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Atrua defined and leads the new category of input solutions known as Intelligent Touch Controls™, which enrich and enliven the mobile device user experience by enabling the device to recognize and respond to its user’s touch. Atrua offers a variety of touch control products that can sense a user’s touch, confirm a user’s identity through fingerprint biometrics and convert touch motions and gestures into control input.

Delivering robust security and effortless navigation, Intelligent Touch Controls enhance applications and features delivered by mobile phones and networks, such as web browsing, mobile messaging, location-based services, media players and mobile payments. Intelligent Touch Controls provide a rich and personal user experience by replacing cumbersome PINS and passwords and by providing smooth, fast, and easy navigation to the information and data to which users want instant access.

Driven by the desire to improve mobile phone security AND usability, Atrua offers best-in-class, innovative, made-for-mobile intelligent touch controls. These include the Atrua Wings™ family of fingerprint touch controls and the Atrua VSense™ family of analog touch controls.

• Atrua Wings fingerprint touch controls combine highly accurate biometric security with full freedom of user-interface control and movement (e.g. multiple fingerprint recognition, gesture recognition, and variable rate, 360 degree, three-dimensional analog movement) to provide a powerful and secure form of user input for mobile phones.
  • Atrua Wings is the leading fingerprint sensor for mobile phones. Over 80% of the new models of fingerprint mobile phones announced in 2007 use Atrua’s fingerprint touch controls.
  • Over 90% of the Atrua-based phones announced in 2007 use Atrua’s market-leading navigation capabilities, including no-compromise premium models such as the Porsche Design P’9521

• Atrua VSense is a high-performance, cost-effective, micro-pressure sensing input technology that converts touch input into responsive control signals. VSense provides a cost-effective means for incorporating rich touch control capability into mobile phones and any mass-market mobile device. VSense technology has been used in a broad range of device types and has been shown to improve applications such as:
  • MP3 music players
  • GPS and location based services
  • Web browsing
  • Document Viewing
  • Games
  • User interface navigation

Both product lines utilize Atrua’s advanced Intelligent Touch Processing software platform.

Atrua supports all aspects of the touch-control design process, including electrical and software integration, mechanical/industrial design, and value-added solutions and applications that take advantage of the touch controls.