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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 1988
Filed:
Mar. 20, 1987
Henry G Matthews, Haddam, CT (US);
Thomas Zalenski, Killingworth, CT (US);
Jamie L Barbetti, Milford, CT (US);
Al Mletzko, Woodbury, CT (US);
Summagraphics Corporation, Fairfield, CT (US);
Abstract
A charge ratio tablet having three patterned electrodes for determining the position coordinates of a stylus relative to a first area on the tablet is provided with a menu in a second area. The menu includes first and second pluralities of menu electrodes, the three menu electrodes of the first pluralilty having a first geometric pattern and the three menu electrodes of the second pluralilty having a second geometric pattern. The patterned electrodes and menu electrodes are driven in accordance with a predetermined sequence. The processing circuitry determines the position coordinates of the stylus if the signal induced in the stylus in response to driving of the three patterned electrodes simultaneously has at least a predetermined magnitude. The processing circuitry carries out operations other than position coordinate determination if instead the stylus is capacitively coupled to a driven menu electrode. The processing circuitry discriminates which menu electrode is capacitively coupled to the stylus.