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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
May. 14, 2012
Applicants:
Tung-ming Yang, Changhua County, TW;
Wei-kuo Mai, Hsinchu, TW;
Inventors:
Tung-Ming Yang, Changhua County, TW;
Wei-Kuo Mai, Hsinchu, TW;
Assignee:
ELAN MICROELECTRONICS CORPORATION, Science Industrial Park, HsinChu, TW;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/044 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/044 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04104 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of distinguishing a plurality of objects on a touch panel includes: scanning the touch panel to obtain a plurality of positions corresponding to the objects on the touch panel and a plurality of induced capacitance signals corresponding to the positions; identifying a plurality of maximum induced capacitance signals corresponding to the objects respectively; and distinguishing the objects by referring to induced capacitance signal distributions around the maximum induced capacitance signals.