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Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 16, 2012
Applicants:

Ari Y. Benbasat, San Francisco, CA (US);

William Matthew Vieta, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Wayne Carl Westerman, Burlingame, CA (US);

Steven Porter Hotelling, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ari Y. Benbasat, San Francisco, CA (US);

William Matthew Vieta, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Wayne Carl Westerman, Burlingame, CA (US);

Steven Porter Hotelling, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0418 (2013.01);
Abstract

Reconstruction of an original touch image from a differential touch image is disclosed. Reconstruction can include aligning columns of the differential touch image relative to each other and aligning the image to a baseline DC value. The column and baseline alignment can be based on the differential image data indicative of no touch or hover, because such data can more clearly show the amount of alignment needed to reconstruct the original image. The reconstruction can be performed using the differential image data alone. The reconstruction can also be performed using the differential image data and common mode data indicative of the missing image column average.


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