Posted on July 2nd, 2007 by Marcela. Categories: new, Screens, 3 d.
Philips 3D Solutions brings the 3D viewing experience to you without the need for special 3D glasses. Philips WoWvx technology grabs the attention of the viewer. The 3D display has a large viewing zone and is suitable for simultaneous use by a number of viewers. 3D is the next big thing since the introduction of color displays. 3D provides a richer, more exciting, more informative, and more entertaining end-user experience in various fields!
3D is cool!
Having a night in with your friends? There is no better way of watching the latest movies, the coolest shows, and the most important sporting events, than in an exciting 3D mode!!
3D is going to be big!
There are great opportunities for consumers, as well as business and the professional market. Just imagine what 3D can do for the visualization of your product.
3D is the next big thing!
Hollywood is already shooting some big productions in 3D. They also know that soon, everybody will want to see their favorite movie in 3D!
Grab viewers attention and bring your content alive with WoWvx technology!
Imagine what Star Wars would like on a 3D screen! It’s like being there, in a Galaxy far far away yourself! And try to resist that freshly squeezed glass of orange juice springing out of the screen!
Posted on June 22nd, 2007 by Marcela. Categories: Technology, Screens.
At SID 2007, Sony showed a new flexible OLED display, on a plastic substrate. The prototype is capable of showing 16.7Million colors, is 2.5″ large and shows 120×169 pixels (80ppi). It weights 1.5 grams (without the driver).
Posted on June 7th, 2007 by Marcela. Categories: new, Screens.
Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. (TMD) has developed a new series of thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal displays (LCD) utilizing a “Screen Fit” transparent cover panel. The displays are intended for cellular phone and other mobile applications. A “Screen Fit” cover panel is integrated with the liquid crystal display panel using transparent resin, to ensure impact resistance and improved legibility. TMD will introduce this series starting with a wide-QVGA (240×400) TFT display, and then intends to expand the product line-up to include QVGA (240×320), wide-VGA (800×480) and other mobile displays. TMD plans to start mass production in June 2007 with projected total monthly output of 500,000 units.
With “Screen Fit”, a special resin is injected between the cover panel and the polarizing film at the surface of the LCD panel, fusing the two together. The resin assures optical integrity between the two materials since it minimizes interface reflections and hardens without any optical irregularities. During production, the resin is injected in its liquid state between the cover panel and the LCD panel, and as it solidifies, it will minimize any deflection or irregularities between the cover panel and LCD panel, thus reducing mechanical stress in the entire system and contributing to high-performance display characteristics. Also, the resin has minimal optical degradation over the course of time, thus the high-performance display characteristics remain stable, too.
Compared to a conventional LCD design, in which the top polarizer film layer of the display is protected by an acrylic cover panel encasing the hollow space between the cover and the display, the newly developed “Screen Fit” LCD enhances the display optical characteristics by minimizing the reflected light from the inner surface of the cover panel, as well as the reflections from the surface of the LCD panel, to approximately 4 percent each. As a result, the contrast of the display is increased, due to the reduction of external and internal light reflections while the display transmittance is improved by approximately 7 percent, combining to enhance the display’s legibility. Luminance is improved with increased transmittance, thereby decreasing power consumption and benefiting the environment. Furthermore, due to the integration of the cover panel design, durability and reliability is increased, and thickness is reduced, addressing the need found in cellular phones and other mobile devices for thinner profile designs.
Item Specifications
Screen size (Diagonal) 2.8-inch (7.1 cm)
Number of pixels WQVGA: 240 (H) x RGB x 400(V)
Luminance 300 cd/m2
Contrast 600:1
Thickness (including cover glass) 2.6 mm
Number of colors 260K
The software giant will announce at the D5 conference today that it’s built a new touchscreen computer—a coffee table that will change the world. Go inside its top-secret development with PopularMechanics.com, then forget the keyboard and mouse: The next generation of computer interfaces will be hands-on.
Microsoft’s corporate campus is a sprawling affair, with more than 100 buildings scattered over 261 acres. To make sense of it all, you have to navigate by numbers. The Microsoft Visitor Center, for instance, is in Building 127, north campus, while the Microsoft Conference Center is in Building 33, just down the road from the company soccer and baseball fields. About 4 miles away, however, there is an unnumbered building that is decidedly “off campus.” In that building, Microsoft has quietly been developing the first completely new computing platform since the PC — a project that was given the internal code name Milan. This past March, when the project was still operating on the down low, I became the first reporter invited inside these offices. My hosts politely threatened legal consequences if I blabbed about the project to anyone not directly involved in it, then escorted me down a dark hallway to a locked corner conference room. Inside that room was Microsoft’s best-kept technology secret in years … a coffee table.
The product behind the Milan project is called the Microsoft Surface, and the company’s unofficial Surface showman is Jeff Gattis. He’s a clean-cut fellow who is obviously the veteran of a thousand marketing seminars. He spoke in sentences peppered with “application scenarios,” “operational efficiencies” and “consumer pain points” while he took me through a few demonstrations of what the Surface can do. One of Gattis’s consumer pain points is the frustrating mess of cables, drivers and protocols that people must use to link their peripheral devices to their personal computers. Surface has no cables or external USB ports for plugging in peripherals. For that matter, it has no keyboard, no mouse, no trackball — no obvious point of interaction except its screen.
Gattis took out a digital camera and placed it on the Surface. Instantly, digital pictures spilled out onto the tabletop. As Gattis touched and dragged each picture, it followed his fingers around the screen. Using two fingers, he pulled the corners of a photo and stretched it to a new size. Then, Gattis put a cellphone on the surface and dragged several photos to it — just like that, the pictures uploaded to the phone. It was like a magic trick. He was dragging and dropping virtual content to physical objects. I’m not often surprised by new technology, but I can honestly say I’d never seen anything like it.
Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Corporation (TMD) has developed a 4.3-inch transflective1 liquid crystal display (LCD) prototype panel that combines optically compensated bend (OCB) technology, which offers both a wide viewing angle and a fast response time, and transflective technology, which assures high viewability in outdoor sunlight environments. The combination is a first of its kind in the LCD industry.
TMD has been striving to apply OCB technology into practical applications, due to its potential to enable LCD panels that offer both wide viewing angles and fast response time performance. TMD has created an innovative transflective optical design and driving system that optimizes performance in both the transmissive and reflective subpixel structure, which have different electrode configurations. With this new development, TMD has attained an LCD panel which assures high viewability and high video performance in either mode, transmissive or reflective, while ensuring features such as wide viewing angle and fast response time intrinsic to OCB technology. These features are in increasing demand in mobile applications, which must be easily viewable under a wide range of ambient light conditions. The newly developed module offers similar wide viewing angle and fast response time performance in the transmissive mode as achieved in existing OCB LCD panels, and also offers wide viewing angle and an ultra fast response time (2.4ms) performance in the reflective mode.
The new product has good viewability even in direct sunlight and assures a high grade of display quality in both indoor and outdoor environments. In addition, not only does it offer fast video display performance in ordinary temperature ranges, but also at low temperature ranges, thus accommodating various application environments, making the new LCD panel well- suited for mobile applications even when viewing still and/or moving pictures in an outdoor environment.
The newly developed LCD prototype will be exhibited in the Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC)* booth #1149 at the SID 2007 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California, USA, from May 22-24, 2007.
Item Specifications of newly developed product
Screen size (Diagonal) 4.3 inch (10.9 cm)
Number of pixels 480 (H) x RGB x 272 (V)
Luminance 400 cd/m2
Number of colors 16.7 million colors
Feature Transflective type, with OCB technology
