IP Library Granted Patent US 10,488,987
Granted Patent B2
US 10,488,987 · App. 15/785,037 · Granted Nov 26, 2019

Touch panel apparatus

Inventors: Yusuke Shimasaki (Tokyo, JP); Seiichiro Mori (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
G06F3/0418G06F3/044G06F2203/04111
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Patent No.
US 10,488,987
App. No.
15/785,037
Granted
Nov 26, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A touch panel apparatus includes: a data determination part determining whether a measurement value of a capacitance for each of a plurality of drive pulses measured by a sensing part is normal or abnormal; and a coordinate detection part outputting a touch coordinate position of a touch performed by an indication body in accordance with the measurement value of the capacitance which is determined to be normal by the data determination part, wherein the drive part changes a frequency of a drive pulse in the plurality of drive pulses corresponding to the measurement value of the capacitance which is determined to be abnormal by the data determination part, and outputs, in a subsequent scan, a plurality of drive pulses including a drive pulse whose frequency has been changed.

Claims (20)

1. A touch panel apparatus, comprising:

a touch sensor panel including a plurality of sensors;

a drive part connected to said touch sensor panel to output a plurality of drive pulses having different frequencies during a scan of said touch sensor panel;

a sensing part connected to said touch sensor panel to measure a capacitance for each of said plurality of drive pulses, said plurality of drive pulses being output to the same scan part in said sensing part;

a data determination part determining whether a measurement value of said capacitance for each of said plurality of drive pulses measured by said sensing part is normal or abnormal; and

a coordinate detection part outputting a touch coordinate position of a touch performed by an indication body in accordance with the measurement value of said capacitance which is determined to be normal by said data determination part, wherein

said drive part changes a frequency of a drive pulse in said plurality of drive pulses corresponding to the measurement value of said capacitance which is determined to be abnormal by said data determination part, and outputs, in a subsequent scan, a plurality of drive pulses including a drive pulse whose frequency has been changed, and

said drive part changes a frequency of a drive pulse corresponding to the measurement value of said capacitance which is determined to be abnormal by said data determination part to a frequency other than a frequency which is an integral multiple of an initial frequency, and outputs, in a subsequent scan, a plurality of drive pulses including a drive pulse whose frequency has been changed.

2. The touch panel apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein:

said data determination part obtains an average value or a median value of a plurality of measurement values of said capacitance for said plurality of drive pulses measured by said sensing part, and when a difference value between said average value or said median value and a measurement value of said capacitance in said plurality of measurement values falls within a predetermined range, said data determination part determines that the measurement value of said capacitance is normal, and

said data determination part determines that a measurement value of said capacitance in said plurality of measurement values which does not fall within said predetermined range is abnormal.

3. A touch panel apparatus, comprising:

a touch sensor panel including a plurality of sensors;

a drive part connected to said touch sensor panel to output a plurality of drive pulses having different frequencies during a scan of said touch sensor panel;

a sensing part connected to said touch sensor panel to measure a capacitance for each of said plurality of drive pulses, said plurality of drive pulses being output to the same scan part in said sensing part;

a data determination part determining whether a measurement value of said capacitance for each of said plurality of drive pulses measured by said sensing part is normal or abnormal; and

a coordinate detection part outputting a touch coordinate position of a touch performed by an indication body in accordance with the measurement value of said capacitance which is determined to be normal by said data determination part, wherein

said drive part changes a frequency of a drive pulse in said plurality of drive pulses corresponding to the measurement value of said capacitance which is determined to be abnormal by said data determination part, and outputs, in a subsequent scan, a plurality of drive pulses including a drive pulse whose frequency has been changed,

said drive part changes a frequency of a drive pulse corresponding to the measurement value of said capacitance which is determined to be abnormal by said data determination part, and stores a frequency before changed as a frequency prohibited from use, and

when there is no more frequency which can be changed and also is not prohibited from use, said drive part excludes a frequency, which has been determined to be prohibited from use earliest in frequencies prohibited from use, from frequencies prohibited from use and uses said frequency.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jul 15, 2021
From: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
To: TRIVALE TECHNOLOGIES
Reel/Frame 057651/0234 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 16, 2017
From: SHIMASAKI, YUSUKE; MORI, SEIICHIRO
To: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 043875/0225 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2016-206999 · Oct 21, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20180113563A1 · Apr 26, 2018