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Kyocera Experiments with Haptics & Gesture for Autos

by Bob Raikes

Kyocera started by showing us a demonstration of an ASIC that it has developed to allow haptic feedback, using piezoelectric actuators. Especially in automotive and industrial applications, it is important that the user has …

Tags:Automotive| Gesture Recognition| Haptics| Kyocera| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Osram Concentrates on Automotive and HUD LEDs

by Bob Raikes

Osram is a successful local supplier of LEDs that is doing well in the market at the moment. It had a big booth that was mostly about applications other than displays. The first application …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| LED| Mobile Display Monitor| Osram| Vol 23 - Issue 45

ITRI Introduces an Innovative Automotive HUD

by Arthur Berman

The Smart Microsystems Technology Center at ITRI (Hsinchu, Taiwan) has developed a so-called Long-Distance Floating Multi-Screen Head-up Display for automotive applications. First, a few words of background on the reasons why ITRI felt that …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Pico Projectors| Vol 23 - Issue 47

VW Will Include AR HUD in Electric Vehicle

by Norbert Hildebrand

During the Paris Autoshow, VW introduced its future electric car, the VW I.D. In an article Autocar, reported on an interview with chief VW designer Klaus Bischoff and their development of this new electric …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Road to Connected Car Runs Through Samsung

by Steve Sechrist

Samsung Electronics made an $8B (all cash) tender offer to acquire US based Harman International Industries, Inc., a leading auto system integrator with a heavy focus on business to business (B to B) IoT …

Tags:Automotive| Connected Car Consortium| Internet of Things IOT| Market| Mergers & Acquisitions| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Samsung Buys Harman for $8 bn

by Bob Raikes

Samsung bought Harman, which specialises in technology for connected cars. It is paying $8 billion in cash for the business. Analyst Comment Steve covered this story in a Display Daily Road to Connected Car …

Tags:Automotive| Mergers & Acquisitions| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Vol 23 - Issue 45

An Interesting Week at JDI

by Norbert Hildebrand

The last week has been a very interesting one for Japan Display Inc (JDI). First they released their quarterly results (not so great), then they announced a cooperation with E Ink to develop electrophoretic …

Tags:Automotive| Digital Signage| EPD (Electrophoretic)| Japan Display Inc (JDI)| Mobile Display Monitor| Mobile Phones| Opinion| Vol 23 - Issue 45

Hyundai Tracking Cars for Signage

by Bob Raikes

Hyundai has started a campaign in the UK for its Ioniq vehicle that uses vehicle recognition technology from Ocean to identify cars from their registration details and to display customised messages aimed at drivers …

Tags:Automotive| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| Vol 23 - Issue 43

Uber, Ubering, and Ubered. I Finally Ubered.

by Kenneth Li

During my decades of working life, I have travelled around the world many times and rented cars and hailed taxis endless number of times. Usually, for a one-day trip, I used taxis, and for …

Tags:Automotive| Vol 23 - Issue 42

Apple

Bloomberg Says Apple Scaling Down Automotive

by Bob Raikes

Bloomberg reports that Apple has scaled back its work on its automotive interests, with the company focussing on software for automotive applications. Large numbers of individuals in Apple are reported to have been given …

Tags:Apple| Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 41

60 Exhibitors Show Their Wares at the 2016 Vehicle Displays Conference

by Ken Werner

The 23rd Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays, held in Livonia, Michigan, on September 27 and 28, incorporated an exhibition at which 60 companies, including many Tier 1 suppliers, displayed their wares. Among the exhibitors …

Tags:Automotive| EL (Electroluminescent)| LCD displays| Mobile Display Monitor| OLEDs| SID - Vehicle Displays 2016| VFDs (Vacuum Fluorescent Displays)| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Vehicle Displays 2016 Technical Conference: Autonomous Vehicles and HMI are Converging

by Ken Werner

The Society for Information Display’s Detroit Chapter sponsored its 23rd Annual Symposium on Vehicle Displays in Livonia, Michigan, on September 27 and 28. This year’s edition was called “Vehicle Displays and Interfaces 2016.” Attendance …

Tags:Automotive| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| SID - Vehicle Displays 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 39