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Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 25, 2013
Applicant:

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Edward Grivna, Brooklyn Park, MN (US);

Jason Baumbach, Campbell, CA (US);

David Bordui, Lake Mary, FL (US);

Weibiao Zhang, Shanghai, CN;

MingChan Chen, Hsinchu, TW;

Tao Peng, Shanghai, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method of operating a touch-sensing surface may include performing a first scan of a first set of electrodes of a touch-sensing surface, determining a presence of at least one conductive object proximate to the touch-sensing surface, in response to determining the presence of the at least one conductive object, performing a second scan of a second set of electrodes of the touch-sensing surface, and repeating the performing the second scan until the at least one conductive object is no longer proximate to the touch-sensing surface.


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