Firmware Methods and Devices for a Mutual Capacitance Touch Sensing Device
First Claim
1. A method of sorting motion reports in a processor of a mutual capacitance sensing device, comprising:
- (a) tracking individual touch points of a user on a touch panel or touchpad of the sensing device;
(b) reporting a plurality of individual touch points to registers of the sensing device;
(c) sorting, in the processor, the plurality of individual touch points according to touch identification (“
Touch ID”
) or to touch force (“
Touch Force”
);
(d) if Touch ID is employed to sort touch points, mapping a first touch point having a smallest Touch ID associated therewith to a first register location and mapping a second touch point having a largest Touch ID associated therewith to a last register location, and(e) if Touch Force is employed to sort touch points, mapping the first touch point having a highest force associated therewith to the first register location, and mapping the second touch point having a lowest force associated therewith to the last register location.
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Abstract
Disclosed are various embodiments of methods and devices for operating a processor or host controller in a mutual capacitance sensing device. Methods and devices for sorting motion reports provided to a host controller or other processor in a mutual capacitance sensing device, reporting touch points to a host controller or other processor in a mutual capacitance sensing device, improving noise robustness and navigation performance in a mutual capacitance sensing device, determining a touch area of a user'"'"'s finger on a touch panel or touchpad of a mutual capacitance sensing device, and avoiding false wakeups and minimizing power consumption in a mutual capacitance sensing device having a touch panel or touchpad are described.
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27 Claims
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1. A method of sorting motion reports in a processor of a mutual capacitance sensing device, comprising:
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(a) tracking individual touch points of a user on a touch panel or touchpad of the sensing device; (b) reporting a plurality of individual touch points to registers of the sensing device; (c) sorting, in the processor, the plurality of individual touch points according to touch identification (“
Touch ID”
) or to touch force (“
Touch Force”
);(d) if Touch ID is employed to sort touch points, mapping a first touch point having a smallest Touch ID associated therewith to a first register location and mapping a second touch point having a largest Touch ID associated therewith to a last register location, and (e) if Touch Force is employed to sort touch points, mapping the first touch point having a highest force associated therewith to the first register location, and mapping the second touch point having a lowest force associated therewith to the last register location. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of determining a touch area of a user'"'"'s finger on a touch panel or touchpad in a mutual capacitance sensing device, comprising:
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(a) determining, in a processor of the sensing device, which center sense cell in the touch panel or touchpad is generating a highest touch point signal level and determining such highest touch point signal level; (b) determining touch point signal levels corresponding to cells adjacent to the center cell; (c) for those adjacent cells where signal levels corresponding thereto meet or exceed a predetermined percentage of the highest touch point signal level, designating such cells as touch cells together with the center cell, and (d) determining a touch area of the touch panel or touchpad on the basis of the touch cells. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A method of avoiding false wakeups and minimizing power consumption in a mutual capacitance sensing device having a touch panel or touchpad, comprising:
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(a) operating the sensing device in a rest mode having a first power consumption mode associated therewith where a processor periodically searches for touches on the touch panel or touchscreen s at a first predetermined rate, and (b) in an absence of detecting a touch on the touch panel or touchpad over a first predetermined period of time, shifting the sensing device using the processor to a second power consumption mode that is lower than the first power consumption mode where the processor periodically searches for touches on the touch panel or touchscreen at a second predetermined rate that is lower than the first predetermined rate. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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