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Ford Faces Legal Claims over Touch Failure

by Bob Raikes

The issues related to supplying the automotive market have been highlighted by a class action that is being brought in the US against Ford Motor Co that relates to problems that are claimed to …

Tags:Automotive| Litigation| Mobile Display Monitor| USA| Vol 23 - Issue 39

Autonomous Vehicles Require More — NOT Fewer — Displays

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| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Lexus UX Concept Has New Display

by Bob Raikes

At the Paris motor show, Lexus showed a concept car that had a novel interface. The driver’s instrument binnacle houses a transparent globe, floating like a hologram, Lexus said, in which a combination of …

Tags:Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 38

Continental Brings HUDs to Trucks

by Norbert Hildebrand

As a head-up display (HUD) is becoming an available option on most luxury and many midsize cars, Continental is now bringing the HUD to commercial vehicles. They are developing a model that either works …

Tags:Automotive| Head Up Displays HUDs| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 37

E Ink Display Used on Trucks

by Milos Pavlovic

Visionect of Slovenia is developing new applications for E Ink display technology and has started a project with RoadAds Interactive of Germany to put billboards based on E Ink displays and which are being …

Tags:Automotive| E Ink| Large Display Monitor| Transport| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Seat Uses LG Screens

by Yvette Raikes

Three flagship Seat stores in Germany piloted an interactive digital signage system, which uses LG screens of up to 65″ with quad core SoC processors. As well as being able to access general information, …

Tags:Automotive| Germany| Large Display Monitor| LG Electronics (LGE)| SOCs| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Automotive Display Panel Shipments to Go Up – needs pic

by Yvette Raikes

Thanks to the greater number of display panels in cars, automotive display panel shipments worldwide will rise from 157 million panels in 2015 to 207 million units in 2019, according to Digitimes Research, giving …

Tags:Automotive| Market Data| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 35

Daimler’s Zetsche Discusses Improvements Coming to Mercedes Cars

by Chris Chinnock

Daimler’s CEO Dieter Zetsche delivered a keynote address at IFA this year which focused on three new features coming to Mercedes automobiles. These include Office Manager, Fitness Coach and Personal Assistant. Office Manager is …

Tags:Automotive| IFA 2016| Large Display Monitor| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 36

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Innolux To sell 8-9 Million Auto Panels in 2016

by Milos Pavlovic

Innolux expects to ship 8 or 9 million display panels for automotive use this year, with prestigious brands including Mercedes, BMW and Porsche, according to Asian sources who got the information at Touch Taiwan. …

Tags:Automotive| Innolux| Large Display Monitor| Touch Taiwan 2016| Vol 23 - Issue 35| Vol 23 - Issue 36

Toshiba Launches Video Processor for High Resolution Automotive Panels

by Milos Pavlovic

Toshiba has announced the “TC90175XBG,” a new addition to its line-up of video processors for high resolution automotive displays. Sample shipments start today, with mass production scheduled to start in the first half of …

Tags:Automotive| Chips| Mobile Display Monitor| Semiconductors| Vol 23 - Issue 34

Audi Customer ‘Driving’ in the Showroom

by Isaac Oburu

myAudi Sphere, a virtual reality application from Audi has been incorporated in the recently reopened Audi Forum at Munich airport which has been closed for renovations. Developed by Macom, myAudi Sphere lets customers see …

Tags:3D| Automotive| Mobile Display Monitor| Virtual Reality| Vol 23 - Issue 34

Two More Years for LG’s Flexible Automotive Displays

by Isaac Oburu

LG Display Automotive Sales and Marketing director, Sanghyun Ahn, has said that LGD’s 12.3″ FHD flexible OLED panels will enter production in 2018 and he also revealed that the company is also developing larger …

Tags:Automotive| Events| Korea| LG Displays (LGD)| Mobile Display Monitor| Vol 23 - Issue 33