Concurrent touch and negative pixel scan

    公开(公告)号:US10402025B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-03

    申请号:US15666169

    申请日:2017-08-01

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F3/044 G06F3/041

    摘要: A concurrent touch and negative pixel scan performed at a touch panel is disclosed. The concurrent scan can include sensing an object proximate to the touch panel and sensing a negative pixel effect, based the object's grounding condition, at the touch panel, at the same time. As a result, sense signals indicative of the proximity of the object and coupling signals indicative of the negative pixel effect's magnitude can be captured concurrently. Because the negative pixel effect can cause errors or distortions in the sense signals, the coupling signals can be used to compensate the sense signals for the negative pixel effect.

    Acoustic pulse coding for imaging of input surfaces

    公开(公告)号:US10198610B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-05

    申请号:US15275010

    申请日:2016-09-23

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06K9/00 H04R17/00

    摘要: An acoustic imaging system includes multiple acoustic transducers disposed to circumscribe a portion of imaging surface. An acoustic imaging system also includes a controller and an image resolver. The acoustic transducers convert electrical signals into mechanical energy and/or mechanical energy into electrical signals. The controller is adapted to apply an electrical signal to the acoustic transducers which, in response, induce a mechanical wave, such as a surface wave, into the circumscribed portion. The controller is also adapted to receive electrical signals from the acoustic transducers. The image resolver uses the electrical signals received by the controller in order to construct an image of an object in physical contact with the imaging surface.

    Coarse scan and targeted active mode scan for touch and stylus

    公开(公告)号:US10061449B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-28

    申请号:US14869980

    申请日:2015-09-29

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: Power consumption of touch sensing operations for touch sensitive devices can be reduced by implementing a coarse scan (e.g., banked common mode scan) to coarsely detect the presence or absence of an object touching or proximate to a touch sensor panel and the results of the coarse scan can be used to dynamically adjust the operation of the touch sensitive device to perform or not perform a fine scan (e.g., targeted active mode scan). In some examples, the results of the coarse scan can be used to program a touch controller for the next touch sensing frame to idle when no touch event is detected or to perform a fine scan when one or more touch events are detected. In some examples, the results of the coarse scan can be used to abort a scheduled fine scan during the current touch sensing frame when no touch event is detected.

    Single-chip multi-stimulus sensor controller

    公开(公告)号:US10042472B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-08-07

    申请号:US15658314

    申请日:2017-07-24

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F3/041 G06F3/044 G09G5/18

    摘要: A multi-stimulus controller for a multi-touch sensor is formed on a single integrated circuit (single-chip). The multi-stimulus controller includes a transmit oscillator, a transmit signal section that generates a plurality of drive signals based on a frequency of the transmit oscillator, a plurality of transmit channels that transmit the drive signals simultaneously to drive the multi-touch sensor, a receive channel that receives a sense signal resulting from the driving of the multi-touch sensor, a receive oscillator, and a demodulation section that demodulates the received sense signal based on a frequency of the receive oscillator to obtain sensing results, the demodulation section including a demodulator and a vector operator.

    Displays with Integrated Touch and Improved Image Pixel Aperture
    38.
    发明申请
    Displays with Integrated Touch and Improved Image Pixel Aperture 有权
    显示器具有集成触摸和改进的图像像素孔径

    公开(公告)号:US20140327632A1

    公开(公告)日:2014-11-06

    申请号:US14226710

    申请日:2014-03-26

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F3/041

    摘要: A display may be provided with integral touch functionality. The display may include a common electrode layer having row electrodes arranged in rows and column electrodes interposed between the row electrodes of each row. The row electrodes may be electrically coupled by conductive paths. The row and column electrodes may be coupled to touch sensor circuitry that uses the row and column electrodes to detect touch events. Each electrode of the common electrode layer may cover a respective portion of an array of pixels. Each pixel of the display may have a respective aperture. The conductive paths that electrically couple row electrodes of the common electrode layer may cover or otherwise block some light from passing through pixels, resulting in reduced apertures. Dummy structures may be provided for other pixels that modify the apertures of the other pixels to match the reduced apertures associated with the conductive paths.

    摘要翻译: 可以提供具有整体触摸功能的显示器。 显示器可以包括具有排列成行和列电极的行电极的公共电极层,其插入在每行的行电极之间。 行电极可以通过导电路径电耦合。 行和列电极可以耦合到使用行电极和列电极的触摸传感器电路来检测触摸事件。 公共电极层的每个电极可以覆盖像素阵列的相应部分。 显示器的每个像素可以具有相应的孔径。 电耦合公共电极层的行电极的导电路径可以覆盖或以其它方式阻挡通过像素的一些光,导致减小的孔径。 可以为修改其他像素的孔径以匹配与导电路径相关联的缩小的孔的其他像素提供虚拟结构。

    INTEGRATED TOUCH SCREEN
    39.
    发明申请
    INTEGRATED TOUCH SCREEN 有权
    集成触摸屏

    公开(公告)号:US20130176281A1

    公开(公告)日:2013-07-11

    申请号:US13784714

    申请日:2013-03-04

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    IPC分类号: G06F3/044

    CPC分类号: G06F3/044 G06F3/0412

    摘要: Displays with integrated touch sensing circuitry are provided. An integrated touch screen can include multi-function circuit elements that form part of the display circuitry of the display system that generates an image on the display, and also form part of the touch sensing circuitry of a touch sensing system that senses one or more touches on or near the display. The multi-function circuit elements can be, for example, capacitors in display pixels of an LCD that are configured to operate as display circuitry in the display system, and that may also be configured to operate as touch circuitry of the touch sensing system. For example, one or more circuit elements of the display pixel stackup can form a conductive portion of the touch sensing system, such as a charge collector, which can be operated with switches and conductive lines to sense touch.

    摘要翻译: 提供带集成触摸感应电路的显示器。 集成触摸屏可以包括形成显示系统的显示电路的一部分的多功能电路元件,其在显示器上产生图像,并且还形成感测一个或多个触摸的触摸感测系统的触摸感测电路的一部分 在显示器上或附近。 多功能电路元件可以是例如LCD的显示像素中的电容器,其被配置为作为显示系统中的显示电路工作,并且还可以被配置为作为触摸感测系统的触摸电路来操作。 例如,显示像素堆叠的一个或多个电路元件可以形成触摸感测系统的导电部分,例如电荷收集器,其可以用开关和导电线来操作以感测触摸。

    Pixelated self-capacitance water rejection

    公开(公告)号:US11561647B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-24

    申请号:US16924047

    申请日:2020-07-08

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    摘要: A touch sensor panel is disclosed. In some examples, the touch sensor panel comprises a plurality of touch node electrodes. In some examples, the touch sensor panel comprises a touch controller configured to drive and sense the plurality of touch node electrodes in a fully bootstrapped configuration to obtain a fully bootstrapped touch image, drive and sense the plurality of touch node electrodes in a second configuration, different from the fully bootstrapped configuration, to obtain a second touch image, the second touch image including an effect of water on the touch sensor panel, and determine a final touch image based on the fully bootstrapped touch image and the second touch image, the final touch image not including the effect of the water on the touch sensor panel. In some examples, the second configuration comprises a mutual capacitance configuration. In some examples, the second configuration comprises a partially bootstrapped configuration.