It is suitable for both flat and three-dimensional curved structures.
At the recently-concluded CES 2020, “Tifang Technology” exhibited the company’s self-developed elastic wave intelligent tactile technology. Tifang Technology, founded in 2015, uses elastic wave intelligent tactile recognition technology as its core technology to study the interaction and perception of smart devices and launches related solutions.
“It is like water droplets on a calm water surface, there will be ripples. When a person touches a solid surface, they will also generate mechanical waves like water waves, which spread throughout the solid, which we call elastic waves. And titanium Fang’s technology is to use sensors to receive such subtle wave signals, and use signal processing and intelligent algorithm analysis to identify information such as contact strength and position. “Dr. Chaoliang Du, the founder of Titanium Technology, told.
Simply put, the elastic wave intelligent tactile recognition technology is a technology that can recognize the contact force, position and pattern of multiple materials and structures.
Du Chaoliang also introduced several features of this technology:
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One is suitable for both planar and three-dimensional curved structures;
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Second, it supports a variety of materials, including homogeneous materials such as glass, heterogeneous materials such as wood boards, composite materials, and reinforced concrete, and can also support conductive materials such as iron plates and steel plates;
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The third is low cost, low energy consumption, and anti-interference: the technology is not affected by obstacles and electromagnetic interference, low energy consumption, low number of sensors, and low cost.
In terms of applications, Titanium Technology has developed two types of products based on this technology, pressure-sensitive touch products and automotive intelligent perception products.
Pressure-sensitive touch products have been used in Lenovo’s notebooks listed on December 25, 2019. Xinxin Pro13s “, the integrated “light touch” design used is based on the technology of titanium square technology, no longer need to perform touchpad With an open hole design, the touchpad can achieve touch, pressure sensing, and vibration feedback on a pure flat panel, which can achieve effects comparable to Apple’s pressure-sensitive touch technology.
Titanium Technology is developing pressure-sensitive touch and gesture recognition technology for mobile phones, pads, and various touch screens. ” There is no patent conflict between our pressure-sensitive touch technology and Apple’s technology. “Said Du Chaoliang.
Lenovo Xiaoxin Pro13s notebook Source: Lenovo Mall
At this CES exhibition, Titanium Technology officially released TAIPS (Taifang Automobile Intelligent Perception System), a global automotive intelligent perception product. This product can provide the entire car with tactile sensing capabilities, and can detect car collisions, bumps, and hits. And other events, and can realize gesture recognition in human-vehicle interaction.
According to reports, compared to Tesla ’s “Sentinel Mode” camera-based vehicle monitoring solution, Titan ’s TAIPS only activates the camera when the system determines it is necessary. Its advantages are low power consumption and no privacy violation. The amount of data calculation is small, and there is no dead zone, which can accurately identify the position and intensity of collision, smashing, and hitting.
“At present, the TAIPS system also has greater demand in the all-weather monitoring tube of leased and operating vehicles, and can also be used for collision prevention and crushing of low-speed autonomous vehicles.” Du Chaoliang said, “In addition, TAIPS The system can also be used for human-vehicle interactions, such as gesture recognition to open electric sunroofs and doors, steering wheel release detection, tapping the steering wheel to start the engine, and 3D touch on the screen inside the car. “
In addition to the computer touch screens and car smart perception products mentioned above, the technology of Titanium Technology can also be used for pressure-sensitive touch of consumer electronics such as mobile phones and pads, Smart wearable devices (such as wireless headsets, VR / AR devices) gesture recognition, robot tactile sensing, intelligent interaction of home appliances and other fields.
The current development focus of Titanium Technology is still in the fields of consumer electronics and automotive intelligent perception interaction. In consumer electronics, Titan Technology is working with customers to develop pressure-sensitive touch for laptops, mobile phones and large screens, as well as gesture recognition for smart wearable devices. In terms of automotive intelligent perception, Titanium is implementing items such as anti-rolling for autonomous driving collisions, intelligent monitoring of automobile collisions, and human-vehicle interaction gesture recognition.Head.
Industrial and commercial information shows that Titanium Technology completed a new round of financing in early 2019, and has received investment from Songhe Capital, Xi Gao Investment, Longma Feng Venture Capital, Haike Intelligent and other institutions.
In terms of team, Titanium’s core technology team comes from Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Tokyo, and other well-known universities. It has more than ten years in the fields of elastic wave and intelligent algorithms, software and hardware design, etc. More than industry experience.
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