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What They Say The US Patent Office has overturned a decision, previously in favour of Solas IP over a patent on flexible touch displays. The Patent office ruled that the patent was not itself valid as it was deemed ‘obvious’. The patent number was 9,256,311 and the decision is set out here. What We Think … Read more
Virtual Reality has long been considered a springboard for empathy. In his TED talk, Chris Milk refers to virtual reality as an “ultimate empathy machine”. Fernanda Herrera, a Stanford University researcher, suggests that “VR is good for perspective taking”. She explains: “We start having body cognition, adopting virtual characteristics into our own; we start thinking … Read more
With all the noticeable clamor these days for virtual reality, I felt it was the right opportunity to highlight some of the findings of a recent survey on VR’s impact on education. Designed with diversity and inclusion top of mind, Future Workplace and Mursion collaborated to publish a VR adoption survey of more than 305 … Read more
I was recently able to attend an online webinar organised by Sigmaintell, a market research company in China and SID China. There were two sessions, one on large area displays and one on mobile displays and semiconductors. I was able to join the one on small displays and it was a useful summary of ‘where … Read more
The TFT LCD shipments for automotive monitor are reached 43.0 million with 19% QoQ growth in 4Q20 according to Omdia’s Automotive Display Market Tracker. TFT LCD shipments for automotive monitors dropped in 2Q20 but sharply rebounded from 3Q20. And in 4Q20, the TFT LCD shipments have 4% YoY growth from 4Q19 and shipment volumes have … Read more
Owing to demand generated by the persistent stay-at-home economy last year and from the emerging markets in certain developing countries, global TV shipment for 2021 is expected to reach 223 million units, a 3.1% growth YoY, according to TrendForce’s latest investigations. The delay of UEFA Euro 2020 and the Tokyo Olympics until this summer will … Read more
Epson, the leading global projector brand, has expanded its laser projector line-up with a new range of compact, high brightness 3LCD laser projectors designed to meet the display needs in education, corporates, museums and visitor attractions. The new range has been designed to deliver large-scale, vivid displays to help modernise education and corporate environments and … Read more
The global smartphone display panel market clocked total revenue of $43 billion in 2020, according to the Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies service report, “Smartphone Display Panel Market Share Q4 2020: Samsung Display Remains Top, Achieves Record Revenue Share.” Strategy Analytics finds that Samsung Display took the leadership in the smartphone display panel market with … Read more
What They Say According to our friend, Dr. Jon Peddie, Intel’s new CEO, Pat Gelsinger, has rapidly set-out what is being called his “Integrated Device Manufacturing 2.0” (IDM 2.0) plan. Under the plan. the firm will start to act more as a foundry for other chip designers and will also expand its use of third … Read more
Big, order-of-magnitude changes are going to continue to come to display tech during 2021. Devices will be smaller, smarter, and more nimble. From phones to cars to AI, display technology will change the way we work, live, and play. Unfolding the Future of Phones They say necessity is the mother of invention. And it seemed … Read more
As increasing numbers of devices gain electronic functionality, many new applications will require some sort of display. This growth in functional, wirelessly connected devices is an exciting technological transition that could radically reshape how we interact with previously inanimate objects. The opportunities are especially pronounced for low-cost displays that can be incorporated into cheap and … Read more
The subject is emitting materials for OLED displays. Let’s review. What are now called first-generation materials were (and are) fluorescent emitters. Without troubling you with molecular quantum mechanics, these materials eventually create a maximum of one photon for each four incoming electrons. That’s an internal quantum efficiency (IQE) of 25%. Since not all of the … Read more
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