity detection by a playback device are provided. A example playback device includes a capacitive proximity sensor and a radio frequency (RF) antenna. While a grounding plane of the capacitive proximity sensor is decoupled from a grounding plane of the RF antenna, the playback device determines that the playback device will be rendering audio, and responsively causes the grounding plane of the capacitive proximity sensor to be coupled to the grounding plane of the RF antenna while the playback device is rendering audio.