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Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 24, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventor:

Jian Guo, Milpitas, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/02 (2006.01); G01D 5/165 (2006.01); G01R 27/14 (2006.01); G01R 33/00 (2006.01); G01R 33/09 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 33/0023 (2013.01); G01D 5/165 (2013.01); G01R 27/14 (2013.01); G01R 33/09 (2013.01); G01R 33/0094 (2013.01);
Abstract

An array of resistive sensor circuits may be used to gather sensor data. Each resistive sensor circuit may have a resistive sensor and an associated switch. Row decoder circuitry may supply rows of the sensor circuits with control signals on row lines. Capacitors associated with respective columns of the array may be provided with an initialization voltage. The control signals on the row lines may be used to turn on the switches in a selected row of the resistive sensor circuits and thereby discharge the capacitors through the resistive sensors of that row. Comparators may have first inputs coupled to the capacitors and second inputs that receive a reference voltage. A column readout circuit may have memory and processing circuitry that receives count values from a counter and that stores the count values in response to toggling output signals from the comparators.


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