CAPACITIVE TOUCH MAPPING

• US 20180088786A1
• Filed: 07/26/2017
• Published: 03/29/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/23/2016
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: ABZARIAN, David, SU, Fei, HODGES, Austin Bradley, BONACINA, Silvano, MITTEREDER, Andrew Pyon, TOWNSEND, Reed Lincoln, BECK, Kyle Thomas
• Application Number:
  US15/660,679
• Publication Number:
  US 20180088786A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04104 Multi-touch detection in digitiser, i.e. details about the simultaneous detection of a plurality of touching locations, e.g. multiple fingers or pen and finger
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04186 Touch location disambiguation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0442 using active external devices, e.g. active pens, for transmitting changes in electrical potential to be received by the digitiser
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 20/00 Machine learning

Abstract

A computing system includes a capacitive touch-display including a plurality of touch-sensing pixels, a digitizer configured to generate a capacitive grid map including a capacitance value for each of the plurality of touch-sensing pixels, and an operating system configured to receive the capacitive grid map directly from the digitizer.

Claims

1. A computing system, comprising:

a capacitive touch-display including a plurality of touch-sensing pixels;

a digitizer configured to generate a capacitive grid map including a capacitance value for each of the plurality of touch-sensing pixels; and

an operating system configured to receive the capacitive grid map directly from the digitizer.

2. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of touch-sensing pixels includes each touch-sensing pixel of the capacitive touch-display.

3. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of touch-sensing pixels includes touch-sensing pixels having a capacitance value that is either less than a negative noise threshold or greater than a positive noise threshold.

4. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the operating system is configured to output the capacitive grid map from the operating system to one or more applications executed by the computing system.

5. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the capacitive grid map is defined by a data structure formatted in accordance with a human interface device (HID) format recognizable by the operating system, the data structure including an index pixel that identifies a first touch-sensing pixel in a sequence, a total number of touch-input pixels in the sequence, and a capacitance value for each touch-input pixel in the sequence.

6. The computing system of claim 1, wherein the capacitive touch-display is configured to present a user interface object, and wherein the operating system is configured to adjust, via the capacitive touch-display, presentation of the user interface object based on the capacitive grid map.

7. The computing system of claim 6, wherein the operating system is configured to provide capacitive grid map data as input to a previously-trained, machine-learning analysis tool configured to classify portions of the capacitive grid map as specific types of touch input and adjust presentation of the user interface object based on the specific types of touch input.

8. The computing system of claim 6, wherein the operating system is configured to identify a single finger touch input based on the capacitive grid map, recognize a rotation gesture based on the single finger touch input, determine a direction of rotation of the rotation gesture, and rotate the user interface object in the direction of rotation based on the rotation gesture.

9. The computing system of claim 6, wherein the operating system is configured to identify an intentional-touch portion and an unintentional-touch portion of the capacitive grid map, and adjust presentation of the user interface object to a position on the capacitive touch-display that is not occluded by the unintentional-touch portion.

10. The computing system of claim 6, wherein the operating system is configured to identify a finger touch input based on the capacitive grid map, determine a handedness of the finger touch input, and adjust presentation the user interface object based on the handedness of the finger touch input.

11. The computing system of claim 6, wherein the operating system is configured to identify a grip hand that is gripping the capacitive touch-display based on the capacitive grid map, and adjust presentation of the user interface object based on the grip hand.

12. The computing system of claim 6, wherein the operating system is configured to identify a stylus-touch portion and a finger-touch portion of the capacitive grid map, adjust presentation of the user interface object based on the stylus-touch portion and adjust presentation of the user interface object differently based on the finger-touch portion.

13. A method for controlling operation of a computing system, the method comprising:

generating, via a digitizer of the computing system, a capacitive grid map including a capacitance value for each of a plurality of touch-sensing pixels of a capacitive touch-display; and

receiving, at an operating system of the computing system directly from the digitizer, the capacitive grid map.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

presenting, via the capacitive touch-display, a user interface object, and

adjusting, via the capacitive touch-display, presentation of the user interface object based on the capacitive grid map.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

providing capacitive grid map data as input to a previously-trained, machine-learning analysis tool configured to classify portions of the capacitive grid map as specific types of touch input; and

adjusting, via the capacitive touch-display, presentation of the user interface object based on the specific types of touch input.

16. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

identifying, via the operating system, an intentional-touch portion and an unintentional-touch portion of the capacitive grid map; and

adjusting, via the capacitive touch-display, presentation of the user interface object based on the capacitive grid map such that a position of the user interface object does not overlap with the unintentional-touch portion on the capacitive touch-display.

17. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

identifying a stylus-touch portion and a finger-touch portion of the capacitive grid map;

adjusting, via the capacitive touch-display, presentation of the user interface object based on the stylus-touch portion; and

adjusting, via the capacitive touch-display, presentation of the user interface object differently based on the finger-touch portion.

18. A computing system, comprising:

a capacitive touch-display including a plurality of touch-sensing pixels;

a digitizer configured to generate a capacitive grid map including a capacitance value for each of the plurality of touch-sensing pixels; and

an operating system configured to;

receive the capacitive grid map directly from the digitizer,

identify an intentional-touch portion and an unintentional-touch portion of the capacitive grid map, and

present, via the capacitive touch-display, a user interface object based on the intentional-touch portion such that a position of the user interface object does not overlap with the unintentional-touch portion on the capacitive touch-display.

19. The computing system of claim 18, wherein the operating system is configured to provide capacitive grid map data as input to a previously-trained, machine-learning analysis tool configured to classify portions of the capacitive grid map as the unintentional-touch portion and the intentional-touch portion.

20. The computing system of claim 18, wherein the operating system is configured to identify a stylus-touch portion and a finger-touch portion of the capacitive grid map, adjust presentation of the user interface object based on the stylus-touch portion and adjust presentation of the user interface object differently based on the finger-touch portion.