View Touch

Unleash Interactive Power with a laser controlled input device

KEYTEC, INC., a pioneer of touch screen technology since 1987, announces another newly developed innovative touch-interactive device – View Touch TM (patent pending). This virtual input device controls the mouse functions using a light source, such as laser pointer, and image recognition technology. This unique invention breaks the boundary of size limitation for touch-interactive applications. It is indeed one-size-fits-all, and thus provides the most economical way of creating a user-friendly input device for large-screen displays. The View Touch TM is obviously very suitable for presentation and virtual reality type applications, the developers will soon find it useful for many conventional and unconventional applications.

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Courtesy of Intel, presented by Mr. Donald J. MacDonald (VP/GM Digital Home Group) at Intel Developer Forum.  




• Control ALL Windows mouse functions by a laser pointer
• Perform Pointing, Clicking, Dragging, Writing, Drawing
• The least expensive & most powerful interactive device
• Use it on ANY size of video display, from ANY distance
• Suitable for projection screen, video wall, plasma, LCD...
• No wire. No radio frequency. No shadow on the screen
• For presentation, conferencing, education, gaming

The View Touch includes:

A digital light sensor for viewing the screen and tracking the laser light spot. The sensor can be
mounted on a tripod (included), clipped on a notebook computer, or mounted on the ceiling. The sensor can be mounted upside down, and within 15 degrees of the center point of the display screen.

A laser pointer with dual intensity for aiming and activating the mouse functions, pointing, clicking and dragging. The low-intensity laser light acts as a guiding light so you will know where you point at. The high-intensity light activates the left mouse click. Hold down the button at high-intensity to drag and draw. A left-right mouse button swap function is provided in the utility software.

An annotation program can be used to mark, draw, write, save the screen shots, and operate PowerPoint slide shows. Other Windows utilities can also be used, such as handwriting recognition, on-screen keyboard, PowerPoint controls, etc. A Magic Touch add-on screen can be used in conjunction with View Touch for writing and drawing fine details.

An intelligent calibration program projects a grid on the screen and a snap shot is taken, so the user can use mouse to click on each joint point (total 9 points) in clockwise orientation to complete and store the calibration. Use the sensitivity bar to adjust the sensor sensitivity, so it does not respond to the low intensity laser light (guiding), but only responds to the high-intensity laser light