Patent ID: 9026691
Filing Date: 2015-05-05
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A system for semi-autonomous operation of touch I/O device controllers under control of host devices, comprising: at least one host device including at least one host processing unit; at least one touch I/O device hosted by the at least one host device; and at least one touch I/O device controller that controls the at least one touch I/O device; wherein: the at least one touch I/O device controller is configured to operate in at least: (1) a wait state where the at least one touch I/O device controller waits to detect that the at least one touch I/O device is being touched; (2) an idle state where the at least one touch I/O device controller does not wait to detect that the at least one touch I/O device is being touched; and (3) an on state where the at least one touch I/O device controller has detected that the at least one touch I/O device is being touched; the at least one touch I/O device controller configured to operate in at least one of a plurality of sub-states when operating in the on state; and the at least one touch I/O device controller is configured to determine which of the plurality of sub-states to operate in when entering the on state; the determination based at least on a value assigned to a sub-state variable by the at least one host processing unit.