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Baanto intros new multi-touch displays for kiosks, digital signage

November 17, 2011

Baanto International Ltd., an independent manufacturer of touchscreen and position sensing technologies and products, recently announced the production release of three new members of the ShadowSense E Series touchscreen family.

Available now, the 17-inch (5:4 aspect ratio), 19-inch Wide (16:10 aspect ratio), and 22-inch Wide (16:10 aspect ratio) designs round out the product offering of open-frame touchscreens.

Supporting up to five simultaneous touch inputs, the E Series touchscreens are optimized to provide robust and cost effective multi-touch performance and gesture recognition, and provide customers with an easy and cost effective multi-touch replacement for aging, single-touch technology.

The E Series touch design features a touch response time of 6 to 8 milliseconds and touch detection of objects as small as 2 mm in diameter. The ShadowSense algorithms are extremely efficient and all touchpoint processing is performed by the touch controller, the company said. As a result, the interface to the host PC is a Windows 7 USB HID packet, requiring no drivers and resulting in no consumption of CPU resources. As a perimeter based technology, the ShadowSense touch sensor is independent of the protective glass, resulting in brighter displays, immunity to casual scratches and debris on the screen, vandal resistant operation, and features IP65 sealing to resist dust and fluid intrusion.

"The ShadowSense technology provides end users touch features never before available in a touch system," said Av Utukuri, Baanto CTO and founder, in the announcement. "Customers in different market segments have significantly different needs in touchscreen behavior, yet other technologies only offer a 'one size fits all' solution. Our proprietary algorithms calculate not just position, but also touch object size and transmissivity. This additional data allows us to configure the touch screen behavior to better meet the challenges of real world use models."

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