Two-dimensional touch sensors

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PATENT NO 8736568
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13421199

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In a touch sensor, as well as providing touch position data, additional data is provided on the shape of the touch. This is achieved by having sampling nodes on a finer mesh than the size of the actuating object, typically a finger, so each finger touch activates a group of adjacent nodes on the sensor. In this way, each touch has a shape formed by the activated nodes. The shape allows the touch sensor to report an angle with each touch and data indicating how elongate the touch is, preferably both together as a vector in which the direction of the vector gives the angle and the magnitude of the vector gives the ellipticity. For each frame of data collected from the sensor array, the sensor outputs an (x, y) coordinate of touch position and a further (x, y) coordinate of a shape vector.

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ATMEL CORPORATION2125 O'NEL DRIVE SAN JOSE CALIFORNIA 95131

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ard, Christopher Eastleigh, GB 7 340
Pickett, Daniel Southampton, GB 9 410
Simmons, Martin John Southampton, GB 22 844
Sleeman, Peter Hants, GB 23 1375

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