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Stantum's Digital Resistive Multi-Touch Technology Exceeds 20 Million Touches Lifetime
A test conducted by the independent Touch Panel Laboratories proved that a standard digital resistive touch panel can endure more than 20 million touches while remaining 100% functional and requiring the same low actuation force. Touch Panel Laboratories (http://www.touchpanel.co.jp) is a Japanese company established in 1998 that provides evaluation tests of touch panels and materials.
"The lifetime limit remains to be found," said Pascal Joguet, Stantum's CTO. "New test campaigns will be made, and we are confident that our technology can achieve even more touches."
The Touch Panel Laboratories industry-standard test featured hitting a single point repeatedly at a 250g force with a hard stylus. Fingers operation will lead to a greater lifetime because hitting with a hard stylus is far more intensive.
"These results demonstrate the superiority of digital resistive to analog multi-touch resistive – or AMR – in terms of lifetime usage," said Stantum CEO Robert Pelissier. "The AMR sensors that we tested encountered calibration issues as early as at one million touches, while digital resistive sensors had none after 20 million.
"These results underline the inherent robustness of digital resistive sensors. Unlike 4-wire or AMR touch panels, whose accuracy irrevocably deteriorates over time due to micro-scratches propagating on the ITO coating, digital resistive sensors' simple sensing scheme prevents them from being affected by resistivity changes."
Stantum Executives Give 3 Presentations at SID Display Week Conferences
During the recent SID Display Week, the Society for Information Display's prestigious industry trade show held this year in Seattle, Stantum executives took part in three conferences with presentations and panel discussions.
François Jeanneau, Stantum's sales & business development director for North America, presented at the DisplaySearch Business Conference, co-organized with SID. Speaking at the conference's "The Future of Touch" session, Jeanneau expounded on how "touch" is making new classes of products possible in such areas as creative and professional computing, gaming, and e-reading.
Jeanneau also participated in the SID Market Focus series' Future of Touch & Interactivity Conference. While acknowledging that Apple's success with the iPhone was partly due to a great user interface based on responsive hardware that enabled five simultaneous touches, he told his audience that Stantum's goal is to allow consumer electronics manufacturers to take the next technological step with its digital resistive multi-touch technology. "With unlimited number of touches, stylus/glove input, finger-pressure detection, and a higher scan rate, our unique multi-touch technology will enable truly breakthrough user interfaces," he said.
At the Touch-Technology Development session, Stantum's co-founder and chief strategy officer, Guillaume Largillier, spoke on specifying tactile performances of multi-touch systems – stressing an emerging need for a user-centric metrology to objectively evaluate the usability of available solutions. Their presentation also highlighted the significant impact of IC driver implementation on touch-solution responsiveness and trustworthiness.
Gunze USA Features Ground-Breaking Stantum Multi-Touch Technology at SID Display Week
In their booth at the recent SID Display Week in Seattle, Gunze USA (www.gunzeusa.com), a world leader in resistive touch-panel manufacturing, debuted the digital multi-touch technology it co-designed in partnership with Stantum to deliver to the North American market. Stantum's multi-touch technology will enable Gunze USA to offer touch screens with advantages such as:
- 10+ touches;
- finger and stylus input;
- finger-pressure detection;
- low power consumption; and
- native Windows 7 support, with no driver required.
The multi-touch technology demonstrated during SID Display Week represents the joint expertise of Stantum's seven years of pioneering, proven multi-touch experience and Gunze USA's leading manufacturing of touch-panel solutions, its workforce, and its know-how. Gunze USA will provide these custom multi-touch modules for use in industrial, automotive, defense, aerospace, medical, kiosk/point-of-sales, and other professional applications. Unlike capacitive multi-touch, Stantum's technology is particularly well suited to these professional markets, thanks to its:
- immunity to EMI issues, via easy coexistence with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth antennas around the screen;
- stylus input and high precision, enabling handwriting recognition; and
- ability to work flawlessly with gloves.
"We are receiving numerous requests from companies in the industrial, military, aerospace and automotive markets," said François Jeanneau, Stantum's sales & business development director for North America. "We are excited that Gunze has solutions that meet the needs of those customers."
Head of Stantum's North American Operation Addresses Business Editors/Writers at SABEW Conference
François Jeanneau, Stantum's sales & business development director for North America, joined other technology company executives in a panel addressing the future of content delivery. The roundtable discussion was part of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) Conference held in Phoenix on March 20.
Jeanneau also gave a live demonstration of Stantum technology and then spoke on the "democratization" of multi-touch. In his presentation, he examined the state of the multi-touch market, including how the technology is currently available only in high-end devices such as the iPhone and how – despite the iPhone's success – large market segments are still reluctant to use virtual keyboards.
From a hardware standpoint, Jeanneau presented the case for resistive multi-touch as key to democratization, describing its cost efficiency, how it allows both stylus and finger input, and its superior overall performances (e.g., low latency for responsive user interfaces and low power consumption for mobile devices). He also discussed software's role in multi-touch democratization, citing how it offers a better user experience and interface as well as escape from long-entrenched keyboard/mouse systems.
IS2T & Stantum Announce Java Support for Multi-Touch Design-to-Cost Interfaces
IS2T S.A., which offers advanced object-oriented programming solutions to reduce total cost of ownership and improve quality of applications for embedded systems, has announced multi-touch Java support, embracing Stantum's best-in-class multi-touch technology. IS2T-optimized Java platforms offer application developers a tiny memory footprint, a high-speed Java engine, and optimized software library bundles to design Java applications for embedded systems.
Stantum and IS2T have teamed up to enhance multi-touch technology on constrained devices, providing the embedded community with new opportunities to design compelling design-to-cost human-machine interfaces for embedded devices, with simple microprocessors that yield computation performances as low as 40 MIPS.
Stantum and IS2T customers will benefit from synergies of well-integrated hardware and software stacks that deliver outstanding user experiences on design-to-cost devices. Stantum's technology is particularly suitable for professional markets because it allows easy coexistence with Wi-Fi or Bluetooth antennas around the screen.
Excerpts from some recently published news stories and commentaries:
IT World
Stantum is working on technology that could help make it faster to type using on-screen keyboards. The French company's multitouch technology includes controllers and sensors so that input into touchscreens – so-called soft keyboards – is reflected more quickly and accurately on screens…
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Tablets.com
The Stantum Slate tablet PC is very similar to the Dell Mini 10 in terms of its platform. Make no mistake, however; the tablet is quite different from the Mini 10. It does come with a 10.1 inch multi-touch touch-screen display, built into a sturdy little chassis that lets you save some space when you're traveling….The tablet is a proof of concept that demonstrates Stantum's digital resistive multi-touch screen technology.
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Create Digital Music
Right now, the one thing Stantum doesn't have a lot of…is competition. Most of the other touch competitors either can't accurately track fingers in close proximity, or limit tracking to two fingers, or lose tracking fidelity around the edges of the screen, or can't handle pens, or some combination… Stantum's technology itself is also unique. Their sensing approach supports pen input and even handwriting recognition, features Apple leaves out.
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