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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2016
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeff Lukanc, San Jose, CA (US);
Kirk Hargreaves, San Jose, CA (US);
David Sobel, San Jose, CA (US);
Joseph Kurth Reynolds, San Jose, CA (US);
Synaptics Incorporated, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A processing system for an input device, the processing system including: a sensor module coupled to sensor circuitry and configured to: initiate a current beacon period including a plurality of timeslots by broadcasting a current beacon signal to a plurality of active pens; receive, during a first timeslot, a first downstream packet from a first active pen transceiver; and receive, during a second timeslot, a second downstream packet from a second active pen transceiver; and a determination module configured to: determine an attribute of a first active pen including the first active pen transceiver from at least the first downstream packet.