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Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 06, 2019
Applicant:

Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Eric Scott Bohannon, Henrietta, NY (US);

Marshall J. Bell, Jr., Dripping Springs, TX (US);

Assignee:

SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED, San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and related processing system and input device are disclosed, the method comprising driving a first capacitive sensing signal with first sensing frequency onto a first group of a plurality of sensor electrodes, and acquiring first capacitive measurements of resulting signals received by a second group of the plurality of sensor electrodes. Acquiring first capacitive measurements comprises applying a first demodulation signal with a predefined first mixing period defined within a sensing period associated with the first sensing frequency. The method further comprises driving a second capacitive sensing signal having a second sensing frequency different than the first sensing frequency onto a third group of the plurality of sensor electrodes, and acquiring second capacitive measurements of resulting signals received by a fourth group of the plurality of sensor electrodes. Acquiring second capacitive measurements comprises applying a second demodulation signal having a different predefined second mixing period.


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