Displays

Fully transparent segmented displays are available form Beneq of Finland. Pictured is the Tasel-branded ELT15S technology demonstrator. “Tasel displays combine the rugged and reliable build of thin-film electroluminescence with the unique freedom of designing a completely transparent display,” said the firm. “It is ideal for consumer electronics, architectural use and other fields where viewing experience and product aesthetics is of paramount importance.” ...

A 5-inch HDMI touchscreen display for use with Raspberry Pi is available from Winstar. With a resolution of 800 x 480 the display is available with resistive and capacitive touch options. It comes with a control board with HDMI interface and a 40 pin connector for connecting to a Raspberry Pi. According to the supplier, the TFT’s 800 x 480 resolution is “just enough to run most ...

Renesas Electronics will be demonstrating its latest design kit for a thin film transistor (TFT)-based human-machine interface (HMI) at the Electronica exhibition in Munich later this month. The kit is based on the firm’s 32-bit RX71M range of 240MHz microcontrollers which have up to 4Mbyte on-chip flash memory, 552kbyte on-chip RAM. Intended as a starter guide to create graphical user interfaces, which takes the complexity of designing in ...

Omron is launching a signage technology that makes images appear to float in space, aiming it at shopping centres and transport terminals. Branded Spatial Projection Display, images can be projected anywhere. “Earlier space projection technologies have required a large number of distinct components and are relatively large systems requiring substantial space to install,” said the firm. Instead, Omron has used ...

Touch sensors that have an object recognition capability will mean that touchscreen in shops or museums will be activated to display information when specific objects or products are placed on the screen. A technology collaboration between Tyne & Wear-based touch sensor firm Zytronic and Tangible Display from France will demonstrate an object recognition capability on multi-touch screens up to 85-inch in ...

Binstead Designs of Nottingham has developed a way to increase touch-screen resolution without increasing the number of electrical connections.

NEC  has adopted Raspberry Pi as a standard internal display peripheral “enabling a seamless integration of Raspberry Pi’s devices with NEC’s displays”, said NEC. In this case, it is the third-generation Raspberry Pi Compute Module – an industrial computer with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor. “The latest Raspberry Pi 3 compute module boasts significant performance and networking capabilities,” said NEC. ...

Taiwanese e-paper display manufacturer Pervasive Displays has developed an e-paper display drive technology that dramatically reduces power consumption by only refreshing selected pixels and not the whole display. Instead of updating the entire display image when part of it changes, this partial update only refreshes the pixels that need to be changed. A partial update cycle takes around 300 to ...

A €1.8m EU grant has been awarded to SmartKem of the UK for technology transfer its organic semiconductor technology to flexible display makers in Asia. SmartKem is investing  €850k in the project which it said will help drive the adoption of organic semiconductors as a universal thin film transistor (TFT) backplane platform for the mass manufacture of flexible and curved ...

ON Semiconductor is introducing technology that improves the near-infrared sensitivity of CCD image sensors with an 8 MP image sensor – the KAI-08052. It is the first device in ON’s CCD portfolio to leverage the technology which provides up to twice the sensitivity in near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths as the company’s standard Interline Transfer CCD pixel design. This enhanced sensitivity can ...