Interactive display surfaces
AssigneeTouchwood Labs, Inc.
InventorsMatthew Dworman, Gaurav Asthana
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Abstract
Touch responsive displays that may be integrated into a wide variety of non-transparent, non-glass surfaces to provide on-demand human computer interfaces that blend with the environment, i.e., remain invisible unless activated, effectively adding digital user interfaces (UI) to non-technology products and surfaces. The interactive display devices are frameless assemblies of a sensor layer, a light layer, and a support layer housing a microcontroller, wherein the device is configured to be positioned beneath a non-transparent surface layer with the sensor layer arranged below the surface layer.
Claims20
An interactive display device comprising:
- a touch sensor layer;
- a light layer comprising a plurality of light elements configured to render digital information;
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- a substantially transparent insulation layer arranged between the touch sensor and light layers, wherein the insulation layer is a solid layer having no apertures;
- wherein the touch sensor layer comprises a conductive material arranged on a top surface of the insulation layer,
- wherein the device is configured to be positioned directly beneath a non-transparent surface layer with the touch sensor layer proximate to a bottom surface of the non-transparent surface layer, and
- wherein the light layer is not visible beneath the non-transparent surface layer when the light layer is inactive and is visible beneath the non-transparent surface layer when the light layer is active.
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