Sony Unveils Thin Display That Bends, Shows Video
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By Yuri Kageyama Associated Press  TOKYO -- In the race for ever-thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all -- a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full- color video.  Sony Corp.
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Advanced Micro DevicesÂ (AMD) has developed a low-power chip that it thinks will make portable video players more compelling by reducing the time needed to transfer content to the devices. The company is expected to announce the chip at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Monday.
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Samsung is close to producing a lighter, thinner, better television.
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Sony and Philips showed off some amazingly thin, flexible display prototypes at a trade show in California this week.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has developed a new LCD (liquid crystal display) technology that builds a touch screen into the display, a development that could lead to thinner and cheaper display panels for mobile phones, the company said Tuesday.
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BenQ has released the T700, its first camera with a touchscreen display-- as well as the world&#39;s slimmest 7-megapixel camera.
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The widescreen 22-inch display supports a CableCard and has a Blu-ray disc playback/burning option.
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Touchscreens are back in vogue with flat-panel display makers, if the prototypes on show at the FPD Expo in Yokohama this week are anything to go by.Gone are the clunky screens that relied on a touch layer added over the display, and in are models that integrate the sensor elements into the display itself. That means the displays are brighter, thinner and in many cases more responsive. It also means that some can offer a &quot;multi-touch&quot; capability similar to that of Apple Inc.&#39;s iPhone.The largest of the multi-touch screens on display was a 47-inch model from LG.Philips LCD that attracted a crowd thanks to the same novelty feature that&#39;s been amusing iPhone owners for a few months: the ability to zoom in and out of images with two fingers. In this case the display showed satellite images from Google Maps, so many show-goers used the screen to find and zoom-in on their own home, thus unwittingly letting all those around know where they live.Taiwan&#39;s AU Optronics had a pair of 4.3-inch panels on display. One used a voltage-sensing touch system and the other relied on a charge-sensing touch system. The same photo zoom technique was being demonstrated on the two screens. The former appeared much more responsive but comes with a catch: it can be operated with a fingernail but not a finger. Conversely, the charge system worked fine with a finger but didn&#39;t respond when touched with a fingernail.Japan&#39;s Sharp also attracted a crowd with a multi-touch screen that it first debuted earlier this month at the Ceatec show.&#160;The 3.5-inch screen integrates an optical scanner&#160;pixel alongside each LCD pixel, so it can not only recognize the location of multiple fingers but also be used to scan name cards and the like.Integrating image sensor pixels along side LCD pixels in screens isn&#39;t new. Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co. Ltd. unveiled such a prototype at the Electronic Display Expo in Tokyo in 2003 but not much was heard of it since.At FPD Expo, which began Wednesday, the company was demonstrating its latest prototypes and admitted that it had let rivals catch-up on its lead. The screens have failed to take off partly because panel makers don&#39;t have sophisticated enough software libraries to work with the displays.That means consumer electronics makers have to do a fair amount of software work to interface with the screens, and that&#39;s a hurdle to adoption, said Yutaka Okada, a spokesman for the company, which is a joint venture between Toshiba and Matsushita Electric Industrial&#160;(Panasonic).The latest prototypes work by sensing either light or shadow. The light-sensing model responded to a light pen and allowed users to perform such tasks as draw on a picture displayed on the screen, while the shadow sensing model could be operated with a finger. The latter has the advantage of working well in both bright and dark conditions and doesn&#39;t even require the user to physically touch the screen. Just bringing a finger within a few millimeters of the display is enough for it to respond.Despite the large number of prototypes on display, none of the companies would say when a product might be on the market.&#160;
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A new generation of OLED displays, which are thinner and more energy efficient than LCDs, is working its way to market. But it could be years before they're cheap enough to displace LCD screens.
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At the Consumer Electronics Show, Sony CEO Howard Stringer unveils Sony's new OLED (Organic Light-Emitting Diode) television. Martyn Williams reports for the IDG News Service.
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Company says its mobile phone display is the thinnest ever.
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(InfoWorld) - The experience of watching television or video clips on mobile phones may improve with a new screen being developed by LG.Philips LCD Co. The company has developed a new TFT-LCD (thin-film transistor-liquid crystal display) panel for mobile phones that has better response times than similar screens in use today, it announced Thursday. Faster response times help to eliminate the after-images and ghosting that can appear on LCD screens, leading to sharper, better quality video. The 2-inch display has a 16 millisecond response time, compared to 25 milliseconds for today's typical phone screen, LG.Philips said. The screen will be ideal for phones that can receive TV broadcasts or connect to broadband wireless networks for downloading videos. LG.Philips developed a different technology from that used in its notebook PC panels, to meet the power consumption demands of mobile phones. LG.Philips expects to start mass producing the new display this year. It came out of a new unit the company launched in January to develop smaller displays. That unit is now working on a display that uses IPS (in-plane switching), a technology typically used in larger displays that increases the viewing angle. Mobile phones need to be increasingly capable as operators upgrade their networks to offer higher-speed connections. The new services create a need for better screens, faster chips and more memory capacity. Just last week Samsung Electronics Co.Â said it had developed a new technology toÂ make screens on handheld devices brighter, even in broad daylight. It measures the ambient light available and adjusts the brightness of the screen accordingly. The technology is expected in handsets later this year. Â
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JVC (6792.T) on Sunday unveiled an  LCD TV less than 3 inches thick, calling it the world's  thinnest flat-screen television, as the Consumer Electronics  Show began.
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Slickly designed 22-inch Crystal display confirmed along with the new UltraSharp 3008WFP, a 30-inch model featuring DisplayPort connectivity.
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has developed a new LCD (liquid crystal display) technology that builds a touch screen into the display, a development that could lead to thinner
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LG.Philips LCD is planning to unveil a 52-inch multi-touch LCD (liquid crystal display) at next week&#39;s Consumer Electronics Show, it said Monday. The screen is 5-inches larger than one it&#160;recently showed in Japan&#160;and is the largest display of its type in the world, the company said.Multi-touch screens differ from conventional touchpanels because they allow input from more than one spot on the screen so, for example, an image can be manipulated from opposite corners. Probably the most famous current example of the technology is the display on Apple&#39;s hit iPhone and iPod Touch devices.With the technology helping to make the iPhone a smash hit display makers are now pursuing its inclusion in screens. The LG.Philips 52-inch screen uses an infrared image sensor to gauge input from fingers or other instruments and can recognize gestures such as the movement of fingers. It boasts full HD resolution (1,920 pixels by 1,080 pixels).Additionally, the company will be showing an 84-inch multi-touch display that is made up of four 42-inch panels joined together.LG.Philips LCD will also unveil a 47-inch &quot;triple-view&quot; screen. This has a filter over the front that sends light from pixels in one of three different directions so that three images can be displayed at once: one to viewers on the right of the screen, one to people in front of it and one to those on the left. The feature is being positioned at public display applications for use in advertising.Also at CES the company will show a 47-inch double-sided screen that is made up of a single backlight sandwiched between two LCD panels and a 42-inch transreflective panel for outdoor advertising use.International CES opens in Las Vegas on Jan. 7.&#160;
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CULVER CITY, California  - Sony Corp.   will launch a slimmer model of its PlayStation Portable  handheld game player in September, in its latest attempt to  ignite demand for its game hardware and compete better with  Nintendo Co. Ltd. .