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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 23, 2009
Applicants:
Harald Philipp, Hamble, GB;
Brent Guard, Southampton, GB;
Inventors:
Harald Philipp, Hamble, GB;
Brent Guard, Southampton, GB;
Assignee:
Atmel Corporation, San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/045 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04104 (2013.01); G06F 3/044 (2013.01);
Abstract
A controller includes drive circuitry to drive one target drive electrode of a touch sensitive device with a series of predetermined phase pulses and to drive at least one other drive electrode of the touch sensitive device with a corresponding series of out-of-phase pulses. Sense circuitry receives signal transferred to sense electrodes from the drive electrodes of the touch sensitive device. The received signal is responsive to one or more touches on the touch sensitive device.