Touch-controlled electronic device and method for reducing wireless signal interference to touch sensing function

• US 8,922,525 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Issued: 12/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Original Assignee: HTC Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Tsan-Yuan, Kuan, Tsung-Pao
• Primary Examiner(s): Sasinowski, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US13/423,639
• Publication Number:
  US 20130241864A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,016 Days
• Field of Search: 345173-176
• US Class Current: 345/174
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04107 Shielding in digitiser, i.e. guard or shielding arrangements, mostly for capacitive touchscreens, e.g. driven shields, driven grounds
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment

Abstract

A touch-controlled electronic device with a wireless communication function and a method for reducing wireless signal interference to a touch sensing function are disclosed. The electronic device includes a wireless communication module, a touch sensing module and a synchronous signal interface. By the synchronous signal interface, a synchronous signal is transmitted between the wireless communication module and the touch sensing module and, accordingly, the transmission of the wireless signal is staggered from the timing that receiver electrodes of the touch sensing module receive sensed signals. Thus, wireless signal interference to the touch sensing function of the touch sensing module is suppressed.

Claims

1. A touch-controlled electronic device, comprising:

a touch sensing module, for sensing a touch of an object and generating a synchronous signal when sensing the touch, wherein the touch sensing module has a capacitive touch panel and a touch panel control chip;

a near field communication device, having an antenna for receiving or transmitting a wireless signal, wherein the antenna of the near field communication device is circled around the capacitive touch panel; and

a synchronous signal interface, coupled between the touch sensing module and the near field communication device for transmitting the synchronous signal, wherein when the touch sensing module senses the touch, the touch sensing module is adapted to transmit the synchronous signal to the near field communication device through the synchronous signal interface and the near field communication device stops receiving or transmitting the wireless signal according to the synchronous signal.

2. The touch-controlled electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the near field communication device contains a wireless communication control chip, and the synchronous signal interface is coupled between the touch panel control chip and the wireless communication control chip.

3. The touch-controlled electronic device as claimed in claim 2, wherein the touch panel control chip and the wireless communication control chip each provide at least one general purpose input/output pin electrically connected to each other to form the synchronous signal interface.

4. The touch-controlled electronic device as claimed in claim 1, wherein the near field communication device is adapted to enter a reader mode or a peer-peer mode when the synchronous signal is not transmitted by the synchronous signal interface.

5. A method for reducing wireless signal interference to a touch sensing function in a touch-controlled electronic device, wherein the touch-controlled electronic device has a near field communication device and a touch sensing module, the method comprising:

receiving or transmitting a wireless signal by the near field communication device;

transmitting a synchronous signal by the touch sensing module to the near field communication device when the touch sensing module senses a touch of an object; and

stopping receiving or transmitting the wireless signal by the near field communication device according to the synchronous signal.