Background signal processing system and background signal processing method

• US 9,746,961 B2
• Filed: 12/19/2014
• Issued: 08/29/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/19/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Apex Material Technology Corp., Imagination Broadway Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Apex Material Technology Corp., Imagination Broadway Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Shang-Li
• Primary Examiner(s): Pappas, Claire X
• Assistant Examiner(s): CASAREZ, BENJAMIN X.
• Application Number:
  US14/577,319
• Publication Number:
  US 20160179282A1
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0418 for error correction or compensation, e.g. based on parallax, calibration or alignment
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04182 Filtering of noise external to the device and not generated by digitiser components
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/044 by capacitive means

Abstract

A background signal processing method and a background signal processing system are provided. The background signal processing method includes measuring a first conductive wire group, comparing a first background signal measurement value with a predetermined background signal threshold value to determine their difference, and executing the following steps according to the amount of the difference: (1) performing no updating; updating the background signal according to the first background signal measurement value; and further measuring a second conductive wire group and calculating a background signal speculating value of a third conductive wire group, other than the first and second conductive wire groups, based on the second background signal measurement value and the first background signal measurement value, to provide the complete background signals and ensure the quality of the captured signals.

Claims

1. A background signal processing method, which is used in a sensor device having a plurality of conductive wires and a plurality of predetermined background signal thresholds and background base signal values, the background signal processing method comprising the following steps of:

(1) detecting a first background signal measurement value of a first conductive wire group in the conductive wires according to a first conductive wire number interval, beginning from an n^th conductive wire, wherein n is a positive integer;

(2) determining whether the first background signal measurement value complies with a predetermined first background signal threshold, if yes, stopping in this step, otherwise, proceeding to step (3);

(3) determining whether the first background signal measurement value complies with a predetermined second background signal threshold, if yes, proceeding to step (4), otherwise, proceeding to step (5);

(4) updating a background signal;

(5) detecting a second background signal measurement value of a second conductive wire group in the conductive wires according to the first conductive wire number interval, beginning from an (n+m)^th conductive wire, wherein m is a positive integer; and

(6) calculating a background signal speculating value of a third conductive wire group in the conductive wires according to the first background signal measurement value and the second background signal measurement value, wherein the third conductive wire group is derived by excluding the first conductive wire group and the second conductive wire group.

2. The background signal processing method of claim 1, further comprising the step of:

(7) updating a background signal of the sensor device according to the first background signal measurement value, the second background signal measurement value and the background signal speculating value.

3. The background signal processing method of claim 1, further comprising:

(7′

) updating a background signal of the sensor device according to a ratio of the first background signal measurement value, the second background signal measurement value and the background signal speculating value to the background signal.

4. The background signal processing method of claim 1, wherein step (4) further comprises:

(4-1) calculating a ratio between the first background signal measurement value and the background base signal values; and

(4-2) updating the background signal according to the ratio.

5. The background signal processing method of claim 1, wherein the conductive wires are arranged in an orthogonal manner.

6. The background signal processing method of claim 1, wherein in step (6) the background signal speculating value of the third conductive wire group is calculated by an interpolation method.