Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Touch surface with hybrid touch detection
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Application No.: US16898310Application Date: 2020-06-10
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Publication No.: US11182011B2Publication Date: 2021-11-23
- Inventor: Philippe Coni , Frédéric Renaud , Jean-Christophe Abadie , Siegfried Rouzes
- Applicant: THALES
- Applicant Address: FR Courbevoie
- Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee: THALES
- Current Assignee Address: FR Courbevoie
- Agency: BakerHostetler
- Priority: FR1906957 20190627
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041

Abstract:
A touch surface includes an array of rows of electrodes, an input point on a row for injecting an input voltage (VDRIVE), measuring an output voltage (VSENSE) at a second point in the row, p being the number of pitch spacings of the array separating the two points, the portion of the array between the first point and the second point being akin to an electric dipole of resistance (R(p)) and of capacitance (C), the output voltage (VSENSE) being equal to the product of the input voltage (VDRIVE) and a transfer function represented by a complex function (HSENSE). The measurement includes extracting the amplitude (G) and the phase (φ) from the transfer function; and calculating a hybrid function (S(G, φ)) of the amplitude and of the phase, the hybrid function minimizing a sum (Σ) defined by Σ i ∈ [ 0 , p ] ( δ S δ R ( G ( R i ) , φ ( R i ) ) ) .
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