Handling of electromagnetic interference in an electronic apparatus

• US 9,746,960 B2
• Filed: 11/06/2014
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apex Material Technology Corp., Imagination Broadway Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Apex Material Technology Corp., Imagination Broadway Ltd.
• Inventors: Ding, Ke-hao, Liao, Zong-Bin, Qiu, Zhong-peng, Lee, Shang-Li
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Tung X
• Assistant Examiner(s): Zakaria, Akm
• Application Number:
  US14/534,659
• Publication Number:
  US 20150123677A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,027 Days
• Field of Search: 324613
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04108 Touchless 2D- digitiser, i.e. digitiser detecting the X/Y position of the input means, finger or stylus, also when it does not touch, but is proximate to the digitiser's interaction surface without distance measurement in the Z direction
• 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

The present invention provides a control module and a method operable in a touch-sensitive apparatus for measuring noise, wherein the touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a touch-sensitive module having a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes that intersect in multiple regions of the touch sensitive module, said method comprising the steps of: disconnecting the first electrodes from a driving voltage source; and acquiring a plurality of voltage values of noise by measuring a plurality of voltage signals associated with the second electrodes over a plurality of measurement cycles at a predetermined operating frequency during the first electrodes without a driving voltage.

Claims

1. A method operable in a touch-sensitive apparatus for measuring noise, wherein the touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a touch-sensitive module having a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes that intersect in multiple regions of the touch sensitive module, said method comprising the steps of:

disconnecting the first electrodes from a driving voltage source;

acquiring a plurality of voltage values of noise by measuring a plurality of voltage signals associated with the second electrodes over a plurality of measurement cycles at a predetermined operating frequency during no driving voltage supplied to the first electrodes; and

calculating respectively an evaluation of noise corresponding with each of designed measurement modes according to the acquired voltage values of noise, wherein each designed measurement mode corresponds to a combination of a plurality of forward operations and a plurality of reverse operations, and the number of the plurality of measurement cycles is M*N*K where N represents the number of the plurality of designed measurement modes, M represents the number of cycles to be performed for each mode, and K presents the number of measurement cycles taken for average.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein further comprising a step of connecting the second electrodes to a voltage at the beginning of each of the measurement cycles in order to receive charges from noise and then the plurality of voltage values of noise are read out over each of the plurality of measurement cycles.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein further comprising a plurality of intervals between the plurality of measurement cycles, and the duration of each interval is equal to the duration of each measurement cycle.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the disconnecting the first electrodes from a driving voltage source is executed when a proximity event on the touch-sensitive module has been detected.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the voltage signals respectively correlate to a sinusoidal noise signal or a cosinusoidal noise signal.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the sinusoidal or cosinusoidal noise signal is a noise function with phase θ

, where θ

corresponds to a time point between the measurement cycles.

7. A method operable in a touch-sensitive apparatus for measuring noise, wherein the touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a touch-sensitive module having a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes that intersect in multiple regions of the touch sensitive module, said method comprising the steps of:

disconnecting the first electrodes from a driving voltage source;

acquiring a plurality of voltage values of noise by measuring a plurality of voltage signals associated with the second electrodes over a plurality of measurement cycles at a predetermined operating frequency during no driving voltage supplied to the first electrodes; and

calculating respectively an evaluation of noise corresponding with each of designed measurement modes according to the acquired voltage values of noise, wherein each designed measurement mode corresponds to a combination of a plurality of forward operations and a plurality of reverse operations, and the number of the plurality of measurement cycles is M*K where M represents the number of cycles to be performed for each designed measurement mode and K represents the number of measurement cycles taken for average, and the plurality of designed measurement modes are correlated to the same sinusoidal or cosinusoidal function.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein further comprising a step of connecting the second electrodes to a voltage at the beginning of each of the measurement cycles in order to receive charges from noise and then the plurality of voltage values of noise are read out over each of the plurality of measurement cycles.

9. The method according to claim 7, wherein further comprising a plurality of intervals between the plurality of measurement cycles, and the duration of each interval is equal to the duration of each measurement cycle.

10. The method according to claim 7, wherein the disconnecting the first electrodes from a driving voltage source is executed when a proximity event on the touch-sensitive module has been detected.

11. The method according to claim 7, wherein the voltage signals respectively correlate to a sinusoidal noise signal or a cosinusoidal noise signal.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the sinusoidal or cosinusoidal noise signal is a noise function with phase θ

, where θ

corresponds to a time point between the measurement cycles.

13. A method operable in a touch-sensitive apparatus for measuring noise, wherein the touch-sensitive apparatus comprises a touch-sensitive module having a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes that intersect in multiple regions of the touch sensitive module, said method comprising the steps of:

disconnecting the first electrodes from a driving voltage source;

acquiring a plurality of voltage values of noise by measuring a plurality of voltage signals associated with the second electrodes over a plurality of measurement cycles at a predetermined operating frequency during no driving voltage supplied to the first electrodes; and

calculating respectively an evaluation of noise corresponding with each of designed measurement modes according to the acquired voltage values of noise, wherein each designed measurement mode corresponds to a combination of a plurality of forward operations and a plurality of reverse operations, and the number of the plurality of measurement cycles is M+K−

1 where M represents the number of cycles to be performed for each designed measurement mode and K represents the number of measurement cycles taken for average.

14. The method according to claim 13, wherein further comprising a step of connecting the second electrodes to a voltage at the beginning of each of the measurement cycles in order to receive charges from noise and then the plurality of voltage values of noise are read out over each of the plurality of measurement cycles.

15. The method according to claim 13, wherein further comprising a plurality of intervals between the plurality of measurement cycles, and the duration of each interval is equal to the duration of each measurement cycle.

16. The method according to claim 13, wherein the disconnecting the first electrodes from a driving voltage source is executed when a proximity event on the touch-sensitive module has been detected.

17. The method according to claim 13, wherein the voltage signals respectively correlate to a sinusoidal noise signal or a cosinusoidal noise signal.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the sinusoidal or cosinusoidal noise signal is a noise function with phase θ

, where θ

corresponds to a time point between the measurement cycles.