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公开(公告)号:US20230289314A1
公开(公告)日:2023-09-14
申请号:US18319283
申请日:2023-05-17
Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.
Inventor: Richard Stuart Seger, JR. , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand , Gerald Dale Morrison , Timothy W. Markison
CPC classification number: G06F13/4072 , H04L12/40045 , H04L7/04 , H03F3/45
Abstract: A low voltage drive circuit includes a transmit digital to analog circuit that converts transmit digital data into analog outbound data by: generating a DC component; generating a first oscillation at a first frequency; generating a second oscillation at the first frequency; and outputting the first oscillation or the second oscillation on a bit-by-bit basis in accordance with the transmit digital data to produce an oscillating component, wherein the DC component is combined with the oscillating component to produce the analog outbound data, and wherein the oscillating component and the DC component are combined to produce the analog outbound data. A drive sense circuit drives an analog transmit signal onto a bus, wherein the analog outbound data is represented within the analog transmit signal as variances in loading of the bus at the first frequency and wherein analog inbound data is represented within an analog receive signal as variances in loading of the bus at a second frequency.
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公开(公告)号:US20230275595A1
公开(公告)日:2023-08-31
申请号:US18299734
申请日:2023-04-13
Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.
Inventor: Grant Howard McGibney , Patrick Troy Gray , Gerald Dale Morrison , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand
CPC classification number: H03M1/0626 , H03H7/0161 , H03M1/1245 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/041
Abstract: A data sensing circuit includes one or more drive sense circuits operably coupled to a plurality of data sources. The one or more drive sense circuits produces a plurality of digital sense signals regarding the plurality of data sources at an oversampling rate. The data sensing circuit further includes a digital filtering circuit operably coupled to receive, in parallel, at least some of the plurality of digital sense signals and generate, in a serial manner, a plurality of affect values from the least some of the plurality of digital sense signals.
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公开(公告)号:US11740067B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-29
申请号:US18074934
申请日:2022-12-05
Applicant: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
Inventor: Patrick Troy Gray , Gerald Dale Morrison , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand , Richard Stuart Seger, Jr. , Shayne X. Short , Timothy W. Markison
CPC classification number: G01B7/287 , A41D19/0024 , G01P15/18 , G06F3/014 , G06F3/017
Abstract: A capacitive imaging glove includes electrodes implemented throughout the capacitive imaging glove and drive-sense circuits (DSCs) such that a DSC receives a reference signal generates a signal based thereon. The DSC provides the signal to a first electrode via a single line and simultaneously senses it. Note the signal is coupled from the first electrode to the second electrode via a gap therebetween. The DSC generates a digital signal representative of the electrical characteristic of the first electrode. Processing module(s), when enabled, is/are configured to execute operational instructions (e.g., stored in and/or retrieved from memory) to generate the reference signal, process the digital signal to determine the electrical characteristic of the first electrode, and process the electrical characteristic of the first electrode to determine a distance between the first electrode and the second electrode, and generate capacitive image data representative of a shape of the capacitive imaging glove.
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公开(公告)号:US11720207B2
公开(公告)日:2023-08-08
申请号:US17934659
申请日:2022-09-23
Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.
Inventor: Richard Stuart Seger, Jr. , Michael Shawn Gray , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand , Hans Howard Eilers , Kevin Joseph Derichs , Sarah Marie Derichs , Patrick Troy Gray , Phuong Huynh
CPC classification number: G06F3/04182 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/0446
Abstract: A capacitive touch screen display operates by: receiving a plurality of sensed signals indicating variations in mutual capacitance associated with a plurality of cross points formed by a plurality of electrodes; generating capacitance image data associated with the plurality of cross points that includes positive capacitance variation data corresponding to positive variations of the capacitance image data from a nominal value and negative capacitance variation data corresponding to negative variations of the capacitance image data from the nominal value; determining, based on the positive capacitance variation data and the negative capacitance variation data, an upper threshold and a lower threshold; generating compensated capacitance image data, based on the upper threshold and the lower threshold, to compensate for noise in the capacitance image data; and processing the compensated capacitance image data to determine a proximal condition of the touch screen display.
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公开(公告)号:US20230238976A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-27
申请号:US18129521
申请日:2023-03-31
Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.
Inventor: Grant Howard McGibney , Patrick Troy Gray , Gerald Dale Morrison , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand
CPC classification number: H03M1/0626 , H03H7/0161 , H03M1/1245 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/041
Abstract: A confined data communication system includes a reference generation circuit operable to produce one or more analog reference signals, an analog to digital converter circuit operable to process an analog signal to produce a digital representative signal, a digital filtering circuit operable to filter the digital representative signal to produce an affect value, a data processing module operable to interpret the affect value to produce processed output data, and a processing module operable to set frequency and waveform for each of the one or more analog reference signals, set digital filtering parameters for the digital filtering circuit, set a sampling rate for the analog to digital converter circuit, and set data interpretation parameters for the data processing module.
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公开(公告)号:US11709563B2
公开(公告)日:2023-07-25
申请号:US17656316
申请日:2022-03-24
Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.
Inventor: Daniel Keith Van Ostrand , Michael Shawn Gray , Patrick Troy Gray , Richard Stuart Seger, Jr.
CPC classification number: G06F3/04164 , G06F3/0412 , G06F3/0445 , G06F3/0446 , G06F3/041662 , G06F2203/04108
Abstract: A touch screen display includes a plurality of sets of electrodes facilitating touch sense functionality based on electrode signals having a drive signal component and a receive signal component. Each set of electrodes includes a corresponding proper subset of non-neighboring ones of a plurality of row electrodes and a corresponding proper subset of non-neighboring ones of a plurality of column electrodes. The row electrodes and the column electrodes form a plurality of cross points. The touch screen display further includes a plurality of sets of drive-sense circuits, where each set of drive-sense circuits is operable to generate a proper subset of a plurality of sensed signals indicating variations in capacitance associated with a proper subset of the plurality of cross points formed by a corresponding set of electrodes. The touch screen display further includes a processing module operable to process the plurality of sensed signals identify a user interaction.
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公开(公告)号:US20230213465A1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-06
申请号:US18178785
申请日:2023-03-06
Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.
Inventor: Patrick Troy Gray , Gerald Dale Morrison , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand , Richard Stuart Seger, JR.
CPC classification number: G01N27/028 , G01N27/228 , G01N27/045 , H03M1/001
Abstract: A sensing device includes at least one vibration sensor that responds to sensed vibrations. At least one drive-sense circuit is coupled to the vibration sensor, wherein the at least one drive-sense circuit includes: a first conversion circuit configured to convert a receive signal component of a sensor signal corresponding to the at least one vibration sensor into the sensed signal, wherein the sensed signal indicates a change in an electrical characteristic associated with the at least one vibration sensor; and a second conversion circuit configured to generate, based on the sensed signal, a drive signal component of the sensor signal corresponding to the at least one vibration sensor.
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公开(公告)号:US20230202299A1
公开(公告)日:2023-06-29
申请号:US18174901
申请日:2023-02-27
Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.
Inventor: Richard Stuart Seger, JR. , Michael Shawn Gray , Patrick Troy Gray , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand , Kevin Joseph Derichs
IPC: B60K35/00 , G06F3/044 , G06F3/0488 , G06F3/041
CPC classification number: B60K35/00 , G06F3/0446 , G06F3/0488 , G06F3/0412 , G06F2203/04108 , B60K2370/11 , B60K2370/1438 , B60K2370/152
Abstract: A method includes receiving sensed signal data from at least one circuit based on a user in proximity to at least one electrode corresponding to the at least one circuit. Anatomical feature mapping data indicating a position of a hand detected in proximity to an interactable element in a first location within a vehicle is generated based on the sensed signal data. Button feedback display data visually depicting the position of the hand in spatial relation to the position of the interactable element is generated based on the anatomical feature mapping data, and the button feedback display data is displayed via a display device. A touch-based interaction with the interactable element is detected after facilitating display of the button feedback display data. Performance of a vehicle function is facilitated by a vehicle based on detecting the touch-based interaction with the interactable element.
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公开(公告)号:US11681641B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-20
申请号:US17647101
申请日:2022-01-05
Applicant: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
Inventor: Richard Stuart Seger, Jr. , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand , Gerald Dale Morrison , Timothy W. Markison
IPC: G06F13/36
CPC classification number: G06F13/36 , G06F2213/40
Abstract: A method for execution by a low voltage drive circuit (LVDC) operably coupled to a bus includes, when activated, setting data reception for a control channel of a plurality of channels on the bus, where the control channel is a sinusoidal signal having a known frequency. The method further includes receiving the control channel and capturing a cycle of the control channel when the control channel is void of a data communication. The method further includes comparing the cycle of the control channel with a cycle of a first receive clock signal of the LVDC and when the cycle of a first receive clock signal compares unfavorably to the cycle of the control channel, adjusting phase and/or frequency of the cycle of the first receive clock signal to substantially match phase and/or frequency of the cycle of the control channel to produce an adjusted first receive clock signal.
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公开(公告)号:US11681323B2
公开(公告)日:2023-06-20
申请号:US17653398
申请日:2022-03-03
Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.
Inventor: Richard Stuart Seger, Jr. , Daniel Keith Van Ostrand , Gerald Dale Morrison , Timothy W. Markisen
IPC: G06F1/10 , H03M1/12 , H04B1/00 , H04B1/40 , H03K19/17784
CPC classification number: G06F1/10 , H03K19/17784 , H03M1/1255 , H04B1/0007 , H04B1/0017 , H04B1/0042 , H04B1/40
Abstract: A method executable by a low voltage drive circuit (LVDC) includes receiving an analog receive signal, converting the analog receive signal into analog inbound data, converting the analog inbound data into digital inbound data, filtering the digital inbound data to produce filtered digital data, sampling and holding an n-bit digital value of the filtered digital data to produce an n-bit sampled digital data value, adjusting formatting of the n-bit sampled digital data value to produce a formatted digital value, and generating a packet of received digital data from a plurality of formatted digital values.
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