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Zytronic and Tangible Display pioneer object recognition on touch tables
Zytronic has announced that, in
collaboration with Tangible Display, it is
able to offer object recognition capability
on its MPCT multi-touch glass (ZyBrid)
and foil (ZyFilm) sensor products up to
85in diagonal.
When deployed in touch tables,
object recognition provides a compelling
new way of engaging the user with the
touchscreen and the interactive content.
The function is particularly well suited
to retail applications, museums and
galleries. The Zytronic and Tangible
Display solution is based on the
attachment of physical markers to the
objects to be tracked and does not
require modification of the touch sensor
or multi-touch controller. Tangible
Displays proprietary object recognition
user interface (UI) software, ObjectViz,
works in concert with proprietary
Zytronic firmware that can be quickly
installed onto a standard ZXY200 or 300,
40-point multitouch controller.
According to Jimmy Ricaut, CEO
and Founder of Tangible Display,
“This Zytronic and Tangible Display
collaboration makes it even easier for
our clients to deploy object recognition
technology and greatly expands the
potential market for this technology. The
performance accuracy of the Zytronic
MPCT sensors meant that we were
able to integrate our object recognition
solution smoothly. Together, we worked
on improving the noise rejection of the
solution, allowing outstanding sensing
accuracy to be achieved on very large
screens.”
A key advantage of the combined
Zytronic and Tangible Display solution
is that although the sensor will continue
to respond to multiple touches, any
objects placed on the screen, which
do not have the requisite ‘tags’ on their
base are disregarded. Therefore a cup,
pen or a bag left on the table or a sleeve
making contact with the glass will be
ignored. As part of the guided setup
process the Tangible software is taught
to recognise only a specific pattern of
tags attached to an object, and respond
accordingly. Furthermore, a full report of
user interactions can be saved for later
review and analysis.
Europe's first one day kiosk event is hailed a great success
In October this year Kiosk Summit opened its doors for the
first time in Manchester’s iconic Etihad Stadium. This new
event had been hotly anticipated for many months, and
was billed as Europe’s first one day self-service technology
conference and exhibition.
The seminar sessions were kicked off at 10 am by Julian
Rooney of Cammax, delivering a presentation entitled ‘Smart
Ticketing-Lessons Learned’
At 12:30 Stanford Rusike of Verifone delivered a
presentation entitled ’Paying Today, What Shoppers
Really Want’ This presentation focused on how selfservice technology can improve the consumer experience
and mobile technologies can add a whole new level of
engagement.
The line up of industry leading companies exhibiting
included Star Micronics, Cammax, Acante, Box Technologies,
Distec, Elo-Touch, Polytouch and many more.
Rachel Titchener Director of Events at LGN Media Said:
“We are thrilled with how the event panned out over the
day. People commented on how inspirational and helpful
they found the seminar line-up, and we’ve had some great
feedback from our exhibitors. We will be announcing the
date and venue for next years event shortly.”
Many exhibitors have already confirmed their booth
space for next year including Box Technologies, Acante, Star
Micronics, Hemisphere West Europe and Rosendahl UK.
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