Capacitance detecting circuit, touch control chip, touch detection apparatus and electronic device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2022011891-A1
Application number	US-202117487332-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 28, 2021
Priority date	Mar 27, 2020
Publication date	Jan 13, 2022
Grant date	—

Abstract

Provided are a capacitance detecting circuit, a touch control chip, a touch detection apparatus and an electronic device. The capacitance detecting circuit, by configuring a first input side of an operational amplifier as a preset voltage, and utilizing the same characteristics of voltages at two input sides of the operational amplifier, enables that an output voltage in a touch sensor is configured as a preset voltage by a second input side of the operational amplifier, and by changing a position of a drive of a coding voltage, mutual-capacitance and self-capacitance detection can be realized with the same circuit. After replicating a single-channel current signal output by the operational amplifier into a multi-channel current signal, a current subtracting circuit is used to determine a differential signal of current signals output by two adjacent channels, and the differential signal is converted into a voltage through a charge amplifying circuit.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A capacitance detecting circuit, comprising: an operational amplifier, a current signal replication circuit, a current subtracting circuit, a charge amplifying circuit, an analog-to-digital conversion circuit and a processing circuit;
a first input side of the operational amplifier is used to input a preset voltage; a second input side of the operational amplifier is used to configure an output voltage in a touch sensor as the preset voltage; an output side of the operational amplifier is connected with an input side of the current signal replication circuit; an output side of the current signal replication circuit is connected with an input side of the current subtracting circuit, and the current subtracting circuit is used to determine a differential signal of current signals output by two adjacent channels; and an output side of the current subtracting circuit is connected with the charge amplifying circuit, wherein the charge amplifying circuit is used to convert the differential signal into a voltage, amplify the voltage and input an amplified voltage to the analog-to-digital conversion circuit, so as to determine a touch position through the processing circuit after analog-to-digital conversion.

2 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 1 , wherein during a mutual-capacitance detection, the preset voltage is a fixed voltage, and the second input side of the operational amplifier is used to configure the output voltage as the fixed voltage, so that all current signals flowing through a coupling capacitor flow into the second input side of the operational amplifier, and the coupling capacitor is a capacitor between an induction electrode and a driving electrode; or,
during a self-capacitance detection, the preset voltage is a self-capacitance coding voltage, and the second input side of the operational amplifier is used to configure the output voltage as the self-capacitance coding voltage, so that all current signals flowing through an induction capacitor flow into the second input side of the operational amplifier.

3 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 2 , wherein the first input side of the operational amplifier is connected with a second switch;
when the second switch is in a first state, the first input side of the operational amplifier is connected with an input side of the fixed voltage; and when the second switch is in a second state, the first input side of the operational amplifier is connected with an input side of the self-capacitance coding voltage.

4 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 2 , further comprising: a first switch;
wherein the first switch is used to select a detection coding voltage of a driving channel; when the first switch is in a first state, the detection coding voltage is a mutual-capacitance coding voltage, and correspondingly, the preset voltage is the fixed voltage; and when the first switch is in a second state, the detection coding voltage is a self-capacitance coding voltage, and correspondingly, the preset voltage is the self-capacitance coding voltage.

5 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 4 , wherein when the first switch is in the second state, a first input side of another operational amplifier is connected with an input side of the self-capacitance coding voltage, and a second input side of the another operational amplifier is used to output the self-capacitance coding voltage to the driving channel.

6 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the current signal replication circuit is a current mirror replication circuit or a positive channel metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) tube replication circuit.

7 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the current mirror replication circuit comprises a first current mirror, a second current mirror and a third current mirror;
an input side of the first current mirror is connected with a collector of a first field effect transistor, a gate of the first field effect transistor is connected with the output side of the operational amplifier, a source of the first field effect transistor is connected with one end of a first resistance, and the other end of the first resistance is grounded; and an output side of the first current mirror is respectively connected with an input side of the second current mirror and an input side of the third current mirror, so that output currents of the output side of the second current mirror and the output side of the third current mirror are the same as that of the input side of the first current mirror.

8 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 6 , wherein the PMOS tube replication circuit comprises a first PMOS tube, a second PMOS tube and a third PMOS tube;
wherein a gate of the first PMOS tube is connected with the output side of the operational amplifier, a collector of the first PMOS tube is connected with one end of the first resistance, and the other end of the first resistance is grounded; and a gate of the second PMOS tube and a gate of the third PMOS tube are respectively connected with the gate of the first PMOS tube, so that currents output by a collector of the second PMOS tube and a collector of the third PMOS tube are the same as that input to the gate of the first PMOS tube.

9 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the current subtracting circuit is a current subtractor circuit or an input common-mode control circuit.

10 . The capacitance detecting circuit according to claim 1 , wherein the charge amplifying circuit is connected with a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) circuit or an integrator circuit.

11 . A touch control chip, comprising: a capacitance detecting circuit, wherein the capacitance detecting circuit comprises: an operational amplifier, a current signal replication circuit, a current subtracting circuit, a charge amplifying circuit, an analog-to-digital conversion circuit and a processing circuit;
a first input side of the operational amplifier is used to input a preset voltage; a second input side of the operational amplifier is used to configure an output voltage in a touch sensor as the preset voltage; an output side of the operational amplifier is connected with an input side of the current signal replication circuit; an output side of the current signal replication circuit is connected with an input side of the current subtracting circuit, and the current subtracting circuit is used to determine a differential signal of current signals output by two adjacent channels; and an output side of the current subtracting circuit is connected with the charge amplifying circuit, wherein the charge amplifying circuit is used to convert the differential signal into a voltage, amplify the voltage and input an amplified voltage to the analog-to-digital conversion circuit, so as to determine a touch position through the processing circuit after analog-to-digital conversion.

12 . The touch control chip according to claim 11 , wherein during a mutual-capacitance detection, the preset voltage is a fixed voltage, and the second input side of the operational amplifier is used to configure the output voltage as the fixed voltage, so that all current signals flowing through a coupling capacitor flow into the second input side of the operational amplifier, and the coupling capacitor is a capacitor between an induction electrode and a driving electrode; or,
during a self-capacitance detection, the preset voltage is a self-capacitance coding voltage, and the second input side of the operational amplifier is used to configure t

Assignees

• Shenzhen Goodix Tech Co Ltd

Inventors

• Yu Qian

Classifications

• H03K2217/96073

  Amplitude comparison · CPC title

• H03K2217/96074

  Switched capacitor · CPC title

• H03K2217/960775

  Emitter-receiver or "fringe" type detection, i.e. one or more field emitting electrodes and corresponding one or more receiving electrodes · CPC title

• H03K17/962

  Capacitive touch switches · CPC title

• G06F3/044 Primary

  by capacitive means · CPC title