Patent ID: 11874998
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A touch-screen system comprising:
adjacent first and second touch-screen sensors;
a first digitizer coupled electronically to the first touch-screen sensor and configured to provide a first pen signal responsive to action of a pen on the first touch-screen sensor;
a second digitizer coupled electronically to the second touch-screen sensor and configured to provide a second pen signal responsive to action of the pen on the second touch-screen sensor;
synchronization logic configured to synchronize the pen to the first and second digitizers and to enable pen tracking by any of the first and second digitizers conditionally, based at least partly on the first and second pen signals; and
return logic configured to expose a result of the pen tracking to an operating system of the touch-screen system.