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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2013
Parade Technologies, Ltd., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ryan D. Seguine, Seattle, WA (US);
PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
System and method for optimizing the consumption of power while maintaining performance in capacitive sensor arrays. A limited sensing area is used to improve the update rate and sensitivity of a row/column array of capacitive sensors. According to one embodiment, a method is provided for scanning a plurality of capacitive sensors by: detecting a stimulus in the field of capacitive sensors, scanning the field of capacitive sensors to determine the position of the stimulus. Once the position of the stimulus is determined, a subsection of the field comprising window corresponding to the position of the stimulus remains activated while the remaining sensors in the field are deactivated.