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Projected capacitive touch control has
become a growing trend after the launch of
Apple's 3.5” iPhone in year 2006. Yet in
April 2010, Apple's introduction of iPad, a
tablet computer in the size of 9.7” equipped
with IPS LCD, has even more popularized the
application of projected capacitive
technology in various applications in the
future.
Regarding PenMount's progress of projected
capacitive support, PenMount has
successfully developed the full support of
Windows Embedded CE, which is commonly used
among industrial computer customers, for
customer's facilitation of project works.
Windows Embedded CE is an operating system
developed by Microsoft for embedded systems.
It is supported on Intel x86, ARM and other
RISC platforms. Since Windows Embedded CE
has minimal file size and features the
advantage of fast start-up, it is optimal
for the systems with less CPU computing
performance and memory.
For projected capacitive touch input,
PenMount presently supports latest editions
of Windows Embedded CE. If your application
program works with the native handwriting
recognition of Windows Embedded CE,
PenMount's Stylus driver is at your command.
By the flexibility and selectivity offered
by PenMount, customers using Windows
Embedded CE for O.S. can further optimize
their systems.
Under the fever of touch control, the
Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 released in
October 2009 started to include a gesture
recognition API that is similar as in
desktop Windows. After developers make
connections between PenMount's Gesture API
and Windows Embedded CE's native gesture
recognition program, whenever a gesture is
recognized, system will report it to the
program, so that the program can make
appropriate reaction or displays a
customized animation and so forth.
Two major gestures that PenMount supports at
this moment are Pan and Flicks. Pan means to
touch and drag in any direction on the touch
screen. Flicks means to make quick dragging
in the direction up/down/right/left in a
very short time. These gestures can be used
to trigger any function of an application
program. Taking Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3
for example, it includes a sample Internet
Explorer demo that shows the uses of touch
gestures. Pan is used to scroll up and down
the webpages while Flicks lets you move
backward and forward between webpages.
PenMount believes that these new gesture API
will bring about many new applications to
come on embedded platforms.
All of PenMount's touch software / hardware
series are designed meeting markets demands.
If you feel any particular requirements for
any individualized product specification, we
are ready to fully assist you in the
development. The software / hardware
information and drivers of PenMount
standards are available on PenMount website
at
www.salt.com.tw
and
www.penmount.com.
And if you should have any comment, please
also feel free to write us at
salt@salt.com.tw
or
penmount@seed.net.tw. |
