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What They Say On the 3rd June, SMPTE is running an event on colour called “Expanding the Color Universe: The Next Frontier in Imaging”. In the program, the aim is tol discuss the impact of adding additional primaries on the color gamut: reduction in metamerism and the ability to provide expanded colors outside the current … Read more
As Tiledmedia’s math guru (not my own words :-), I get to solve the challenging problems. Here’s an interesting one: fisheye calibration. Let me explain. Working with Cosm, we supply client-side technology for a major upcoming sports event late this summer. (Naming the event will require me to get all sorts of permissions and I … Read more
The HbbTV Association, a global initiative dedicated to providing open standards for advanced interactive TV services through broadcast and broadband networks to connected TV sets and set-top boxes, is pleased to announce the simultaneous release of the 2021-1 version of the HbbTV Conformance Test Suite and the Test Assertions Repository (TAR). About the 2021-1 Test … Read more
What They Say We reported a link to the Tooz devkit launch in Germany, but optics.org dug a little deeper. The kit was launched in China in January and is now available in Germany. Tooz said that “innovative companies and institutions like TomTom, adidas Runtastic, Else Kröner Fresenius Center for Digital Health Dresden and many … Read more
What They Say Optics.org reported that a project at the University of Rochester, in the US has developed a fabrication procedure for combining metasurfaces and freeform optics into one optical component, offering designers a route to simplifying the architectures of miniaturized optical systems. The work was published in Science Advances. “There has not been any … Read more
What They Say Yonhap in Korea reports that because it is not expected to launch new Galaxy Note models this August, Samsung may bring forward the timings for its next set of smartphones. The firm is said to be in talks with local service providers to introduce the Galaxy S21 FE, the Galaxy Z Fold3 … Read more
What They Say Digitimes Research said that Q1 shipments of large LCDs from Taiwan (excluding Sharp) was down 3.4% but was up 51.5% to 72.25 million units with notebook panels down just 2.6% as Hannstar moved some smartphone panel production to notebooks. Chinese makers hit 45% of the market globally in Q1 but Samsung Display … Read more
What They Say Sigmaintell Research of China published its early May edition of TV panel price trends and it shows a continuing increase in pricing from April to May from $2 on 32″ panels to 9$ on 75″ in an open cell configuration. The firm said that demand growth is stabilising with regional differences because … Read more
What They Say Apple is to invest $410 million in II-VI a US maker of optics and lasers that will allow the firm to boost its manufacturing capacity. The firm makes VCSELs that Apple said are used to power Face ID, Memoji, Animoji, and Portrait mode selfies. Apple also said that it works with II-VI … Read more
What They Say A group from Stanford University has published a paper on April 23 in Nature Communications, that allows engineers to fine tune the frequencies of individual photons in a stream of light to create any desired mix of colours. Stanford gave a less technical view that we have extracted from in this article. … Read more
What They Say One of the bellwether companies that we keep an eye on is UDC and it reported revenues of $134 million which was a reduction of 5.3% from the $141.5 million in Q4 2020. However it was up by 19.3% from $112.3 million last year. Net income was $51.7 million. Net income was … Read more
Beachfront, the convergent TV advertising platform, announced today the completion of a national addressable TV ad execution with VIZIO adhering to the technical specifications of Open Addressable Ready (OAR), the consortium founded by VIZIO to establish an open standard for addressable advertising on connected TVs. “Widespread and continued support for the OAR spec has been … Read more
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