Techniques for Locally Improving Signal to Noise in a Capacitive Touch Sensor
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1. A system comprising:
- a data processing apparatus;
a capacitive touch sensor configured to interact with the data processing apparatus; and
a liquid crystal display,the system is configured to;
determine a noise frequency in the capacitive touch sensor;
identify that the noise frequency is a function of a frequency of the liquid crystal display; and
determine an excitation frequency for the sensor as a function of the determined noise frequency, wherein when determining the excitation frequency the system is further configured to;
select an initial excitation frequency for the sensor;
compute a cross-correlation between the noise frequency and the initial excitation frequency over an integration period, wherein the computation of the cross-correlation is presentable in a sinc-like waveform with at least one peak and at least two nulls; and
select the excitation frequency for the sensor by selecting a frequency at one of the nulls in the sinc-like waveform and assigning the determined excitation frequency to be a same frequency as the frequency at the selected null.
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Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for digital signal processing (DSP) techniques for generally improving a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of capacitive touch sensors.
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1. A system comprising:
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a data processing apparatus; a capacitive touch sensor configured to interact with the data processing apparatus; and a liquid crystal display, the system is configured to; determine a noise frequency in the capacitive touch sensor; identify that the noise frequency is a function of a frequency of the liquid crystal display; and determine an excitation frequency for the sensor as a function of the determined noise frequency, wherein when determining the excitation frequency the system is further configured to; select an initial excitation frequency for the sensor; compute a cross-correlation between the noise frequency and the initial excitation frequency over an integration period, wherein the computation of the cross-correlation is presentable in a sinc-like waveform with at least one peak and at least two nulls; and select the excitation frequency for the sensor by selecting a frequency at one of the nulls in the sinc-like waveform and assigning the determined excitation frequency to be a same frequency as the frequency at the selected null. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system comprising:
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a data processing apparatus; a capacitive touch sensor to interact with the data processing apparatus, the capacitive touch sensor comprising rows and columns of trace lines arranged in a matrix configuration; and a liquid crystal display, the system is configured to; identify a noise frequency; generate an excitation waveform to transmit across at least one of the trace lines in the sensor, wherein the excitation waveform is generated such that the excitation waveform is orthogonal to the identified noise frequency, wherein the excitation waveform is generated such that noise at the identified noise frequency is rejected in the excitation waveform, the system is configured to generate the excitation waveform by; in a frequency domain, specifying an initial excitation waveform; and converting the initial excitation waveform from the frequency domain into the excitation waveform in a time domain by using a Fourier transform in the conversion; and transmit the generated excitation waveform across at least one of the trace lines. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system comprising:
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a data processing apparatus; a capacitive touch sensor to interact with the data processing apparatus, the capacitive touch sensor comprising rows and columns of trace lines arranged in a matrix configuration; and a liquid crystal display, the system is configured to; identify a noise frequency; generate an excitation waveform to transmit across at least one of the trace lines in the sensor, wherein the excitation waveform is generated such that the excitation waveform is orthogonal to the identified noise frequency, wherein the excitation waveform is generated such that noise at the identified noise frequency is rejected in the excitation waveform, the system is configured to generate the excitation waveform by; selecting an initial excitation waveform; selecting an algorithm corresponding to a finite impulse response filter; and generating the excitation waveform by applying the algorithm corresponding to the finite impulse response filter to the initial excitation waveform; and transmit the generated excitation waveform across at least one of the trace lines. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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