Capacitive keyboard
A capacitive keyboard that can detect a key that has been depressed and the depressed amount thereof with high accuracy is provided. The capacitive keyboard includes a drive circuit 11 that alternatively switches the voltage of each of drive lines M from an L-level to an H-level, a sensing circuit 12 that is connected to each of sensing lines N and that selects one of the sensing lines N to detect the voltage generated in the selected sensing line, and a control circuit 15 . The control circuit 15 includes a storage unit 44 including storage areas corresponding to keys, a storage control unit 42 that acquires the voltage generated in the sensing line and that stores the acquired voltage in a storage area corresponding to a key, and a correction unit 43 that corrects, if one of the keys is operated, the voltage generated as a result of an operation of the one of the keys by using voltages stored in storage areas corresponding to other keys. Thus, even if a plurality of keys are depressed at the same time, detection with high accuracy can be realized.
1. A capacitive keyboard comprising a plurality of drive lines and a plurality of sensing lines that intersect the drive lines, the capacity keyboard comprising:
keys provided at intersections of the drive lines and the sensing lines, each of the keys including an operation component and an electrode unit including a pair of electrodes connected to a corresponding one of the drive lines and a corresponding one of the sensing lines, wherein capacitance between the pair of electrodes is changed in accordance with a depressed amount of the operation component;
a drive circuit that is connected to each of the drive lines and that alternatively switches a voltage of each of the drive lines from a low level to a high level;
a sensing circuit that is connected to each of the sensing lines and that selects one of the sensing lines to detect a voltage generated in the selected sensing line; and
a control circuit that detects one of the keys that has been operated and an operation amount of the operated key, wherein the control circuit includes a storage unit including storage areas corresponding to the keys, a storage control unit that acquires the voltage generated in the sensing line selected by the sensing circuit and that stores the acquired voltage in a corresponding one of the storage areas as a voltage corresponding to a key provided at an intersection of a drive line that is set at the high level and the selected sensing line, and a correction unit that corrects, if one of the keys is operated, a voltage generated as a result of an operation of the one of the keys by using voltages stored in storage areas corresponding to other keys.
2. The capacitive keyboard according to claim 1 , wherein, if the one of the keys is operated, the correction unit corrects the voltage generated as a result of the operation of the one of the keys by using the voltages stored in the storage areas corresponding to the other keys connected to a same sensing line as the one of the keys.
3. The capacitive keyboard according to claim 2 , wherein, if the voltage of one of the keys stored in the detected voltage storage area is Vin(m,n) (where m is a drive line number and n is a sensing line number), the correction unit calculates a corrected voltage Vout(m,n) according to the following Expression
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4. The capacitive keyboard according to claim 1 , wherein the storage areas include a detected voltage storage area that stores a voltage generated in each of the sensing lines and a corrected voltage storage area that stores a corrected voltage obtained by correction performed by the correction unit.
5. The capacitive keyboard according to claim 1 , wherein the voltage of each of the sensing lines is held at an intermediate value between a power supply voltage to be supplied to the sensing circuit and a ground voltage.