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Patent No.:

US 8976145 B1

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Date of Patent:
Mar. 10, 2015

Filed:

Feb. 15, 2012
Applicants:

David C. Taylor, West Jordan, UT (US);

Paul Vincent, Kaysville, UT (US);

Jared G. Bytheway, Sandy, UT (US);

Inventors:

David C. Taylor, West Jordan, UT (US);

Paul Vincent, Kaysville, UT (US);

Jared G. Bytheway, Sandy, UT (US);

Assignee:

Cirque Corporation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0418 (2013.01);
Abstract

Decreasing the cost of a touchpad by avoiding the cost of simultaneously measuring all signals from sense electrodes by using a limited number of measuring circuits to accomplish noise reduction and de-ghosting of signal data to thereby obtain the precise location of multiple fingers on a touchpad, wherein the touchpad separates the drive electrodes into groups to thereby provide a means for obtaining granular location information for de-ghosting the touchpad, and wherein overlapping measurements are made of groups of sense electrodes to obtain data that is separated in time to thereby obtain an averaged signal for each electrode and thereby reduce sensitivity to noise.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Taylor, David. (2015). Reduction of noise and de-ghosting in a mutual capacitance multi-touch touchpad (U.S. Patent No. 8976145). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8976145

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