Display Development News articles from November 2004

Display Development News archives from November 2004

MARKETS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Readers may have noticed that we report on many projection display developments every month. The reason for this is simplethere are many projectors being introduced with improved technologies and lower costs. Projection is one of the more...

DPL Chips Power Half of Large Screen TVs.
November 1, 2004... Sales of large screen (over 30-inches) flat panel TV sets have been growing at a rapid rate over the past five years. Many of these TVs are projection sets and about half of them are powered by the micromirror-based DLP chip made by TI. And the...

Falling Prices Hurt Philips Profit.(LG. Philips LCD Co. )
November 1, 2004... LG. Philips LCD Co. (LG Twin Towers, 20Y Yoido-Dong, Seoul, Korea, Tel: 011-82-2-3777-0707says its third quarter profit fell 15% despite a 12% increase in revenue. This is the first sign of the impact of steep price declines in flat screens on...

Westinghouse Cuts Prices for 30-in. Units.(Westinghouse Digital Electronics)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Westinghouse Digital Electronics (16257 Gale Ave., City of Industry, CA 91745, Tel: 626/333-9252, Fax: 626/333-9272) announced aggressive new pricing on its largest LCD-TVsan estimated street price of $1,299 for its 27-inch model and an ESP of...

LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAYS: Super Slim-Line TVs Extends Sony Options.
November 1, 2004... Building on the growing demand for a better television viewing experience, Sony has expanded consumer choice in its range of high-resolution, design conscious televisions. Sony Europe GmbH (Hugo Eckner-Str. 20, 50829 Koln, Germany, Tel:...

TFT-LCD Line Shown at FPD Intl. 2004.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... LG. Philips LCD Co. (LG Twin Towers, 20Y Yoido-Dong, Seoul, Korea, Tel: 011-82-2-3777-0707) demonstrated a full lineup of TFT-LCD products for LCD TVs, desktop monitors, notebook PCs, rear-seat automotive entertainment, mobile and other...

QCIF LCD for Emerging Mobile Devices.(Quarter Common Intermediate Format Liquid Crystal Display)
November 1, 2004... A 2.2-inch QCIF + Advanced TFT LCD module to meet the needs of design engineers in North America developing new and emerging mobile devices capable of showing text, video and still images, was announced by Sharp Microelectronics, 5700 NW...

LIGHT EMITTING DISPLAYS LEDs Will Brighten LCD Displays.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Cree Inc. rolled out two new higher brightness solutions to their XThin product family which represents a new brightness milestone. Called the XT-24 and XT-27 LEDs, they have a minimum radiant flux of 24mW and 27mW respectively. Both chips are...

Stable TFTs for OLED Displays.(Thin Film Transistor)(Organic Light Emitting Diodes)
November 1, 2004... eMagin Corp. (2070 Rte. 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12540, Tel: 845/892-1900, Fax: 845/892-1901) has received notification of allowance from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding the issuance of a patent for application No. 09/957,221...

Fiber Optics in High Resolution OLED.(Organic Light Emitting Diode)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... eMagin Corp. (2070 Rte. 52, Hopewell Junction, NY 12540, Tel: 845/892-1900, Fax: 845/892-1901) was also in the news as it demonstrated its new 11.52 million pixel OLED display at the 2004 AUSA Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington DC in...

Compact LED Impacts Projection Markets.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... OSRAM Opto Semiconductor (3870 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134, Tel: 408/456-4193) is offering its new OSTAR compact high-power LED which offers more than 120 lumens output and measures 3 by 1 centimeters. The OSTAR is setting new records in...

PROJECTION DISPLAYS: 84-in. Seamless Digital Signage InfoWall.
November 1, 2004... Digital signage is making the news again. NEC Solutions of America (1250 N. Arlington Heights Rd., Itasca, Ill 60143, Tel: 630/467- 4552) is revolutionizing signage with one of the industrys largest seamless rear projection displays, projecting...

More Home Theater Displays.
November 1, 2004... Activity continues unabated in the development of projection displays for the home theater. Optoma Technology (715 Sycamore Dr., Milpitas, CA, Tel: 408/383-3700, Fax: 408/383-3701) announced a new line of front- and rear-projection displays...

Two Light, Bright Projectors.(LCD Porjectors)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... October was the month for new projectors to come onto the market. Two of the lightest and brightest were from Sony and Toshiba. Sony Corp. (16450 N. Bernardo Dr., San Diego, CA 92057, Tel: 858/942- 2674) showed a new portable model ideal for...

Interchangeable Lenses Bring Versatility.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... "This is the brightest LCD projector Canon has ever introduced," claims Yukiaki Hashimoto, senior VP and general manager of the Consumer Imaging Group. "The Canon LV-7565 LCD projector and its exceptional array of optional Canon lenses provide...

HEADUP DISPLAYS: Productivity, Service Helps Auto Dealer.(Nomad Systems)
November 1, 2004... Norm Reeves Honda Superstore in Cerritos, CA, the worlds largest Honda auto dealer, is scheduled to adopt the Nomad Systemthe worlds first wearable, wireless computer with a head-worn, head- up display. Automotive technicians and service...

NEW TECHNOLOGY: TFT-LCD Driver IC for Mobile Phones.
November 1, 2004... Samsung Electronics (Sun Ghae Park, Seoul, Korea, Tel: 82-31-209- 7037), says that it has developed a TFT-LCD driver IC chip with VGA-class resolution capable of displaying up to 260K colors for TFT-LCD panels in mobile phones. This is the...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Partners for on Screen Display Architecture.
November 1, 2004... Portrait Displays Inc. (Pleasanton, CA, Tel: 925/227-2700, Fax: 925/227-2705), a leader in visual enhancement software products for computer displays announced a strategic design-win partnership with L.G. Electronics (LGE) of South Korea to...

TV LCD Panel Joint Venture.
November 1, 2004... Hitachi Ltd., Toshiba Corp., Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. and Hitachi Displays (a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi) concluded a joint venture agreement to establish a company to manufacture and sell LCD panels for flat panel TVs. This...

Oil Prices Slam Market.(Brief Article)(Illustration)
November 1, 2004... Only three of our display stocks were up as October came to a close. The entire market was down by 5.2% for the month because of oil prices, the Middle East, the election, and the economy as a whole. Uncertainty is not good for stocks. ...

CORPORATE.
November 1, 2004... Sony Relocates its Headquarters. Sony Electronics says that the final phase of its Headquarters relocation from Park Ridge, NJ to San Diego, CA is complete. As part of the relocation, Sony Electronics has moved several business groups and...

FINANCIAL NEWS.
November 1, 2004... Cree Inc. Is Looking Good. Cree announced revenue of $95,897,000 for the first quarter of 2005, which represents a 45% increase over the companys comparable year ago period revenue of $66,211,000. Gross margin for the first quarter increased to...

PRODUCTS.
November 1, 2004... eMagin Demos Stereo TV. eMagin demonstrated its OLED-on-silicon displays in 3D stereovision at CEATAC in Chiba, Tokyo, Japan last month. Gary Jones, president and CEO, gave a presentation about the state of OLED technology and product...

STANDARDS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... LCD Inverter Special Interest Group Formed. The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) announced the formation of an LCD Inverter Special Interest Group (SIG). The inverter is the key component to drive the Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamp...

AWARDS.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... SBIR Grant to Universal Display. Universal Display Corp., Ewing, NJ, a developer of OLED technologies for flat panel displays, lighting and other opto-electronic applications, says it has been awarded a $750,000 Small Business Innovation...

PEOPLE.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... Kopin Executive Lauded. Kopin President and CEO John C.C. Fan has received the New England Business & Technology Association (NEBATA) award as one of the 10 leaders making significant contributions to the development and deployment of...

CALENDAR.(Calendar)
November 1, 2004... Dec. 8-10, 2004. 11th Annual Intl Display Workshops, Niigata Convention Center, Niigata, Japan. Visit http://idw.ee.ucc.ac.jp/regist.html. Feb. 21-24, 2005. Intl Display Mfg. Conf. and Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan. Contact...

INDUSTRY INSIGHT Advanced CRTs For Printed Images.
November 1, 2004... By Lyuji Ozawa, Display Consultant, 8 Old Grange Rd., Hopewell Junction, NY 12533, Tel: 845/896-3840. We have developed the most advanced CRTs which display images that are the equivalent to printed images on sheets of paper. The image...

Color Mixing.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... We may testify that CL lights spread from neighbor screens by the change in color of the CL lights. In a color CRT, the luminance which is determined by colorimetry is composed of 60% green lights, 30% red lights, and 10% blue lights. According...

Pigment Misinterpretation.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... It should be noted that the pigment role has been misinterpreted as absorption of ambient lights in the room. Actually, the contrast of images (CR) is given by the ratio of spread light intensity Is from neighbor screens to emitted CL light...

Adjusting Eyes.(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... On the other hand, LCDs display a dark image with point scan, which can be watched in a dark room. Them an LCD applies an area scan, like a slide projector, with open tine of image pixels for about 50,000 times of point scan. There are two...

Conclusion.(CRT-materials)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2004... The CRT provides bright and clear images on a phosphor screen that are equivalent to printed images on paper. The brighter, flicker less, sharp, and high color fidelity images on a CRT screen may not damage the eyes by watching images in an...