SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING USER INPUT AND INTERFERENCE ON AN INPUT DEVICE
First Claim
1. A processing system for a capacitive input device, the capacitive input device comprising a transmitter sensor electrode and a receiver sensor electrode capacitively coupled to the transmitter sensor electrode, wherein the processing system comprises:
- transmitter circuitry configured to drive a transmitter signal onto the transmitter sensor electrode, the transmitter signal comprising a transmitter waveform with repeating cycles, wherein each cycle of the transmitter waveform includes a first transition;
receiver circuitry configured to receive, from the receiver sensor electrode, a resulting signal, the resulting signal including effects corresponding to the transmitter signal; and
accumulator circuitry configured to, for each cycle of the transmitter waveform, separately accumulate a first portion and a second portion of the resulting signal to respectively produce a first accumulation and a second accumulation, wherein the first accumulation is used for determining user input and the second accumulation is used for determining interference, and wherein the first portion and the second portion are non-coterminous.
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Abstract
The embodiments described herein provide devices and methods that facilitate improved performance. In one embodiment, an input device comprises a processing system, a transmitter sensor electrode, and a receiver sensor electrode, where the transmitter sensor electrode and the receiver sensor electrode are capacitively coupled. The processing system is configured to receive a resulting signal from the receiver sensor electrode, where the resulting signal includes responses that correspond to the transmitter signal. The processing system is further configured to separately accumulate, for each cycle of the transmitter waveform, a first portion and a second portion of the resulting signal to respectively produce a first accumulation and a second accumulation, wherein the first accumulation is used for determining user input to the input device and the second accumulation is used for determining interference, and wherein the first portion and the second portion are non-coterminous.
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1. A processing system for a capacitive input device, the capacitive input device comprising a transmitter sensor electrode and a receiver sensor electrode capacitively coupled to the transmitter sensor electrode, wherein the processing system comprises:
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transmitter circuitry configured to drive a transmitter signal onto the transmitter sensor electrode, the transmitter signal comprising a transmitter waveform with repeating cycles, wherein each cycle of the transmitter waveform includes a first transition; receiver circuitry configured to receive, from the receiver sensor electrode, a resulting signal, the resulting signal including effects corresponding to the transmitter signal; and accumulator circuitry configured to, for each cycle of the transmitter waveform, separately accumulate a first portion and a second portion of the resulting signal to respectively produce a first accumulation and a second accumulation, wherein the first accumulation is used for determining user input and the second accumulation is used for determining interference, and wherein the first portion and the second portion are non-coterminous. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An input device for capacitively sensing input objects in a sensing region, comprising:
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a transmitter sensor electrode and a receiver sensor electrode, wherein the transmitter sensor electrode is capacitively coupled to the receiver sensor electrode; a processing system configured to; drive a transmitter signal onto the transmitter sensor electrode, the transmitter signal comprising a transmitter waveform with repeating cycles, wherein each cycle of the transmitter waveform includes a first transition; receive a resulting signal from the receiver sensor electrode, the resulting signal including effects corresponding to the transmitter signal; separately accumulate, for each cycle of the transmitter waveform, a first portion and a second portion of the resulting signal to respectively produce a first accumulation and a second accumulation, wherein the first accumulation is used for determining user input to the input device and the second accumulation is used for determining interference, and wherein the first portion and the second portion are non-coterminous. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of operating a capacitive input device, the method comprising:
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driving a transmitter signal onto a transmitter sensor electrode, the transmitter signal comprising a transmitter waveform with repeating cycles, wherein each cycle of the transmitter waveform includes a first transition; receiving a resulting signal from a receiver sensor electrode, the resulting signal including effects corresponding to the transmitter signal; separately accumulating, for each cycle of the transmitter waveform, a first portion and a second portion of the resulting signal to respectively produce a first accumulation and a second accumulation, wherein the first portion and the second portion are non-coterminous, and wherein the first portion includes effects of the first transition on the resulting signal, and wherein the second portion starts after a beginning of the first portion; determining user input using the first accumulation; and determining interference using the second accumulation of the resulting signal. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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