Development of QHD High Temperature Polysilicon TFT LCD by EPSON
Epson is at it again by their announcement on development of yet another version of high temperature polysilicon TFT color panel for electronic viewfinders. This time the new panel offers QHD a 960 x 540 resolution in red, green and blue with a total of 1.56 megapixels which would be ideal for widescreen electronic viewfinder in broadcast and industrial camcorder for professionals. Development of this type of displays has been driven by spread of wide screen, high-definition content via digital broadcasts and high-definition video players which demanded improvement in image quality as well as improvement in features on camcorders and their smaller form factor and lightness for improved mobility. Read more
High Definition LCD Digital Photo Frame by Fujifilm
With the booming digital photo frame market in Japan, manufacturers find themselves in a heated competition in introducing new functionality to the original model of this product. Fujifilm is no exception by introducing their DP-7V a high definition LCD digital photo frame featuring multi functional capabilities. With DP-7V the user can enjoy watching videos and slide shows of digital photos with music. Read more
Development of New Color Active-Matrix TFT Liquid Crystal Display
Toshiba Mobile Display (TMD) made an announcement on development of a new color active-matrix thin-film transistor liquid crystal display module targeted at industrial applications such as test and measurement equipment, medical equipment, mobile computing devices to name a few. The newly developed display is equipped with LED backlight systems featuring an MTBF3 of 100,000 hours. LED backlit display contrary to CCFL (cold-cathode fluorescent lamp) offers a lower electromagnetic noise and lower power consumption and wider adjustable luminance range. 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
World’s first Notebook PC with Optical Sensor LCD by Sharp
Sharp newly released PC-NJ70A-B/-W Mebius series Notebook PC equipped with optical sensor LCD world’s first offers the user with much improved Handwriting Recognition plus Finger-Touch Expression capability. Based on the new touch sensing recognition technology the 4-inch optical sensor LCD pad a on this newly developed notebook PC offers pen-based input of drawings and text as well as multiple finger touch gesture capability allowing users to enlarge, shrink, or rotate items on its screen. This capability is in addition to conventional track pad and mouse operational capability. Read more
Development of highly flexible new conductive material by Fujifilm
ITO or otherwise known as “Indium tin oxide” is mainly used to form the transparent conducting coatings for wide array of applications such as Liquid Crystal Display (LCD), flat panel display, plasma display, touch panels, electronic ink, organic light-emitting diodes, solar cells, etc. But due to high cost and limited supply of indium, the fragility and lack of flexibility of ITO plus the costly layer deposition requiring vacuum manufacturers of such products are looking for alternatives. Based on this, Fujifilm made an announcement on a newly developed conductive material to replace ITO for transparent electrodes in above applications according to Fujifilm. Read more
JVC’s new 3D liquid crystal display
Japan Victor Company (JVC) has unveiled its new 46-inch professional 3D LCD which will be targeted for business use. The GD-463D10 has a resolution of 1920 x 1080 and by use of polarized filters the GD-463D10 is capable of reproducing 3D images viewable by wearing a pair of dedicated circular polarized glasses. The GD-463D10 through use of Xpol polarizing filter method allocates right and left images respectively to the odd- and even-numbered lines and then displays the images through its polarizing filters. Read more
Mitsubishi new industrial TFT LCD modules
Mitsubishi Electric made its announcement on three new industrial TFT LCD modules on company’s “Diafine” product series. The new modules offer much improved light reflectance nearly 90% lower than that of their predecessors. Mitsubishi achieved this improvement through introduction of resin bonding a 3mm thick protective glass panel on the entire module’s surface. The normal applications for such modules would be for outdoor equipment like POS, ATM machines etc. Read more
Panasonic new VIERA with built-in diversity antenna
The new slim and stylish VIERA “TH-L17F1” which was unveiled by Panasonic on March the 4th comes with four built in digital terrestrial antennas and a newly developed tuner capable of combining all their signals in creating a high quality image. The “TH-L17F1” can pick up all the 12 channels of Japan’s digital TV broadcasts plus the 1Seg broadcast at the point the signal strength weakens. The 17 inch “TH-L17F1” Edge-type LED Backlight LCD HDTV has a light-guiding plate that enhances the uniformity of light and light diffusion film fit into this slim and stylish body with only 17.4 mm in Depth. Read more
Cybershot DSC-HX1 by Sony
Sony unveiled its new compact camera Cybershot DSC-HX1 which among multitude of features has panorama picture taking functionality. Powered by Sony’s Exmor CMOS sensor and BIONZ processor “Sweep Panorama” is a new shooting mode allowing its user to capture wide landscapes or skyscrapers with ease beyond the capability of traditional wide angle lens. Through wide and ultra wide setting and horizontal or vertical directions in sweep panorama mode the user is able to take up to 224 degree horizontal or 154 degree vertical shots. By the way this is Sony’s first CyberShot that uses the Exmor CMOS technology. Read more
