Seminar

Touch screen Technology By Junaid Shah Enr No. 110229 MSc IT -Semester I
Teacher In charge Mr. Aasif Ali Banka

OVERVIEW
1. 2. 3. 4. Introduction. History. Types. Capacitive Touch Screen in Detail.

INTRODUCTION

A touch screen is an Electronic Visual Display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area and respond accordingly.

HISTORY
The first touch screen was a capacitive touch screen developed by E.A. Johnson at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern, UK in 1965. In 1971, the first "Touch Sensor" was developed by Doctor Sam Hurst (founder of Elographics) while he was an instructor at the University of Kentucky.

Components in General
A basic touch screen has three main components : Touch sensor Controller Software driver

Touch Sensor
A touch screen 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 the screen.

Controller
The controller is the actual hardware circuitry that connects between the touch sensor and drivers. Take information from the touch sensor and translate it into information that PC/device can understand.

Software Driver
The driver allows the touch screen and computer to work together as an interface. This makes touching the screen as same as clicking the your mouse at the same location on the screen.

Different Technologies of Touch Screens

1. 2. 3. 4. Resistive Touch Screen, Surface Acoustic Wave Touch Screen, Infra Red Touch Screen, Capacitive Touch Screen.

Resistive Touch Screen

A resistive touch screen panel is composed of two thin, electrically conductive layers separated by a narrow gap.

Surface Acoustic Wave Touch Screen

Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology uses ultrasonic waves that pass over the touch screen panel. When the panel is touched, a portion of the wave is absorbed. This change in the ultrasonic waves registers the position of the touch event and sends this information to the controller for processing

Infra Red Touch Screen

An infrared touch screen uses an array of X-Y infrared LED and photodetector pairs around the edges of the screen to detect a disruption in the pattern of LED beams. These LED beams cross each other in vertical and horizontal patterns. This helps the sensors pick up the exact location of the touch.

Capacitive Touch Screen

A capacitive touch screen panel consists of an insulator such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor such as Indium Tin Oxide (ITO). As the human body is also an electrical conductor, touching the surface of the screen results in a distortion of the screen's electrostatic field, measurable as a change in capacitance.

Overview of Capacitive touch Sensing

CONSTRUCTION OF CAPACITIVE TOUCH SENSOR

Software Reception
The software then feeds this frequency change due to change in Time Constant and then feeds this data to an algorithm which in turn makes the requisite logical action.