June 2, 2015, Society for Information Display Symposium, San Jose, CA—Jitenda Malik from UC Berkeley presented details on current work in information extraction from color plus depth images. The addition of the depth information eases much of the effort needed to extract features within the images. When we assume the sensing is done with and…
June 2015 – This year the SID Display Week conference makes it way to the heart of Silicon Valley to the San Jose Convention Cetner. This conference which is one of the premier events of the display manufacturing and design industry. The conference has many aspects this year : A full day of a business…
May 17, 2011, SID, Los Angeles—Shuji Nakamura, professor at UCSB described his efforts to realize high-output white solid state lamps and lasers. His is a historical perspective and the current status is for bright prospects. Nakamura spent most of his professional career working on LEDs and laser diodes. Italy’s been pursuing emitters in like bands…
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—Phil McNally, who calls himself “Captain 3-D” is a stereoscopic supervisor at DreamWorks Animation. He talked about his transition form 3-D as a hobby into 3-D as his career. McNally is now a stereo supervisor at DreamWorks and finds that stories authored in 3-D are enhanced by…
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—Yashiro Koike, professor at Keio University in Japan espoused on the possibilities for overwhelmingly realistic face-to-face communications based on polymer technologies. The need for greater bandwidth requires ongoing research into polymers. Currently, computer users interact with their machines through displays and keyboards. The technology is available to…
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—We talked to Takahiro Ikezaki, vp of the electronics flat glass division from Asahi Glass Company about their latest developments. Thin and tough were the key words for the talks. Stress Test on DragonTail glass (Three-point bending with 1.1 mm-thick glass) Their latest cover glass…
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—We talked to some folks from Corning Glass about their latest developments. Thinner, stronger, and also non-planar were the main topics. One really interesting display was a glass substrate that is 0.05 mm thick and is bendable. In their display, they had a 6-inch wide, 10-foot section…
May 17, 2011, Society for Information Display, Los Angeles—We talked to Rick Heineman, vp of marketing communications and Robert Mayson, president of the consumer electronics division at RealD about their latest announcements. These include universal active shutter glasses and integrated high resolution 3-D LCD panels and displays from Samsung. The universal active 3D eyewear technology…