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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2016
Applicant:

Parade Technologies, Ltd., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey Tucker, Lynnwood, WA (US);

Tom Bentson, Lynnwood, WA (US);

Marcin Lobrow, Lynnwood, WA (US);

Gary Sterling, Lynnwood, WA (US);

Assignee:

PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/0446 (2019.05); G06F 3/04186 (2019.05); G06F 3/041662 (2019.05); G06F 2203/04101 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04104 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04108 (2013.01);
Abstract

This application is directed to detecting touch events on a touch sensing surface coupled to a capacitive sense array and one or more force sensors. The capacitive sense array includes a plurality of sense electrodes configured to provide a plurality of capacitive sense signals. The force electrodes are configured to provide one or more force signals. In accordance with the capacitive sense signals, one or more candidate touches are detected on the touch sensing surface, and the detected candidate touches include a first candidate touch. When it is determined that force associated with the one or more force signals is associated with a grip on an edge area of the touch sensing surface, the first candidate touch is associated with the grip on the edge area of the touch sensing surface, and is designated as an invalid touch.


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