Patent ID: 8441458

Claim:
An input device comprising: a touch sensitive sensor operative to detect finger touch, wherein the touch sensitive sensor includes a first set of conductive lines and second set of conductive lines formed in a grid; a controller for controlling the touch sensitive sensor, the controller operative to set at least one area of the touch sensitive sensor for sampling output with a single touch sampling method and to set at least one other area of the touch sensitive sensor for sampling output with a multi-touch sampling method, wherein the multi-touch sampling method is other than a single touch sampling method; and a detection unit of the touch sensitive sensor controllable to apply the single touch sampling method over the at least one area of the touch sensitive sensor and to apply the multi-touch sampling method over the at least one other area of same touch sensitive sensor, wherein the single touch sampling method includes sampling output of conductive lines in the first set of conductive lines responsive to the detection unit simultaneously triggering conductive lines in the first set of conductive lines; and wherein the multi-touch sampling method includes sampling output of conductive lines in the first set of conductive lines responsive to the detection unit sequentially triggering conductive lines in the second set of conductive lines.