INPUT DEVICE
First Claim
1. An input device comprising:
- a first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes oriented along a first axis, disposed in a first layer, and configured to update a display screen of said input device;
a second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes oriented along a second axis that differs from said first axis; and
wherein a display region of said display screen has a first dimension along said first axis and a second dimension said second axis, wherein at least one sensor electrode of said first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes extends fully across said first dimension of said display region, and wherein individual sensor electrodes of said second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes do not extend fully across said second dimension of said display region.
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Abstract
An input device comprises a first and second pluralities of capacitive sensor electrodes. The first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes is oriented along a first axis, disposed in a first layer, and configured to update a display screen of the input device. The second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes is oriented along a second axis that differs from the first axis. A display region of the display screen has a first dimension along the first axis and a second dimension the second axis. At least one sensor electrode of the first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes extends fully across the first dimension of the display region. Individual sensor electrodes of the second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes do not extend fully across the second dimension of the display region.
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22 Claims
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1. An input device comprising:
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a first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes oriented along a first axis, disposed in a first layer, and configured to update a display screen of said input device; a second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes oriented along a second axis that differs from said first axis; and wherein a display region of said display screen has a first dimension along said first axis and a second dimension said second axis, wherein at least one sensor electrode of said first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes extends fully across said first dimension of said display region, and wherein individual sensor electrodes of said second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes do not extend fully across said second dimension of said display region. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A processing system for an input device, said processing system comprising:
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a first plurality of input/outputs configured to couple with a first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes that are oriented along a first axis, the first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes configured to update a display screen of said input device; a second plurality of input/outputs configured to couple with a second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes that are oriented along second axis that differs from said first axis; and wherein said processing system configured to; receive a first type of resulting signals from the said second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes, said first type of resulting signal based on a transcapacitive coupling between said first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes and said second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes; receive a second type of resulting signals from a first subset and a second subset of said second plurality of said capacitive sensor electrodes, the second type of resulting signal based on an absolute capacitive coupling; and determine positional information of an input object along said second axis, with respect to a sensing region of said input device, said positional information along said second axis determined based on said second type of resulting signals from either said first subset or said second subset of said second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A method of operating an input device, wherein said method comprises:
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determining first positional information related to input in a first sensing region of said input device by performing transcapacitive sensing using a first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes and a second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes, wherein said first plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes is oriented along a first axis and disposed in a first layer, and wherein said second plurality of capacitive sensor electrodes is oriented along a second axis that differs from said first axis and disposed in a second layer that differs from said first layer; and determining positional information along said second axis, with respect to input in a second sensing region of said input device, said positional information along said second axis determined by performing absolute capacitive sensing using either a first subset or a second subset of said second plurality of capacitive sensing electrodes. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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