While all other brands function only as a primary display, Hi-Tech Instrument’s newest break through development, the LCD WriteScreen® Tablet Monitor, can function as a secondary display and supports display rotation.

Almost all laptop computers (including Tablet PC) have VGA ports an external monitor can connect to. In recent days, many desktop computers also have installed multiple-display VGA cards, allowing the connection of multiple monitors for displaying extended screens. Using the tablet monitor as a 2nd display opens up the doors for many applications.

Applications that involve employee-customer interaction can be boosted by setting the tablet monitor as the secondary monitor. The primary monitor will face the employee while the tablet monitor will face the customer. Examples are: hospital/clinic patient registration signing, business contract paper signing, merchant purchasing signing, etc. A single computer with multiple displays is a better, easier and cheaper alternative than two (2) computer systems in signing applications.

The secondary monitor feature is also useful for presentations. It allows one screen to display the presentation and the other screen, invisible to the audience, to display notes to the presenter. The WriteScreen® Tablet Monitor provides video pass-through connection such that the presenter can write annotation on the tablet monitor while the projector can display the presentation to the audience. Examples are: classroom teaching, office meeting room presentation, etc. Extended monitor display from a primary monitor is better and more useful than mirror (clone) monitor display in most of cases.

The WriteScreen® comes with 1) a 15" LCD Tablet Monitor and an electronic pen; 2) the Hi-Tech Annotation software that provides virtual whiteboard and write-on-any-screen features, including the ability to write annotation on the Windows Media Player and PowerDVD screen while the video is playing 3) a proprietary device driver that supports primary or secondary display at any orientation with 0, 90, 180, and 270 degree rotation. Supported Systems are Windows 98, 2000, ME, XP, Vista. Hardware connection is USB and VGA/SVGA/XGA. The price of LCD WriteScreen® Tablet Monitor is much cheaper than a Tablet PC. For additional information, please contact:

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®, Microsoft® Word, Paint®, and Adobe® Photoshop (Figures 1,2,3,6,8 on the next page). While the mouse, touch pad, track-ball, and touch screen, are effective point-and-select devices, they are hardly suitable for writing. Hi-Tech Instruments has recently introduced the LCD WriteScreen^® Tablet Monitor. It precisely detects pen-points to produce high definition output instantly. The WriteScreen^® comes with hardware, a 15” LCD Tablet Monitor, and software, Hi-Tech Annotation.

 The LCD WriteScreen^® Tablet Monitor has a built-in tablet pen input device; it utilizes the USB port with a Microsoft® Windows Human Interface Device (HID) driver, which is largely standard in most PCs. Just plug in the

USB cable, Microsoft® Windows automatically detects the tablet pen device, and WriteScreen is ready to use. The electronic pen is included and is powered by an AAA battery. The pen motions emulate the mouse’s single-left-button and double-left click, drag, button-up and right-button click. The free hand writing is practically human nature. The monitor has a special stand that can be adjusted angles from 15 to 80 degrees for comfort writing.

 Hi-Tech Annotation software is included for all other applications lacking a writing capacity; such as, Microsoft® Excel, Internet Explorer, Adobe® PDF Reader, OrCad®, etc... The software provides two (2) major menu functions, Whiteboard and Write Screen. The Whiteboard (Fig. 5) allows teacher to use pen, eraser, text editor and graphic tools (circle, rectangle, line…); to set color and width; to open/save/erase background image; to import visual templates from other applications by selecting areas from the display. The Write Screen (Figures 4, 7 on the next page) turns any applications display into a virtual writable image screen; providing handwriting tools such as pen, clear, undo, redo, color, width and save. The written/annotated image screen can be saved as a jpg, bmp, tif, or gif graphic format file. The original applications’ data are not altered. The user can, at any applications or displays, pop up the selection menu by double-right clicks, or via simple keystrokes to invoke the Write Screen virtual image. The ability to annotate images raises many exciting possibilities in electronic communication.

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^® Tablet Monitor is ideal!

 The LCD WriteScreen^® Tablet Monitor is useful for handwriting, revision, annotation, signatures, presentations, teaching, document commenting, and remote virtual meeting. This product works with Windows® 98, 2000, XP and Windows Vista.  It is perfect for adding a personal handwriting to any presentation to engage the audience and impress them with the main points of your message.  WriteScreen^® seamlessly integrates with all applications to achieve greater performance dimensions for teachers, presenters, and businesses of all shapes and sizes.

Microsoft, PowerPoint, NetMeeting, Word, Excel & Windows are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and other countries. Orcad Layout and Orcad Capture are trademarks of Cadence Design Systems, Inc. BitWare is trademark of Cheyenne Software, Division of Computer Associates.

NetMeeting – clicking on the whiteboard icon pops up a writable whiteboard (Fig.2). 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.

Windows Word – in an opened doc file, with double-right-clicks popping up menu selection, or a simple keystroke, the Write Screen turns the current display into a virtual writable image (Fig.4). You can write onto this image without affecting the original content.  A toolbox, located bottom right, contains icons enabling you to save, clear, undo, redo, adjust line color and width, and call a NetMeeting whiteboard (Fig.5). Special menu items are appended to do open/save/erase image.