Patent Application
20230418368
A capacitive sensor may be used to track a proximity of an object to another object. For example, a head-mounted device may track facial expressions by tracking proximities of facial surfaces to capacitive sensors incorporated into the head-mounted device.
This Summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in a simplified form that are further described below in the Detailed Description. This Summary is not intended to identify key features or essential features of the claimed subject matter, nor is it intended to be used to limit the scope of the claimed subject matter. Furthermore, the claimed subject matter is not limited to implementations that solve any or all disadvantages noted in any part of this disclosure.
Examples are disclosed that relate to measuring a capacitance of a sense capacitor based upon a charge accumulated on an electrode of the sense capacitor. One example provides a head-mounted device comprising a facial-tracking sensor, a controller, and a charge sensing circuit connected to the facial-tracking sensor. The facial-tracking sensor comprises a sense capacitor electrode configured to be positioned proximate to a surface of a face and form a capacitance based upon a distance between the sense capacitor electrode and the surface of the face. The controller is configured to apply a reference voltage to the sense capacitor electrode. The charge sensing circuit is configured to determine the capacitance of the sense capacitor electrode by determining an amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode resulting from the reference voltage.
As mentioned above, a head-mounted device may comprise facial-tracking sensors to track facial movements. One possible method to perform facial tracking is to measure capacitance values using an array of facial-tracking sensors located on the head-mounted device. For example, as the face muscles move, the capacitances of the facial-tracking sensors may change based upon proximities of facial surfaces to corresponding sensors.
One possible method of determining capacitance is to use a resonant LC circuit incorporating a sense capacitor of a facial-tracking sensor. Changes in facial proximity to the sense capacitor may lead to measurable changes in resonant frequency of the resonant LC circuit. However, capacitive crosstalk may occur between facial-tracking sensors on the array, which may complicate concurrently performing capacitance measurements for multiple sensors.
Accordingly, examples are disclosed that relate to determining a capacitance of a sense capacitor of a facial-tracking sensor by determining an amount of charge stored on an electrode of the sense capacitor. Briefly, a facial-tracking sensor comprises a sense capacitor electrode configured to be positioned proximate to a surface of a face. The sense capacitor electrode forms a capacitance based upon a distance between the sense capacitor electrode and the surface of the face. A controller applies a reference voltage to the sense capacitor electrode of the facial-tracking sensor. Then a charge sensing circuit determines the capacitance on the sense capacitor electrode by determining an amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode resulting from application of the reference voltage. In some examples, the controller also applies the reference voltage to a shielding track along electrical connections between the charge sensing circuit and the facial-tracking sensor. The reference voltage on the shielding track may help to reduce capacitive crosstalk received on the facial-tracking sensor. These and other examples are described in more detail below.
Left lens 104L and right lens 104R are supported by a frame 106, which is connected to side frames 108L, 108R via optional hinge joints 110L, 110R Left sense capacitor electrode array 102L and right sense capacitor electrode array 102R are respectively schematically depicted by dashed lines on left lens 104L and right lens 104R, which indicate an arbitrary spatial arrangement of electrodes. Example sense electrode array layouts are discussed in more detail below. The term “lens” is used herein to represent one or more optical components through which a real-world environment can be viewed. The term “lens” may comprise an optical combiner that combines virtual and real imagery, and/or one or more transparent optical components other than a combiner, such as a separate lens with or without optical power.
Each lens 104L, 104R comprises an electrically insulating substrate that is at least partially optically transparent. For example, the substrate may comprise a glass, or an optically transparent plastic such as polycarbonate, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), polystyrene, polyethylene terephthalate (PET), cyclic olefin polymer, or other suitable material.
Sense capacitor electrode arrays 102L, 102R are formed from electrically conductive films that are at least partially optically transparent. The films may comprise one or more electrically conductive materials, such as indium tin oxide (ITO), silver nanowires, silver nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, graphene, a mixture of two or more such materials (e.g., silver nanoparticle-ITO hybrid), and/or other suitable material(s). The film(s) may be formed via any suitable process, such as chemical vapor deposition, sputtering, atomic layer deposition, evaporation, or liquid phase application (e.g. spin-on, dip-coating, application by doctor-blade, etc.). Trenches formed between the sense capacitor electrodes may be utilized for placement of conductive traces. As the conductive film may not be fully optically transparent in some examples, the use of relatively thinner films for the sense capacitor electrodes may provide for greater transparency compared to relatively thicker coatings.
Head-mounted device 100 further comprises a plurality of charge sensing circuits, schematically illustrated at 112. Each charge sensing circuit of the plurality of charge sensing circuits 112 is connected to a corresponding facial-tracking sensor. Each charge sensing circuit 112 is configured to determine the capacitance of a corresponding sense capacitor electrode by determining an amount of charge accumulated on the corresponding sense capacitor electrode resulting from application of a reference voltage, as discussed below.
In some examples, head-mounted device 100 further may include an image producing system (for example a laser scanner, a liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) microdisplay, a transmissive liquid crystal microdisplay, an organic light emitting device (OLED) microdisplay, or digital micromirror device (DMD)) to produce images for display. Images displayed via left-eye and right-eye transparent combiners may comprise stereo images of virtual objects overlayed on the real-world scene such that the virtual objects appear to be present in the real-world scene.
Head-mounted device 100 further comprises a controller 116. Controller 116 comprises, among other components, a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem that stores instructions executable by the logic subsystem to control the various functions of head-mounted device 100, including but not limited to the facial-tracking functions described herein.
As shown on lens 206R, sense capacitor electrodes 204a-g are separated by trench regions 208, indicated by thick dark lines. Trench regions 208 are regions between sense capacitor electrodes that lack the electrically conductive film(s) that form sense capacitor electrodes 204a-g. In some examples, trench regions 208 may comprise electrically conductive traces to connect sense capacitor electrodes 204a-g to charge sensing circuits (not shown) and/or other circuitry. Trench regions 208 may be formed by masking followed by deposition of the conductive film for the sense capacitor electrodes, or by etching after forming the conductive film, in various examples. In some examples, trench regions are etched into the lens or other substrate.
As a conductive film from which the sense capacitor electrode arrays are formed may not be fully transparent, layout 202 may be visible in some examples. However, when incorporated into a device configured to be worn on the head, layout 202 may be positioned closer than a focal length of the human eye during most normal use of head-mounted device 200. As such, layout 202 may be out of focus to a user during ordinary device use, and thus may not obstruct the user's view or distract the user.
Head-mounted device 300 further comprises a controller 308 configured to apply a reference voltage to sense capacitor electrodes 306 of the one or more facial-tracking sensors 302. As mentioned above, each charge sensing circuit 304 is configured to determine the capacitance of sense capacitor electrode 306 of the corresponding facial-tracking sensor 302 by determining an amount of charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 306 resulting from the reference voltage. For example, the capacitance, C, may be determined by using Q=C*V, where V is the reference voltage and Q is the amount of charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 306 resulting from the reference voltage. In some examples, each charge sensing circuit 304 is further configured to generate a plurality of capacitance bit values based at least on oversampling the amount of charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 306 of the corresponding facial-tracking sensor 302 resulting from the reference voltage. Oversampling comprises performing repeated samplings of the charge on sensor capacitor electrode 306, and filtering the repeated samplings. As one illustrative example, oversampling may comprise sampling the charge accumulated 256 consecutive times, and determining a capacitance value (16 bit values in some examples) based on the 256 samples. Such a configuration may help to increase an accuracy of a charge sample determined from sense capacitor electrode 306 compared to not oversampling the charge accumulated. In other examples, a greater or lesser number of samples may be acquired. In some examples, the capacitance bit values may be used by downstream digital processing, such as for controlling computer-generated facial animation. In other examples, charge sensing circuit 304 can generate any other suitable output for any other suitable use.
In various examples, charge sensing circuit 304 may comprise a sigma-delta analog-digital converter (SD-ADC), successive approximation ADC, dual slope ADC, flash ADC, pipelined ADC, and/or any other suitable ADC circuitry. In some examples, charge accumulated on each of a plurality of sense capacitor electrodes 306 may be determined concurrently. As such, controller 308 may be configured to concurrently operate the corresponding one or more of charge sensing circuits 304. Such a configuration may help to enable faster operation than a configuration that utilizes time-multiplexed operation of facial-tracking sensors.
Head-mounted device 300 further comprises a shielding track 310 along electrical connections between the one or more charge sensing circuits 304 and the corresponding one or more facial-tracking sensors 302. Shielding track 310 may help to reduce electrical interference from conductors near the electrical connections between the one or more facial-tracking sensors 302 and the corresponding one or more charge sensing circuits 304, such as capacitive crosstalk between sense capacitor electrodes 306. Reducing capacitive crosstalk may help to lessen sensing errors and/or reduce noise. For example, shielding track 310 may help to electrically cancel stray capacitance between an electrical ground of head-mounted device 300 (e.g., a frame of head-mounted device 300) and the electrical connections. In some examples, a signal to noise ratio may increase the farther shielding track 310 extends along a distance of the electrical connections. Benefits of extending a distance of a shielding track may be balanced with an increase in power, weight, and/or mechanical design complexity of a head-mounted device that may result from a longer shielding track. Controller 308 is further configured to apply the reference voltage to the shielding track 310. When controller 308 concurrently applies the reference voltage to shielding track 310 and sense capacitor electrodes 306 of the corresponding plurality of facial-tracking sensors 302, capacitive crosstalk between sense capacitor electrodes 306 may be electrically canceled. The electrical connections between the one or more facial-tracking sensors 302 and the corresponding one or more charge sensing circuits 304 may comprise flex cables, coaxial cables, printed traces, and/or any other suitable electrical connections.
In some examples, one or more facial-tracking sensors 302 may electrically see an offset capacitance (not shown in
Digital filter 416 converts bit stream 415 from SD-ADC 414 to plurality of capacitance bit values 412 and filters high-frequency noise from the plurality of capacitance bit values 412. Such noise filtering may help to increase a signal to noise ratio. In examples where SD-ADC 414 comprises a second order SD-ADC, digital filter 416 comprises a second order filter. In other examples, each SD-ADC 414 and each digital filter 416 may comprise any suitable order of SD-ADC and digital filter, respectively. Charge sensing circuit 404 is illustrative, and any suitable circuitry may be used to determine the capacitance of sense capacitor electrode 410 by determining an amount of charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 410 resulting from the reference voltage.
The depicted controller 408 comprises a driver circuit 418 and a clk_gen circuit 420. Driver circuit 418 is configured to generate and concurrently apply the reference voltage to shielding track 406 and sense capacitor electrodes 410 of plurality of facial-tracking sensors 402. Concurrently applying the reference voltage may help to enable a concurrent operation of plurality of charge sensing circuits 404. Clk_gen circuit 420 is configured to generate a lower frequency clock from a reference clock. In some examples, the lower frequency clock may comprise a clock frequency in the range of 10 kHz (kilohertz) to 100 kHz in some examples, or a clock frequency outside of this range in other examples. The lower frequency clock may help to enable a time period to charge sense capacitor electrode 410 to the reference voltage before determining the capacitance value on sense capacitor electrode 410. Clk_gen circuit 420 may comprise a clock divider, and/or any other suitable clock circuitry. The lower frequency clock may help to control one or more operations of driver circuit 418 and/or plurality of charge sensing circuits 404, such as concurrently operating the plurality of charge sensing circuits 404. In some examples, clk_gen circuit 420 may generate a plurality of non-overlapping lower frequency clock signals. The non-overlapping lower frequency clocks may be used for different phases of operation of SD-ADC 414, as discussed below. Controller 408 is illustrative, and any other suitable control circuitry may be used in other examples.
Head-mounted device 400 further comprises a bias circuit 422. In the depicted example, bias circuit 422 may generate various bias supplies used by clk_gen circuit 420, SD-ADC 414, and/or other components of head-mounted device 400. In other examples, bias circuit 422 may be omitted.
DAC 510 converts bit stream 516 into an analog domain, such as an analog voltage, for example. Next, unit delay circuit 512 delays feedback voltage V′ 518 for one cycle. In such a manner, feedback voltage V′ 518 is added to a next sample. Such a configuration may help to shape noise on feedback voltage V′ 518 (e.g., quantization noise resulting from quantizer 508) and move a majority of the noise to higher frequencies. Reshaping the noise can help to remove the noise from the system, such as using an analog filter and/or a digital filter to filter the higher frequencies, as examples. Further, the feedback path can help to generate dither on delta circuit 504, which may help to increase a performance of SD-ADC 500. In other examples, unit delay circuit 512 may be configured to delay a feedback voltage for any suitable number of cycles.
A first reference voltage 610 is connected to sense capacitor electrode 602 when first control point θ1 conducts. As such, first reference voltage 610 is applied to sense capacitor electrode 602. Then, first control point θ1 opens and second control point θ2 conducts, which transfers charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 602 resulting from the reference voltage to first integrator capacitor 606. First integrator capacitor 606 and integrator 604 output a voltage based on the charge accumulated. In other examples, when first control point θ1 opens, second control point θ2 and fourth control point θ4 conducts and the charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 602 is transferred to first integrator capacitor 606 and second integrator capacitor 608. In such a configuration, integrator 604 is considered fully differential, and the charge accumulated is split between first and second integrator capacitors 606, 608. Therefore, an output voltage is split between output nodes of integrator 604, as indicated at 612. A fully differential integrator may help to increase a precision of a SD-ADC, reduce susceptibility to stray noise and or coupling, and/or reduce a design complexity of the SD-ADC.
Continuing, when third control point θ3 conducts, a second reference voltage 614 is connected and applied to sense capacitor electrode 602. In the depicted example, applying first reference voltage 610 directs the charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 602 to a non-inverting input of integrator 604 in a first cycle, and applying second reference voltage 614 directs the charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 602 to an inverting input of integrator 604 in a second cycle. In a similar manner as above, then third control point θ3 opens and fourth control point θ4 conducts, which transfers the charge accumulated on sense capacitor electrode 602 to second integrator capacitor 608. Second integrator capacitor 608 and integrator 604 then output a voltage based on the charge accumulated. In other examples, first, second, third, and fourth control points may be controlled in any other suitable manner.
In some examples, one or more facial-tracking sensors on a device may electrically see an offset capacitance larger than capacitance to a proximate point on a face, which may interfere with sensing smaller capacitances to the face (e.g., the offset capacitance may be larger than a sensor range). In some examples, such offset capacitance may be electrically canceled by using a capacitor configured with a similar or equivalent capacitance value as the offset capacitance. However, larger capacitors may consume a larger area. Accordingly,
Continuing, method 800 comprises, at 808, determining a capacitance value of the sense capacitor electrode of the facial-tracking sensor based upon an amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode of the facial-tracking sensor resulting from applying the reference voltage. In some examples, determining the capacitance value of the sense capacitor electrode comprises determining a plurality of capacitance bit values based at least on oversampling the amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode of the facial-tracking sensor, as indicated at 810. As an example, the plurality of capacitance bit values may comprise a binary number indicating the amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode. As previously mentioned, a SD-ADC may shape noise on the plurality of capacitance bit values to a higher frequency. Thus, in such examples, method 800 comprises, at 812, filtering high-frequency noise from the plurality of capacitance bit values. Filtering the high-frequency noise may help to increase a signal to noise ratio on the capacitance bit values. While method 800 is described in the context of one sense capacitor electrode, in examples where the head-mounted device comprises a plurality of sense capacitor electrodes and a corresponding plurality of charge sensing circuits, one or more steps of method 800 may be applied to each of a plurality of sense capacitor electrodes and a corresponding one or more charge sensing circuits.
In some embodiments, the methods and processes described herein may be tied to a computing system of one or more computing devices. In particular, such methods and processes may be implemented as a computer-application program or service, an application-programming interface (API), a library, and/or other computer-program product.
Computing system 900 includes a logic subsystem 902 and a storage subsystem 904. Computing system 900 may optionally include a display subsystem 906, input subsystem 908, communication subsystem 910, and/or other components not shown in
Logic subsystem 902 includes one or more physical devices configured to execute instructions. For example, the logic machine may be configured to execute instructions that are part of one or more applications, services, programs, routines, libraries, objects, components, data structures, or other logical constructs. Such instructions may be implemented to perform a task, implement a data type, transform the state of one or more components, achieve a technical effect, or otherwise arrive at a desired result.
The logic machine may include one or more processors configured to execute software instructions. Additionally or alternatively, the logic machine may include one or more hardware or firmware logic machines configured to execute hardware or firmware instructions. Processors of the logic machine may be single-core or multi-core, and the instructions executed thereon may be configured for sequential, parallel, and/or distributed processing. Individual components of the logic machine optionally may be distributed among two or more separate devices, which may be remotely located and/or configured for coordinated processing. Aspects of the logic machine may be virtualized and executed by remotely accessible, networked computing devices configured in a cloud-computing configuration.
Storage subsystem 904 includes one or more physical devices configured to hold instructions executable by the logic machine to implement the methods and processes described herein. When such methods and processes are implemented, the state of storage subsystem 904 may be transformed—e.g., to hold different data.
Storage subsystem 904 may include removable and/or built-in devices. Storage subsystem 904 may include optical memory (e.g., CD, DVD, HD-DVD, Blu-Ray Disc, etc.), semiconductor memory (e.g., RAM, EPROM, EEPROM, etc.), and/or magnetic memory (e.g., hard-disk drive, floppy-disk drive, tape drive, MRAM, etc.), among others. Storage subsystem 904 may include volatile, nonvolatile, dynamic, static, read/write, read-only, random-access, sequential-access, location-addressable, file-addressable, and/or content-addressable devices.
It will be appreciated that storage subsystem 904 includes one or more physical devices. However, aspects of the instructions described herein alternatively may be propagated by a communication medium (e.g., an electromagnetic signal, an optical signal, etc.) that is not held by a physical device for a finite duration.
Aspects of logic subsystem 902 and storage subsystem 904 may be integrated together into one or more hardware-logic components. Such hardware-logic components may include field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), program- and application-specific integrated circuits (PASIC/ASICs), program- and application-specific standard products (PSSP/ASSPs), system-on-a-chip (SOC), and complex programmable logic devices (CPLDs), for example.
When included, display subsystem 906 may be used to present a visual representation of data held by storage subsystem 904. This visual representation may take the form of a graphical user interface (GUI). As the herein described methods and processes change the data held by the storage machine, and thus transform the state of the storage machine, the state of display subsystem 906 may likewise be transformed to visually represent changes in the underlying data. Display subsystem 906 may include one or more display devices utilizing virtually any type of technology. Such display devices may be combined with logic subsystem 902 and/or storage subsystem 904 in a shared enclosure, or such display devices may be peripheral display devices.
When included, input subsystem 908 may comprise or interface with one or more user-input devices such as a keyboard, mouse, touch screen, or game controller. In some embodiments, the input subsystem may comprise or interface with selected natural user input (NUI) componentry. Such componentry may be integrated or peripheral, and the transduction and/or processing of input actions may be handled on- or off-board. Example NUI componentry may include a microphone for speech and/or voice recognition; an infrared, color, stereoscopic, and/or depth camera for machine vision and/or gesture recognition; a head tracker, eye tracker, accelerometer, and/or gyroscope for motion detection and/or intent recognition; as well as electric-field sensing componentry for assessing brain activity.
When included, communication subsystem 910 may be configured to communicatively couple computing system 900 with one or more other computing devices. Communication subsystem 910 may include wired and/or wireless communication devices compatible with one or more different communication protocols. As non-limiting examples, the communication subsystem may be configured for communication via a wireless telephone network, or a wired or wireless local- or wide-area network. In some embodiments, the communication subsystem may allow computing system 900 to send and/or receive messages to and/or from other devices via a network such as the Internet.
Another example provides a head-mounted device, comprising, a facial-tracking sensor comprising a sense capacitor electrode configured to be positioned proximate to a surface of a face and form a capacitance based upon a distance between the sense capacitor electrode and the surface of the face, a controller configured to apply a reference voltage to the sense capacitor electrode, and a charge sensing circuit connected to the facial-tracking sensor and configured to determine the capacitance of the sense capacitor electrode by determining an amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode resulting from the reference voltage. In some such examples, the device alternatively or additionally comprises a shielding track along an electrical connection between the charge sensing circuit and the facial-tracking sensor, and the controller is alternatively or additionally configured to apply the reference voltage to the shielding track. In some such examples, the charge sensing circuit is alternatively or additionally configured to generate a plurality of capacitance bit values based at least on oversampling the amount of charge accumulated. In some such examples, the charge sensing circuit is alternatively or additionally configured to filter high-frequency noise from the plurality of capacitance bit values. In some such examples, the charge sensing circuit alternatively or additionally comprises a sigma-delta analog-digital converter and a digital filter connected to an output of the sigma-delta analog-digital converter. In some such examples, the device alternatively or additionally comprises an offset-compensating capacitor, and the controller is alternatively or additionally configured to toggle a connection of the offset-compensating capacitor to electrically cancel an offset capacitance on the sense capacitor electrode. In some such examples, the offset-compensating capacitor alternatively or additionally comprises a programmable capacitor. In some such examples, the facial-tracking sensor is a first facial-tracking sensor, the charge sensing circuit is a first charge sensing circuit, the device alternatively or additionally comprises a second facial-tracking sensor and a second charge sensing circuit connected to the second facial-tracking sensor, and the controller is alternatively or additionally configured to concurrently apply the reference voltage to the sense capacitor electrode of the first facial-tracking sensor and a sense capacitor electrode of the second facial-tracking sensor, and concurrently operate the first charge sensing circuit and the second charge sensing circuit.
Another example provides, on a head-mounted device comprising a facial-tracking sensor and a charge sensing circuit, a method comprising, applying a reference voltage to a sense capacitor electrode of the facial-tracking sensor, and determining a capacitance value of the sense capacitor electrode of the facial-tracking sensor based upon an amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode of the facial-tracking sensor resulting from applying the reference voltage. In some such examples, the method alternatively or additionally comprises applying the reference voltage to a shielding track along an electrical connection between the facial-tracking sensor and the charge sensing circuit. In some such examples, determining the capacitance value of the sense capacitor electrode alternatively or additionally comprises determining a plurality of capacitance bit values based at least on oversampling the amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode of the facial-tracking sensor. In some such examples, the method alternatively or additionally comprises filtering high-frequency noise from the plurality of capacitance bit values. In some such examples, the method alternatively or additionally comprises cancelling an offset capacitance on the sense capacitor electrode by discharging the offset capacitance via toggling a connection of an offset-compensating capacitor.
Another example provides a head-mounted device, comprising, a plurality of facial-tracking sensors, each facial-tracking sensor of the plurality of facial-tracking sensors comprising a sense capacitor electrode configured to be positioned proximate to a surface of a face, a controller configured to concurrently apply a reference voltage to the sense capacitor electrodes of the plurality of facial-tracking sensors, and a corresponding plurality of charge sensing circuits, each charge sensing circuit of the corresponding plurality of charge sensing circuits connected to a corresponding facial-tracking sensor. In some such examples, each charge sensing circuit of the corresponding plurality of charge sensing circuit alternatively or additionally is configured to determine a capacitance of the sense capacitor electrode of the corresponding facial-tracking sensor by determining an amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode of the corresponding facial-tracking sensor resulting from the reference voltage. In some such examples, each charge sensing circuit of the plurality of charge sensing circuits is alternatively or additionally configured to output a plurality of capacitance bit values based at least on oversampling the amount of charge accumulated on the sense capacitor electrode of the corresponding facial-tracking sensor. In some such examples, each charge sensing circuit of the plurality charge sensing circuits is alternatively or additionally configured to filter high-frequency noise from the plurality of capacitance bit values. In some such examples, the controller is alternatively or additionally configured to concurrently operate the corresponding plurality of charge sensing circuits. In some such examples, the device alternatively or additionally comprises a shielding track along electrical connections between the plurality of facial-tracking sensors and the corresponding plurality of charge sensing circuits, and the controller is alternatively or additionally configured to apply the reference voltage to the shielding track. In some such examples, the device alternatively or additionally comprises a corresponding plurality of offset-compensating capacitors connected to the corresponding plurality of facial-tracking sensors, and the controller is alternatively or additionally configured, for each offset-compensating capacitor of the corresponding plurality of offset-compensating capacitors, to toggle a connection of the offset-compensating capacitor to electrically cancel an offset capacitance on the sense capacitor electrode of the corresponding facial-tracking sensor.
It will be understood that the configurations and/or approaches described herein are exemplary in nature, and that these specific embodiments or examples are not to be considered in a limiting sense, because numerous variations are possible. The specific routines or methods described herein may represent one or more of any number of processing strategies. As such, various acts illustrated and/or described may be performed in the sequence illustrated and/or described, in other sequences, in parallel, or omitted. Likewise, the order of the above-described processes may be changed.
The subject matter of the present disclosure includes all novel and non-obvious combinations and sub-combinations of the various processes, systems and configurations, and other features, functions, acts, and/or properties disclosed herein, as well as any and all equivalents thereof.
