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

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9798428-B2
Application number	US-201414552896-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 25, 2014
Priority date	Nov 27, 2012
Publication date	Oct 24, 2017
Grant date	Oct 24, 2017

Abstract

The present invention 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 a multi-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, determining whether the touch state in the mutual capacitance mode is a single touch or the multi-touch, outputting one touch coordinate if the touch state is the single touch; and outputting a plurality of touch coordinates if the touch state is the multi-touch. The present invention also provides a touch detecting system and a touch terminal for the touch sensor. The present invention improves the accuracy of a touch detection result of the touch sensor, particularly the accuracy of the detection result for distinguishing whether the touch is the single touch or the multi-touch in the case that the touch control terminal is subjected to a large area touch in a floating state.

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 a multi-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 judging whether one envelope or more than one envelopes exist; and
determining the touch state in the mutual capacitance mode is the single touch if one envelope exists, combining a plurality of data detected in the mutual capacitance mode into a touch point, and outputting one touch coordinate; determining the touch state in the mutual capacitance mode is the multi-touch if more than one envelopes exist, and outputting more than one touch coordinates;
wherein the envelope exists if the searched maximum value of a signal variations is larger than a preset first threshold.

2. The method according to claim 1 , further comprising a step of analyzing a envelopment state of the data obtained by sampling in the self capacitance mode and judging whether one envelope or more than one envelope exist which comprises:
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;
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;
judging whether the point whose value is larger than the first threshold exists outside the envelope area; and
if no point whose value is larger than the first threshold exists outside the envelope region, determining one envelope exists, else determining more than one envelopes exist.

3. 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; and
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 state is a multi-touch according to a scanning and detecting result in the mutual capacitance mode and send a first signal to the control unit when the touch state is judged as the multi-touch.

4. The system according to claim 3 , wherein the system further comprises:
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 state is a single touch or the multi-touch in the mutual capacitance mode and send a second signal to the control unit when the touch state is judged as the single touch;
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 first single sent by the mutual capacitance detecting and determining unit and output a touch coordinate when receiving the second 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