Touch detecting method, touch detecting system and touch terminal for touch sensor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10241632-B2
Application number	US-201715700123-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 9, 2017
Priority date	Nov 27, 2012
Publication date	Mar 26, 2019
Grant date	Mar 26, 2019

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a touch technology field, provides a touch detecting method for a touch sensor, the method comprises the following steps: putting the touch sensor into a mutual capacitance mode and a self capacitance mode alternatively, and scanning and detecting the rows and columns of a capacitance array of the touch sensor; when a touch state is preliminarily judged as no touch according to a scanning and detecting result in the mutual capacitance mode, implementing envelopment analysis for data obtained by sampling in the self capacitance mode and determining whether the touch exists in the mutual capacitance mode, updating no reference in the mutual capacitance mode if the touch exists, and updating the reference in the mutual capacitance mode if no touch exists.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A touch detecting method for a touch sensor, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
putting the touch sensor into a mutual capacitance mode and a self capacitance mode alternatively, and scanning and detecting the rows and columns of a capacitance array of the touch sensor;
when a touch state is preliminarily judged as no touch according to a scanning and detecting result in the mutual capacitance mode, implementing envelopment analysis for data obtained by sampling in the self capacitance mode and determining whether the touch exists in the mutual capacitance mode; and
not updating reference in the mutual capacitance mode if the touch exists, or
updating the reference in the mutual capacitance mode if no touch exists.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of implementing envelopment analysis for data obtained by sampling in the self capacitance mode and determining whether the touch exists in the mutual capacitance mode comprises steps:
searching a point indicating a maximum value of signal variations;
judging whether the searched maximum value of the signal variations is larger than a preset first threshold; and
determining the touch exists if the searched maximum value of signal variations is larger than a preset first threshold; otherwise, determining no touch exists.

3. A touch detecting method for a touch sensor, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
putting the touch sensor into a mutual capacitance mode and a self capacitance mode alternatively, and scanning and detecting the rows and columns of a capacitance array of the touch sensor;
finding all envelopes by implementing envelopment analysis for data obtained by sampling in the self capacitance mode;
judging whether a width of a region of one of the envelopes exceeds a preset second threshold;
if the width of the region exceeds the preset second threshold, determining a touch corresponding to the envelope is a hand touch and the region corresponding to the data obtained by sampling in the mutual capacitance mode is illegal, and implementing no coordinate calculation for the region corresponding to the data obtained by sampling in the mutual capacitance mode; or
otherwise, determining the touch corresponding to the envelope is a finger touch and the region corresponding to the data obtained by sampling in the mutual capacitance mode is legal, and implementing a coordinate calculation for the region corresponding to the data obtained by sampling in the mutual capacitance mode.

4. The method according to claim 3 , wherein the step of finding all envelopes by implementing envelopment analysis for data obtained by sampling in the self capacitance mode comprises steps:
searching a point indicating a maximum value of signal variations;
judging whether the searched maximum value of the signal variations is larger than a preset first threshold;
determining the envelope exists if the searched maximum value of signal variations is larger than a preset first threshold; and
searching leftward and rightward from the point indicating the maximum value of the signal variations to find a boundary of the envelope and obtain an envelope region.

5. A touch detecting method for a touch sensor, wherein the method comprises the following steps:
putting the touch sensor into a mutual capacitance mode and a self capacitance mode alternatively, and scanning and detecting the rows and columns of a capacitance array of the touch sensor;
closing a reference update when a negative value is detected in the mutual capacitance mode and a positive value is detected in the self capacitance mode; and
recovering the reference update when no negative value is detected in the mutual capacitance mode.

6. A touch detecting system for a touch sensor, wherein the system comprises:
a mutual capacitance sampling unit, coupled to a mutual capacitance decoding unit and a control unit and configured to sample a mutual capacitance signal the mutual capacitance decoding unit, coupled to the mutual capacitance sampling unit and the control unit and configured to decode the mutual capacitance signal;
a self capacitance sampling unit, coupled to a self capacitance decoding unit and the control unit and configured to sample a self capacitance signal;
the self capacitance decoding unit, coupled to the self capacitance sampling unit and the control unit and configured to decode the self capacitance signal;
the control unit, coupled to the self capacitance sampling unit, the mutual capacitance decoding unit, the self capacitance sampling unit and the self capacitance decoding unit respectively, and configured to control alternative detections in a mutual capacitance mode and a self capacitance mode;
a mutual capacitance detecting and determining unit, coupled to the mutual capacitance decoding unit and the control unit respectively, and configured to preliminarily judge whether a touch exists according to the scanning and detecting result in the mutual capacitance mode and send a third signal to the control unit when no touch exists is determined; and
a self capacitance envelopment analysis unit, coupled to the self capacitance decoding unit and the control unit respectively, and configured to judge whether the touch exists in the mutual capacitance mode and send a fourth signal to the control unit when the touch exists is determined;
wherein the control unit is further coupled to the mutual capacitance detecting and determining unit and the self capacitance envelopment analysis unit respectively, is configured to control the self capacitance envelopment analysis unit to work when receiving the third single sent by the mutual capacitance detecting and determining unit and update no reference when receiving the fourth signal sent by the self capacitance envelopment analysis unit.

Assignees

• Shenzhen Goodix Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Dai Lei
• Zhong Zhenyu
• Ye Jinchun
• Wang Haolei
• Chen Xiaoxiang

Classifications

• G06F3/0416

  Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers · CPC title

• G06F3/044 Primary

  by capacitive means · CPC title

• G06F3/0446 Primary

  using a grid-like structure of electrodes in at least two directions, e.g. using row and column electrodes · CPC title

• G06F3/041662

  using alternate mutual and self-capacitive scanning · CPC title