DR. MICHAEL ANDERSON LAYTON, DC, PA
Physician Assistant at Redwood Rd, Salt Lake City, UT

7564449, Jul 21, 2009

Jun 18, 2007

11/764645

Michael D. Layton - Salt Lake City UT, US
Don T. Saxby - Tooele UT, US
Richard D. Woolley - Orem UT, US

Cirque Corporation - Salt Lake City UT

G06F 3/041

345173, 345684

A method of using a capacitance-sensitive touchpad, wherein the touchpad includes a zone on a surface thereof, wherein touchdown of a pointing object within the zone enables activation of a scrolling function, wherein direction of scrolling is then controlled by a gesture by the pointing object, such as moving in a circular motion in a clockwise direction to move down in a list, and in a counter clockwise direction to move up in a list, and wherein fast and slow scrolling speeds are controlled by tapping functions within the scroll zone.

5565658, Oct 15, 1996

Dec 7, 1994

8/351008

George E. Gerpheide - Salt Lake City UT
Michael D. Layton - Salt Lake City UT

Cirque Corporation - Salt Lake City UT

G08C 2100

178 19

Apparatus and method for a capacitance-based proximity sensor with interference rejection. A pair of electrode arrays establish a capacitance on a touch detection pad, the capacitance varying with movement of a conductive object near the pad. The capacitance variations are measured synchronously with a reference frequency signal to thus provide a measure of the position of the object. Electrical interference is rejected by producing a reference frequency signal which is not coherent with the interference.

2005003, Feb 17, 2005

Jun 18, 2004

10/871546

Richard Woolley - Orem UT, US
David Taylor - Salt Lake City UT, US
Michael Layton - Salt lake City UT, US
Brian Taylor - Sandy UT, US

G09G005/00

345173000

A single-layer touchpad comprised of a relatively clear substrate, a first electrode disposed thereon, and a sense electrode disposed thereon, wherein the first electrode and the sense electrode are comprised of a conductive material, wherein the first electrode in combination with the sense electrode are used to detect the presence of a pointing object in a zone, or the simultaneous presence of multiple pointing objects in multiple zones, and wherein the first electrode and/or the sense electrode are made such that a pattern is visually detectable on the display screen.

2004012, Jul 1, 2004

Aug 4, 2003

10/634738

Brian Taylor - Sandy UT, US
David Taylor - Salt Lake City UT, US
Michael Layton - Salt Lake City UT, US

G09G005/00

345/173000

A single-layer touchpad comprised of a relatively clear substrate, a first active electrode disposed thereon, and a sense electrode disposed thereon, wherein the first active electrode and the sense electrode are comprised of a conductive material, wherein the first active electrode in combination with the sense electrode are used to detect the presence of a pointing object in a zone, determining in which zone the pointing object has been detected, or the simultaneous presence of multiple pointing objects in multiple zones, and wherein the first active electrode and/or the sense electrode are made sufficiently visible so that a pattern is visually detectable to the user when looking at the display screen.

2013025, Oct 3, 2013

Mar 28, 2013

13/852673

Michael D. Layton - Salt Lake City UT, US

G06F 3/044

345174

A method for single and multi-finger extraction and position calculation using weighted masks for each finger, the masks for each finger being calculated using the previous position of each finger, and when the measured results overlap, the results are apportioned according to the masks such that each position result is scaled according to its mask, and scaled by its mask divided by the sum of all overlapping masks.

7808487, Oct 5, 2010

Dec 19, 2006

11/641620

Brian Taylor - Sandy UT, US
Michael D. Layton - Salt Lake City UT, US
David Taylor - Salt Lake City UT, US

Cirque Corporation - Salt Lake City UT

G09G 5/00

345168, 345169, 345175, 200 5 A

A proximity-based mutually capacitance-sensitive touchpad that is disposed directly beneath a keypad keymat of a mobile telephone, wherein posts associated with each key pass through a mutually capacitance-sensitive sensor electrode grid of the touchpad such that the keypad posts do not interfere with touchpad detection and tracking of a pointing object that moves along the keypad surface, to thereby enable touchpad data entry, cursor control, and scroll bar control on a display of the mobile telephone, wherein the keypad posts actuate mechanical switches underneath the touchpad.

7817145, Oct 19, 2010

Apr 20, 2009

12/426608

Vadim Klishko - Layton UT, US
Richard D. Woolley - Orem UT, US
Michael D. Layton - Salt Lake City UT, US

Cirque Corporation - Salt Lake City UT

G06F 3/041

345173, 345684

A method of moving an object in a generally circular manner on the surface of a touchpad and causing a list to be scrolled as long as the object is moving, wherein a method is provided for activating a scrolling function, wherein a method is provided for determining what direction scrolling should occur based upon a direction of movement when scrolling is engaged, and wherein the direction of scrolling is only changed by an abrupt change in direction of the object.

2013020, Aug 8, 2013

Aug 9, 2012

13/571077

Keith L. Paulsen - Centerville UT, US
Michael D. Layton - Salt Lake City UT, US

G06F 3/044

345174

A method of performing a two-finger gesture when the absolute position of the fingers does not need to be known in order to perform the gesture, wherein de-ghosting of results from a touch sensor that gives a false position and a real position for each actual finger on the touch sensor is performed by finding a strongest signal when performing a short aperture measurement from one side of the touch sensor so that the direction of a rotation gesture can be determined, and wherein flick and pinch gestures can all be calculated using de-ghosted weighted average and weighted absolute deviation calculations.