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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Invensense, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Eitan A. Medina, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
INVENSENSE, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/043 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00013 (2013.01); G06F 1/3231 (2013.01); G06F 1/3262 (2013.01); G06F 1/3265 (2013.01); G06F 3/041 (2013.01); G06F 3/043 (2013.01); H04W 52/0251 (2013.01); H04W 52/0254 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04105 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04106 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
Always-on or nearly always-on sensing of human touch at a device is provided. The sensing is split into a low-power detection stage and a full-power analysis stage, where the detection stage is implemented continually or nearly continually and causes system circuitry to perform analysis of the human touch after the low-power detection stage has confirmed the human touch. The sensing permits avoiding the reliance on physical actuation of a trigger prior to analysis of human touch.