- Patent Title: Methodology and application of sampled low noise reference voltage
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Application No.: US17932634Application Date: 2022-09-15
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Publication No.: US12159007B1Publication Date: 2024-12-03
- Inventor: Bin Huang , Stanley B. Wang , Christoph H. Krah
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kubota & Basol LLP
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G06F3/044 ; G09G3/32

Abstract:
An electronic device including a touch screen (e.g., an integrated touch screen using chiplets) can be configured for low-noise reference voltage sampling and subsequent touch sensing using the sampled reference voltage. An integrated touch screen can include multiple regions, and each of the multiple regions can include multiple touch node electrodes. Chiplets can be configured to sample one or more reference voltage pins during an analog quiet time to obtain one or more sampled low-noise reference signals localized to each chiplet. The chiplets can then be configured to sense capacitance at some of or at each of the regions (e.g., using chiplets coupled to some of the touch node electrodes of each of the regions and configured to operate in a touch sensing configuration) using the one or more sampled low-noise reference signals.
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