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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2021
Stmicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) Sas, Grenoble, FR;
Giovanni Scozzola, Saint Egreve, FR;
STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS, Grenoble, FR;
Abstract
The present description concerns a button capable of being activated by the proximity of a user's finger, including: a time-of-flight distance sensor; and a control circuit, coupled to the distance sensor and configured to transmit a control signal, where the control circuit is configured to perform a switching of the signal, between a first state and a second state, conditioned at least by the detection by the sensor, for a first time period, of an object at a distance shorter than a first threshold.
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