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SID
Evening Talk
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Subject:
What's all the Hype about touch screens and multi-touch?
Abstract
The Apple I-phone has generated a lot of buzz about touch
screens and multi-touch capability. This presentation will
start with a discussion of Touch screen technologies including
resistive, IR crossed light, Surface Acoustic Wave, Capacitive
- surface and projected, and IR cameras including the
Microsoft table top. Then get into a discussion of multi-touch
technologies with different vendor definitions.
Multi-touch can be expressed as
a 2 touch indication that provides pinch, rotate, and zoom
capabilities or as a full 10 finger multi-touch capability
with touch and track. The fundamentals of multi-touch will be
discussed and the truth will be revealed.
Speakers
A team of engineers from 3M Touch systems will discuss the
topic. They include project engineers, development engineers,
and program managers with 30 years experience in Touch
technologies.
Speakers:
Dave Henry, Program Manager
Rodrigo Gomes, New Product Development Manager
Tom Rebeschi, Senior Design Specialist
SID
New England Annual Dinner
Thursday February 12, 2009
Westford Regency
Inn and Conference Center
219 Littleton Road
Westford, MA 01886(978) 692-8200
5:30 - 7:00 Networking
Reception & Cocktails
7:00 - 8:00 Dinner
8:00 - 9:00 Feature Presentation "3D Displays; Chris
Chinnock"
9:00 - 9:15 Q & A
The evening will be focused on
3D display technologies with Chris Chinnock (President,
Insight Media) as our featured speaker and table top exhibits
of 3D display technologies before dinner.
The engaging digital 3D
experience...
latest overview of 3D related display applications,
technology, and standards development for cinema, consumer, or
professional applications.
Setting the stage, a useful
reference family tree that briefly describes the more popular
approaches and organizes these approaches to better understand
the features and benefits of each will be presented.
Highlighting cinema
technologies with a brief description of home technologies,
new information about how we will personally experience 3D
everyday such as 3D cinema, 3D television, 3D gaming, 3D
advertizing, and 3D cell phones. New prospects for
glasses-free (autostereoscopic) 3D displays in professional
applications, with some compromises in the viewing zones and
resolution, are finding new uses and expanding markets in
signage, office lobbies and entertainment. The status of
commercial displays plus anecdotes with the latest news from
CES provides the up-to-date picture of the blossoming 3D
opportunity.
About the
Speaker
Chris Chinnock
President
Insight Media
Chris Chinnock is the President
of Insight Media, a market research, publishing and consulting
firm focused on the emerging parts of the display industry
including 3D, LED/Laser displays, e-paper/flexible displays,
green display technolopgy and more. Mr. Chinnock is also the
co-founder of the 3D @ Home Consortium, a 39-member
organization dedicated to speeding the adoption of 3D in the
home. In addition to the leadership and information services
that Insight Media provides to the 3D @ Home Consortium, the
firm is perhaps the leading source of information about the 3D
industry. It offers a series of reports (3D Technology, 3DTV,
Autostereoscopic 3D, 3D for Gaming (coming) and 3D for Mobile
Applications (coming)), conferences (3D BizEx), news (Large
Display Report and Mobile Display Report) and consulting
services. A 20-year veteran of the display industry, Mr.
Chinnock holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Colorado.
Reserve
your seat today!
11/20 Luminus
- Stephane Bellosguardo
Presentation Overview
PhlatLight: a
large area LED for large Displays
Abstract:
PhlatLight LEDs are a unique type of large area LEDs that
have been invented to accelerate the penetration of solid
state lighting in displays.
This presentation
will explain how this disruptive technology enables for the
first time LEDs in mainstream projection systems as well as
large screen TVs with edge-lit backlights.
About the
Speaker
Stephane Bellosguardo
Director of Product Marketing
Luminus
Stephane
Bellosguardo is Director of Product Marketing for Display
solutions at Luminus devices. He has over 13 years experience
in the semiconductor industry in product marketing /
management roles as well as applications engineering. Before
Luminus, he help positions at Motorola, Applied Micro Circuits
Corp and Agere Systems. He holds a MSc from Ecole Nationale
Superieure Des Telecommunications, France.
10/16
Pixtronix - Jignesh Gandhi
Presentation Overview
MEMS-Based
Direct View Displays Using Digital Micro Shutters
Multimedia functionality is
increasingly becoming a central attribute for portable
consumer electronics devices which continue to demand
increasingly advanced video-capable high image quality
displays. Today's incumbent display technologies such as TFT
LCD force mobile consumer electronics OEMs to make trade offs
between power consumption and image quality.
The Pixtronix™ DMS display
technology , based on micromachined light modulators,
eliminates the need for this power / performance trade off by
providing 145% NTSC color gamut, 24-bit color, 1,000:1
contrast ratio and 170° view angles and high brightness, all
at roughly ¼ the power consumption of competing TFT-LCD or
AMOLED displays of the same size and luminance.
This presentation will describe
the Pixtronix DMS™ display technology, based upon new MEMS
pixel light modulator, introduce the four key elements of the
display design and operation, and present the resultant
performance achieved on our 2.5" QVGA samples, followed
by a demonstration.
About the
Speaker
Jignesh Gandhi, Ph. D.
Director of Optics
Pixtronix Inc.
Jignesh Gandhi is the Director
of Optics at Pixtronix Inc. where his responsibilities include
development of all optics related aspects of the Pixtronix DMS
technology. These include development of backlight, display
optical design, specification and validation of display
performance and optical algorithms for the display image.
Jignesh has been associated
with display and electro-optics industry for over 14 years,
working primarily in LCoS industry in LC display design and
process development. Prior to Pixtronix, Jignesh worked at
Philips LCoS Microdisplay systems helping them develope
prototype assembly capability as well as display performance
improvement via algorithm improvements. Prior to Philips, he
was working with Hana Microdisplay in Ohio in variety of
positions contributing to design and process development.
Other areas of contributions include 3-D display technology
development at Vizta3D and Transmissive LCoS technology at
Radiant Images, Inc.
Jignesh earned his B. Tech.
degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and his
Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh. He also
served as a post-doctoral fellow at Liquid Crystal Institute,
Kent, Ohio.
