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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 03, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2019
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Sagar Rajiv Vaze, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01); G06F 3/045 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 1/16 (2013.01); G06F 3/045 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04111 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04112 (2013.01);
Abstract
A touch sensor panel including a first set of touch electrodes configured to operate as drive electrodes and a second set of touch electrodes configured to operate as sense electrodes. The first set of touch electrodes being disposed within gaps between the second set of touch electrodes, and a given row or column of touch electrodes of the second set of touch electrodes includes a plurality of subsets of touch electrodes that are separately addressable by touch sensing circuitry.