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A Motorized potentiometer from Alps Electric used in a music center. Alps Electric Co., Ltd. (Japanese: アルプス電気株式会社, Hepburn: Arupusu Denki Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese multinational corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, producing electronic devices, including switches, potentiometers, sensors, encoders and touchpads.
Cirque Corporation is an American company which developed and commercialized the first successful capacitive touchpad, now widely used in notebook computers.Cirque develops and sells a variety of touch input products, both in original equipment manufacturer and end-user retail form.
Closeup of a touchpad on an Acer CB5-311 laptop Closeup of a touchpad on a MacBook 2015 laptop. A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device.Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the motion and position of a user's fingers, and translates them to 2D motion, to control a pointer in a graphical user interface on a computer screen.
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The HP TouchPad is a tablet computer that was developed and designed by Hewlett-Packard. [7] The HP TouchPad was launched on July 1, 2011, in the United States; July ...
Alpine Electronics, Inc. (アルパイン株式会社, Arupain Kabushiki-gaisha) is a Japanese consumer electronics subsidiary [1] of the Japanese electronics component manufacturer Alps Electric, specialising in car audio and navigation systems.
The touchpad hardware itself gives the absolute position of the user's finger. And many touchpad device drivers often have absolute position features -- such as tapping the (absolute) upper right corner or (absolute) lower right corner to scroll up or down.
[16] [17] Most studies find that touchpad is slightly faster; one study found that "the touchpad was operated 15% faster than the trackpoint". [18] Another study found that average object selection time was faster with a touchpad, 1.7 seconds compared to 2.2 seconds with a trackpoint, and object manipulation took 6.2 seconds with a touchpad, on ...