Smart Technologies X800 - Manual (Page 12)

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W H I T E B O A R D
Understanding how your SMART Board
interactive whiteboard works
Your interactive whiteboard functions as an input device for your computer, just like a
mouse, enabling you to work in any application on your computer from your interactive
whiteboard.
When you touch your interactive whiteboard’s surface, the four cameras located in the
interactive whiteboard’s corners detect the contact’s horizontal and vertical (or x,y)
coordinates. Your computer interprets these coordinates and moves the pointer to the
corresponding location on the interactive whiteboard’s surface.
Other components
Using your interactive whiteboard requires
two additional components: a computer and
a digital projector.
These components work together as follows:
• Your computer runs an application and
sends the image to your projector.
• Your projector casts the image onto your
interactive whiteboard.
• Your interactive whiteboard acts both as your computer’s monitor and its input
devices, that is, its mouse and keyboard, enabling you to control any application
by touching the interactive surface.
When you install SMART Product Drivers on your computer, the touch of your finger
on the interactive surface becomes a mouse click, enabling you to control your
computer from your interactive whiteboard. When you use a pen from the pen tray, the
system detects which tool you’re using. SMART Product Drivers then interacts with
the computer’s mouse driver to change the pointer to a colored pen, enabling you to
write in digital ink on your desktop or any open application. When you use the eraser,
you can erase the digital ink. You can even use your finger on the interactive
whiteboard’s surface without returning the pen tray tools—automatic object
awareness determines the tool you’re using on the interactive surface. You can also
save your notes to a .notebook file, or directly into any Ink Aware application.