Embedded LCD Tablets
Some graphics tablets incorporate an LCD into the tablet itself, allowing the user to draw directly on the display surface.
Graphics tablet/screen hybrids offer advantages over both touch screens and ordinary tablets. Unlike touch screens, they offer pressure sensitivity, and their resolution is generally higher. While their pressure sensitivity and resolution are typically no better than those of ordinary tablets, they offer the additional advantage of directly seeing the location of the physical pen device relatively to the image on the screen. This often allows for increased accuracy and a more tactile, "real" feeling to the use of the device.
Wacom holds many patents on the key technologies for graphic tablets, which forces competitors to use other technologies or license Wacom's. The displays are often sold for thousands of dollars. For instance, the Wacom Cintiq series ranges from just below US$1,000 to over US$2,000.
Some commercially available graphics tablet-screen hybrids include:
- Cintiq from Wacom
- Hitachi Starboard
- Yiynova's DP10 and MSP19 products
- USync's PenStar products
- SenTIP from Hanvon
- The GD Itronix "Duo Touch" tablet PC products
- The p-active XPC-1710a and XPC-1910a
There have also been do it yourself projects where conventional used LCD monitors and graphics tablets have been converted to a graphics tablet-screen hybrid.
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