Touch Panel And Interactive Input System Incorporating The Same
AssigneeSmart Technologies Inc.
InventorsTanya Oleskevich, Don Robertson, Nicole Martin
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Abstract
A touch panel comprises a substrate having a forward major surface and formed of a plurality of assembled substrate segments. Cover material overlies the forward major surface to reduce the visibility of seams between adjacent substrate segments.
Claims40
A touch panel comprising a substrate having a forward major surface and being formed of a plurality of assembled substrate segments.
A kit for a touch panel comprising a plurality of substrate panels, said panels being assembleable in seriatum to form a substrate having a major forward surface.
A touch panel comprising:
- a plurality of side-by-side substrate panels;
- and
- a cover sheet secured to said substrate panels at selected locations to enable said substrate panels to assume a stacked orientation, sections of said cover sheet extending between adjacent substrate panels forming living hinges.
An interactive input system comprising:
- a touch panel having an input surface comprising a substrate formed of a plurality of assembled substrate panels;
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- a detection arrangement detecting pointer contacts on the input surface of said touch panel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.