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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 21, 2020
Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd., Edinburgh, GB;
Hamid Sepehr, London, GB;
Pablo Peso Parada, Maidenhead, GB;
Willem Zwart, Edinburgh, GB;
Tom Birchall, London, GB;
Michael Allen Kost, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Tejasvi Das, Austin, TX (US);
Siddharth Maru, Austin, TX (US);
Matthew Beardsworth, Austin, TX (US);
Bruce E. Duewer, Round Rock, TX (US);
Cirrus Logic, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A force sensing system for determining if a user input has occurred, the system comprising: an input channel, to receive an input from at least one force sensor; an activity detection stage, to monitor an activity level of the input from the at least one force sensor and, responsive to an activity level which may be indicative of a user input being reached, to generate an indication that an activity has occurred at the force sensor; and an event detection stage to receive said indication, and to determine if a user input has occurred based on the received input from the at least one force sensor.