LCD Write Screen^® Touch Monitor

The personal computer (PC) has never had a good pen device, and this has limited most popular applications.  Many users are unaware or unable to use pen features already specified in applications such as PowerPoint®, NetMeeting®, MSN Messenger®, and Paint®.  While the mouse, touch pad, track-ball, touch screen, are effective point-and-select devices, they are hardly suitable for writing.  Recent developments by Hi-Tech Instruments integrate a pen device with a 15” color LCD monitor called the LCD WriteScreen® Touch Monitor. The WriteScreen® attaches to the 15” LCD monitor and precisely detects pen-point to produce high definition output instantly.

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Annotation software is included for all other applications lacking a writing capacity.  Annotation runs in the background and can be disabled or enabled by the user. When using applications, such as Microsoft® Word, Microsoft® Excel, Explorer Internet Browser, OrCad®, etc., the user invokes a virtual writable image via simple keystrokes.  The user can then annotate the running application image.  The ability to annotate images raises many exciting possibilities in electronic communication.  Annotated images can be saved for later reference.  The Annotation also supports Pivot® Pro software that lets you rotate your computer display from landscape to portrait orientation. Download HtiAnno.exe(2.4M)

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The Whiteboard is designed using object oriented concepts. Each written piece, a continued stroke trace, is an object. The eraser-feature can erase an object (whole trace) with a simple click or many objects (many traces) by dragging a box over the objects. The objects can be grouped to move, copy and paste. Each graphic object (pen, line, rectangle, circle, etc..) has its own width and color set. Visual templates from other applications can be imported by clicking on the icon command Select Area or Select Window.

The Whiteboard has a white color background. The imported visual templates are also objects. They are not background images and will move along with whatever moving objects on top of it. To overcome the usage of background images, Hi-Tech appends within the File drop-down menu the commands Open Image, Save Image and Erase Image. Any graphic files of JPG, BMP, TIF or GIF can be used for background images via Open Image. A background image will automatically flow through all pages within the whiteboard. There are some files included as background image templates, such as MusicMenu.JPG and GridPaper.JPG. You can create your own background image easily using Save Image. The Save Image produces one-page-image per file. The saved image files are JPGs, BMPs, TIFs or GIFs, and can be used for later references, posted up onto web pages, or emailed out as attachments. Please check WriteScreen® software for more details.

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101 Uses of  the Write Screen Monitor

While a pen device is most readily applied to live presentations, it is also good for regular office work.  For example, when your customer does not have your specific software on his PC but you want him/her to view your design (send a commented architectural design image file), when you want to post comments on company outlook (express performance trends on an Excel® chart), when verbal explanations will not suffice (call up an MRI image for your patient), when typing just isn’t appropriate (have your customer sign his insurance policy electronically), when you want to eliminate expensive fax machine bills (email attachments in color at no additional cost), you will find that having an LCD WriteScreen® Touch Monitor is ideal!

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MS Excel - in an opened xls file, with a simple keystroke, the Annotation turns the current display into a virtual writable image. You can write onto this image without affecting the original content.  A toolbox, located bottom right, contains icons enabling you to save, undo, redo, adjust line color and width.  You can call up a whiteboard and save the images in bmp, jpg, tif and gif format.

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PowerPoint - right clicking in slide show format will drop down a menu. Select Pointer Options and then the Pen option, and the page becomes writable. With an LCD WriteScreen® Touch Monitor, you can easily use a stylus to highlight, annotate, and include footnotes in the middle of your presentation.  From watching the projector screen, your audience will be called to attention by your writing action.

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Windows Messenger – select the Start Whiteboard from the Actions menu. Whatever you draw or write, your contact/buddy can see it via internet in real time.

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Windows Word – in an opened doc file, with a simple keystroke, the Annotation turns the current display into a virtual writable image. You can write onto this image without affecting the original content.  A toolbox, located bottom right, contains icons enabling you to save, undo, redo, adjust line color and width.  You can call up a whiteboard and save the images in bmp, jpg, tif and gif format.

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Bitware – a popular modem bundled software. After receiving a fax for requesting a signature, you can call up the Pen option from the Tools menu , and sign the “paper” and fax it right back via the PC’s modem.

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OrCad – a popular PCB design tool. Using the Annotation, you can comment on the design image and email the saved image file right back to your manufacturer. 

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Yahoo map – on this free internet map service you can use Annotation, to draw your path, save the image, and email the image file to your customer.

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Paint - using the pen or brush tool, you can do free-hand drawing with ease.

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NetMeeting – clicking on the whiteboard icon pops up a writable whiteboard. The contents of the whiteboard can be saved.  Freehand drawing is passed over the internet so you can communicate graphics to remote sites efficiently in real time.

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