April 2005

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Philips Licenses Novel Inspection Technology to Radiant Imaging

Duvall, Washington, April 20 - Radiant Imaging and Royal Philips Electronics have entered into a licensing agreement to commercialize a novel inspection device based on technology developed by Philips. The Parousiameter is an innovative instrument that provides comprehensive characterization of display and LED output. It collects all view angles in a single measurement taking only a few seconds, thus delivering a significant time and cost savings over goniophotometers or spot photometers. These traditional technologies require precision motion control to make multiple measurements over a variety of view angles. Under the terms of the agreement, Radiant Imaging will build and sell instruments based on the Philips technology, and will also develop data acquisition and image processing software that will be licensed back to Philips.

"The Parousiameter complements our Source Imaging Goniometer and Flat Panel Measurement systems, already available to the light- and color-measurement marketplace," stated Radiant President and Chief Technology Officer, Ron Rykowski. "Now we can offer display and lighting developers with the optimum solution, whether their requirements call for measurement speed, spatial resolution, color accuracy, or high dynamic range."

Andrew Hall, Philips's Technology Licensing Officer, noted, "We chose to partner with Radiant Imaging because they have the technical expertise and market knowledge to transform this ingenious technological concept, developed in Philips' Applied Technologies laboratories in Eindhoven, into a turnkey product that can be successfully marketed though their worldwide sales and distribution network."

Information: Kevin Chittim, VP Sales and Marketing, Radiant Imaging, Inc. Tel: (603) 223-0690, Fax: (425) 844-0153, email: chittim@radiantimaging.com,  www.radiantimaging.com.

New White LED Lamps Offer Off-the-shelf Color Matching, an Industry First

NEW YORK, New York, April 13 - Lumileds Lighting today introduced new color-matched white Luxeon Lamps that enable lighting manufacturers to quickly build LED-based luminaires with consistent white light for the first time. Advanced binning algorithms applied during manufacturing ensure color uniformity within each fixture, as well as from luminaire to luminaire, the company said. The introduction was made at Lightfair International, being held here April 12-14 in the Jacob Javits Convention Center.

"The lighting community looks for white-point consistency, whether viewing the light source directly or the effect that's being created," said Keith Scott, Market Development Manager. "Uniform white light is essential in luminaires, but achieving a consistent color temperature with LEDs has been a major challenge because of the wide color variations inherent in the LED manufacturing process. Our Luxeon Lamps offer the first practical solution to the problem by supplying pre-matched, pre-mounted LEDs that not only provide the desired color consistency but also speed time to market for the finished product."

Each lamp consists of multiple white Luxeon LEDs delivering correlated color temperatures of 3200K (warm white), 4100K (commercial white), or 5500K (cool white). The matched Luxeon LEDs are mounted in multiple configurations offering light output levels of 500-1200 lumens. The lamps maintain 70 percent of their lumen output at 50,000 hours. Each lamp can be integrated with drivers, heat sink, and optics to form complete lighting systems that deliver 1-2 year payback when replacing incandescent and halogen luminaires.

Information: Tel: (408) 435-6111 or visit www.lumileds.com.

NEC-Mitsubishi Begins Operations as "NEC Display Solutions"

Chicago, Illinois, April 1 - NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc. today announced the official return of operations under NEC. The business under the former joint venture with Mitsubishi, now renamed NEC Display Solutions, "will look to take advantage of the rich technological heritage of NEC," the company said.

The businesses change to exclusive leadership by NEC coincides with the 20th anniversary of the NEC MultiSync monitor brand.

"We are thrilled to be back in the fold with one of the largest and most respected technology companies in the world," said T.J. Trojan, President and COO of NEC Display Solutions.

Information: www.necdisplay.com.