Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Rotatable knob interface
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Application No.: US17728566Application Date: 2022-04-25
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Publication No.: US11709571B2Publication Date: 2023-07-25
- Inventor: Kelvin Fong
- Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
- Current Assignee: Synaptics Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Leydig, Voit & Mayer, Ltd.
- Main IPC: G06F3/0484
- IPC: G06F3/0484 ; G06F3/044 ; G06F3/0362 ; G06F3/041 ; H01H25/06 ; G06F3/0485 ; G06F3/0482

Abstract:
A method of detecting shift of a rotatable interface is disclosed. The rotatable interface has a fixed base with a conductive region on a bottom surface, the fixed base attached to a display screen of an input device. The method includes providing, during a first time period, a reference signal to first and second sets of electrodes of the input device that are each capacitively coupled to the conductive region. The method further includes, during a second time period, providing the reference signal to the first set of electrodes, providing a sensing signal to the second set of electrodes, and receiving, during the second time period, a resulting signal on the second set of electrodes. The method still further includes determining a translation of the rotatable interface relative to the display screen based, at least in part, on the resulting signal values received during the second time period.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220244810A1 ROTATABLE KNOB INTERFACE Public/Granted day:2022-08-04
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