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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 27, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 02, 2019
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Ashray Vinayak Gogte, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Warren S. A. Rieutort-Louis, Cupertino, CA (US);
Alexandre Gourevitch, San Jose, CA (US);
Christophe Blondin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, 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 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01);
Abstract
A touch sensor panel is disclosed. In some examples, the touch sensor panel includes drive electrodes and sense electrodes, wherein the drive electrodes and sense electrodes form touch nodes. In some examples, touch nodes include differently-sized drive and/or sense electrodes, and changes to the size or quantity of reference or floating electrodes disposed within the drive and/or sense electrodes are used to substantially balance the areas of the drive and/or sense electrodes in a given touch node.