公开(公告)号：US20130181943A1

公开(公告)日：2013-07-18

申请号：US13740122

申请日：2013-01-11

Applicant: Synaptics Incorporated

Inventor： Mihai Bulea ,  Derek Solven ,  Joseph Kurth Reynolds ,  David Hoch ,  Tracy Scott Dattalo

IPC: G06F3/044

CPC classification number: G06F3/044 ,  G06F3/041 ,  G06F2203/04112

Abstract: Embodiments of the invention generally provide an input device that includes a plurality of sensing elements that are interconnected in desired way to acquire positional information of an input object, so that the acquired positional information can be used by other system components to control a display or other useful system components. One or more of the embodiments described herein, utilizes one or more of the techniques and sensor electrode array configuration disclosed herein to reduce or minimize the number of traces and/or electrodes required to sense the position of an input object within a sensing region of the input device.