Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Capacitance-to-voltage modulation circuit
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Application No.: US15271131Application Date: 2016-09-20
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Publication No.: US10353511B2Publication Date: 2019-07-16
- Inventor: Bo-Ren Wang , Lennart Mathe , Sameer Wadhwa , Nathan Altman , Sandeep D'Souza
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Colby Nipper/Qualcomm
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G06F3/044 ; G06K9/00 ; H03K17/955 ; H03K17/96

Abstract:
The present disclosure describes aspects of a capacitance-to-voltage modulation circuit. In some aspects, the circuit is used in touch sensing. In some aspects, a modulation circuit comprises a first pair of switches having one switch connected between a voltage source and a capacitor, and another switch connected between ground and the input of the circuit. The circuit also includes a second pair of switches having one switch connected between the voltage source and the input of the circuit, and another switch connected between ground and the capacitor. A third pair of the circuit's switches comprise one switch connected between the capacitor and an input of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and another switch connected between the input of the circuit and the input of the ADC. The third pair of switches may enable charge sharing of signals modulated by the first and second pairs of switches, a result of which can be used to sense touch input based on capacitance at the input of the circuit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180052558A1 CAPACITANCE-TO-VOLTAGE MODULATION CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2018-02-22
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