Panasonic opens its new Professional Displays Experience Centre at Pinewood Studios in the UK. Built alongside the existing Broadcast Centre, the purpose-built facility will showcase Panasonic’s latest display solutions and applications such as 3D, signage, studio and gesture interaction.

Located in the heart of the famous Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, the centre has been created as a hands-on laboratory for seeing the technology in action. Interest has been noted from across the board, with designers and architects keen to get involved, as well as large corporations looking for new technologies to make their office building stand out. The digital signage area will also be a draw for Out of Home professionals, broadcast and advertising agencies.

Panasonic brings out 4 LCD displays designed for a broad range of digital signage applications including POS/POI screens, transport applications and outdoor signage solutions.

Part of the LF family, the new displays can be installed in a range of different environments. The LF25, available in 42” & 47”, features a slim frame suitable for standard POS and POI screens, menu boards and signage.

You’ll see it on the stand at InfoComm. Digital Projection starts shipping its single-chip M-Vision Cine 3D projector -- an active-3D enabled, 5500-lumen box using DLP’s DarkChip technology.

The M-Vision Cine 3D lists in USA for $17,995 - $18,495, depending on the lens selected (both fixed and zoom lens options are available).

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Visix adds a Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) model to its MeetingMinder line of meeting room signs (you know, the ones that sit next to the entrance of a room and can be used as a sign, a meeting schedule calendar or even as a small digital signage display).

A new 15” model interactive display allows a single Ethernet cable to supply both power and data to the room sign, addressing concerns of both physical concealment and AC proximity for power bricks.

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Mitsubishi Electric installs 6-metre diameter OLED globe at a science museum: this Diamond Vision OLED Geo-Cosmos display is the world's first spherical OLED screen.

Installed at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, the OLED Geo-Cosmos display will be unveiled on June 11th.

Hanging 18 metres from the floor, the globe is an aluminum sphere covered with 10,362 OLED panels, each measuring 96 x 96 millimetres.

Mitsubishi Electric used its scalable OLED technologies to create the globe, which replaces a previous globe of LEDs, to commemorate the museum's 10th anniversary. The globe will display scenes of clouds and other visions of the earth taken from a meteorological satellite. The display delivers a resolution of more than 10 million pixels, about 10X greater than that of the legacy LED display.

In addition to Mitsubishi Electric, which created the OLED system, three other companies helped to make the OLED Geo-Cosmos display: Dentsu undertook project planning, Go and Partners developed the image-processing and transmission system, and GK Tech Inc. created the spheroid design.

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EIZO is using the NextWindow 1900 Desktop Touch in its new tilt-able FlexScan computer monitors. Users can interact with the 1900 series while wearing gloves, as in medical environments. It also provides traditional touch functions such as point, click, drag and drop, as well as multitouch functions like pan, pinch, double-tap and scroll.

The 23" (58.4 cm) FlexScan T2351W and 17" (43.2 cm) FlexScan T1751 monitors provide a tilt with six settings (from 15 degrees to 65 degrees from the horizontal). The tilt capability lets users, seated or standing, to rest their wrists and palms on the monitor bezel to take advantage of the multitouch display.

The FlexScan T2351W and FlexScan T1751 should appeal to users in health facilities, schools, universities, libraries, kiosks, entertainment centers, and offices.

The multitouch monitors can be used to display information, input data, read documents and e-books, edit digital photos and to play games. Both the FlexScan T2351 and FlexScan T1751 are already available in USA.

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Larger than a water molecule, but smaller than a virus, the tiny phosphors in Nanosys quantum dots could make flat-panel displays much brighter and more colorful without increasing their costs, energy consumption or size.

The new LCD technology uses Quantum Dot Enhancement Film (QDEF), a first-of-its-kind technology to increases the color gamut in a display by as much as 3X without any increase in cost, size or power consumption.

The result, says Nanosys, is “richer and more viscerally vibrant colors such as deeper reds and greens, which are colors the human eye sees more intensely than others.”

The QDEF technology is available to display makers for the first time as an optical film, which can be scaled to fit any size flat panel, even the largest models. The current generation of displays in smartphones, tablets, laptops and big TVs, argues Nanosys, can only express about 20%-35% of the colors the human eye can see. QDEF displays will be able to deliver more than 60% of visible colors on a display.

Nanosys makes QDEF technology with its patented quantum dot materials. It disperses them in a polymer matrix and suspends them within an opitcal film. The material makes it easier to create a high-quality white light with a wide range of hues when hit with an energy efficient blue light-emitting diode.

Larger than a water molecule, but smaller than a virus, the tiny phosphors in the Nanosys quantum dots can convert blue light from a standard gallium nitride LED into different wavelengths based upon their size. Larger dots emit longer wavelengths (red), while smaller dots emit shorter wavelengths (green). Blending together a mix of dot colors allows Nanosys to engineer a new spectrum of light. Nanosys basically adds a new layer of material to an LCD screen during manufacturing.

This allows LCD manufacturers to accurately match their LED backlight to their LCD color filters to achieve the best possible color and efficiency performance.

Nanosys first commercialized the quantum dot technology with QuantumRail, a component that improved the quality of small-size LCDs. That technology has been licensed to LG Innotek.

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What HAST man wrought? Ortus creates a Hyper Amorphous Silicon TFT (HAST) screen. Shown at Tokyo’s Embedded Systems Expo, the latest 4.8” LCD screen from Ortus shows 2D images at the 458 pixels per inch rate and shows 3D images at 229 pixels per inch. This rate of pixels per inch will be able to show full HD resolution images with a final resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels.

The 3D does require the use of glasses to see the images (unlike other small format 3D screens such as Nintendo 3DS). The 3D images will have a viewing angle of 160 degrees and will be able to display up to 16.77 million colors.

The 3D effect is created with a circular polarizing film known as Xpol, developed by Arisawa Manufacturing. The film needs to be precisely placed on the screen because this technology shows images for the left and right eye alternately on each line, halving the vertical resolution.

In 2010, Ortus Technology Co., Ltd. was established to develop, manufacture, and conduct sales of small and medium-sized displays. Its shareholders are Toppan Printing Co., Ltd. and Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Ortus Technology, initially to specialize in the small and medium-sized LCD business it has taken over from Casio Computer, now looks for its future in OLED.

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