Special Touchscreen Firmware Enhancements

Our internal electronic engineering capabilities and long-established PCAP IP, allow us to constantly develop new and novel firmware enhancements, complete with customisation for specific applications. We develop PCAP touch solutions that allow interaction from foreign objects, reject unwanted palm touches, provide contactless interaction, feature integrated soft keys and more..

Our highly qualified team of electronic engineers can add these enhancements in a bespoke fashion to further tailor your touch solution to your individual needs.

Palm rejection touchscreens

Zytronic touch controllers make use of our palm rejection technology, providing increased tactility and enhancing the overall user experience.

Our touch algorithms detect the presence of the palm of the hand, as well as other anomalous objects on the surface of our touch solution, and reject them. This means that accidental touches or other objects placed on the screen will not register as an intended action, rejecting unwanted contact.

Palm rejection technology makes it easier for your users to interact with the touchscreen in its intended way and reduce the potential for user error.

When it comes to larger touchscreens or our touch tables, palm rejection technology allows users to lean on the touch surface or place objects, such as bags, on the screen, without compromising functionality. This makes palm rejection an ideal feature for use within the hospitality and retail sectors, as well as in galleries or museums.

Palm rejection technology is ideally suited to applications where enhanced or toughened glass is required, allowing your technology to last longer, even in high-traffic areas.

Touchscreen with soft keys

If you require a more tactile user experience, our touchscreens incorporating soft keys are a great alternative to a traditional full-touch solution. Our bespoke PCAP capabilities allow for the addition of customisable, virtual fixed buttons or keys surrounding a dynamic touch area.

The addition of virtual soft keys offers a number of advantages, such as:

• fewer moving parts
• easier system integration
• opportunities for further customisation, such as the addition of a payment keypad or confirmation button
• a lower overall cost.

Touch solutions with virtual soft keys offer users a dynamic and new experience, to help guide the operator towards a specific function or conversion.

Touch solutions incorporating soft keys offer the additional benefit of increased accessibility for users that rely on touch to navigate. For instance, the use of surface texturing can increase a touch solution’s usability for visually impaired users, who may prefer to interact with a more physically identifiable region on the solution.

The combination of touchscreen solutions and soft keys are perfect for use within educational settings such as museums and schools, serving to help capture the attention of students or visitors. They can also be used within the gaming or casino sector to enhance gameplay.

Contactless solutions

Our innovative contactless touch solutions can further optimise your touchscreen for its intended use. Screens that incorporate our contactless capability do not require direct touch to operate and can detect the interaction of a user’s fingertip or stylus when held above the surface of the screen.

With contactless enabled touch solutions, actual physical touch is not required, reducing the likelihood of damage from users pressing the screen with too much pressure.

Our contactless touch solutions can detect user interactions almost 30mm away from the surface, eliminating the transmission of germs with public-use touchscreens. This makes them the ideal choice for high-traffic areas in the medical and healthcare sector.

Object recognition touchscreens

Looking to offer a unique and personalised interactivity experience? Our object recognition touch-enabled screens are programmed to recognise and respond to a specific object.

These custom-built touch solutions recognise our bespoke physical markers, known as pucks, and respond to on-screen contact with the specific object.

An example of the use of our object recognition solution could be a virtual games table, where the screen responds to a puck as a physical table hockey paddle to control a virtual paddle. In larger-scale touchscreens, a puck could act as a physical magnifying coaster, which can be moved around the screen to highlight and scale up specific areas of the display for presentation purposes.

Force-sensing touchscreens

To increase the scope of user interactions and provide a more in-depth experience, our force-sensing touch solutions offer increased functionality according to the amount of force applied.

Where a multi-purpose touchscreen is being used, the ability to bring up smaller menus and a wider range of options by differentiating between soft and hard touches offers users easier access to extra information.

If a sleek, button-free aesthetic is required for your touchscreen, force-sensing technology can eliminate the need for physical buttons, without compromising on functionality.

Our force-sensing touch solutions can also be used for gaming applications, making a larger range of in-game actions possible via a touchscreen-only interface.

Zytronic’s owned PCAP capabilities, allow us to accommodate special touchscreen firmware enhancements, from the addition of palm-rejection capabilities to the inclusion of soft or hard keys to action dedicated functions.

Whether you need to reduce the amount of physical contact with your touchscreen, reject the function of palm touches or other foreign objects or carry out another specific function, we can help optimise your interactive screen with special firmware enhancements.