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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2018
Applicant:
Cirque Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Inventor:
Paul Vincent, Kaysville, UT (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2006.01); H03K 17/96 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); H03K 17/962 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04103 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04108 (2013.01); H03K 2217/960705 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for using a combination of mutual and self-capacitance sensors to determine when an object, such as a finger, has made contact with a controller, regardless of the size of the object.