Scalable capacitive touch system and method

• US 20110282606A1
• Filed: 05/16/2011
• Published: 11/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Jameel Abdul Ahed, Siddhartha Eluppai Srivatsan
• Original Assignee: Jameel Abdul Ahed, Siddhartha Eluppai Srivatsan
• Inventors: Ahed, Jameel Abdul, Eluppai Srivatsan, Siddhartha
• Application Number:
  US13/068,606
• Publication Number:
  US 20110282606A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/65
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means

Abstract

A scalable capacitive touch system includes a header unit having a processor, an internal communication unit, and an external communication unit adapted to communicate button identification data to an external device; and at least one adder unit. Each adder unit can include at least one capacitive pad, a controller for monitoring the at least one capacitive pad, and a communication interface adapted, to communicatively connect to at least one of the header unit and another adder unit, and to communicate button actuation data to the header unit for processing by the processor to identify a user-activated capacitive pad.

Claims

1. A scalable capacitive touch system, comprising:

a header unit having a processor, an internal communication unit, and an external communication unit adapted to communicate button identification data to an external device; and

at least one adder unit;

wherein each of the at least one adder unit includes at least one capacitive pad, a controller for monitoring the at least one capacitive pad, and a communication interface adapted, to communicatively connect to at least one of said header unit and another adder unit, and to communicate button actuation data to said header unit for processing by the processor to identify a user-activated capacitive pad.

2. A scalable capacitive touch system, comprising:

a plurality of capacitive touch segments;

wherein each segment includes at least one capacitive pad, a controller for monitoring the at least one capacitive pad, and a communication interface adapted to communicatively connect such the segment to another segment, and at least one of said plurality of segments includes an external communication unit adapted to communicate button press data to an external device.