HaptorXD help mobiles go touch sensitive

FRANCE - Atrua Technologies, Inc., today announced Atrua Wings, the world's first family of products to utilize haptic processing - the science of human touch - to convert finger movements into powerful user commands, secure passwords and intuitive, responsive controls for mobile phones. Atrua Wings applies underlying technology initially developed for fingerprint recognition in new ways, enabling one-touch commands that accelerate m-commerce and other mobile transactions and 4-dimensional controls that enhance the mobile gaming experience and improve handset navigation. Atrua is demonstrating Atrua Wings this week at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France in the Nokia Venture Partners stand, G12 in Hall 2.






Atrua Wings is an optimized system that utilizes HaptorXD™, a proprietary form of haptic processing technology consisting of three key elements: (1) HapticWare™, low memory and low-CPU software algorithms that can reliably identify a user's fingers and detect and understand various types of finger movements, (2) SenTru™, a small, light-weight and low power haptic sensor designed to work tightly with the optimized software, and (3) Flexi-Connex™, a flexible set of interfaces, connections and ultra-thin packaging designed for optimal mounting in a mobile phone. "This innovative solution provides mobile phones with an intelligent super sense of touch that is used in powerful new ways," said Anthony P. Russo, Chief Scientist. Sensitive enough to detect and track the smallest features, including the tiny ridges on a user's fingers, Atrua Wings provides market-leading fingerprint recognition capabilities, with better accuracy and greater efficiency than even those technologies designed specifically and exclusively for fingerprint recognition. It also senses finger movements in 4-dimensions - x, y, pressure and rotation - and translates these movements into intuitive and responsive controls that increase mobile gaming excitement and unleash the increasingly sophisticated capabilities of today's mobile phones. Atrua has multiple patents pending on its HaptorXD technology.





Atrua Wings improves the user experience for m-commerce and high-value mobile services by providing the swift access and convenient security that network operators are seeking. This means that with a single touch, a user of an Atrua Wings equipped mobile phone can instantly be brought to an m-commerce or mobile services site and automatically logged-in, providing a rapid and convenient user experience, and increasing the chances that they will complete their transaction. For m-payments and mobile banking, with one touch the complex password or digital signature needed for secure authorization of the transaction is released and entered. In all cases the user is reliably authenticated, not just the phone, thus providing an additional measure of protection for the network operator and giving users the confidence to use these services without hesitation. This convenience and confidence work together to increase adoption rates and boost average revenue per user.





Atrua Wings also enhances the user experience for gaming, location-based services and the full spectrum of advanced applications found in today's mobile handsets through its small, yet intuitive, responsive and flexible 4-dimensional analog controls. This new generation of controls provides touchpad-like navigation and game pad controls, including analog rotation that converts the user's finger into a steering wheel or other directional control. Such advanced controls open the door to an unmatched user experience across the full range of mobile applications. For example, the mobile gaming experience on handsets equipped with Atrua Wings reaches a whole new level, enabled by its never before available 4-dimensional controls. And for location-based services it provides unprecedented ease and flexibility in selecting areas on maps for zooming and rotating a map's orientation to match the user's view.





Atrua Wings fills the needs of mobile phone makers and network operators seeking to move beyond today's barriers to the next level of m-commerce, mobile services and mobile phone gaming.

CIOL Bureau