发明名称 Mutual capacitance touch sensing device
摘要 A mutual capacitive touch sensing device is disclosed. The touch sensing device includes a mutual capacitive sensing controller having a plurality of distinct drive lines and a plurality of distinct sense lines; a source for driving a current or voltage separately though each drive line; and a mutual capacitance sensing circuit that monitors the capacitance at the sensing lines. The touch sensing device also includes a plurality of independent and spatially distinct mutual capacitive sensing nodes set up in a non two dimensional array. Each node includes a drive electrode that is spatially separated from a sense electrode. The drive electrode is coupled to one of the drive lines and the sense electrode is coupled to one of the sense lines. Each node is set up with a different combination of drive and sense line coupled thereto.
申请公布号 US9360967(B2) 申请公布日期 2016.06.07
申请号 US200611482286 申请日期 2006.07.06
申请人 Apple Inc. 发明人 Hotelling Steve
分类号 G06F3/044 主分类号 G06F3/044
代理机构 Morrison & Foerster LLP 代理人 Morrison & Foerster LLP
主权项 1. A touch sensing device, comprising: a mutual capacitive sensing controller having a plurality of distinct drive lines and a plurality of distinct sense lines, a source for driving a current or voltage separately though each drive line, a mutual capacitance sensing circuit that monitors the capacitance at the sensing lines; a plurality of independent and spatially distinct mutual capacitive sensing nodes set up in a non two dimensional array, each node including a drive electrode that is spatially separated from a sense electrode, the drive electrode and the sense electrode being configured to capacitively couple a drive line and a sense line, the plurality of drive lines configured to carry current from the controller to the nodes, the plurality of sense lines configured to carry current from the plurality of nodes to the controller, wherein the nodes comprise multiple node groups, at least a first of the node groups comprising multiple nodes, each node in a node group being associated with a sense line that is common to all nodes in the group and a drive line that is not common to any other node in the group, one node in each node group being associated with a drive line that is common to all node groups.
地址 Cupertino CA US