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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2011
Applicants:
Victor Kremin, Lviv, UA;
Oleksandr Pirogov, Lviv, UA;
Andriy Ryshtun, Lviv, UA;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, San Jose, CA (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 3/0416 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and apparatus scan a plurality of scan groups in a capacitive sense array to generate signals corresponding to a mutual capacitance between the electrodes. Each of the plurality of scan groups is formed from a subset of the plurality of electrodes. A processing device identifies a scan group where the generated signal is affected by a presence of a conductive object. The processing device individually scans the subset of the plurality of sense elements in the identified scan group to determine a location of the conductive object.