Patent ID: 8194047

Claim:
A multi-channel touch panel, comprising: (a) a plurality of driving electrodes spatial-separately arranged in the form of a matrix; (b) a plurality of sensing electrodes associated with the plurality of driving electrodes such that each sensing electrode is surrounded by a corresponding driving electrode, wherein the plurality of driving electrodes and the plurality of sensing electrodes define an electrode matrix having N rows and M columns, each of N and M being a positive integer; (c) N driving lines, {X n }, n=1, 2, . . . , N, spatial-separately arranged along a row direction of the electrode matrix; (d) M pairs of sensing lines, {Y m-1 , Y m-2 }, m=1, 2, . . . , M, spatial-separately arranged crossing over the N driving lines {X n } along a column direction of the electrode matrix, the column direction being perpendicular to the row direction, wherein each driving electrode in the n-th row of the electrode matrix is electrically connected to each other by a corresponding driving line X n ; and wherein each odd sensing electrode in the m-th column of the electrode matrix is electrically connected to each other by a first sensing line Y m-1 of the m-th paired sensing lines Y m-1 and Y m-2 , and each even sensing electrode in the m-th column of the electrode matrix is electrically connected to each other by a second sensing line Y m-2 of the m-th paired sensing lines Y m-1 and Y m-2 .