FinePoint
FinePoint products provide high performance pen input solutions for makers of tablet PCs, smartphones, kiosks and a host of other computing products. We offer the only digital solution, providing a significant advancement in performance and cost over current analog products.

Our technology has a rich history in pen computing. Development of our electromagnetic pen input technology dates back to 1991 when Kurta Corp. formed its pen system division and entered the pen-based computer market. Kurta quickly became a market leader. In 1995, Mutoh Industries acquired Kurta. All of Kurta's pen technology and patents are retained under the FinePoint brand.

In 2005, we introduced our digital platform. Today, we have made significant advancements in our digitizer technology and are poised to help our customers advance with leading-edge pen input solutions.

Digital is a core differentiator, and critical advantage versus traditional analog products.

Key requirement	Advantage of InPlay's digital technology	Available with analog?
User programmability	InPlay’s Digital technology enables the end-user to program key features of the pen such as ink color, sensitivity, eraser/button functions, etc	None of these requirements supported by analog pens.
Low cost	InPlay’s technology leverages standard components (no ASICs) and offers the lowest total cost solution on the market today
Feature expandability	Digital technology provides enhanced, configurable communications between the screen and the pen, allowing the addition of a broad set of features
In field upgradeability	Reduced design cycle times and costs resulting from remote firmware feature upgrades (no or minimal hardware change)
Low power consumption	Intelligent power management is used to power the pen only when required. Unique power loop configuration enables charge pulse skipping mode resulting in lower power consumption.
Precision/high resolution	Digital technology provides for advanced adaptive filtering, ultimately resulting in less EMI tuning effort, reduced/eliminated need for shielding, low jitter and higher display edge performance.

FinePoint MPD 800: pen-based input system
FinePoint MPD 900: next-generation digital pen input
FinePoint MPRD 95x: digital pen and resistive touch
FinePoint MPCD 97x: digital pen and capacitive touch


U.S. Patent Nos. 5,218,174; 5,225,637; 5,571,997; 6,696,900; 6,806,867; 7,202,862

Japan Patent Nos. 243344/92