Development and Volume Production of Postage Stamp Size Fingerprint Authentication module by OKI Semiconductor
Oki Semiconductor made an announcement on development and high volume production of a compact postage stamp sized finger print authentication module. The newly developed MK67Q5250 LSI will allow designers to add the module and interact with it over a simple physical and logical interface with little impact to the existing system where previously required design and procurement of hardware as well as need for development of software around the fingerprint sensor and processing engine plus the development of a new board. Read more
Commercial development of Tuning Fork Crystal for Automotive Application by Epson Toyocom
Epson Toyocom Corporation has made an announcement today on commercial development of FC-13A which is a tuning-fork crystal featuring operating capability at temperature of around 125 degrees Celsius targeted at automotive applications. The output frequency of FC-13A is 32.768 kHz and it only measures 3.2 x 1.5 mm with a maximum thickness of 0.9 mm with operating temperature range of -40 to 125 degrees Celsius. The unit is considered as the core component in sub-clocks and time management function. Read more
Development of Talking Poster by Dai Nippon Printing
The newly developed “Pos-La Sound Panel” by DNP is a talking poster where the entire poster becomes a speaker and produce high quality sound. The company’s aim in developing this product was directed in raising audience attention by incorporating sound into the posters whether it is for advertisement or for other guidance purposes. The “Pos-La Sound Panel” is capable of providing sound information such as product information, guidance or music which is related to a poster’s image. Read more
Development of Super resolution ASSP for boosting low-resolution images by NEC
Rapid development of today’s high performance digital audio/visual devices such as digital TV, mobile phones has brought up on the consumer the challenge of viewing low-resolution images on their high-definition electronic products. One example of such deficiency is in viewing the 720 x 480 pixel SD image data on 1920 x 1080 pixel high definition TV resulting in blurred images. The traditional image enhancement technologies in processing low-resolution image data into full HD images requires a large capacity external memory devices as well as high-performance computing engines which would still leave designers of such products with challenges of achieving real-time image processing in order to comes up with vivid moving images. Read more
Development of Five-primary-Color LCD display by Sharp
Market for displays capable of rendering colors to match appearance of naturally occurring surface or designed colors in such fields as industrial design, digital archiving, network-based remote medical care and electronic commerce is gaining in popularity. Based on this need there has been intensifying efforts to come up with a solution in achieving this capability. One such effort has resulted in development of natural vision technology, a technology for rendering color images identical in appearance to real-world objects. Read more
Development of industry’s thinnest solar module for mobile devices by Sharp
This follows our earlier article on Sharp newly announced SOLAR HYBRID 936SH equipped with solar panel on the back of its body. The new solar module LR0GC02 which is targeted for mobile devices features a thickness of only 0.8 mm the industry’s thinnest. The new LR0GC02 thinness has been achieved based on use of compact semiconductor packaging technology. Read more
Development of new inkjet technology for OLED display fabrication process by Seiko Epson
OLED televisions are considered as the next generation of display but in spite of their outstanding viewing characteristics such as high contrast, wide viewing angle, fast response time plus their light weight, ultra-thinness and low power consumption, the mass production of large screen OLED TVs has been hampered by lack of a technology capable of reliably forming uniform organic layers on large substrates limiting their application to small screen Laptop PCs and mobile phone screens as well other mobile devices with screen. Up to now, the method for depositing organic materials has been Vacuum thermal evaporation (VTE), but this method has an inherent technical difficulty in overcoming layer uniformity issue making it difficult to start a mass production of large OLED panels. Read more
Development of High performance standalone Drive Recorder IC
Use of drive recorders in recent years has expanded from automobile diagnostics and accident situations to use in support equipment in promoting safer driving and greater efficiency by recording and analyzing operating conditions and driving behavior which has been proven to reduce rate of accident by 10 to 50% and at the same time improving on fuel efficiency by up to 20% helping with CO2 emission in such commercial vehicles as buses, trucks and taxis. But up to now high cost of a commercially available standard driver recorder plus a need for separate PC for such system to use the recorded data has hampered its widespread adoption in consumer vehicles. In response to this need ROHM has developed a monolithic drive recorder IC with high operational performance and standalone capability eliminating any needs for separate PCs. Read more
Development of Solar Cells with World’s highest Energy Conversion efficiency by SANYO
Looks like Sanyo is all alone in this field by breaking its own record in developing the world’s highest energy conversion efficiency of 23% for crystalline silicon type solar cells for a practical size of 100 cm2 or more. The solar cell is of HIT (Heterojunction with Intrinsic Thin layer) type composed of thin crystalline silicon wafer sandwiched by ultra-thin amorphous silicon layer. HIT structure offers a reduction of recombination loss of the electrical element (charged carrier) by surrounding the energy generating layer of single thin crystalline silicon (c-Si) with high quality ultra thin amorphous silicon (a-Si) layers. Read more
Development of system boards for Drive Recorders employing industry first 180° Wide-Angle Lens by Sharp
Drive recorders are like black boxes on the Airplanes capable of capturing images and other information immediately from before and after an occurrence of accident. The Driver recorders have been installed in trucks, buses, taxis and other commercial vehicles but now it is find its way in private vehicles. The newly developed system board LR0G840 and LR0G841 by Sharp is equipped with a 180° Wide-Angle Lens capable of covering the view ahead, to the left, and to the right of the vehicle. The capability of LR0G840 and LR0G841 goes further by recording a high resolution images even at a wide angle view as a result of image sensor and image compression technology developed by Sharp. Read more
