Wet finger tracking on capacitive touchscreens

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9921743
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14831714

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Techniques are presented for detection of a false touch on a touchscreen. The method includes recognizing a multi-touch instruction sequence, determining whether the multi-touch instruction sequence includes at least a first touch component corresponding to a predicted false touch, and in response to determining there is a false touch, disabling multi-touch functionality for the multi-touch instruction sequence.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

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Bryant, Jay S Rochester, US 75 935
Carey, James E Rochester, US 379 4917

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