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LCD Display/Image Capture Device
Jon writes "Remember jokes about clueless newbies trying to fax documents by holding them up to the monitor? Perhaps they were just ahead of their time. Toshiba has developed a combined LCD/optical sensor, according to EETimes. It isn't monitor sized yet, but in a few years, perhaps?"
Because I like to complain...
"LCD Display" is horribly redundant. As this post will be modded.
But the tech itself is cool!
In Soviet Russia, Monitor Watches You!
(I know, I know...but it's true [now] )
"Evil will always triumph because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet
LCD captures images by the pixel By Yoshiko Hara EE Times April 4, 2003 (10:04 a.m. EST) Recent Articles Systems and Software News Mobile missiles back on drawing board, U.S. general says Nokia to detail e-mail security scheme at conference New group aims to secure PCs, PDAs, cell phones Failed takeover could mean end for Germany's Grundig India builds Tflops computing cluster Windows opens view to 64-way Itanium systems DuPont forges 'Olight' brand for emerging OLEDs Japan promotes robots as the next consumer wave Archives TOKYO -- Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. has added an image capturing function to its low-temperature polysilicon liquid crystal displays. A 3.5-inch diagonal LTPS LCD dubbed Input Display has an optical sensor for each pixel. The transmissive type color display with a QVGA (320x240 pixels) resolution, when placed on an object, scans an area of actual display size and captures it as a 960x240-pixel monochrome image. The high mobility of LTPS liquid crystals allows pixel transistors to be small in size and the display has a higher aperture ratio compared to amorphous silicon TFT. These factors allow room for a sensor to be fabricated for each pixel, said a spokesman for the company. Toshiba Matsushita Display expects the display with the image capturing function to open new consumer and business applications. The company expects the technology to be used in security applications such as fingerprint authentification. The display will be exhibited at EDEX 2003, a display exhibition to be held in Tokyo next week (April 9-11).
TOKYO -- Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology Co., Ltd. has added an image capturing function to its low-temperature polysilicon liquid crystal displays.
A 3.5-inch diagonal LTPS LCD dubbed Input Display has an optical sensor for each pixel. The transmissive type color display with a QVGA (320x240 pixels) resolution, when placed on an object, scans an area of actual display size and captures it as a 960x240-pixel monochrome image.
The high mobility of LTPS liquid crystals allows pixel transistors to be small in size and the display has a higher aperture ratio compared to amorphous silicon TFT. These factors allow room for a sensor to be fabricated for each pixel, said a spokesman for the company.
Toshiba Matsushita Display expects the display with the image capturing function to open new consumer and business applications. The company expects the technology to be used in security applications such as fingerprint authentification.
The display will be exhibited at EDEX 2003, a display exhibition to be held in Tokyo next week (April 9-11).