Display Development News articles from December 1999

Display Development News archives from December 1999

CATHODE RAY TUBES: First Short-Depth 19 in. Monitor.
December 1, 1999... ViewSonic Corp. (Walnut, CA) introduced the GS790, the first short-depth, space saving monitor in the graphics series. Designed with SuperClear technology, this 19 in. (18-in. viewable) monitor provides exceptionally sharp, crisp displays...

17-in. Monitor Has no Edge Distortion.
December 1, 1999... MAG InnoVision (Irvine, CA), a supplier of high-end color monitors and display technology, introduced the 796 FD, a new 17-in. monitor utilizing flat surface FD Trinitron technology. The new monitor produced a fine on-screen image with zero...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS : First Dual Input 18-in. LCD.
December 1, 1999... Further demonstrating its position as the premier developer of display products designed for professional environments, Nokia Display Products, Inc. announced the arrival of the first analog/digital input professional LCD product, called the...

Rainbow and Philips to Make Tiled AMLCDs.
December 1, 1999... Rainbow Displays, Inc. (RDI, Endicott, NY) has entered into a joint development agreement with Philips Flat Panel Systems (FDS, San Jose, CA) to develop large diagonal (36-in. plus) flat panel displays. As part of this agreement, Philips FDS...

Rugged Portable Has Detachable Touchscreen.
December 1, 1999... Designed primarily for the mobile field worker who needs to carry the power of a desktop PC into rugged environments, Densitron's new model C5100 is a network ready portable PC. The PC offers a rugged flat panel touch interface, plenty of...

NEC Offers Dual Connection Technology.
December 1, 1999... NEC Technologies (Itasca, IL) announced Ambix technology, a revolutionary new dual-connection display technology that incorporates the newly standardized digital video interface (DVI-I) connector for near universal digital and analog...

Smallest Low Temp Poly-Silicon TFT XGA.
December 1, 1999... Toshiba America Components, Inc. (Irvine CA, Tel: 800/879-4963, ext. 358) announced the development of the world's first low temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) 6.3-in. display with XGA resolution. A 0.126-mm dot pitch that achieves a density of...

PLASMA PANELS: CBS News Buys Plasma Displays.
December 1, 1999... CBS News has purchased Sony's high definition cameras and flat panel plasma displays for its new weekday morning program, "The Early Show," that made its debut in November. The purchase of Sony's state-of-the-art equipment will provide...

SlimScreen Plasma Display Offered.
December 1, 1999... Fujitsu General America, Inc. (Fairfield, NJ) has added SlimScreen models to their extensive Plasmavision product line. Known as the PDS4221 and PDS 4222, these new models have a cabinet depth of only 3.3 in. , measure 42-in. diagonally, and...

Development Alliance Will Try to Cut Costs.
December 1, 1999... Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo, Japan) and Chunghwa Picture Tubes (Taipei, Taiwan) have agreed to a strategic alliance in plasma panel development and hope to increase the pace of the panel business. High growth is expected for PDPs in the...

FIELD EMISSIVE DISPLAYS : Army Gets 12.1-in. FED.
December 1, 1999... PixTech, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) announced the delivery of the first 12.1-in. field emission display (FED) to the Army under the DARPA contract. This delivery comes just three months after the contract obligations were transferred from Micron...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS: Universal Display Gets $400,000 from NSF.
December 1, 1999... Universal Display Corp. (Ewing, NJ) received a two year, $400,000 phase II award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in support of its high efficiency stacked organic light emitting device (SOLED) technology. UDC teamed with its...

Kodak Licenses OEL Tech to Nippon Seiki.
December 1, 1999... Eastman Kodak Co. (Rochester, NY) licensed its OEL technology to Nippon Seiki Co., Ltd. of Japan for use in flat panel displays for motor vehicle instrumentation applications. OEL is a new type of technology in which electric current is...

Video Screens for New Stadium.
December 1, 1999... Daktronics, Inc. (Brookings, SD) signed a contract in excess of $7 million with Hamilton County, Ohio to provide an integrated video and scoring system at the new Paul Brown Stadium, future home of the National Football League's Cincinnati...

MICRODISPLAYS: DigiLens, DuPont Form Partnership.
December 1, 1999... DigiLens (306 Potrero Ave., Sunnyvale, CA) announced a partnership with DuPont Holographics (Wilmington, DE; Tel:800/441-7515) to co-market and promote their complementary holographic optical technologies in a variety of new internet-...

Wearable Display for Neurosurgeons.
December 1, 1999... Microvision, Inc. (Bothell, WA), the developer of the revolutionary retinal scanning display technology, delivered to the Wallace Kettering Neuroscience Institute (WKNI, Dayton, OH) a unique wearable display for assisting visualization and...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: "All Around" Desktop XGA Projector.
December 1, 1999... Proxima Corp. (San Diego, CA) announced the DP6850, the latest addition to its desktop projector product line. With true XGA (1,024 by 768) resolution, 1500 ANSI lumens and weighing just 13 lb., the new display is a full-featured, mid- range...

Kaiser Gets Contract for Boeing Display.
December 1, 1999... Kaiser Electronics (San Jose, CA), a division of the Kaiser Aerospace & Electronics Corp. (Foster City, CA), says it has been awarded a contract from Boeing St. Louis for engineering manufacturing and development (EMD) of a projection...

Palmtop LCD Projector.
December 1, 1999... Sony Electronics (Park Ridge, NJ) introduced its smallest and lowest priced, ultra portable LCD projector. With a footprint smaller than a laptop computer, the high performance VPL-CS1 SuperLite LCD projector includes a host of features and...

HEAD MOUNTED DISPLAYS: Display Features S-Video Interface.
December 1, 1999... i-O Display Systems (1370 Willow Rd., Suite 101, Menlo Park, CA; Tel: 650/323- 8407, Fax: 650/323-1742, Website www.i-glasses.com.) a leading manufacturer of head mounted personal display devices, introduced i-glasses LC, a head mounted...

MATERIALS: Antireflective Film for Flat CRT Monitors.
December 1, 1999... Southwall Technologies (129 Corporation Way, Palo Alto, CA; Tel: 415/962-9111) says it reached an agreement with Samsung Display Devices (SDD) to supply antireflective films for their flat CRT computer monitors. Southwall makes the product...

3M Buys Polaroid Anti-Glare Filters.
December 1, 1999... Polaroid (Cambridge, MA) and 3M Corp. (St. Paul, MN) announced that 3M's optical systems division has purchased Polaroid's computer monitor anti-glare filter business. Terms of the sale were not disclosed. Polaroid CP-Filters features...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Resistive Touchscreens Offer Durability, Optics.
December 1, 1999... MicroTouch Systems (Methuen, MA) introduced a new generation of five-wire resistive touchscreens that plug into all leading five-wire resistive touchscreen controllers. Produced for OEMs and systems integrators serving the retail,...

Genesis Chips Driving ATM Displays.
December 1, 1999... Genesis Microchip (Toronto, Canada) announced that AllBrite Technologies PanoBrite sunlight-viewable LCD display will utilize the Genesis gmZX1 video/graphic processing chip. AllBrite's PanoBrite has been selected by Diebold, Inc. (DDN,...

PROCESS NEWS: USDC Awards Two Development Contracts.
December 1, 1999... The U.S. Display Consortium (USDC, San Jose, CA), a private/public partnership building a flat panel display infrastructure, announced the award of two development contracts. CHA Industries (Fremont, CA) will receive $1.5 million from USDC...

Automated Flat Panel Display Manufacturing.
December 1, 1999... Adept Technology, Inc. (San Jose, CA), America's largest manufacturer of industrial robots and a factory automation leader, signed Kingroup Automation Industry Corp. of Taiwan as its integrator to handle flat panel system business in Taiwan....

INDUSTRY NEWS: Big Screen TVs Sell at Record Pace.
December 1, 1999... Shipments of regular TVs to U.S. retailers were up 3% through October, but shipments of big screen, or projection, televisions increased 13% to almost one million units, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. The most expensive...

Applied Materials Completes Panel Deal.
December 1, 1999... Applied Materials, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) says it has completed the purchase of Komatsu, Ltd.'s 50% share in Applied Komatsu Technology, Inc., a leading supplier of CVD systems used to produce flat panel displays. Applied Materials' FPD...

Uniphase and Optical Coating Labs Merge.
December 1, 1999... JDS Uniphase Corp. and Optical Coating Laboratory signed a definitive agreement for the companies to merge in a transaction that will solidify their long- standing partnership. The agreement provides for an exchange of 0.928 shares of JDS...

DuPont Acquires Krystal Holographics.
December 1, 1999... DuPont Holographics, a unit within the Photopolymer & Electronic Materials Business Group, says it has acquired Krystal Holographics International, Inc. (KHI). Through this acquisition, DuPont becomes the world leader in supplying...

MEETINGS: Cost Cutting Is Topic at Display Works 2000.
December 1, 1999... The USDC, the California Display Network (CDN), and SEMI announced a manufacturing technology conference at Display Works 2000, which will be the venue for the first English language release of a major Japanese LCD cost reduction strategies...

CALENDAR.
December 1, 1999... Nov. 16-19, 1999. Color Imaging Conference, SunBurst Inn, Scottsdale, AZ. Contact: The Society for Imaging and Technology; Tel: 703/624-9090. Dec. 1-3, 1999. The Sixth Int'l. Display Workshops, Sendai International Center, Sendai,...