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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2015
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Prakriti Chintalapoodi, San Jose, CA (US);
Nickolas Fotopoulos, San Jose, CA (US);
Drew Keppel, San Jose, CA (US);
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Hybrid detection includes determining a first profiles based on multiple capacitive measurements, segmenting the first profiles into one dimensional intervals to obtain multiple segments, determining multiple regions of interest using the segments, and determining a set of contiguous regions based on multiple mutual capacitive measurements. Hybrid detection further includes selecting, from the set of contiguous regions, a set of valid contiguous regions using the regions of interest, and reporting positional information for each contiguous region in the set of valid contiguous regions.