COARSE SCAN AND TARGETED ACTIVE MODE SCAN FOR TOUCH

Patent №

US 10,061,450

Granted

2018-08-28

Filed 2015

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14869982

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.

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AI classification

Planning0.97
AI hardware0.01
Vision0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 366860578

Assignors

SHAHPARNIA, SHAHROOZ, MULLENS, CHRISTOPHER TENZIN, GRUNTHANER, MARTIN PAUL, GEBOFF, ADAM

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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