Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Compensation techniques for grip and finger coupling to routing traces in a touch sensor panel
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Application No.: US16578174Application Date: 2019-09-20
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Publication No.: US10969907B2Publication Date: 2021-04-06
- Inventor: Alexandre Gourevitch , Moshe Malkin
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kubota & Basol LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G06F3/044

Abstract:
Errors in touch signals due to grip and finger coupling to routing traces can be compensated. In some examples, reference traces can be provided to measure a signal contribution from a user's grip to routing traces. In some examples, shielding electrodes can be provided to reduce fringing field coupling between a user's grip and routing traces that are missing a neighboring trace. In some examples, a global correction for finger to trace coupling can be performed based on stored matrices that characterize cross-coupling between touch sensor electrodes in a touch sensor electrode array. In some examples, a determined touch location can be used to apply localized matrix correction to a subset of touch sensor electrodes in the touch sensor electrode array. In some examples, correction for multiple touch locations can be corrected in a specified order to avoid compensating for crosstalk effects of a single touch sensor electrode multiple times.
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