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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 04, 2022
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2021
Applicant:
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan, TW;
Inventors:
Chun-Jen Su, Tainan, TW;
Chun-Kai Chuang, Tainan, TW;
Cheng-Hung Tsai, Tainan, TW;
Po-Hsuan Huang, Tainan, TW;
Li-Lin Liu, Tainan, TW;
Heng-Xiao Chen, Tainan, TW;
Assignee:
Himax Technologies Limited, Tainan, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/04886 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/0412 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01);
Abstract
A touch screen includes a touch panel including a plurality of touch blocks, and a knob, being touch-sensitive and rotatable, disposed on top of the touch panel. An area of the touch panel not covered with the knob is defined as a first area, an area of the touch panel covered with the knob is defined as a second area, and touch blocks belonging to both the first area and the second area are defined as overlapped blocks. Sense signals associated with the overlapped blocks are de-emphasized.