Abstract
This publication describes systems and techniques for enabling a touch-sensitive surface to have a very high spatial resolution while using a relatively sparse number of touch sensors. For example, the techniques of this publication may enable a touch-sensitive surface, such as a capacitive touch surface, to have a spatial resolution that is one hundred times higher than the number of touch sensors, such as capacitive touch sensors, electrodes, etc. of the touch-sensitive surface.
Because touch input provided by a finger may overlap multiple touch sensors that each outputs a capacitance value, a touch input is treated as a lump source rather than a point source. As such, a finger can be modeled as a point spread function (PSF), and the capacitance values outputted by multiple touch sensors can be mapped to a single point source using a convolutional PSF, thereby greatly increasing the spatial resolution of the touch-sensitive surface.
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Recommended Citation
Shin, D., "HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION TOUCH-SENSITIVE SURFACE USING SPARSE TOUCH SENSORS", Technical Disclosure Commons, (July 20, 2022)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/5272