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The document discusses how touch screens work. It provides an introduction to touch screens and their components. It then gives a brief history of touch screen development and major innovations. The document outlines the main components of touch screen technology including touch sensors, controllers, and software drivers. It describes different types of touch screen technologies like resistive and capacitive and their pros and cons.

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Presentation 10

The document discusses how touch screens work. It provides an introduction to touch screens and their components. It then gives a brief history of touch screen development and major innovations. The document outlines the main components of touch screen technology including touch sensors, controllers, and software drivers. It describes different types of touch screen technologies like resistive and capacitive and their pros and cons.

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How do touch screen work

Introduction
► A touch screen is an electronic visual display that can detect the
presence and location of a touch within the display
► Touch screen can also sense other passive objects such as stylus
► The screen are sensitive to pressure ; a user interacts with the
computer by touching pictures or words on the screen

This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA


History
► In 1971 Dr.sam hurst, developed the first touch opaque sensor
“Elograph” at the university of Kentucky.
► In 1977 ,Siemens corporation financed an effort by Elographis to
produced first curved glass touch sensor interface ,which became the
first device to have a name “Touch screen” attached to it .
► In 1983 ,the computer manufacturing company ,Hewlett-Packard
introduced the HP-150 , a computer with touchscreen technology.
► In 1993 ,apple released the newton PDA ,equipped with handwriting
recognition.
► In 2002, Microsoft introduced the windows XP Tablet edition and
started its Entry into touch screen technology
► In 2007 , Apple introduced the king of smart phones ,the iphone ,with
nothing but touch screen technology
Touch Screen Technology
A touch screen technology consists of three main
components
1 .Touch Screen Senso
2 .Controller
3 . Software Driver
Touch sensor
► A touch sensor is a clear glass panel with a touch
responsive area
► The touch sensor is placed over a display screen so that
the responsive area of the panel covers the viewable area
of that screen
Controller
► The controller connects between the touch sensor and the
pc
► Take information from the touch sensor and translate it
into information that pc can understand
Software driver

► The driver is a software update for the pc system that allows the
touch screen and computer work together . It tells the operating
system how to interpret the touch event information that is sent from
the cotroller .
Touchscreen Technology
Types of touchscreen technology

► Resistive
► Capacitive
► Surface acoustic wave
► infrared
Resistive touch
►
PROS AND CONS

PROS Cons

Hard to read
Durable Single touch ( can handle
Relaible one touch at time
Can’t zoom in
Low cost
Not smooth to use
Where we use restive touch screen

► ATM machine

Billing machines
Capacitive touch screen
► A capacitive touchscreen panel consists of an insulater such as glass
coated with a transparent conductor such as indium tin oxide (Ito)
► As human body is also an electrical conductor ,touching the surface
results in a distorsion of the screen’s electrostatic field
► The location is sent to controller for processing
Pros and cons of capacitive touch screen

pros cons
► High touch resolution
► High clarity
► Very smooth to use
Must be touched by finger-will not
work with any non-conductive
input
Does not work with gloved fingers
or stylus
THANK
YOU

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