The introduction of touch screen technology

Friday, 08/12/2017

Touch screen technology is no longer a newcomer to the future. It is almost an indispensable feature of mobile devices.

In the late 2000s, people assumed that Apple was responsible for the touchscreen, after shaking the mobile industry with the iPhone. This company did not invent the sensor screen that created it. This technology is becoming more useful and commercially viable.

The touch screen, a touch sensitive screen, or a pen, has been in use for almost half a century, and is used in ATMs, GPS systems, counters cash dispensers, medical monitors, game keyboards, computers, and phones continue to appear in newer technologies.

E.A. Johnson was thought to be the first person to develop a sensor display in 1965. But the tablet was licensed in 1969, readable when "touched", and used to control the air conditioner at intervals. 1995.

Bent Stumpe and Frank Beck, two engineers at the European Atomic Energy Research Organization (CERN), developed a transparent, capacitive touch screen in the early 1970's. This type of display has an object of emphasis. to the surface, and will only react to certain objects such as needlepoints. This display was produced by CERN in 1973.

Samuel G. Hurst made a resistive touch screen in 1971. Hurst's sensor, called "Elograph" was named after his company Elographics, but was not produced. and sold out until the early 1980s.

Unlike a capacitive screen, the resistive design has to be made from multiple layers, and feedback to be "touched" by a finger or a needle tip. push back the layer behind it. This completes a loop for the device to which part of the screen is "touched".

Multi-touch technology began in 1982, when the University of Toronto developed a tablet that could read many interactive points. Bell Labs developed a touch screen that changed the image by hand more than once in 1984. At the same time, Myron Krueger developed a system that tracks hand movements. This is the beginning of the movements we have adapted so easily today.

A year later, the University of Toronto and Bill Buxton, a computer scientist and pioneer in human-computer interaction, created the multi-touch tablet using capacitive technology.

In the early 1990s, computer scientist Andrew Sears conducted an academic study of human-computer interaction. This report describes one-touch gestures, such as spinning buttons, sharpening to activate - and multi-touch gestures such as connecting objects and tapping to select.

In the last few decades, touch screen technology has continued to demonstrate creativity. Screens become more "sensible", and many innovative touch tools are available for the device.

The HP-150 is one of the earliest commercially available touch screens, produced in 1983. This feature includes a series of infrared light beams that glide through the screen. "Touch" the screen to break the infrared beam and move the mouse to where you like. This machine was originally sold for $ 2,795.

The Atari 520ST is the first commercial POS system used by restaurants to date. In 1986, this 16-bit color computer software was created by Gene Mosher under the license of the ViewTouch.

Apple created ADP in 1987 or the desktop computer bus, the first version of the USB cable. For the first time, many devices - like mice or keyboards - can be inserted simultaneously. Much technology is used on smartphones and tablets.

Simon's first phone with a sensor in 1992 - also considered the first "smartphone", although the term has not been devised. Several competitors were also in the early 1990s. but most devices with touch screens are more like personal digital assistants (PDAs).

FingerWorks, a motion recognition company, produced a multi-touch product line in 1998, including the iGesture Pad and the TouchStream keyboard. The company was bought by Apple in 2005.

In 2007, Apple unveiled the most innovative touch screen technology ever seen. Apple's iPhone line has led to other devices such as the iPod Touch and iPad.

Even in the early days of the iPhone, rivals suspected Apple's idea was first. One year before the launch of the iPhone, PRADA from LG released the first sensor capable display. Samsung and Nokia also have touch-based mobile phones but have not yet launched. Nokia does not choose the launch due to costly risks. Samsung has so far "fought" with Apple who was the first to hit the "touch screen".

The outbreak of the touch screen market has gone beyond mobile phones to other devices like game consoles or tablets.

The late 2000s saw a race between technological rivals to produce