In the news release, Society for Information Display Reveals
Winners of 20th Annual Display Industry Awards, issued 27-May-2015 by Society for Information Display
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sentence "WGXGA" should read "WQXGA." The complete, corrected
release follows:
Society for Information Display Reveals Winners of 20th Annual
Display Industry Awards 2015 Recipients Highlight Evolution of
OLEDs, Diversity of Display Technology Development
CAMPBELL, Calif., May 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The Society for
Information Display (SID) today announced the winners of its
20th annual Display Industry Awards. The honorees will
be recognized during a special luncheon on Wednesday, June 3, as part of Display Week, to be
held at the San Jose Convention
Center, May 31-June 5.
"Each year brings an exciting challenge in terms of choosing the
Display Industry Award winners. The nominees serve as a tangible
reminder of how much innovation is going on in our industry, and
how it's being brought to product realization," said SID President
Amal Ghosh. "This year's winners
highlight, more than ever, the level of diversity in how displays
are being integrated into new product development. They also
illustrate, much to the delight of many in the industry, that
OLEDs' time has truly come, as they're being integrated into more
and more commercially viable products."
To be considered for a 2015 Display Industry Award, a product
had to be available for purchase during the 2014 calendar year. The
six winners, two in each of three main categories, were chosen by a
distinguished panel of experts who evaluated the nominees for their
degree of technical innovation and commercial significance, in
addition to their potential for positive social impact. The winning
products and a brief description of each are listed below. A more
comprehensive description of the award winners is included in the
Display Week 2015 Show Issue of Information Display magazine
or at www.informationdisplay.org.
Display of the Year: Granted to a display product
with the most significant technological advances and/or novel or
outstanding features.
Gold Award: Samsung's YOUM Bended Display
The YOUM
Bended Display is a flexible AMOLED display that boasts the world's
smallest radius for screen curvature on a mobile device. Features
include fine image detail, smooth fonts and one of the industry's
highest color reproduction rates – 97 percent of Adobe RGB(vs. 70
percent for a typical LCD panel). The display is integrated into
the Samsung Galaxy Note Edge; it literally curves over onto
the edge of the phone, creating new opportunities for display
content and format. The 5.59-inch WQXGA (2560 x 1600 resolution)
display uses a polyimide plastic substrate material to produce a
film less than 1mm thick – thinner than any other display currently
on the market. Samsung's flexible AMOLED technology will lend
itself well to other emerging applications such as bended, foldable
and rollable displays.
Silver Award: LG Display's 65-inch UHD Curved OLED-TV
Panel
LG Display's 65-inch UHD OLED-TV Panel, the successor
to its 55-inch full-HD TV introduced in 2013 (one of the world's
first OLED TVs), is sleek and slim. The panel is only 6mm thick,
with a right and left bezel width of 8mm. This 8.3 megapixel
display achieves highly rich and natural colors with superior
picture quality, and the curved screen's wider field of view
delivers a more theater-like viewing experience. The display
employs white OLED with color filter technology, including an
oxide-TFT backplane with RGBW architecture, which LG Display
believes is the optimal approach for large-sized OLED-TV
panels.
Display Component of the Year: Granted for a novel
component (sold as a separate part and incorporated into a display)
that has significantly enhanced a display's performance. A
component may also include display-enhancing materials and/or parts
fabricated with new processes.
Gold Award: Merck KGaA's new Liquid-Crystal Materials for
Ultra-Brightness FFS-LCDs
Fringe-field switching
(FFS) is a key technology that enables more refined,
ultra-high-resolution LC displays especially for highest pixel
density required, e.g., high-end smartphones and tablets.
Germany's Merck KGaA, in
cooperation with industry partner LC display (LCD) manufacturers,
has developed liquid crystals for the next generation of
ultra-high-resolution displays based on FFS technology.
Ultra-Brightness FFS (UB-FFS) was brought to market in 2014 for the
highest performance smartphones and will be introduced in 2015 for
small, medium and IT applications such as tablets and monitors. The
innovative energy-saving UB-FFS LC mixture permits up to 15 percent
higher light transmittance compared to conventional FFS. In
addition to this significant improvement in light efficiency and
display power consumption, the high transmission advantage of the
new UB-FFS liquid crystals also allows for greater design freedom
among product developers.
Silver Award: Intel RealSense Technology
Intel
RealSense technology takes creativity and collaboration in a 3D
world to a whole new level. It uses a camera, infrared sensing
components and software to create a touch-free interface that
responds to facial expressions as well as head and hand motions.
This new interface, based on real-time depth sensing, enables
natural user interactions with content on interactive displays and
computers. Users can bring toys, games and books to life using free
hand movements to interact with characters and capture faces and
objects with 3D scanning technology for sharing, editing and 3D
printing. Intel RealSense technology senses distance and movement
directly from a device, making it easy to scan virtually anything
and save the image as-is or manipulate it into something new.
Display Application of the Year: Granted for a
novel and outstanding application of a display, where the display
itself is not necessarily a new device.
Gold Award: Apple's iMac with Retina 5K Display
The
27-inch iMac with Retina 5K display features 5120 x 2880 resolution
and 14.7 million pixels – 4x more pixels than the standard 27-inch
iMac and 67 percent more pixels than a 4K display. As a result,
text quality is printed-page sharp, and high-resolution photos can
be viewed with pixel-for-pixel detail. A single supercharged
Apple-designed timing controller (TCON), with 4x the bandwidth of
conventional-panel TCONs, drives all 14.7 million pixels. The
Retina 5K display uses an oxide-TFT-based panel to deliver vivid
brightness across the entire display, and employs a new
photo-alignment process and compensation film to optimize contrast
and color vibrancy from any angle. In addition to its 3.5-GHz Intel
quad-core i5 processor, the iMac with Retina 5K display features
AMD Radeon R9 M290X graphics, delivering up to 3.5 teraflops of
computing power – the most powerful graphics ever offered on an
iMac.
Silver Award: LG Display's 1.3-inch Circular Plastic OLED for
the G Watch R
LG Display has successfully developed a
1.3-inch full-circle plastic OLED panel for use in its G Watch R.
The design incorporates 320 x 320 pixel resolution, a touch sensor,
and a barrier film that enables an ultra-thin and lightweight
display. The panel also uses new power-saving algorithms that
enable an always-on function that provides users with both the
sensibility of a conventional analog watch and the convenience of a
digital smartwatch. The first-of-its-kind truly circular plastic
OLED display will bring a change to the display paradigm by
overcoming the limits of conventional displays. The round shape
allows more design flexibility in various products compared to
conventional square displays, as the innovative design will
contribute to display-market development beyond watches to other
wearables, including clothing, and also automotive
applications.
About Display Week 2015
The 52nd SID
International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition, or Display Week
2015, will take place May 31-June 5
at the San Jose Convention Center
in San Jose, Calif. Display Week
is the premier gathering of system integrators, designers,
consumers, scientists, engineers and manufacturers in the field of
electronic information displays. For more information on Display
Week 2015, visit www.displayweek.org or follow us on LinkedIn,
Facebook and Twitter @DisplayWeek. Display Week tweets can be
created, viewed and shared using the hashtag #DisplayWeek15.
About SID
The Society for Information Display (SID) is
the only professional organization focused on the display industry.
In fact, by exclusively focusing on the advancement of electronic
display technology, SID provides a unique platform for industry
collaboration, communication and training in all related
technologies while showcasing the industry's best new products. The
organization's members are professionals in the technical and
business disciplines that relate to display research, design,
manufacturing, applications, marketing and sales. To promote
industry and academic technology development, while also educating
consumers on the importance of displays, SID hosts more than 10
conferences a year, including Display Week, which brings industry
and academia all under one roof to showcase technology that will
shape the future. SID's global headquarters are located at 1475 S.
Bascom Ave., Ste. 114, Campbell,
CA 95008. For more information, visit www.sid.org.
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