DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

SREENIVASA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT STUDIES

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CERTIFICATE
This is to certify that the Technical Case Study Report entitled TOUCH SCREEN
TECHNOLOGY that is being submitted by D.S.KUSHAL KALYAN (1475A0428) ,
D.KALYAN (1475A0430) and A.HARSHA (1475A0431), in partial fulfillment for the
course of Bachelor of Technology in ELECTRONICS AND COMMINICATION
ENGINEERING.

MR.S.KANNAPPAN,M.TECH,(PH.D)., DR.S.VIJAYAKUMAR

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR/ECE ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR/ECE

Technical Case Study Supervisor Technical Case Study Supervisor

Technical Case Study Presentation held on: ______________________

Panel of Examiners:

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The successful completion of this project work was made possible with the help and
guidance received from various quarters. We would like to avail this opportunity to express
our sincere thanks and gratitude to all of them.

We would like to express the heartfelt gratitude to our Chairperson Smt. D. A.

SATHYAPRABHA GARU for providing excellent institutional support to complete this
report.

We would like to express the profound gratitude to our beloved Principal Dr.
P.RAMESH KUMAR and Mr. G.SRINIVASULU, M. Tech., (Ph.D) , Associate
Professor & HOD, ECE Dept for giving us the opportunity to embark upon this topic and
for their continued encouragement throughout the course of case study.

We pay our sincere note of felicitation to our Technical Case Study Coordinators
Dr.S.VIJAYAKUMAR, M.Tech., Ph.D., Assoc. Professor, Mr.S.KANNAPPAN,
M.Tech., (Ph.D).., Asst. Professor, ECE Department for their inspiration and support at
each and every stage of the case study, necessary material and willingly giving advice
whenever needed.

We would like to extend our gratitude to all the faculty members of the department
who have directly and indirectly helped us in completion of our case study.

Finally we thank the teaching faculty and non-teaching staff of the Department of
Electronics and Communication Engineering for giving their advices and their help during
the course of the case study.

D.S.KUSHAL KALYAN 14751A0428

D.KALYAN 14751A0430
A.HARSHA 14751A0431

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 ABSTRACT
A touch screen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence & location
of a touch within the display area. The term generally means touching the display of the
device with a finger, hand or other passive devices such as stylus. This technology has two
main attributes. First it enables one to interact with what is displayed & secondly it lets one to
do so without requiring any intermediate device that would need to be held in the hand. They
also play a prominent role in design of digital appliances such as personal digital assistant
(PDA), satellite navigation devices, mobile phones, video games etc.

In 1971, the first Touch Sensor was developed by Dr. Sam Hurst (founder of
Elographics) of University of Kentucky. From 1983, the HP-150 was one of the worlds
earliest commercial touchscreen computers which is based on Intel 8088 microprocessor. It
did not have a touchscreen in the strict sense instead it has CRT surrounded by infrared
transmitter & receiver, which detects the position of any non-transparent object on the screen.

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