Infocomm 2015 – Page 8 – Display Daily

Panasonic Shows Projection Mapping

by Helen Vince

Panasonic showed a couple of interesting projection mapping solutions at InfoComm 2015. One was illuminating a car and one incorporated a tablet-based augmented reality capability.

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Mapping & Cartography| Panasonic| Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Philips Shows Backward Compatible HDR Signal Transport at Display Summit 2015

by Helen Vince

Philips used the Display Summit to show how it can deliver an SDR (standard dynamic range) video stream with metadata that can be used to derive an HDR (high dynamic range) image for an …

Tags:HDR - High Dynamic Range| Infocomm 2015| Philips| Vol 22 - Issue 26

NEC Shows Blended Whiteboard Application

by Helen Vince

NEC showed how it can blend multiple short throw projectors to create an interactive white board solution for corporate or education markets.

Tags:Infocomm 2015| NEC| Projectors| Short Throw| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sharma Calls for Industry to Measure with Lab* (DS10)

by Bob Raikes

Dr Abhay Sharma is a Color Consultant from Abhay Consulting and he is also a professor from Toronto University. He started by saying that we need numbers to measure colour, and he doesn’t understand …

rpVisuals Shows Ribbon of Content on Multiple Display Technologies

by Helen Vince

rpVisuals had a very nice demo where the same content was shown on a number of displays all side by side. This included front and rear projection, LCD and LED.

Tags:Infocomm 2015| Rear Projection| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Sony Shows First Laser Phosphor Projector Capable of HDR

by Helen Vince

Sony showed several new 3LCD projectors with laser phosphor technology, but the most interesting one is a new 4k SXRD projector that will show 80% of the 2020 gamut. It is also the first …

Anoto Shows Novel Pen-Display Interface with 600 dpi Resolution

by Helen Vince

Anoto has a new film for pen input that offers very fine detail reproduction – up to 600 or more dpi. (This technology was also used by Panasonic on its ToughPad 4k tablet as …

Tags:Film materials| Infocomm 2015| Pen Input| Vol 22 - Issue 26

BenQ Wants Brightness Measured with sRGB (DS9)

by Bob Raikes

Felix Pementel of BenQ looked at what makes a great image on a projector. “Do you really give the consumer the specifications they really need to make a good buying decisions?”, he asked. He …

Insight Reports on ColorSpark Testing (DS8)

by Bob Raikes

Chris Chinnock of Insight Media gave more details about the testing of solid state projectors that it carried out to help get a sense of what users thought of the new ColorSpark technology, side …

Philips Boosts LED Projection With ColorSpark (DS7)

by Bob Raikes

Peter Vankan is R&D Director for Philips Lighting which also has responsibility for projection light sources as well as general lighting. First, Vankan looked back to 1994, when the company first made the UHP …

Delta Shows First Laser Cube and Updates Interactive Display

by Bob Raikes

Delta used InfoComm 2015 to show the world’s first rear-projection cube based on a laser-phosphor DLP engine. It increases brightness from 350 nits to 750 nits, but does sacrifice lifetime and color gamut. The …

Tags:Delta| DLP Projectors| Infocomm 2015| Laser Projectors| Vol 22 - Issue 26

Microlite Brings LCD Approach to Projection Screens (DS6)

by Bob Raikes

Martin Chien is from Microlite Screen which has a new technology for projection screens for wide viewing angles. It is a new company, but Chien has more than ten years experience in screens. Projection …

Tags:Display Summit 2015| Infocomm 2015| Large Display Monitor| Projection Screens| Vol 22 - Issue 26