Turning to automotive displays, LGD sees a desire for high resolution with a 12.3″ WQHD+ (2880 x 1080) gently curved LCD with 1,000 cd/m² of brightness and 1,000:1 contrast. Colour gamut was quoted at 85%. The panel uses an a-si backplane and the brightness comes from the use of LGD’s M+ RGBW technology. There was also an 8″ FullHD version of the panel.
A further automotoive display was showing what LGD called “Deep Black”. The panel had a 2,000:1 native contrast ratio, but also had a direct backlit configuration for very high contrast.
The 25WFHD is described as a “Waterfall” display and is designed for centre consoles. The 25″ 21:9 display has 2560 x 1080 format, 1000 cd/m² of brightness, 1,000:1 contrast and 72% gamut. The panel is bent into an “S” shape with a double curve to fit well into a car.
LGD’s Waterfall display is for auto centre consoles
LGD sees opportunities for its AIT in-cell touch displays in automotive and had a 10.25″ 1920 x 720 and a 9.2″ 1280 x 720 unit. Both can support glove touch (5mm leather) and LGD claims a signal to noise ratio of 50:1 for its AIT technique.
Finally in the automotive area, we looked at some plastic-based OLED displays including a 12.3″ FullHD panel based on LTPS and with thickness of just 0.58mm, contrast of more than 100,000:1 and brightness of 600 cd/m². The panel is said to be capable of bending to 350R radius.
The last small displays we looked at were 1.38″ circle displays with 480 x 480 resolution and built on an LTPS backplane. Bezels are 3.0/3.2/2.2/2.2 mm (U/D/L/R), brightness is 400 cd/m², contrast is more than 100,000:1 and colour gamut “100%”, which we take to be NTSC, but was not stated. The weight is just 1.2gms.
There was an impressive technology of a large and extremely flexible OLED being rolled up. The display had an 18″ diagonal and is rated by LGD as meeting a 30R curve.
