Abstract: A multicontact transparent tactile sensor including two at least partially conducting transparent layers, the layers being spaced apart by an insulating transparent material. At least one of the layers includes a transparent sheet on which is deposited an array of conducting tracks whose width is less than 80 microns.

Abstract: An electronic analysis circuit for a passive-matrix multicontact tactile sensor including an electrical supply mechanism feeding one of two axes of the matrix, and a mechanism for detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at intersections between the two axes. The electrical characteristic measured is alternately capacitance and resistance. A multicontact passive-matrix tactile sensor includes an electrical supply mechanism feeding one of the two axes of the matrix, a mechanism detecting electrical characteristics along the other axis of the matrix, at the intersections between the two axes, and such an electronic analysis circuit.

Abstract: A process for controlling computerized equipment with a device including a multi-contact bidimensional sensor that acquires tactile information and a calculator that generates command signals as a function of the tactile information, including graphical objects on a screen placed under a transparent multi-contact tactile sensor, each graphical object associated with at least one specific processing rule such that the sensor delivers during each acquisition phase a plurality of tactile information, and each piece of the tactile information forms an object of a specific processing determined by its localization relative to a position of one of the graphical objects.