Abstract: An edge lighting system for a capacitive sensing device can include a substrate, made from an at least partially transparent material, having top and bottom surfaces, and having at least one edge; a light source, disposed adjacent to a first edge of the substrate, and being adapted to emit light waves into the substrate through the first edge; and an image etched into one of the top and bottom surfaces. At least a portion of the light waves within the substrate can travel out of at least a portion of the image so as to at least partially illuminate the image.

Abstract: Assisted tuning of a capacitive monitoring component via a system, method, and a computer program product. Via a system, a software program can be adapted to execute on a computer communicatively connected to the capacitive monitoring component, with the program being further adapted to allow a user to selectively manipulate configuration parameters of the capacitive monitoring component as the user tests operation of the capacitive monitoring component to determine and select a plurality of desired parameters. A parameter data set can include the plurality of desired parameters, and be stored on a tangible medium of expression.

Abstract: A scalable capacitive touch system includes a header unit having a processor, an internal communication unit, and an external communication unit adapted to communicate button identification data to an external device; and at least one adder unit. Each adder unit can include at least one capacitive pad, a controller for monitoring the at least one capacitive pad, and a communication interface adapted, to communicatively connect to at least one of the header unit and another adder unit, and to communicate button actuation data to the header unit for processing by the processor to identify a user-activated capacitive pad.