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US 2011/0298759 A1Published application
Method of Reducing Noises on a Touch Panel
OwnerChun-Wei Yang, Chun-Lung Hung +2inventors
InventorsChun-Wei Yang, Chun-Lung Hung, Yu-Min Hsu, Yung-Tse Cheng
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Abstract
During test of a display, a synchronous reference signal is determined, and an appearing moment of a minimal-noise signal is determined based on a start moment of the synchronous reference signal. Therefore, during other tests or usage by a user on the display, noise from data lines due to data coupling may be avoided, and detection and determination of touch commands on a touch panel of the display may be isolated from being disturbed by the noise.
Claims7
A method of reducing touch panel noise, the method comprising:
- performing a process comprising:
- determining a synchronous reference signal by at least one type of clock signal utilized on a display panel;
- utilizing a sensor on a touch panel corresponding to a test position of the display panel to sample a signal at the test position in a first predetermined period for generating a plurality of sample signals;
- determining a maximum sample signal having maximum magnitude and a minimum sample signal having minimum magnitude of the plurality of sample signals;
- determining magnitude difference of the maximum sample signal and the minimum sample signal to generate a noise estimation signal;
- comparing magnitude of the noise estimation signal and magnitude of a current minimum noise estimation signal to generate a comparison result;
- determining magnitude of the current minimum noise estimation signal according to the comparison result;
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- determining and recording appearance moment of the current minimum noise estimation signal according to phase difference of the current minimum noise estimation signal relative to the synchronous reference signal and appearance moment of the synchronous reference signal;
- performing the process iteratively with a second predetermined period as a time interval until a third predetermined period ends, wherein the third predetermined period covers a plurality of the first predetermined periods and a plurality of the second predetermined periods;
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- driving a plurality of data lines of the display panel according to the synchronous reference signal and the appearance moment of the current minimum noise estimation signal for transmitting data to the display panel.
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