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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 25, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Inventors:
George Pieter Reitsma, Redwood City, CA (US);
Richard Dean Henderson, San Jose, CA (US);
Jonathan Baldwin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03B 7/06 (2006.01); G01B 7/14 (2006.01); H03H 2/00 (2006.01); G01D 5/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03H 2/005 (2013.01); G01D 5/202 (2013.01);
Abstract
A position detecting system detects and responds to the movement of a target through a sensing domain area of a plane. The movement causes the amount of the target that lies within a sensing domain area to change. A portion of the target always lies within at least one of the sensing domain areas of the plane.