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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2008
Filed:
Sep. 19, 2005
Applicants:
Harold Kutz, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Warren Snyder, Snohomish, WA (US);
Tim Williams, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew Page, Kirkland, WA (US);
Inventors:
Harold Kutz, Snoqualmie, WA (US);
Warren Snyder, Snohomish, WA (US);
Tim Williams, Bellevue, WA (US);
Andrew Page, Kirkland, WA (US);
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 27/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A capacitive sensing system () can connect groups of capacitive sensors (-to-N) to a common node () to detect change in capacitance. States of a set of capacitive sensors (-to-N) can thus be scanned faster than approaches that scan such sensors one-by-one. Faster scanning can allow for reduced power consumption in applications that only periodically scan the set of capacitive sensors (-to-N).