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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 10, 2011
Artem Ivanov, Landshut, DE;
Artem Ivanov, Landshut, DE;
MICROCHIP TECHNOLOGY GERMANY GMBH, Gilching, DE;
Abstract
In a system, as well as a method for the generation of a signal correlated with a manual input operation, especially a gesture-like input operation is executed by a user with his hands or fingers in front of a physical device and it input signals for signal processing operations are generated which correlate in a particularly reliable and accurate way with manual input operations. A system may have an electrode group integrated into an equipment component, that has several plane shaped electrodes adjacent to each other, and a circuit arrangement coupled to the electrodes of the electrode group, wherein the electrode group and the circuit arrangement constitute a sensor circuit allowing both a detection of a status to evaluate as a physical contacting of the equipment component, and a position detection of the hand or a finger of a user in a area placed spatially upstream of the equipment component.