Patent ID: 8786554

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a touch-sensitive interface that comprises a plurality of sensing areas within a sensing region; and one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the touch-sensitive interface that embody logic operable when executed to: receive a first set of signals, the first set of signals comprising two or more output signals responsive to two or more substantially contemporaneous capacitive couplings, each of the substantially contemporaneous capacitive couplings occurring between a pointing object and one of the plurality of sensing areas within the sensing region of the touch-sensitive interface; and select, when the sensing areas corresponding to the substantially contemporaneous capacitive couplings do not constitute one of a plurality of predefined combinations of one or more of the sensing areas, each predefined combination having a preselected sensing area of the plurality of sensing areas, one of the sensing areas corresponding to the substantially contemporaneous capacitive couplings based at least in part on scaled output signals of the first set of signals, wherein each of the output signals is scaled by a predetermined scale factor associated with a priority rank of the one of the plurality of sensing areas corresponding to the substantially contemporaneous capacitive coupling to which the output signal corresponds.