Touchscreen

Resistive Multitouch

ULTRA Multi Touchscreens

Multi-touch capable ULTRA Structure
ULTRA vs Classic Resistive
Multi-touch refers to the ability of a touch-sensitive system to simultaneously detect and resolve at least 3 touch points. Due to the technology, the capacitive PCAP technology is used to enable full multi-touch functionality.

However, resistive touchscreens such as our ULTRA GFG touchscreen can also enable user-friendly double-touch input. Two Touch refers to a touch-sensitive system that can detect and resolve two spatially separated but simultaneous touch events.

Especially in industrial areas where gloves are used, or in particularly extreme environments, projected capacitive touchscreens are often not usable, so that resistive ULTRA touchscreens with multi-touch input are an optimal alternative if multi-touch functionality is desired.

Due to the design, only one point can be detected with resilient touch technology.

In order to enable double touch at the same time, a touchscreen can be divided into several zones. Each of these touchscreen zones is connected to the controller and forms a self-contained unit.

Thanks to segmentation, several points of contact in different zones can now be detected at the same time. The simplest implementation is to drag two parallel lines on the screen at the same time. Two-touch systems based on resistive technology can also support fast and smooth multi-touch gestures according to the aforementioned principle.

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ConstructionOur resistive Multi Touch ULTRAs are particularly convincing in harsh environments. They can be used universally indoors and outdoors and withstand any environmental influences.

Due to their resistance, they are particularly popular in industrial, military or construction areas, but also in P.O.S systems that are installed outdoors.

All these areas often require the touchscreen to be operated with gloves – whether because of a harsh working environment or simply because of the cold outside. Resistive ULTRA touchscreens are an optimal alternative for these applications when two-touch or multi-touch functionalities are required.

True multi-touch is not required for many applications, because dual-touch systems also offer many of the user-friendly forms of operation that are wrongly associated with multi-touch.

The well-known gesture inputs with two fingers for zooming or rotating require only two touch points and are possible with all dual-touch-capable technologies such as resistive ULTRA, Surface Acoustic Wave technology or infrared technology.

Only input functions that require more than two points of contact simultaneously inevitably require implementation using projected capacitive technology.