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Touch controls allow users to control their device by touching its surface. Enhanced touch controls are quickly becoming an expected feature of today's mobile devices. ARCchart forecasts that by the year 2011 over 20% of mobile handsets will have touch screens and 38% will incorporate other types of control surfaces. Atrua’s innovative Intelligent Touch Control solutions bring robust security, convenience, and an enhanced and personalized user experience to mobile phone applications, making it faster, easier, and more secure to access and use the phone’s capabilities.

Atrua provides a range of Intelligent Touch Control solutions from fingerprint touch controls, which combine biometric security with enhanced touch navigation (360 degree and variable-speed movement and touch gesture recognition) to analog touch controls, which use a cost-effective, micro-pressure-sensing technology to provide similar navigation capabilities without the fingerprint recognition. Intelligent Touch Control solutions from Atrua provide a smooth and effortless user experience that makes it easier for users to interact with their mobile phones in addition to strengthening security and privacy for mobile applications.

Atrua’s Intelligent Touch Control solutions combine one or more types of touch sensor with Atrua’s touch-processing software, an advanced, specialized type of signal processing software that processes the input from Atrua’s touch sensors converting into intuitive and responsive control movement and functions. Developed by Atrua’s internationally recognized experts in fingerprint recognition and navigation signal processing, these algorithms incorporate Atrua’s extensive proprietary and patented technologies providing an unsurpassed mobile user experience. At the same time they are designed for minimal loading of the embedded mobile processor and its memory. This is a crucial element of Atrua’s "made-for-mobile" philosophy.

Atrua’s touch processing software delivers the world’s most accurate and efficient minutia fingerprint recognition performance in the fingerprint touch control solutions. This same software provides unmatched touch navigation features and responsiveness with similar minimalist use of processor and memory in both the fingerprint touch controls and the analog touch control solutions.

All of Atrua’s sensor and software solutions are made-for-mobile. This means that they’ve been architected to work together for optimal performance and high efficiency so that the total solution performs extraordinarily well in phones or other low cost mobile devices with small batteries, inexpensive processors, and limited memory.

Atrua offers two touch control product lines:

Atrua's Intelligent Touch Controls enable:

Biometric Data Protection - Sensitive business information is locked, personal information is hidden and payment functions are frozen for unauthorized users, even if your phone is lost or stolen
Fast & Easy Unlocking - One-touch access, without taking time to enter (and re-enter) PINs or passwords, to frequently used and protected applications and data
Smooth, Fast and Easy Navigation
- Enhanced Scrolling - smooth, rapid scrolling through long lists of messages, music, files, photos, etc. makes it faster and easier to access the content you need
- Full Freedom of Movement - Intuitive mouse-like, 360 degree analog navigation lets you pan and zoom without restrictions in user interfaces, GPS/mapping applications, web browsers, document viewers, etc
- Gesture Recognition - Convert simple and intuitive touch gestures into response control actions

These capabilities enhance popular applications such as:

Mobile E-mail and SMS
- Fingerprint - Protect your private business and personal communications
- Navigation - Find that message quickly
Smartphone Applications (contacts, messaging, documents, personal & business information management)
- Fingerprint - biometrics locks/unlocks your messages with one touch, protecting your sensitive business and personal information and giving fast, easy access
- Navigation - smooth, rapid access to information and functions and intuitive control inside those applications
Mobile Payments - Super-fast access to your wallet or payment card combined with peace of mind in case your phone is lost or stolen
Mobile Banking - have you ever tried typing your bank login/password on your phone's multi-tap keypad?
Location- Based Services - navigate directly to the mapped location that you're looking for, smoothly and quickly
Media players - smooth, effortless scrolling through your music and other media