Smart Technologies Board 480 - Manual (Page 8)

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Feature highlights
DViT technology
Two digital cameras, one in each of the interactive whiteboard’s top corners, track the
position of your finger or the pen as it moves across the interactive surface.
Durable surface
The interactive surface is scratch-resistant, dent-resistant and optimized for
projection.
How does your SMART Board interactive
whiteboard work?
Your SMART Board interactive whiteboard and pen function as input devices for your
computer, like a mouse, enabling you to work in any application on your connected
computer from your interactive whiteboard’s surface.
When you connect your interactive whiteboard to a computer with SMART Product
Drivers, the following actions occur:
• The computer runs an application, and then sends the image to your projector.
• Your projector casts the image onto your interactive whiteboard.
• Your interactive whiteboard acts as your computer’s monitor and its input devices
enable you to control any application by touching the interactive surface.
When you install SMART Product Drivers on your computer, a Floating Tools toolbar
appears over your desktop and any open application. By default, SMART Product
Drivers interprets your touches and pen contact on the interactive surface as left
mouse clicks. When you select a pen button on the Floating Tools toolbar, SMART
Product Drivers interacts with the computer’s mouse driver to change the pointer to a
colored pen, which enables you to write over your desktop or any open application
with digital ink. You can change pen settings, including the transparency, color and
width of the ink. You can then save your notes to a file in SMART Notebook software
or directly into any Ink Aware application. You can also customize other tools, such as
the width of the eraser tool you use to erase your notes.