Abstract
Resistive is one of the oldest types of touch screens, having been produced in some form since the mid-1970s. These touch screens were once the largest selling products in the touch screen business, but have been surpassed in the last few years by PCAP, mainly for “smartphones” and tablet computers.
Four-wire resistive touch screens are the simplest type of analog resistive touch screens , and they are considered first. Many of the concepts applicable to other types of resistive touch screens are introduced in this section.
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Abbreviations
- 3 W:
-
Three-wire, a three-wire touch screen
- 4 W:
-
Four-wire, referring to the number of connections between the controller and the sensor of a type of resistive touch screen
- 5 W:
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Five-wire, a five-wire resistive touch screen
- 8 W:
-
Eight-wire, an eight-wire touch screen
- Active area:
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The portion of a touch screen sensor that is responsive to touch by a finger or stylus
- GUI:
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Graphical user interface, a type of computer user interface that uses mouse-clickable icons displayed on a video screen instead of text commands to select functions and initiate application programs
- ITO:
-
Indium tin oxide, a transparent conductive film common in touch screen and display products
- Viewable area:
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The portion of a touch screen sensor that is reasonably transparent and includes the smaller active area
- VLT:
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Visible light transmission, a measure of the percentage of human perceivable light which passes through a surface
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Phares, R. (2016). Resistive Touchscreen Technology. In: Chen, J., Cranton, W., Fihn, M. (eds) Handbook of Visual Display Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14346-0_203
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