Litemax is a supplier of specialist displays from Taiwan and has a range of displays including units approved for transport applications. At the show it had a 43″ UltraHD display with 1,800 cd/m² of output and supporting the Dicom grey scale curve for medical applications (although it is not yet Dicom approved). It is intended to be sunlight readable. It is also developing a 32″ version and both are based on LG IPS panels.
Litemax has a 31.5″ medical LCD with high brightness. Image:Meko
An unusual product is a ‘dual’ 36.5″ display that creates a 1.8m ‘stretch’ display that was developed for a specific customer application. The company licenses cutting technology from Pixel Scientific (previously Tannas) and although, earlier, an exhibitor had suggested that ‘cut’ displays could suffer from lifetime issues with problems from the seals, Litemax told us that it has not seen such problems and was happy to warranty its displays for a year, or ‘longer by negotiation’. It also pointed out that there are close to twenty licensees, so there will inevitably be a range of qualities available in the market.
Litemax has stretch displays including a dual display developed for a client. Image:Meko
Tianma was at the show, but had nothing new since Mobile World last month and CES in January – we’ll have to wait until SID for the next release of technology!
Chinese OPS and system maker, Weibu, was at the show with Newline Interactive which was showing an interactive display, the Trutouch X, for education and corporate applications. The display has some basic functions built-in but was running Windows on a Wiebu OPS-E300U system at the show. The OPS system uses an Intel G6 Skylake processor selection and supports 4K 60Hz playback. Weibu is an Intel partner. The Newline has its own apps for meetings and an unusual feature of the display is that there are cameras at the top and bottom of the display. The top one can be used for conferencing when participants are seated, but the top one can be used if the presenter is using the display. There are four microphones to capture high quality audio. Displays in the series are available from 55″ to 86″ and the company told us that it has both distributors and OEMs around Europe. The firm, which is based in Plano, Texas, told us that it has enough scale to buy open-cell LCDs and make its own sets. It’s European base is in Madrid, Spain.
WinMate had a range of displays and panel PCs that can support very low backlight operation for night time use and can support backlight dimming down to around 5% of full brightness. The company was showing PCap solutions based on metal mesh technology. A new product was a 32″ IPS ultraHD display that the company said had a wide colour gamut, but staff couldn’t tell us more about the specification, although it was said to be good for military and defence applications.
Wisechip, which makes PMOLEDs in Taiwan, was at the show with flexible passive OLEDs for wearables and was also showing its transparent segmented OLED for HUD applications which is said to be albe to produce 1,000 cd/m² and can support four colours.
Image: Wisechip
