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"Touch Screen Technology": A Seminar Report On

Touch screen technology allows users to directly interact with displays through touch. A touch screen has three main components: a touch sensor, controller, and software driver. The sensor detects touch input and the controller translates this into usable data for the computer. There are two main types of touch screens - resistive and capacitive. Resistive touch screens use two flexible conductive layers separated by dots, while capacitive screens have a uniform conductive coating and detect touch through current changes. Touch screens are widely used in public displays, self-service kiosks, and other applications.

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"Touch Screen Technology": A Seminar Report On

Touch screen technology allows users to directly interact with displays through touch. A touch screen has three main components: a touch sensor, controller, and software driver. The sensor detects touch input and the controller translates this into usable data for the computer. There are two main types of touch screens - resistive and capacitive. Resistive touch screens use two flexible conductive layers separated by dots, while capacitive screens have a uniform conductive coating and detect touch through current changes. Touch screens are widely used in public displays, self-service kiosks, and other applications.

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A seminar Report on

Touch Screen Technology

Introduction
A touch screen is an input device that allows users to operate a PC by simply touching the display screen. The display screen has a sensitive glass overlay placed on it and we could give the desired input by touching it. A touch screen is based on CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) technology, that accepts direct onscreen input. The ability for direct onscreen input is facilitated by an external (light pen) or an internal device (touch overlay and controller) .

HOW DOES A TOUCHSCREEN WORK? Main touch screen components: Touch sensor Controller Software driver

TOUCH SENSOR A touch screen sensor is a clear glass panel with a touch responsive surface which is placed over a display screen so that the responsive area of the panel covers the viewable area of the display screen. The sensor generally has an electrical current or signal going through it and touching the screen causes a voltage or signal change. This voltage change is used to determine the location of the touch to the screen

CONTROLLER The controller is a small PC card that connects between the touch sensor and the PC. It takes information from the touch sensor and translates it into information that PC can understand. SOFTWARE DRIVER The driver is a software that allows the touch screen and computer to work together. It tells the operating system how to interpret the touch event information that is sent from the controller. Most touch screen drivers today are a mouse-emulation type driver. This makes touching the screen the same

as clicking your mouse at the same location on the screen.

TOUCH SCREEN DIVERSITY

Resistive Touch screen Capacitive Touch screen

RESISTIVE TOUCH SCREEN


1. Polyester Film . 2. Top Resistive Layer. 3. Conductive Transparent Metal Coating. 4. Bottom Resistive Layer . 5. Insulating Dots . 6. Glass Substrate

Resistive touch screen monitor is composed of a flexible top layer and a rigid bottom layer separated by insulating dots, attached to a touch screen controller. The inside surface of each of the two layers is coated with a transparent metal oxide coating Pressing the flexible top sheet creates electrical contact between the resistive layers, producing a switch closing in the circuit.

The controller gets the alternating voltages between the two layers and converts them into the digital X and Y coordinates of the activated area.

CAPACITIVE TOUCH SCREENS

It has a an uniform conductive coating on a glass panel. During operation, electrodes around the panel's edge evenly distribute a low voltage across the conductive layer & creates an uniform electric field. A finger touch draws current from each corner. Then the controller measures the ratio of the current flow from the corners and calculates the touch location

APPLICATIONS
Public Information Displays::: Tourism displays, Trade show display Customer Self-Services: Stores, Restaurants, ATMs, Airline ticket terminals and Transportation hubs.

More uses... Digital jukeboxes, Computerized gaming, Student Registration systems, Multimedia softwares , Scientific applications etc.

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