Display Development News articles from January 2000

Display Development News archives from January 2000

CATHODE RAY TUBES: Entry-Level Multimedia 21-in. Display.
January 1, 2000... Nokia Display Products,, Inc. (Irving, TX), a developer of display products for corporate and high-end professionals, introduced their 445ZA display featuring FullScreen technology for demanding office applications. The larger display screen,...

Flat Panel Replicates Light Box.
January 1, 2000... Data Ray Corp. (12300 Pecos, Westminster, CO 80234; Tel: 303/451-1300) introduced the DR96 digital monitor, the world's first natural flat monitor for picture archive and communications systems (PACS). With its completely flat CCRT, the DR96...

Digital CRTs Are Coming.
January 1, 2000... Silicon Image, Inc. (1060 East Arques Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94086; Tel: 408/616- 4000, Fax: 408/830-9530), a leading provider of high bandwidth semiconductor solutions, announced that major monitor manufacturers, including Acer, NEC, Samsung,...

Big-Screen Display from Mitsubishi.
January 1, 2000... Mitsubishi Electronics America (5665 Plaza Dr., Cypress CA 90630; Tel: 800/843- 2515) announced the Diamond Plus 200, a 22-in. flat CRT. With a price of only $1,049 and incorporating Mitsubishi's Diamondtron NF state-of-the-art, flat faced,...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS : Continuous Grain Silicon Technology.
January 1, 2000... Sharp Electronics Corp. (Mahwah, NJ) announced its first ever product incorporating the company's revolutionary continuous grain silicon (CG-Silicon) LCD technology-a 60-in. high definition rear projection display. Engineered to deliver...

Fast-Response Fluid : Adjusts Contrast.
January 1, 2000... Densitron Corp. (10430-2 Pioneer Blvd., Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670; Tel: 562/941-5000, Fax: 562/941-5757) introduced a low profile display that uses flat-response fluid (FRF), which provides stable contrast (without adjustment) over its...

Three-Five Gets Big Order.
January 1, 2000... Three-Five Systems, Inc. (1600 N. Desert Dr., Tempe, AZ; Tel: 602/389-8600, Fax: 602/389-8801) received a production order and new design win for its liquid crystal intense display (LCiD) technology. Both represent major achievements for the...

LG Licenses Pivot Software for LCDs.
January 1, 2000... Portrait Displays (Pleasanton, CA), the developer of rotating software for LCD monitors, announced that LG Electronics (Seoul, Korea) has licensed its Pivot software for their upcoming production of rotating 15.1-in. LCD monitors. Pivot...

Apple Ships Brighter Cinema Display.
January 1, 2000... Apple (Cupertino, CA) is shipping its Cinema display, a 22-in. all-digital flat panel that features razor-sharp, distortion-free image and unique wide format design. Combined with the new all-digital Power Mac G4, the Cinema display creates...

PLASMA DISPLAYS: First Touch Enabled Displays.
January 1, 2000... MicroTouch Systems (300 Griffen Park, Methuen, MA 01844; Tel: 508/659-9000) says that Electrograph Systems, Inc., of Hauppauge, Long Island, the largest distributor of gas plasma displays, has selected their ClearTek 3000 touchscreens for its...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS : Three Patents for Universal Display.
January 1, 2000... Universal Display Corp. (375 Philips Rd., Ewing, NJ 08618) announced that its research partners, Princeton University, and the University of Southern California have received three new patents for the organic light emitter project, bringing...

Cree Expands LED Manufacturing Space.
January 1, 2000... Cree Research, Inc. (4600 Silicon Dr., Durham, NC 27703; Tel: 919/313-5300, Fax: 919/313-5452) says it has started construction of a facility to expand manufacturing capacity for its high brightness light emitting diode (LED) product. LEDs are...

MICRODISPLAYS: Camcorder Patent to Visual Systems.
January 1, 2000... Visual Systems Research (Commerce, MI) added a new camera/camcorder display patent to its portfolio of display technologies. The patent (U.S. No. 5,986,803) describes an electronic camera or camcorder providing a wide-field, binocular image...

SpatiaLight Gets Private Funding of New Display.
January 1, 2000... SpatiaLight (9 Commercial Blvd., Novato, CA 94949; Tel: 415/883-1693, Fax: 415/883-3363) a leading developer of liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) microdisplay devices, announced the closing of a private placement of convertible secured notes in...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: JVC Consolidates Projector Operations.
January 1, 2000... JVC Americas Corp., the American headquarters of Victor Co. of Japan, Ltd., says it has consolidated its projection operations into JVC Professional Products Co., a division of JVC Americas Corp., and will develop and market all future...

Display Selected for Film Festival.
January 1, 2000... Digital Projection, Inc. (55 Chastain Rd., Kennesaw, GA 30144; Tel: 770/420- 1350, Fax: 770/420-1360), a wholly owned subsidiary of Imax Corp., has announced that the Sundance Film Festival has exclusively selected its Lightning displays for...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: Controller to Integrate Handheld Displays.
January 1, 2000... Epson Research and Development (Vancouver, B.C.) and Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (Camas, WA) have agreed to share technology to provide highly integrated display solutions for the smart handheld device markets. Leaders in their...

Antibacterial Protection for Touchscreens.
January 1, 2000... MicroTouch Systems, Inc. ((300 Griffen Park, Methuen, MA 01844; Tel: 508/659- 9000, Fax: 508/659-9100) introduced ClearScreen, the world's first touchscreen incorporating antibacterial technology registered with the Environmental Protection...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Toshiba Gets Display of the Year Award.
January 1, 2000... Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC, 1069 Rincon Circle, San Jose, CA 95131; Tel: 408/456-8900) says that the Society of Information Display (SID) and Information Display magazine declared them winner of the prestigious 1999...

Philips Heads Handheld Market Group.
January 1, 2000... Philips flat panel display systems (San Jose, CA), a business group of Royal Philips Electronics of the Netherlands, has formed a smart handheld applications (SMA) line of business dedicated exclusively to the handheld market. The...

Kopin Increases Shares Allowing Stock Split.
January 1, 2000... Kopin Corp. (695 Myles Standish Blvd., Taunton, MA 02780; Tel: 508/824-6696, Fax: 508/824-6958), a leading manufacturer of gallium arsenide heterojunction bipolar transistor products and miniature flat panel displays for wireless...

iBIZ Gets U.S. Distribution.
January 1, 2000... iBIZ Technology Corp. (Phoenix, AZ), a leading manufacturer of "small footprint" computer systems and peripherals, says they completed a distribution agreement with Harsper Co., Ltd., of Seoul, Korea. The agreement will give iBIZ exclusive...

Public Offering, New Name for Cree.
January 1, 2000... Cree Research (4600 Silicon Dr., Durham, NC) filed a registration statement with the SEC relating to a proposed public offering of 2.6 million shares of common stock by the company. The managing underwriters for the offering are CIBC World...

PROCESS NEWS: Gas Handling System Cuts Maintenance.
January 1, 2000... Ion Systems (1005 Parker St., Berkeley, CA 94710; Tel: 510/548-3640, Fax: 510/548-0417) a leading supplier of electrostatics management solutions, announced a gas jet AeroBar, a gas handling system with six recessed single crystal silicon...

Low-Absorption Color Filters for Brightness.
January 1, 2000... A proposed technique for color filtering in a liquid crystal display or other flat panel display device would make it possible to brighten the display without increasing the amount of light supplied from behind the panel. Yu Wang of Caltech...

Stylus Profiler for Display Substrates.
January 1, 2000... The Veeco metrology group of Digital Instruments (112 Robin Hill Rd., Santa Barbara, CA; Tel: 805/967-1400, Fax: 805/967-7717) says that its Dektak Series V line of stylus profilers, originally developed to address surface metrology on...

CALENDAR.
January 1, 2000... Jan. 23-28, 2000. Electronic Imaging 2000, San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA. Contact: Photonics West, PO Box 6299, San Jose, CA 95150; Tel: 408/295-2265, ext. 428. Jan. 31-Feb. 4, 2000. Display Applications Conference (DAPPCON),...