Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compact touch screen controller having multiplexed sense lines
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Application No.: US14736317Application Date: 2015-06-11
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Publication No.: US10152161B2Publication Date: 2018-12-11
- Inventor: Leonard Dinu
- Applicant: STMicroelectronics Asia Pacific Pte Ltd
- Applicant Address: SG Singapore
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD
- Current Assignee Address: SG Singapore
- Agency: Crowe & Dunlevy
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G06F3/044

Abstract:
A touch screen controller is for a drive line emitting a periodic signal and capacitively intersecting sense lines. A selection circuit, for each of a number of portions of the periodic signal equal to a number of the sense lines, couples a first subset of the sense lines to a first output path, and couples a second subset of the sense lines to a second output path, the second subset being sense lines not included in the first subset. Processing circuitry, for each portion of the periodic signal, measures a capacitance of the first output path, measures a capacitance of the second output path, and sums the capacitance of the first output path and the capacitance of the second output path. The processing circuitry determines a capacitance between each sense line of the first and second subsets and the drive line as a function of the sums.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160364058A1 COMPACT TOUCH SCREEN CONTROLLER Public/Granted day:2016-12-15
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