Patent 7764200 was granted and assigned to Holtek Semiconductor Inc. on July, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The present invention discloses a capacitive button device, comprising: a signal input unit, a first amplifier, a first switching unit, a second amplifier, a second switching unit, an analog-to-digital converting unit, a third switching unit, a data output unit, a data storage unit and a digital-to-analog converting unit. Thereby, the present invention overcomes the problem due to poor resolution of conventional capacitive buttons and can be used with touch panels. Moreover, the digital-to-analog converting unit is downsized with improved resolution and reduced cost in design and fabrication.