DARIEN, Conn. — HoloTouch Inc. announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued the company U.S. Patent 7,054,045, arising out of the discoveries of president Douglas McPheters, John Breitenbach and John F.W. Perry. HoloTouch technology has already received patents in the United Kingdom and Canada. Additional patent applications are pending in the European Union and other major industrialized countries worldwide.
McPheters said the company's generic evaluation kit, BeamOne, available with USB and serial port as well as relay output, has been purchased by a number of leading OEMs.
BeamOne projects 1-inch square floating holographic images of its "keys" several inches in front of the hardware. A standard PC sees BeamOne as a keyboard. This device is programmable and comes with all necessary software and the infrared sensors needed to detect an operator's interaction with its floating holographic images as well as free support.
"U.S. Patent 7,054,045 greatly enhances our intellectual property portfolio by protecting our ability to provide increasingly compact touchless, holographic human-machine interfaces, to provide touchless, holographic HMIs that have the functional equivalent of touchscreens, to offer interactive ‘heads up' HMIs in automotive, aviation and other cockpits and laying the foundation for virtual holographic HMIs which are larger than the electronics they control," said McPheters.
