Patent ID: 7848825

Claim:
A computer system, comprising: a sensor panel comprising a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion is configured to provide a first set of capacitive sense signals resulting from a scan of the first portion of the sensor panel and the second portion is configured to provide a second set of capacitive sense signals resulting from a scan of the second portion of the sensor panel; a first device configured to receive and the first set of capacitive sense signals provided by the first portion of the sensor panel and to generate a first set of scan results data based on the received first set of capacitive sense signals; and a second device configured to receive the second set of capacitive sense signals provided by the second portion of the sensor panel and to generate a second set of scan results data based on the received second set of capacitive sense signals, wherein the first and second devices are configured to operate together in a Master/Slave configuration to determine whether the generated first and second sets of scan results data indicate that a touch condition is present on the sensor panel, wherein the second device is configured to shift the generated second set of scan results data to the first device.