Product category: Keyboards, Switches and other Human/Machine Interfaces
News Release from: HoloTouch
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 June 2006
Patent protects holographic keyboard technology
The US Patent and Trademark Office has issued HoloTouch with a further patent protecting its compact touchless, holographic human-machine interface technology
R Douglas McPheters, President of HoloTouch announced today that the US Patent and Trademark Office recently issued US Patent 7,054,045, arising out of the discoveries of McPheters, John Breitenbach and John FW Perry. Patent 7,054,045 has been assigned by the inventors to HoloTouch. HoloTouch technology is already the subject of US Patent 6,377,238, UK Patent 2292711 and Canadian Patent 2,160,245, with additional patent applications pending in the European Union and other major industrialised countries worldwide.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 June 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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McPheters explained: 'US Patent 7,054,045 greatly enhances our intellectual property portfolio by protecting our ability to provide increasingly compact touchless, holographic human-machine interfaces (HMIs), to provide touchless, holographic HMIs that have the functional equivalent of touch screens, to offer interactive 'heads up' HMIs in automotive, aviation and other cockpits and laying the foundation for virtual holographic HMIs which are larger than the electronics they control'.
McPheters also noted that the company's generic evaluation kit, BeamOne, available with USB and serial port as well as relay output, has been purchased by a number of leading OEMs, in order to familiarise their engineers, marketing personnel and potential customers with the flexibility of HoloTouch and the relative ease of integrating it into their products.
BeamOne projects 1in-square floating holographic images of its 'keys' several inches in front of the hardware.
A standard PC sees BeamOne as a keyboard.
This device is programmable and comes with all necessary software and the infra-red sensors needed to detect an operator's interaction with its floating holographic images as well as free support.
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