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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 02, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 28, 2020
Applicant:
Acer Incorporated, New Taipei, TW;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Acer Incorporated, New Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0448 (2019.05); G06F 3/04166 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04102 (2013.01);
Abstract
A flexible touch panel electrode structure is provided, which includes: a substrate; a plurality of sensing electrodes and a plurality of drive electrodes disposed on the substrate respectively; a plurality of compensation electrodes which are staggered with the drive electrodes in position and compensate for at least one of the drive electrodes; and a control part coupled to the sensing electrodes, the drive electrodes, and the compensation electrodes. The compensation electrodes are grounded, and when the drive electrode malfunctions, the control part performs a switching operation to replace the drive electrode with the compensation electrode.