Development kit integrates 2D PCAP & 3D gestures on displays

23rd February 2016

Jordan Mulcare

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Microchip announces the 'industry’s first' development kit for integrated 2D projective-capacitive touch (PCAP) and 3D gesture recognition on displays: 2D/3D Touch and Gesture Development Kit (DV102014). The kit will provide designers with easy access to Microchip’s patented 2D and 3D GestIC sensing technology, allowing them to easily integrate 2D multi-touch and 3D hand gesture recognition into their display applications.

The use of electric-field based technology now enables hand and finger gestures to be tracked both on the display surface as well as above at a distance of up to 20cm. In addition, the development kit provides an easy-to-use, ‘out-of-the-box’ experience that requires no code development. Parameterisation, diagnostics and optional settings are done through Aurea 2.0, a free downloadable Graphical User Interface (GUI).

The 2D/3D Touch and Gesture Development Kit features Microchip’s latest PCAP controller, the MTCH6303, with the MGC3130 3D gesture controller. It includes an eight-inch transparent touch sensor to enable rapid prototyping for widely available displays. The MTCH6303 provides multi-touch coordinates with a five-finger scan rate of 100Hz. In addition, it has an integrated multi-finger surface gesture suite which makes it a good fit both for OS driven applications as well as embedded systems without an operating system.

The MGC3130 with Microchip’s award-winning GestIC technology was the first electrical-field-based 3D gesture controller to offer low-power, precise, and robust hand position tracking at 200Hz. In addition, GestIC technology uses advanced Hidden Markov Models to ensure that the recognition rate for 3D hand gestures is above 95%. Free-space hand gestures are universal, hygienic and easy to learn, making them suitable for display applications.