DRIVING FREQUENCY SELECTION METHOD FOR CAPACITIVE MULTI-TOUCH SYSTEM

• US 20130234985A1
• Filed: 03/07/2013
• Published: 09/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/09/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Orise Technology Co., Ltd (FocalTech Systems Co.,Ltd)
• Original Assignee: Orise Technology Co., Ltd (FocalTech Systems Co.,Ltd)
• Inventors: HUANG, Hsin-Mao
• Granted Patent: US 9,110,549 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04182 Filtering of noise external to the device and not generated by digitiser components
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0446 using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes

Abstract

A driving frequency selection method is used in a capacitive multi-touch system. When the system operates in an idle mode, an active driving frequency is selected randomly from N candidates, and a self-capacitance driving and sensing is used to detect touch points. When there are touch points, the capacitive multi-touch system is switched to an active mode to acquire an image raw data for finding the positions of touch points. In the active mode, noise is calculated from the image raw data. When the noise exceeds a predetermined value, the system is switched back to the idle mode, and the self-capacitance driving and sensing is applied to N−1 active driving frequencies other than the previously selected active driving frequency to acquire N−1 self-capacitance image raw data. The method determines one with a minimum noise and selects the corresponding frequency as a currently active driving frequency.

Claims

1. A driving frequency selection method for capacitive multi-touch system, which is used in a capacitive multi-touch system including a capacitive touch panel, a first driving and sensing device, a second driving and sensing device, and a controller, the first driving and sensing device and the second driving and sensing device each having an idle mode and an active mode and using N driving frequencies in the idle mode and the active mode, where N is a positive integer greater than one, wherein a self capacitance driving and sensing is performed when the first and second driving and sensing devices are in the idle mode, and a mutual capacitance driving and sensing is performed when the first and second driving and sensing devices are in the active mode, the driving frequency selection method comprising the steps of:

(A) using the controller to initialize the first and the second driving and sensing devices;

(B) using the controller to configure the first and the second driving and sensing devices into the active mode, and sequentially using the N driving frequencies to sense the capacitive touch panel to produce N mutual capacitance base image raw data to store in the storage unit;

(C) configuring the first and the second driving and sensing devices into the idle mode, and sequentially using the N driving frequencies to sense the capacitive touch panel to produce N self capacitance base image raw data to store in the storage unit;

(D) selecting one of the N driving frequencies as an active driving frequency;

(E) using the active driving frequency to sense the capacitive touch panel to produce a self capacitance image raw data to store in the storage unit;

(F) detecting a touch point on the capacitive touch panel according to the self capacitance image raw data and the self capacitance base image raw data, and executing step (G) when the touch point exists on the capacitive touch panel;

(G) configuring the first and the second driving and sensing devices into the active mode, and sensing the capacitive touch panel based on the active driving frequency to produce a mutual capacitance image raw data and store it in the storage unit;

(H) detecting a noise on the capacitive touch panel according to the mutual capacitance image raw data, and executing step (I) when there is no noise on the capacitive touch panel; and

(I) calculating a coordinate of the touch point on the capacitive touch panel according to the mutual capacitance image raw data and the mutual capacitance base image raw data.

2. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 1, further comprises, when the controller in step (H) determines that the noise exists on the capacitive touch panel, the steps of:

(J) sequentially using the N−

1 driving frequencies other than the active driving frequency to sense the capacitive touch panel to produce N−

1 self capacitance image raw data to store in the storage unit; and

(K) using the controller to find one with a minimum noise from the N−

1 self capacitance image raw data and configure the driving frequency corresponding to the self capacitance image raw data with the minimum noise into the active driving frequency, and executing step (G).

3. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 2, wherein, when the controller in step (F) determines that there is no touch point on the capacitive touch panel, step (E) is executed.

4. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 2, wherein step (J) further comprises the step of:

(J1) using the controller to configure the first and the second driving and sensing devices into the idle mode.

5. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller in step (H) compares the mutual capacitance base image raw data and the mutual capacitance image raw data to detect the noise on the capacitive touch panel.

6. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller in step (H) determines whether the noise exists on the capacitive touch panel based on whether one of the mutual capacitance image raw data is greater than a first threshold.

7. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the controller in step (K) uses a statistic or filtering process to find the one with the minimum noise among the N−

1 self capacitance image raw data.

8. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 1, wherein step (F) compares the self capacitance image raw data in step (E) and the self capacitance base image raw data in step (C) to find a difference so as to determine whether the difference is over a first threshold, and step (F) determines that the touch point exists on the capacitive touch panel when the difference is over the first threshold, otherwise, there is no touch point when the difference is not over the first threshold.

9. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 8, wherein a first trigger signal is produced to indicate that the touch point exists on the capacitive touch panel when an absolute value of a difference of data P_SCIRD(i) and P_SCBIRD(i) is greater than a first predetermined value, where i indicates a data range covered by the self capacitance image raw data and the self capacitance base image raw data, P_SCIRD(i) indicates a value of the self capacitance image raw data, and P_SCBIRD(i) indicates a value of the self capacitance base image raw data.

10. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the self capacitance image raw data and the self capacitance base image raw data comprise a total data amount of m+n when the capacitive touch panel has m first conductor lines in a first direction and n second conductor line in a second direction, where i ranges from zero to (m+n−

1).

11. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 5, wherein step (H) further comprises the steps of:

(H1) producing a second trigger signal when an absolute value of a difference of data P_MCIRD(k, j) and P_MCBIRD(k, j) is greater than a second predetermined value, where k, j indicate an image range covered by the mutual capacitance image raw data and the mutual capacitance base image raw data, P_MCIRD(k, j) indicates a value of the mutual capacitance image raw data, and P_MCBIRD(k, j) indicates a value of the mutual capacitance base image raw data, and

(H2) calculating a sum of the second trigger signals; and

(H3) when the sum of the second trigger signals is greater than a third predetermined, the controller determining that the noise exists on the capacitive touch panel so as to indicate that the noise appears at many sensed positions.

12. The driving frequency selection method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the mutual capacitance image raw data and the mutual capacitance base image raw data comprise a total data amount of m×

n when the capacitive touch panel has m first conductor lines in a first direction and n second conductor line in a second direction, where k ranges from zero to (m−

1) and j ranges from zero to (n−

1).