Display
Key FPD Application and Technology Trends at SID Display Week 2009
August 10, 2009 / David Chen
88 Page, Topical Report
US$6,800 (Single User License)

Abstract

At this year's SID Display Week 2009, held in the US city of San Antonio at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center from May 31 to June 5, MIC collected data on a large number of flat-panel display products. This report examines display technologies and applications of these products, and provides in-depth analysis of e-paper display, AM-OLED display, touch panel display, 3D display, LCD TV display, and mobile phone display development trends observed at SID 2009. This report also analyzes 475 papers presented at SID 2009 by companies, universities and research institutes, in order to shed more light on the latest R&D developments for FPD technologies.
  •  Table of Contents
  •  List of Topics
  •  List of Figures
  •  List of Tables

Appendix

Research Scope

The annual SID International Symposium, Seminar, and Exhibition organized by the SID (Society for Information Display), attracts many FPD (Flat Panel Display) companies, universities and research institutes from around the world. Participants in the event aggressively show their recent progress in display technology or application products.

This year's SID Display Week 2009 exhibition was held in the US city of San Antonio at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center from May 31 to June 5. MIC (Market Intelligence & Consulting Institute) collected data on technologies presented at the event as well as application products showcased by participating companies in order to provide a better understanding of the latest development trends in display technologies and application products.

MIC collected data on 340 FPD products showcased at by 14 companies at SID 2009, examining multi-year trends among technologies and application products.

MIC identified six key technologies and applications with the most potential impact on the industry's future development, including: e-paper display, AM-OLED display, touch panel display, 3D display, LCD TV display, mobile phone display.

This report also examines 475 papers presented at SID 2009 by companies, universities and research institutes, in order to shed more light on the latest R&D developments for FPD technologies.

Technology Summary

As there is a distance of approximately 6.5 cm between the left eye and right eye, the visual data received by the two eye retinas differs slightly due to differences in viewing angle. There are specific cells in the retina which are responsible for visual signals, including rods and cones. These are responsible for transforming light brightness and colors into optic nerve signals. The brain combines the two different viewing angle data to create a sense of depth. This leads to 3D visual effects for human eyes.

Real 3D visual effects are created through two types of parallax effects: binocular parallax and motion parallax. Binocular parallax functions as described above: different viewing angles of the right eye and left eye lead to different visual information received by the two eyes. These two sources of visual information are combined in the brain to form 3D effects. As for motion parallax, due to viewing angle changes as a result of motion, the received visual content is also constantly changing. The two sources of information are also combined by the brain and made into 3D visual effects.

By using either one of these two parallax effects, human eyes can experience 3D when viewing objects. If a 3D display features the two types of parallax effects, this can be defined as autostereoscopic display.

Therefore, if companies aim to create 3D visual effects for flat-panel displays, through parallax element technology each pixel on the display can be enabled to operate through parallax elements, and be able to modulate light brightness, colors and direction. This can enable the image data received by the left eye and right eye to form 3D effects due to viewing angle differences. The modulation of brightness and colors can determine the color resolution of a display. The direction of lights can determine the viewing zone space resolution.

Regarding flat-panel 3D displays with parallax technology, the strength of its display features relies on display pixels' modulation capabilities for brightness, colors and directions.

 

Glossary of Terms

TFT-LCD

 

Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display

a-Si TFT-LCD

 

Amorphous Silicon Thin Film Transistor LCD

LTPS TFT-LCD

 

Low Temperature Poly-Silicon Thin Film Transistor LCD

CGS TFT-LCD

 

Continuous Grain Silicon Thin Film Transistor LCD

STN-LCD

 

Super Twisted Nematic LCD

CSTN-LCD

 

Color STN-LCD

OLED

 

Organic Light Emitting Diode

AM-OLED

 

Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode

PM-OLED

 

Passive Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode

E-Paper

 

Electronic-Paper

OCB

 

Optically Compensated Bend

GRIN

 

Gradient Index

MEMS

 

Microelectro Mechanical System

PID

 

Public Information Display

FPD

 

Flat Panel Display

List of Companies

3M

 

 

Amazon

 

 

AUO

 

 

BOE

 

 

Bridgestone

 

 

Brother

 

 

Chonbuk National University

 

 

CMO

 

 

CPT

 

 

E-Ink

 

 

Epson

 

 

ETRI

 

 

Fujitsu

 

 

Hitachi Display

 

 

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

 

 

InnoLux

 

 

iRex Technologies

 

 

ITI Techmedia

 

 

ITRI

 

 

KAIST

 

 

Kent Display

 

 

Kent State University

 

 

Kodak

 

 

Kyung Hee University

 

 

Kyushu University

 

 

LED Design

 

 

LG Display

 

 

Liquavista

 

 

Motorola

 

 

National Chiao Tung University

 

 

NEC LCD

 

 

Nokia

 

 

Philips

 

 

Pixtronix

 

 

Polymer Vision

 

 

PVI

 

 

Qualcomm

 

 

Samsung

 

 

Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology

 

 

Semiconductor Energy Laboratory

 

 

Sharp

 

 

SiPix

 

 

Sony

 

 

TCL

 

 

Tianma

 

 

TMD (Toshiba Mobile Display)

 

 

Wintek

 

 

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