SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING MULTIPLE TOUCH POINTS IN SURFACE-CAPACITANCE TYPE TOUCH PANELS
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1. A multi touch sensing module comprising:
- a plurality of electrically conductive touch surfaces, each connected to at least one trace, wherein the touch surfaces are arranged in more than two columns, each including more than 2 touch surfaces, wherein touch surfaces in corresponding positions in said columns form staggered rows, and all touch surfaces reside in a single layer of electrically conductive material.
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A multi touch sensing module comprising a plurality of electrically conductive touch surfaces, each connected to at least one trace, wherein the touch surfaces are arranged in more than two columns, each including more than two touch surfaces, wherein touch surfaces in corresponding positions in said columns form staggered rows, and all touch surfaces reside in a single layer of electrically conductive material.
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1. A multi touch sensing module comprising:
a plurality of electrically conductive touch surfaces, each connected to at least one trace, wherein the touch surfaces are arranged in more than two columns, each including more than 2 touch surfaces, wherein touch surfaces in corresponding positions in said columns form staggered rows, and all touch surfaces reside in a single layer of electrically conductive material. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 28, 29)
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21. A method for multi touch sensing comprising:
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providing a plurality of electrically conductive touch surfaces, each connected to at least one trace, wherein the touch surfaces are arranged in more than two columns, each including more than 2 touch surfaces, wherein touch surfaces in corresponding positions in said columns form staggered rows, and all touch surfaces reside in a single layer of electrically conductive material; and employing a processing unit which utilizes self-capacitance measurement for resolving multiple locations of multiple objects which have come into contact with the touch panel. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 26)
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24. A computer program product, comprising a non-transitory tangible computer readable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a touch detection method operative in conjunction with a plurality of electrically conductive touch surfaces, each connected to at least one trace, wherein the touch surfaces are arranged in more than two columns, each including more than 2 touch surfaces, wherein touch surfaces in corresponding positions in said columns form staggered rows, and all touch surfaces reside in a single layer of electrically conductive material, said method comprising:
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reading self-capacitance measurements and resolving the touch sensor measurements into multiple locations of respective multiple objects which have come into contact with the touch surfaces, wherein said resolving comprises partitioning virtual surfaces from the touch surfaces to form non-staggered rows of surfaces; and compensating for possible distortion caused by staggering between linear arrays of touch surfaces, by converting readings of sensors connected to touch surfaces into a matrix of computed theoretical capacitance readings of the virtual surfaces. - View Dependent Claims (25)
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