Seminar Archive - 2003
December 3, 2003, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
Speaker: Dr. Robert Jan Visser, Vitex Systems
Title: Barix Multilayer Barriers: Making OLED displays thinner, lighter, cheaper and flexible as well.
Abstract: The future of displays is in ever brighter, higher contrast, thinner, lighter and eventually flexible devices for a very wide range of applications. The thin film multilayer barrier structures, in development at Vitex Systems Inc. in co-operation with PNNL, may facilitate these advances by replacing the existing encapsulation using a glass lid with a very thin film and by creating barrier coated plastic films which can be successfully employed in fabrication of flexible LCD and OLED displays. In this talk the underlying principles of the multilayer barrier will be discussed as well as deposition methods.
Speaker Background: Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Studied Theoretical and Physical Chemistry at University of Leiden , The Netherlands PhD 1984, Photophysics and Photochemistry of organic molecules in solution studied by fast laser pulses. Joined the Philips Research Laboratories in 1984, worked on high resolution photolithography and plasma etching. 1990 Department head of the group 'Polymers and Organic Chemistry' which was involved in the development of devices based on functional polymer materials; NLO devices, 'plastic electronics', Polymer LED's, oriented LC networks and gels for new optical devices. Headed Polymer Led activities since 1991. Started New Business Creation project PolyLED in 1994. The success of this work lead in 1998 to the creation of a new business with a manufacturing line: Philips Components, PolyLED. After a half a year as general manager a.i., continued his work as innovation manager and CTO for Emerging Displays in this new business, situated in Heerlen, The Netherlands. Joined Vitex in San Jose as of March 1 2002 , as Chief Technology Officer.
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Apple Computer, Inc.
Beatles Conference Room
Building Mariani Three, 1st Floor
10500 N. De Anza Blvd.
Cupertino, CA 95014
How to get to Apple's Building Mariani Three: From Interstate 280, take De Anza Blvd. south to Mariani Avenue (the first stoplight). Turn left onto Mariani Ave and then turn right into the parking lot of Building Mariani Three. Seminar entrance is on the north side of the building. Sign will be posted at the entrance.
Post-Seminar Dinner: The seminar is free. Please join our speaker for dinner ($10-20) afterwards. Directions to the restaurant will be given at the seminar.
November 5, 2003, 6 p.m.
Speaker: Paul Semenza, iSuppli/Stanford Resources
Title: Display Market Trends
Abstract: This talk will provide an overview of display markets and applications, as well as recent technology developments. In addition to reviewing market trends in important application areas such as PCs, mobile devices, and consumer electronics, the presentation will cover emerging areas such as large screen public information displays and home theater. Emerging technologies such as OLEDs and flexible displays will also be covered. Finally, the talk will touch on industry structure, and approaches to participating in the display market outside of mass production will be presented.
Speaker Background: Paul D. Semenza is Executive Vice President of iSuppli/Stanford Resources, where he oversees market research, technology and strategic analysis on electronic display components and systems, as well as consumer electronics. He previously worked at the National Research Council, the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) of the U.S. Congress, and The Applied Sciences Corporation. Mr. Semenza received a B.S.E.E. and M.S. in Electro-Optics from Tufts University, and an M.P.P. degree from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
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Apple Computer, Inc.
Singapore conference room
R&D Building 1, 1st floor
One Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
How to get to Apple's R&D campus: From Interstate 280, take De Anza Blvd south to Mariani Avenue (the first stoplight). Turn left onto Mariani Ave and then turn left again onto Infinite Loop. Free parking will be on your left (park in either of the large lots). R&D Building 1 is the building directly across from the parking lot.
Post-Seminar Dinner: The seminar is free. Please join our speaker for dinner ($10-20) afterwards. Directions to the restaurant will be given at the seminar.
October 21, 2003, 6 p.m.
Speaker: Adi Abileah, Planar Systems
Title: LCOS AMLCD testing & High ambient light CR for AMLCDs
Abstract
The talk will include two topics:
(1) Testing methods for LCOS
(2) High Ambient Light testing methods for AMLCDs
The testing method of LCOS devices will be described. The uniformity and contrast data at the different colors in the field sequential mode where the interest of these tests. Stability of LEDs and uniformity of brightness within a batch will be discussed. Since this project was handed to another company there will be no discussion about the concept and the optics of the total system.
High ambient light situations are becoming more important as displays are being used more in outdoor applications. Several set-ups of testing displays under simulated high ambient light situations will be discussed and compared. Test results will show the similarity and differences between the methods. A recommended set-up will conclude this part.
Speaker Background: Adi Abileah is recently chief scientist, Technology Group, Planar Systems, Beaverton, Oregon. His main activity is related to development of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD), physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, backlights and enhancement techniques. Adi received his B.Sc. in physics from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) in 1969, and M.Sc. in Plasma physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1973). At the Negev Institute he developed a soil density detector basedon gamma rays reflections (1969-70). His masters project was "Glow discharges in metal tubes", study of plasma properties. During 1972-74 he developed high power CO2 laser (CW, 1 kW) as a researcher at the Hebrew University. Then he moved to the industry. Medical imaging development was the focus of his activity at Elscint, Haifa, Israel (1974-80) mainly Gamma camera. Since 1980 he became the head of the Electro-optical group at Elbit, Israel, developing avionics displays, infrared sensors, military simulators and other systems. In 1985 he became the manager of the north plant of EL-OP (Electro-Optics Industries) leading research in Electro-optical systems and optical imaging computing. On 1987 he joined OIS - Optical Imaging Systems in Michigan where he became the manager of the optics group and responsible for all related topics in the development of AMLCDs. During this period he became expert in the optics of AMLCDs, testing techniques and liquid crystals physics. He served at OIS until the company closed at 1998.
Since 1998 he joined Planar. Adi has 26 US patents, mostly related to displays and backlights. Patent related to the laser is expired. One patent related to the Gamma camera. Adi presented many papers in the SID (Society of Information Displays) and in the SPIE. He is member of both societies as well as the Optical Society of America. He served as session chair in two SID conferences. Adi is a member of the SAE committee for display testing methods in automotive.
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Apple Computer, Inc.
Singapore conference room
R&D Building 1, 1st floor
One Infinite Loop
Cupertino, CA 95014
How to get to Apple's R&D campus: From Interstate 280, take De Anza Blvd south to Mariani Avenue (the first stoplight). Turn left onto Mariani Ave and then turn left again onto Infinite Loop. Free parking will be on your left (park in either of the large lots). R&D Building 1 is the building directly across from the parking lot.
Post-Seminar Dinner: The seminar is free. Please join our speaker for dinner ($10-20) afterwards. Directions to the restaurant will be given at the seminar.
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Annual Chapter Dinner
Join your local display industry peers for the Bay Area SID Chapters Annual Summer evening of good food, good company and intriguing information. This informal annual gathering is widely known for its lively interaction and pleasant surroundings. This year the dinner will be a classy, picnic-style affair under the stars and Redwoods in the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains, at the estate of Gus Carroll, our own Chapter Secretary/Treasurer, a short 10-minute drive from downtown Los Gatos.
Date: Friday, June 20, 2003
Time:
Appetizers at 6:00
Dinner at 7:00
Speaker to follow dinner
Location: Gus Carroll, our Chapter Treasurer, has very graciously invited us to his mountain retreat for this event. The address is 20930 Panorama Heights, Los Gatos, CA. Click here for a map and directions.
Cost: $30 per person. Please note that this dinner is for SID members and their guests only. You are a member if you pay your dues! Of course, it's not too late to join. See official SID website
RSVP: Please send an email to C3@ix.netcom.com by 6/13 telling Gus Carroll if you will be coming, and the number of guests. Please indicate your preference for entree from the following three: Steak, Salmon or Vegetarian Pasta.
Payment: Send payment to address below no later than 6/18. Checks payable to "Bay Area SID Chapter".
Gus Carroll
SID Dinner
P. O. Box 186
Los Gatos, CA 95031
Guests are advised to dress in layers, as the dinner and talk will be outside and it might get cool as the sun goes down. Flat footwear is also recommended.
After Dinner Speaker: Daniel M. Russell, Ph.D., Senior Manager, User Sciences & Experience Research Group, IBM Almaden Research Center
Topic: Surprising Visual and Cognitive Aspects of an Information Lifestyle -- From Inattention to Monopixel Digital Jewelry
Abstract
People seek out and use information in an amazing variety of ways. They strap devices onto their bodies to make sure they always know the current time, have ready telephone connectivity, can send & receive messages or can lookup content in portable data pools via their PDA. At the same time, we all swim in a sea of information that's being streamed to us via multiple channels left, right, center and behind. It is not uncommon to be in very display-rich environments -- as I sit in my home office writing this, I can see 5 monitors and 6 specialized displays ... and I haven't turned around. The question for my work centers on this: What happens to the user in the middle of such a display-centric world?
From my perspective as user scientist, fascinating questions arise when we place people in such rich display settings. In my talk I'll review some of the work we have done in my lab about the effects of having information available in multiple places and what happens to people trying to understand what's going on. I'll show some data that suggests that sometimes more IS more, and simultaneously, less can be better. We'll review what happens when people need to use display environments to try and make sense of complex information, and what some of the surprising cognitive effects that lie at the interaction of people, use and information displays. We'll then cast our vision into the future and examine what the notion of 'display' is in the future, and where the idea of an extended user interface might go in the years ahead.
Speaker Background
Dan Russell is really a research scientist who is currently a lab manager. He has done duty in the the war zone of product design and development, taught at universities (Stanford, Santa Clara) and been a part of the hypertext, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, education, interaction design and ubiquitous computing communities. As a consequence, he has seen the whole process from wild-eyed speculative thinking, through the functional spec, final delivery and all other constraints in battles of development... and the confusions and insights of academic research. Along the way he has written a bunch of things about various technologies and design work; ranging from models of human motor behavior through computer vision and models of people making sense of complex information. He used to give full day tutorials in the Hypertext world -- emphasizing the importance of design practices to that community. In interaction design, he has "carried the water, borne the torch, advocated and evangalized -- even harassed and harried" the involved parties when necessary.
More practically, perhaps, his teams at Xerox PARC, Apple and IBM have always included a heavy element of both visual and interactive design as well as ethnographic studies. Dan notes, "frankly, we've found that our professional design intuitions about what works and what doesn't work, while wonderfully polished and honed over years of practice, continually need real-world validation no matter how clever and accurate we think we've been during the design process."
April 10, 2003, 6 p.m.
Speaker: Jim Iacona, Director of Photography
Title: Who Can You Trust? - Television Monitors as Consultants
Abstract: While many people use monitors as a way to acquire information, Directors of Photography who finish on video must use monitors as consultants. Our craft is ultimately an interplay between our skills and the input we receive on set. No one's opinion is as highly regarded as the image we see on the monitor. (Among other things) the monitor provides instant feedback on lighting ratios, color and mood. Knowing how to interpret this information and react to it is the difference between success and failure.
Speaker Background: Jim Iacona is a San Francisco Director of Photography working in film, HDTV and video. His work includes ommercials, corporate marketing, sports promos and documentaries. Over the past twenty years Jim has incorporated a wide range of styles and lighting techniques into his work. He has shot fashion for Levi¹s and Banana Republic, comedians for HBO, promos with Sharon Stone for A&E, music videos and countless interviews.
Location: De Anza 3 Building, Beatles Conference Room:
10500 N. De Anza blvd Cupertino, CA 95014
This is just off of De Anza Blvd. just south of 280 and a few miles north of 85. Head east on Mariani Ave. and turn right into the parking lot. (DO NOT go to the Infiniti Loop seminar room.) The entrance is on the south side of the building, in the middle.
Post-Seminar Dinner: The seminar is free. Please join our speaker for dinner ($10-20) afterwards. Directions to the restaurant will be given at the seminar.
March 20, 2003, 6 p.m.
Speaker: Mary Lou Jepson, MicroDisplay Corp.
Title: Single Panel LCOS for Rear Projection Television
Abstract: High Brightness has been the main challenge for Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCOS) microdisplay use in single-panel rear projection television (RPTV). Single Panel LCOS use in RPTV is attractive due to 1) high resolution (720p, 1080p) 2) excellent contrast (>800:1) 3) excellent, crisp image quality and 4) low relative cost. In this talk I will outline various architectures which enable high lumen throughput using MicroDisplay's 0.82" WXGA (1280x768) LCOS panel. Efficacy improvements are attributed to 1) high speed electronics 2) fast proprietary liquid crystal modes 3) scrolling illumination 4) low F/# panel illumination and 5) engine design to match the attributes of the LCOS panel.
Speaker Background: Dr. Jepsen is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of the MicroDisplay Corporation, a company which designs and mass produces LCOS (liquid crystal on silicon) microdisplays for use in HDTV and other high resolution display applications. Dr. Jepsen's work at MicroDisplay has focused in three major areas of design: 1) panel driving schemes 2) liquid crystal modes 3) optical systems for projection systems and near-to-eye systems. Prior to MicroDisplay she earned a Ph.D. in Optics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, and B.A. in Art all from Brown University, as well as a M.S. from the MIT Media Lab. She served as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, and an Invited Fellow at the Kunsthochschule fuer Medien in Cologne, Germany. Much of her work in academia finds a common theme in the pursuit of better technologies for 3D and holographic display.
Location: De Anza 3 Building, Beatles Conference Room:
10500 N. De Anza blvd Cupertino, CA 95014
This is just off of De Anza Blvd. just south of 280 and a few miles north of 85. Head east on Mariani Ave. and turn right into the parking lot. (DO NOT go to the Infiniti Loop seminar room.) The entrance is on the south side of the building, in the middle.
Post-Seminar Dinner: The seminar is free. Please join our speaker for dinner ($10-20) afterwards. Directions to the restaurant will be given at the seminar.
February 20, 2003, 6 p.m.
Speaker: Gopal Ramachandran, Silicon Optix
Title: The Coming Of Age Of eWarp Technology
Abstract: eWARP technology, or, the capability to apply totally different horizontal and totally different vertical scaling factors to any and every pixel within an array was developed 8 years ago in theory, and was realized in hardware for the first time in silicon in 2001. This technology now has been deployed in many application spaces and is ready for its next generation.
Speaker Background: Gopal Ramachandran started his career designing switching electronics for the telecomm industry, but since 1985 has been working mostly with graphics and image processing VLSI devices, in applications engineering, chip architecture, and strategic marketing. Since early 2001, he has been at Silicon Optix Inc figuring out new application spaces for eWARP technology.
Location: Garage I Conference Room:
# 4 Infiniti Loop Blvd Cupertino, CA 95014
It is on 2nd floor of Building 4 at Apple campus. The entrance is on the East side of building.
Post-Seminar Dinner: The seminar is free. Please join our speaker for dinner ($10-20) afterwards. Directions to the restaurant will be given at the seminar.
January, 23, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Speaker: Mike Kalmansh
Title: Projection Displays for Avionics
Abstract: Often cited by industry experts as "the greatest thing since sliced bread", projection displays have taken the avionics community by storm. Comments such as "omigod, where can I get one (LPG, Morgan Hill, CA)", and "by golly, this is just the finest display I've ever seen" (VMS, Fremont, CA)" are typical of the reactions to this exciting new technology. With virtually unlimited resolution and wide viewing angle, broad color gamut, high contrast and brightness and a price / performance ratio that's hard to beat, existing paradigms haven't just been shifted, they've been smashed!!!
New Rockwell Collins projection display products, some in development and others inching into production, range from a tidy little 4.5 inch square CRT replacement to a mind-boggling 20x8-inch fully panoramic cockpit display. These incorporate similar architectures, components and subassemblies, supporting the ultimate "one size fits all" capability which lets projectors be used almost anywhere displays are needed.
Kaiser Electronics, a Rockwell Collins Business, has been developing avionics projection displays for over five years, and has several projection display development and production programs underway. These efforts will be highlighted and some of the key issues involved will be discussed.
Speaker Background: Mike Kalmanash is a Staff Scientist at Kaiser Electronics, where he has been involved for over 20 years in the development of advanced avionics displays. He led the initial development team investigating avionics projectors, and continues to turn over rocks and improve the technology.
Post-Seminar Dinner: The seminar is free. Please join our speaker for dinner ($10-20) afterwards. Directions to the restaurant will be handed out at the seminar.
Location: De Anza 3 Conference Room, 10500 N. De Anza blvd Cupertino, CA 95014
This is just off of De Anza Blvd. just south of 280 and a few miles north of 85. Head east on Mariani Ave. and turn right into the parking lot. (DO NOT go to the Infiniti Loop seminar room.) The entrance is on the south side of the building, in the middle.
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