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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2014
Qualcomm Mems Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Wilhelmus Johannes Robertus Van Lier, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert Steven Kawamoto, San Diego, CA (US);
James Steven Edgar, San Diego, CA (US);
Pramod Kumar Varma, La Jolla, CA (US);
QUALCOMM MEMS Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for measuring capacitance of a display unit, such as an interferometric modulator (IMOD). In one example, a circuit may include an operational amplifier (op-amp), a voltage controlled current source, and feedback from an output of the op-amp as an input to the voltage controlled current source. An output of the voltage controlled current source may be provided to a display unit as well as an input of the op-amp. A second input of the op-amp may be provided a ramping reference voltage.