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Luxell
Announces Tannas Licensing Agreement
Toronto,
Canada, October 12 - Luxell Technologies Inc. announced
today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Tannas
Electronic Displays, Inc. Under the terms of the agreement,
Tannas will provide Luxell with its proprietary method for
resizing commercially available active-matrix LCDs.
Luxell has
acquired rights to use Tannas' innovative process to resize
commercial-cff-the-shelf (COTS) LCD glass panels and reseal
them while preserving the performance of the original
displays. Luxell then ruggedizes and repackages the displays
to meet stringent aerospace requirements.
According to
John Wright, Luxell's President and CEO, "Licensing
Tannas' display resizing technology is a value-added
capability for our global clients. Through resizing of
commercial displays, we can offer increased flexibility in
sourcing non-standard display sizes, in addition to shorter
lead times and further reductions on pricing for new
products and legacy product replacements. Further, we are
developing complimentary methods for LCD resizing that will
have a long-term intellectual property value for Luxell."
LCDs are the
display of choice in most high-performance aerospace
flight-deck applications, having almost entirely replaced
cathode ray tube (CRT) technology. Conversely, complete
market penetration of LCD technology has been constrained by
the relatively high cost of re-tooling an LCD production
line to turn out the unique sizes required by specific
aerospace markets.
However, the
resizing process removes the cost barrier and allows
suppliers who have mastered this technique to access a much
broader market. The process is combined with a complementary
ruggedization treatment that makes the displays virtually
immune to temperature extremes, humidity, vibration, and
shock.
Luxell is
already successfully manufacturing custom displays using LCD
technology through this new approach. These displays have
been tested to aerospace environmental requirements and can
be made at one-tenth the cost of custom LCDs. Luxell has
found Tannas' resizing process to be straightforward,
cost-effective, and reliable, the company said.
Information: www.tannas.com;
www.luxell.com.
Nemoptic
to Demonstrate Transmissive Bi-stable Color Display at FPD
'04
Magny-Les-Hameaux,
France, October 15 - At the FPD International trade show, to
be held 20-22 October at the Pacifico Yokohama convention
center in Yokohama, Japan. Nemoptic is introducing the first
transmissive, bi-stable color display that has high quality
and low cost compared to TFT displays.
In May at SID
'04 in Seattle, Nemoptic introduced reflective panels with
32 thousand colors, which where the fruit of a recent
patented improvement that enables the control of bi-stable
gray scales. Unlike most bi-stable technologies, these gray
scales are analog and are obtained by modulating the
addressing signals. The LCD cell has the same simple
structure as monochrome BiNem® black-and-white
cells. The BiNem gray-scale signals are generated by
using commercial off-the-shelf drivers.
Standard LCD
color filters combined with gray scales enable the
generation of bi-stable colors. The BiNem color
displays intrinsically have a wide viewing angle in all
directions with no color shift. They offer superior image
contrast as well as pure colors, the company said. BiNem®
displays can be produced on existing LCD manufacturing
lines.
At FPD
International Yokohama, Nemoptic will demonstrate that the BiNem
technology has reached a new level of image quality with
transmissive color. The BiNem technology is
broadening its market base and is now targeting the small-
and medium-size display market segment. Commenting on this
achievement, Alain Boissier, Nemoptic President, said,
"The transmissive color version of the BiNem
technology reaches high optical quality without the need of
expensive TFT backplanes." The new Nemoptic display can
be seen at Booth 965 at FPD International.
Information: www.nemoptic.com.
eMagin
Demonstrates First UXGA OLED Microdisplay
Hopewell
Junction, New York, and London, U.K., October 14 - eMagin
Corporation unveiled a UXGA OLED microdisplay showing 5.7
million picture elements in its booth at the Night Vision
Conference in London today.
The
ultra-high-resolution display uses eMagin's bundled
fiber-optic elements to effectively couple four SVGA
displays into a single UXGA display. This capability allows
eMagin's OLED microdisplays to deliver high resolution,
full-color images for simulators, IR imaging from aircraft,
and other high-performance applications. The fiber optic
effectively magnifies the image and brings the image up to
the new surface plane of the fiber optic.
"This
new display opens the door for our customers with very
high-resolution requirements to immediately begin
implementing prototype systems using high-speed, low-power,
and rugged full-color OLED microdisplays," said Susan
Jones, eMagin's executive vice president. "This display
becomes the highest-resolution OLED in the
world."
Coupled with
the new fiber optics, the integrated OLED displays provide
an ability to obtain various display diagonals with no need
for the long lead time and cost of custom driver integrated
circuits. Coupling the displays to optical systems permits
the creation of custom display sizes and even non-planar
image surfaces.
Information: www.emagin.com.
CRLO
Displays Raises US $19 Million to Accelerate Growth
Fife,
Scotland, September 21 - CRLO Displays, a company formed
jointly by Amadeus Capital and Doughty Hanson Technology
Ventures, announced today that it has acquired the business
of CRL Opto from Scipher plc. Concurrent with the
acquisition, CRLO Displays has raised $19 million of funding
from its owners.
CRLO designs,
develops, and manufactures silicon-based microdisplays that
will be used in next-generation, high-definition,
rear-projection televisions (RPTVs). Using full-color,
high-resolution ferroelectric liquid-crystal-on-silicon (F-LCOS)
technology, CRLO believes its products enable television
manufacturers to produce high-quality, large-screen
television sets with superior picture quality at low prices.
The capital raised by CRLO will be used to accelerate the
use of the company's technology in these large-screen
televisions and other projection products.
Greg Truman
becomes Managing Director of the new company and is joined
on the Board by Barak Maoz of Amadeus Capital Partners and
Soren Hein of Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures.
Truman said,
"This investment enables us to build on our expertise
and patented technology. We are excited at the opportunity
to bring disruptive products into a growing mass market such
as flat-screen television with the financial backing of
leading European venture-capital investors."
Maoz added,
"Large-screen TV is an exciting market that is
expanding rapidly but is still limited by expensive
technologies and high prices. Amadeus has been attracted by
the CRLO team and the technology they developed because we
believe that CRLO has the potential to make a real impact on
cost and performance, and become a large,
internationally-recognized, and successful
company."
Information: www.crlopto.com.
