The goal is to develop high quality and low price projectors for portable handheld devices.
InformationWeek
The Kopin company from Massachusetts, a manufacturer of tiny monitors, is developing a nano projector for mobile handheld devices in collaboration with the ExPlay company from Herzliya.
As part of the development plan, which is worth 2.2 million dollars, and partially financed by the Bird Foundation, the two companies will develop a projection engine whose optical efficiency will be almost ten times higher than that of the existing projection engines. The companies intend to present a working projection engine in the first half of 2006.
"The main requirements for the nano projector are high lighting intensity and low power consumption," says Dr. Burio Tesaur, senior vice president for display business at Kopin. "The display technology we developed significantly increases the optical efficiency of the projection. Our efficient and compact display technology, combined with ExPlay's unique optical engine, make it possible to develop an extremely compact nano projector."
For the development to be successful, says Golan Menor, ExPlay's vice president for technical marketing, a "tight integration between the tiny display and the special optical engine" must be created. Dr. John Penn, President and CEO of Kopin, is convinced that "the great success of portable video players, portable game consoles, video-displaying cell phones and PDAs ensures high demand for high-definition miniature display systems for these devices. I believe that in the near future we will be able to offer a nano projector with high power and low price."
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