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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 31, 2010
Applicants:

Sam Sen LI, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Zachary Dietz, Lintang Pantai, MY;

Jeffrey Doar, Fremont, CA (US);

Jeffrey Stone, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Inventors:

Sam Sen Li, Santa Cruz, CA (US);

Zachary Dietz, Lintang Pantai, MY;

Jeffrey Doar, Fremont, CA (US);

Jeffrey Stone, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Assignee:

PixArt Imaging Inc., Science-Based Industrial Park, Hsin-Chu, TW;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/3262 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are various embodiments of a capacitive touchscreen system that is capable of sensing finger touches made on a capacitive touchscreen according to various scanning modes that reduce power consumption of the capacitive touchscreen system. The disclosed power saving scanning modes are modally focused, and can be used not only to reduce system power consumption, but also to enhance the user experience with the capacitive touchscreen system.


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