公开(公告)号：US20150286321A1

公开(公告)日：2015-10-08

申请号：US14747383

申请日：2015-06-23

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway ,  Keith L. Paulsen

IPC分类号： G06F3/044

CPC分类号： G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/03547

摘要： A touch sensor having a plurality of parallel drive electrodes that are being electrically driven, providing stimulus on one end or simultaneously on both ends, thus creating a linear or varying electric field across the length of the drive electrodes, wherein adjacent sensor electrodes are connected to a sense amplifier and analog-to-digital (ADC) converter to determine the position of an object that comes near to the drive and/or sense electrodes, wherein the system uses self-capacitance and measures the amount of current driven by each driver, wherein the system uses a mutual capacitance current divider in a first method by driving an electrode with a time varying voltage and measuring induced currents at each end of an adjacent sense electrode and using ratiometric equations to determine finger position, and using a mutual capacitance voltage divider in a second method.

摘要翻译： 触摸传感器具有多个平行的驱动电极，它们被电驱动，在一端或两端同时提供刺激，从而在驱动电极的长度上产生线性或变化的电场，其中相邻的传感器电极连接到 感测放大器和模数（ADC）转换器，用于确定靠近驱动器和/或感测电极的物体的位置，其中系统使用自身电容并测量由每个驾驶员驱动的电流量， 其中所述系统在第一种方法中使用互电容电流分压器，通过驱动具有时变电压的电极并测量相邻感测电极的每个端部处的感应电流并使用比例方程来确定手指位置，并且使用互电容分压器 在第二种方法中。

公开(公告)号：US08910104B2

公开(公告)日：2014-12-09

申请号：US13748400

申请日：2013-01-23

申请人： Cirque Corporation

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway ,  Jon Alan Bertrand

IPC分类号： G06F17/50

CPC分类号： H05K3/10 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F17/5077 ,  Y10T29/49155

摘要： A system and method for balancing the capacitive charge on touch sensor electrodes so that every two adjacent routes have the same capacitance as any other adjacent two routes, wherein routing electrodes are spaced further and further apart, or graduated, as they get longer, to thereby balance the capacitance on the touch sensor electrodes without having to add or subtract an offset from each touch sensor electrode.

摘要翻译： 一种用于平衡触摸传感器电极上的电容电荷的系统和方法，使得每两个相邻的路线具有与任何其它相邻的两条路线相同的电容，其中布线电极在它们变长时进一步间隔开或分级， 平衡触摸传感器电极上的电容，而无需增加或减去每个触摸传感器电极的偏移。

公开(公告)号：US20140253505A1

公开(公告)日：2014-09-11

申请号：US14281747

申请日：2014-05-19

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Paul Vincent ,  Keith L. Paulsen ,  Jared G. Bytheway

IPC分类号： G06F3/044

CPC分类号： G06F3/044 ,  G06F21/83

摘要： A system and method for providing security for a point-of-sale (POS) terminal or an encrypting PIN pad (EPP) by protecting the signals that could be directly probed on a touch sensor electrode grid or remotely probed such as through power supply signals or RF emissions, wherein the drive signals are randomly applied to drive electrodes in order to prevent tracking of drive signals, and charge is injected on sense lines to hide PIN data.

摘要翻译： 一种通过保护可以直接探测到触摸传感器电极网格上或远程探测的信号（例如通过电源信号）来为销售点（POS）终端或加密PIN（EPP）提供安全性的系统和方法 或RF发射，其中驱动信号被随机地施加到驱动电极，以便防止驱动信号的跟踪，并且电荷被注入到感测线上以隐藏PIN数据。

公开(公告)号：US11061520B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-13

申请号：US15796598

申请日：2017-10-27

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway ,  David C. Taylor ,  Jon Alan Bertrand

IPC分类号： G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044

摘要： A system and method for increasing the proximity sensing distance of a touch and proximity sensitive touch sensor to thereby enable greater distance of detectability of a user in a proximity sensing mode of a touch sensor by driving a time varying voltage or drive signal onto a user who is also holding a touch sensor with at least one hand, and then sensing the drive signal from the user's fingers or thumb on sense electrodes that are on the touch sensor when the fingers are within a proximity sensing distance of sense electrodes in the touch sensor.

公开(公告)号：US20180121014A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-03

申请号：US15796598

申请日：2017-10-27

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway ,  David C. Taylor ,  Jon Alan Bertrand

IPC分类号： G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044

CPC分类号： G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F2203/04101

摘要： A system and method for increasing the proximity sensing distance of a touch and proximity sensitive touch sensor to thereby enable greater distance of detectability of a user in a proximity sensing mode of a touch sensor by driving a time varying voltage or drive signal onto a user who is also holding a touch sensor with at least one hand, and then sensing the drive signal from the user's fingers or thumb on sense electrodes that are on the touch sensor when the fingers are within a proximity sensing distance of sense electrodes in the touch sensor.

公开(公告)号：US20170123578A1

公开(公告)日：2017-05-04

申请号：US15339092

申请日：2016-10-31

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway ,  Keith L. Paulsen ,  Brent Quist ,  Paul Vincent

IPC分类号： G06F3/041 ,  G06F3/044

CPC分类号： G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/0418

摘要： A system and method for injecting a signal on a sense electrode in order to increase the security of the touch sensor if signals are capable of being intercepted by a probe, the injected signals being capable of creating a signal on the sense electrode that replicates the signal of an actual finger, creating a signal on a sense electrode that is equal to but opposite of an actual finger in order to cancel out the signal from the actual finger and therefore hide its presence, and create a pseudo random signal on sense electrodes so that it is difficult to correlate measurable signals on sense electrodes to actual finger position.

公开(公告)号：US20170046540A1

公开(公告)日：2017-02-16

申请号：US15233081

申请日：2016-08-10

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway

IPC分类号： G06F21/82 ,  G06F1/32

CPC分类号： G06F21/82 ,  G06F1/266 ,  G06F1/3296 ,  G06F3/03547 ,  G06F3/038 ,  G06F3/0416 ,  Y02D10/172

摘要： A system and method for enabling an electronic appliance to verify the authenticity of a detachable peripheral device before that peripheral device is used by measuring a controlled impedance of a common wire and returning a proportional value, wherein the host may change or modulate the impedance of the wire before or during each measurement that the peripheral device makes, and if the peripheral device's reported answer matches the expected answer of the host, then the host device may allow the peripheral device to function properly.

摘要翻译： 一种用于使得电子设备能够在通过测量公共线的受控阻抗并返回比例值来使用该外围设备之前验证可拆卸外围设备的真实性的系统和方法，其中所述主机可以改变或调制所述外部设备的阻抗 外围设备进行每次测量之前或期间的接线，如果外围设备的报告应答与主机的预期答案相匹配，则主机设备可允许外围设备正常工作。

公开(公告)号：US20160266710A1

公开(公告)日：2016-09-15

申请号：US15066875

申请日：2016-03-10

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway ,  Steven M. Austin

IPC分类号： G06F3/041

CPC分类号： G06F3/0416 ,  G06F3/044 ,  G06F2203/04111

摘要： A system and method for reducing the number of electrodes needed to operate a touch sensor by arrangement of drive and sense electrodes on a single layer touch sensor, the electrodes being arranged such that drive signals that are sent to the electrodes are sent in a non-uniform pattern that enables selected regions of the touch sensor to generate a useful drive signal while the remaining regions do not. The arrangement of the drive and sense electrodes is such that the routing of signals to and from the electrodes may not interfere with operation of the touch sensor.

摘要翻译： 一种用于通过在单层触摸传感器上布置驱动和感测电极来减少操作触摸传感器所需的电极数量的系统和方法，所述电极被布置成使得发送到电极的驱动信号以非均匀的方式被发送， 均匀图案，使得触摸传感器的选定区域能够产生有用的驱动信号，而其余区域则不起作用。 驱动和感测电极的布置使得信号到电极和从电极的布线不会干扰触摸传感器的操作。

公开(公告)号：US20140283148A1

公开(公告)日：2014-09-18

申请号：US14216549

申请日：2014-03-17

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway

IPC分类号： G06F21/87

CPC分类号： G06F21/87 ,  H01L2224/48091 ,  H01L2224/48227 ,  H01L2924/19107 ,  H01L2924/00014

摘要： A system and method for disposing one or a plurality of flying sense electrode segments so as to physically cover integrated circuits, circuit pathways and other components on at least one circuit board to physically secure the circuits, pathways and components from probes or data interception.

摘要翻译： 一种用于布置一个或多个飞行感测电极段的系统和方法，以物理地覆盖至少一个电路板上的集成电路，电路路径和其他组件，以物理地将电路，路径和组件从探测器或数据截取物理保护。

公开(公告)号：US20140168156A1

公开(公告)日：2014-06-19

申请号：US14105748

申请日：2013-12-13

申请人： CIRQUE CORPORATION

发明人： Jared G. Bytheway ,  Nate Coy ,  Paul H. Glad ,  Brian Monson ,  Keith L. Paulsen

IPC分类号： G06F3/044

CPC分类号： G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/03545 ,  G06F3/0418

摘要： A system and method for enabling a stylus to be used with a touch sensor even after it has failed in an open mode or a closed mode, wherein the tethered stylus activates the inking function when the stylus is in contact with the touch sensor and deactivates the inking function when the stylus is lifted off the surface of the touch sensor when the switch is functioning properly, but when there is a failure of the switch in the open mode or the closed mode, enabling the tethered stylus to continue functioning by using a timer to activate the inking function when the tethered stylus is close enough to be detected by a touch sensor, and to deactivate the inking function when the tethered stylus is no longer detectable by the touch sensor.

摘要翻译： 即使在打开模式或闭合模式失败之后，触针也能够与触摸传感器一起使用的系统和方法，其中当触控笔与触摸传感器接触时，系留触针激活着墨功能， 当开关正常工作时，当触控笔从触摸传感器表面抬起时，但当开关处于打开模式或闭合模式时出现故障时，可以使触控笔通过使用定时器继续工作 当栓系触针足够接近以由触摸传感器检测到时激活着墨功能，以及当触控传感器不再能够检测到系留触针时，去激活上墨功能。