Display Development News articles from August 2002

Display Development News archives from August 2002

MARKET UPDATE: Flat Panel Displays Lead Optoelectronics for 2001.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... We came across the results of the outlook for the optoelectronics business published by the Optoelectronics Industry Development Industry Association (OIDA) in Washington, DC. Although it contained much about the telecom business, the Internet...

TI's DLP Commands Home Theater Market.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... According to Texas Instruments (TI) (Box 655474, Dallas, TX 75265; Tel: 972/995-2011, Fax: 972/995-4360) in the first quarter of 2002, four of the five best-selling home theater projectors in the U.S. were based on DLP technology. InFocus and...

CATHODE RAY TUBES: SuperBright Monitors Provide Better Viewing.(Brief Article)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... In the continuing effort to improve the CRT in the face of more pervasive flat panel models, NEC-Mitsubishi Electronics Display of America (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, IL 60143; Tel: 630/467-4552) announced two professional CRT...

LIQUID CRYSTALS: Optic Filter Makes LCD Easier on the Eyes.(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... AG Neovo (2362 Qume Dr., San Jose, CA 95131; Tel: 408/321-8201, Fax: 408/321-8211) introduced its full line of innovative, high- end LCD displays for the North American market. The company blended art and science into their displays, and they...

Touch Screens Operate in Rugged Environments.(Dolch Computer Systems RuggedTouch, RuggedTouch Plus)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... Dolch Computer Systems, Inc. (3178 Laurelview Ct., Fremont, CA 94538; Tel: 510/661-2220, Fax: 510/490-8345), introduced RuggedTouch and RuggedTouch Plus, industrial touch-screen displays and workstations. "While the demand for rugged...

Maximum Active Area for Handheld Displays.(Densitron's LM5575)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Densitron Corp. (10430-2 Pioneer Blvd., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670; Tel: 562/941-5000, Fax: 562/941-5757) has developed an LCD panel that delivers the ultimate readability from a dot matrix graphic display. They have taken the popular 64-by-126...

Multi-Layer Desktop Display.(Deep Video Imaging, GTT (South Korea))
August 1, 2002... Deep Video Imaging (Airport Rd., Mystery Creek RD2, Hamilton, New Zealand; Tel: 64-7-843-2560, Fax: 64-7-843-2562), creator and developer of Multi-Layer displays (MLD), says that GTT of Korea has become the latest manufacturer under license...

Slim Bezel LCDs Have 30% Smaller Frames.(Planar Systems)(Product Announcement)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Planar Systems (1400 N.W. Compton Dr., Beaverton, OR 97006; Tel: 503/690-1100, Fax: 503/690-1493) produced a new family of ultra- thin desktop monitors that set new standards for price-for- performance, sleek design, and ease of use. ...

PLASMA PANELS: Zenith Displays Go to Le Meridien Hotel.
August 1, 2002... Zenith (200 Millbrook Dr., Lincolnshire, IL 60069; Tel: 877/9- ZENITH) will be the exclusive provider of digital plasma display panels for the new Le Meridien Minneapolis Hotel, part of the London-based independent luxury hotel group Le...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS: LEDs Provide Integrated Scoring & Display System.
August 1, 2002... Daktronics, Inc. (331 32nd Ave., Brookings, SD 57006; Tel: 1-888- 325-8766), is providing a new scoring and display systems for football, basketball and baseball at Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The value of the...

HGED Displays 16 Million Colors.(High Gain Emissive Display flat panel technology)
August 1, 2002... Telegen Corp. (1840 Gateway Dr., San Mateo, CA 94404; Tel: 650/349-4300, Fax: 650/261-9468) says that it achieved a major milestone in the commercialization of its High Gain Emissive Display (HGED) flat panel technology with the successful...

ELECTROLUMINESCENT: iFire, Sanyo Team on Flat Panel TV.
August 1, 2002... iFire Technology, Inc. (15 City View Dr., Toronto M9W 5A5, Canada; Tel: 416/246-1030, Fax: 416/246-0458), a subsidiary of Westaim Corporation, announced a collaboration agreement with Sanyo Electric Company, Ltd., of Japan to advance iFire's...

MICRODISPLAYS: InFocus To Provide Microdisplay Engines.
August 1, 2002... InFocus Corporation (27700B SW Parkway Ave., Wilsonville, OR 97070, Tel: 503/692-8887) a leader in digital projection, will leverage its microdisplay engine expertise with start of the second phase of an agreement with SVA Information Industry...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: High Performance At Entry Level Prices.(Mitsubishi Digital XL2 ColorView, Mitsubishi Digital SL2 ColorView)(Product Announcement)
August 1, 2002... Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America's Presentation Products Division (9351 Jeronimo Rd., Irvine, CA 92618, Tel: 888/880-6351) announced new projectors that offer powerful features at an entry level price and they are considered by the...

Engines for Next- Generation TVs.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Three-Five Systems (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801) announced the completion of a license and development agreement with Advanced Digital Optics (ADO), a company that specializes in the design and...

Hitachi, Visual Systems Eye Big Home Cinemas.
August 1, 2002... Hitachi America (2000 Sierra Point Hwy., Brisbane, CA 94005; Tel: 650/589-8300, Fax: 650/583-4207) and Visual Systems Research (Walled Lake, MI), a leader in advanced optical display technologies, announced a strategic partnership combining...

HEAD-MOUNTED DISPLAYS Parts Positions Located Faster.(Microvision, Boeing Commercial Airplanes)
August 1, 2002... Microvision (19910 N. Creek Pkwy., Bothell, WA 98011; Tel: 425/415-6847, Fax: 425/415-6600) announced at the annual Coordinate Measurement Systems Committee (CMSC) conference in Warwick, Rhode Island, the results of a filed trial test with...

Head-Up Display Mounted on Eyewear.(MicroOptical's eyeglasses)
August 1, 2002... MicroOptical Corp. (33 S.W. Park, Westwood, MA 02090; Tel: 781/326-8111, Fax: 781-326-4110), a privately held company is a leader in the development of portable eyeglass displays. These eyeglass products represent a breakthrough in ergonomics...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: E-Ink Display Is Demoed.
August 1, 2002... E Ink Corp. (733 Concord Ave., Cambridge, MA 02183; Tel: 617/499- 6000, Fax: 617/499-6200), TOPPAN Printing, Ltd.(Tokyo), the global leader for color filter arrays, and Royal Philips Electronics (The Netherlands) announced the demonstration of...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Philips Getting into Military Avionics.
August 1, 2002... Royal Philips Electronics of The Netherlands is extending its technology reach into the military avionics sector. Working in close collaboration with L-3 Communications Display Systems Division (Alpharetta, GA), a leading integrator of avionic...

Microvision Gets $1.9 Million NASA Contract.(to deliver a prototype cockpit helmet display system)
August 1, 2002... Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA), says that it has been awarded a $1.9 million development contract with NASA Langley Research Center to deliver a prototype cockpit helmet display system for the Synthetic Vision Systems project. The advanced...

DuPont Displays Gets Polar Vision.
August 1, 2002... DuPont Displays (Wilmington, DE) announced the acquisition of the remaining ownership interest in Polar Vision, Inc., an innovative optical components and lamination services provider serving display integrators and OEMs in the rapidly emerging...

Planar Has Strong Quarter.(qtr ended Jun 28, 2002)
August 1, 2002... Planar Systems, Inc. (Beaverton, OR), recorded sales in the quarter ended June 28, 2002, of $58 million, up 11% from last year's third quarter and up 19% from the second quarter of 2002. Net income per fully diluted share was $0.11 including...

Wide Swings Mark July Performance.(Statistical Data Included)
August 1, 2002... One-third of our 15 display-related stocks made it into the plus column for the month of July. For a while, July looked as though it was a repeat of 1929 as the markets went down and down. Toward the end of the month, however, Stocks rebounded...

CALENDAR.
August 1, 2002... Sept. 2-4, 2002, The 7th Asian Symposium on In formation Display (ASID '02), York Hotel, Singapore. Contact: SID, Tel: 408/977- 1013, Fax: 408/977-1531. Sept. 18-20, 2002, Microdisplay 2002. Westminster, CO. Contact: Mark Goldfarb,...