What is IR touch overlay?

Infrared touch screens are based on light-beam interruption technology. Instead of an overlay on the surface, a frame surrounds the display. The frame has light sources, or light emitting diodes (LEDs) on one side and light detectors on the opposite side, creating an optical grid across the screen.

What is a multi-touch monitor?

Multi-Touch Monitors are the next generation of Touch. Instead of a single touch on the screen which normally represents a mouse click, the Multi-Touch Monitors are capable of 2, 4 or even 10 touch points on the screen at the same time (depending on size).

How do touch overlays work?

Touch Screen Overlays attach to the front of your existing LCD, TFT, or Plasma display monitor giving it instant touch interaction with your device transforming your display into a Human Machine Interface.

What is the difference between IR touch and capacitive touch?

IR and capacitive are two completely different types of touchscreen technology. IR uses a grid-like array of LEDs and sensors to detect touch commands, whereas capacitive uses a uniform electrostatic current to detect touch commands.

What is 10 point multi touch?

A 10-point multi-touch screen refers to a touch screen that has the ability to recognise and respond to ten simultaneous points of contact. This allows you too easily zoom, flick, rotate, swipe, drag, pinch, press, double tap or use other gestures with up to ten fingers on the screen at the same time.

Who owns multi touch?

Apple
In 2005, Apple acquired Fingerworks and its multi-touch technology. In 2004, french start-up JazzMutant developed the Lemur Input Device, a music controller that became in 2005 the first commercial product to feature a proprietary transparent multi-touch screen, allowing direct, ten-finger manipulation on the display.