Display Development News articles from May 2005

Display Development News archives from May 2005

DISPLAY MARKETS: Profits Fall as FPD Prices Drop.(flat panel displays)
May 1, 2005... I guess you could call it unintended consequences, but some display companies, while selling a lot of panels, are losing profits. The reason is part of their success story. Lower prices attract more customers and move the displays. But, with...

HP Makes Splash With 10 New TVs.(Hewlett Packard Co.)
May 1, 2005... Television has accounted for a large part of consumer spending in the past several years and HP has joined the fray into large screen and flat panel sets. Hewlett Packard (HP) unveiled a line of 10 newly branded HP Pavilion TVs, including four...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS Stainless Steel Braces Medical Venues.(Quest International)
May 1, 2005... Quest International (65 Parker, Irvine CA 92618, Tel: 949/581- 9960, Fax: 949/581-4011) added mobile carts and stainless steel enclosures to its line if NEC and Totoku medical displays. Mobility of patient data has saved time and money, both of...

High Reflectance LCDs For High Ambient Light.(new liquid crystal displays from Optrex America Inc.)
May 1, 2005... Optrex America Inc. (46723 Five Mile Rd., Plymouth, MI 48170, Tel: 734/416-8500, Fax: 734/416-8520), a designer and manufacturer of OEM LCDs, has produced a new series of highly reflective monochrome graphic and character LCDs that offer...

SOYO Group Enters LCD Market.(liquid crystal displays)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... SOYO Group Inc. (1420 S. Vintage Ave., Ontario, CA 91761, Tel: 909/292-2500, Fax: 909/937-0783) a provider of motherboards and computer peripheral devices, announced its Dymond LCD Monitor series, a family of 17- and 19-inch LCD monitors which...

PLASMA PANELS: DVD Screensavers Prevent Screen Burn.(Screen Dreams)
May 1, 2005... Some call it the CNN effect on those expensive plasma flat panel TVs. You buy one, turn it on, and tune in to CNN with its unblinking logo in the lower right corner to catch the news. If you become mesmerized by a story and sit too long, once...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS Full Color Pilot Line for P-OLEDs.(polymer light emitting diodes; Delta Optoelectronics Inc.)
May 1, 2005... Cambridge Display Technologies (Maddingly House, Cambridge CB3 OHJ, England, Tel: 44-(0)-1223-723-555 and Delta Optoelectronics Inc. (Delta-Opto) of Taiwan reached a major milestone with the establishment of Taiwans first pilot line for the...

Startup To Increase OLED Efficiency.(organic light emitting diode; Coled Technologies Inc.)
May 1, 2005... COLED Technologies Inc., located at 2410 Trade Center Ave., Longmont, CO 80503, Tel: 303/339-4715, Fax: 303/485-0400, has announced significant breakthroughs in display technology that will unlock new development possibilities for displays on...

White Driver for Stable Backlighting.(new DC converter integrated circuit)
May 1, 2005... A new charge pump DC/DC converter IC that drives the white light emitting diodes (LEDs) used to backlight LCD panels and illuminate keypads in portable devices such as cell phones, digital cameras and MP3 players has been introduced by Toshiba...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: Mobile Projector Has Detachable Camera.(Toshibas Digital Products Division)
May 1, 2005... Toshibas Digital Products Division introduced an evolutionary producta projector with a detachable camera. Known officially as the TDP-SC25U, this projector is designed for presenters who demand brightness and portability at an affordable...

Bright LCD Projector For Large Venues.(liquid crystal display)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Flexibility in venues is important in the projection display market and a well known display company has announced a new addition to its product line that meets this requirement. ViewSonic (381 Brea Canyon Rd., Walnut, CA 91789, Tel: 909/869-...

Multimedia Display Under $900 for Multiple Users.(new projector from Epson America Inc.)
May 1, 2005... A multipurpose projection display for the office, classroom or home was developed by Epson America (3840 Kilroy Airport Way, Long Beach, CA 90806, Tel: 562/981-3840, Fax: 562/290-5220). Called the PowerLite S3, this display offers 1,600...

MICRODISPLAYS: Surveillance Is New Microdisplay Market.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Kopin Corp. (Taunton, Mass.) hits the headlines again as they announced a partnership with Pelco of Clovis, California in which Kopin will supply the new CyberDisplay 180K color filter microdisplay as well as the driver IC for use in Pelcos...

eMagin Shows Displays at Security Conference.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... eMagin is another microdisplay manufacturer that has entered the security and surveillance markets. The company showed its virtual imaging displays and subsystems at the SPIE Security and Defense Conference at the end of March on Orlando,...

TECHNOLOGY: Tell Time on a Paper Watch!(new watch from E Ink Corp., Seiko Epson Corp. and Seiko Watch Corp.)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... E Ink Corporation, Seiko Epson Corporation and Seiko Watch Corporation announced the demonstration of the worlds first watch to utilize an electronic paper display. This Future Now design incorporates an easy-to-read, ultra-thin, low power...

Wide Angle Viewing In Low Light.(new design for mobile displays from Samsung Electronics Company Ltd.)
May 1, 2005... Samsung Electronics (Chung-Ku, Seoul 100-742, South Korea, Tel: 82-2-727-7824) has developed a new design for mobile displays 10 inches or smaller that allows viewing of ultra-sharp LCD images at a 160 degree viewing angle in a variety of low...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Faster Testing for Touchscreens.(Touchview Data Report System from CAM Graphics Company)
May 1, 2005... An innovative testing system for touch screens, membrane switches and integrated interface assemblies, which will dramatically speed prototype testing, provide easily accessible data on a broad range of parameters, and cut the time for...

LCDs From Gateway Are Easy-to-Use.(liquid crystal displays)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Gateway Inc. announced a complete new line of LCDs that have a sleek, thin design, intuitive control menu, flexible placement options and digital DVI-D technology. The 15-, 17- and 19-inch flat panel displays will be sold to consumers and small...

Apple Cuts Prices On Cinema Displays.(Apple Computer )(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Apple Computer (Cupertino, CA) said it has made its award winning line of widescreen flat panel Cinema displays more affordable than ever by reducing the price of the 20-inch model to just $799 and the 23-inch HD model to just $1,499. In...

Dental Imaging Systems Have Flat Panel Detectors.(Varian Medical Systems Inc.'s PaxScan flat panel image detectors)
May 1, 2005... A new and fast-growing application for flat panel display technology was unveiled when Varian Medical Systems Inc. (1678 S. Pioneer Rd., Salt Lake City, Utah 84104, Tel: 801/972-5000, Fax: 801/972-5050) said they have a two year agreement to...

CALENDAR.
May 1, 2005... May 22-27, 2005. SID Intl. Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, Boston, Mass. Contact SID HQW, 408/977-1013 or visit www.sid.org. June 6-7, 2005. Workshop on Building European OLED Infrastructure. Cambridge, UK. Contact SPIE at 360-676-3290, Fax:...

NEW BRIEFS.(International Display Works and Three-Fives System LCD)
May 1, 2005... Internatatona; Display Works Grows in Beijing. International Display Works, a designer and manufacturer of liquid crystal displays, modules and assemblies, announced an agreement to purchase all the outstanding stock of Three-Fives System LCD...

FINANCIAL.(briefs; electronics industry)
May 1, 2005... LG. Philips in $400 Million Bond Offering. LG. Philips LCD, Seoul, Korea, said it has priced an offering of $400 million aggregate principal amount of zero coupon convertible bonds due 2010 through an offering outside the United States pursuant...

PATENTS.
May 1, 2005... Honeywell Grants Licenses for Brightness Patent. Honeywell (Morris Township, NJ) said it has granted a license authorizing Chi Mei Optoelectronics of Taiwan and Sharp Corporation of Japan to use patented Honeywell technology relating to LCD...

GRANTS AND AWARDS.(Sharp Systems of America)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2005... Sharps 3D Product Gets NASA Award. Sharp Systems of America, Huntington Beach, CA said its Actius RD3D Notebook was chosen by Readers Of NASA Tech Briefs as the Gold Winner of publications 10th Annual Readers Choice Product of the Year awards....

WHOS WHO IN THE DISPLAY INDUSTRY: Integrating Displays into High Volume Printed Products.(Emily Selene de Rotstein of Aveso Inc.)(Interview)
May 1, 2005... Aveso Inc., a recent spin-off from the Dow Chemical Co. has entered the display market. The company, located at 5155 East River Rd., Gridley, MN 55421 (Tel: 763/571-2622, Fax: 763/571- 4485) is developing paper thin microelectronic devices...