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- Patent Title: Device and method for capacitive sensing
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Application No.: US16533490Application Date: 2019-08-06
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Publication No.: US10795503B2Publication Date: 2020-10-06
- Inventor: Xueyong Yang , Tetsuo Tanemura , Nobukazu Tanaka , Takayuki Noto
- Applicant: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
- Applicant Address: US CA San Jose
- Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Jose
- Agency: Patterson + Sheridan, LLP
- Priority: com.zzzhc.datahub.patent.etl.us.BibliographicData$PriorityClaim@301cf0f8
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G06F3/044 ; H01L27/32

Abstract:
A semiconductor device comprises driver circuitry, an analog-digital (AD) converter, and processing circuitry. The driver circuitry is configured to supply a drive signal to a sensor array in a sensing frame comprising 2N bursts, N being an integer of two or more. The mixer circuitry is configured to modulate a plurality of carrier waves with a plurality of sensing signals corresponding to capacitances of a plurality of sensing electrodes of the sensor array, respectively, to output a plurality of mixer outputs. A number of the plurality of sensing electrodes is 2N−1 or 2N. The AD converter is configured to perform AD conversion on a sum signal of the plurality of mixer outputs. The processing circuitry is configured to detect an object based on the output of the AD converter.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200050320A1 DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CAPACITIVE SENSING Public/Granted day:2020-02-13
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