Onboard capacitive touch control for an instrument transducer

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9773487
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15002145

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A pickup unit for an electrical stringed instrument, such as an electric guitar, includes a housing structured to be connected to the stringed instrument and a number of pickups provided within the housing, each pickup being structured to produce signals corresponding to vibration of one or more strings of the stringed instrument. The pickup unit also includes a number of capacitive touch electrodes provided on or within the housing, wherein the pickup unit is structured to generate control signals in response to a user of the pickup unit touching one or more of the number of capacitive touch electrodes, the control signal being configured to control processing of the signals produced by the number of pickups.

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A LITTLE THUNDER LLC682 ECHO PARK AVENUE LOS ANGELES CA 90026

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Alt, Andrew J Los Angeles, US 3 27
Edney, Daniel B Irvine, US 4 173

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