TI BrilliantColor new technology bring us what

The market DLP technology in the United States large screen TV market share over the past year for an increase of more than doubled, while in the global market front projection market share has achieved 10 consecutive quarters of growth. In addition to a significant increase in market share, DLP also extends to more updated applications: large screen digital TV, business, home and professional projectors, as well as digital cinema (DLP Cinema) and other fields.

Currently has more than 75 TV projector and the industry's leading manufacturers using DLP technology and in global sales. Each piece of DLP chip contains a micro mirror matrix composed of up to 2 million micro mirrors, through the rapid conversion of micro lenses, resulting in high resolution, high reliability and high quality picture. DLP single chip architecture and excellent response speed to ensure that the DLP technology presents the sharpest image, in playing sports and dynamic programs, such as fast images, to be able to render high quality dynamic picture. Since the beginning of 1996, TI has provided more than 6 million sets of DLP subsystems.

In Japan, TI (TI) days ago published a raise "DLP (digital light processing)" new technology display projector color -- "BrilliantColor technology".

Is characterized by its ability to deal with six colors, DLP projector to improve color depth, effectively expanding the color range, combined with the rich colors of the existing DLP technology, the performance of the screen play more most incisive. And beyond the three color processing technology, will help DLP customers to provide a more powerful visual effects and visual enjoyment. The company plans to start production in the fourth quarter of 2005 using the technology of DLP products.

What is BrilliantColor?

DLP BrilliantColor technology using the new color processing algorithms and system strengthening technology in improving the brightness at the same time, to provide more real and vivid brilliantcolor. At the same time, in the film and natural scenery often appear in the middle tone, the technology can enhance the quality of more than 50%. BrilliantColor will be widely used in SVGA, XGA, 720p, WXGA, and SXGA+ and other specifications of commercial and home entertainment projection equipment.

The new technology the first through the improvement of signal processing, the half tone (Halftone) brightness increased to 1.5 times the previous. Through the improvement of the relationship between the signal level and the brightness of the signal processing from the former nonlinear to linear, the half tone brightness is improved effectively. In this way, even if the increase in the color range can also ensure full brightness.

Through this before the red (R), green (G) and blue (B) based on the 3 primary colors, add yellow (Y), purple (M) and blue (C) color 3 colors (Color Wheel), effectively expand the color range. According to the additional color type and quantity, the area accounted for the entire color wheel proportion of different color range and brightness changes. For example, the increase in the number of additional color, color performance, the greater the scope, and the smaller the brightness. The color wheel design conditions by the user as the projector manufacturers set free, so the new technology of the projector manufacturers can adopt different ways "(the company's DLP business minister Peter Van Kessel).

Increased the number of colors and color helps to restrain color chaos (Color Breakup), solve the problem of single plate DLP. This is because each 1 frame rate in monochrome display time reduction, can be obtained with the same effect. In addition, using the technology of BrilliantColor DLP product price has not yet determined, however, the technique does not increase the cost, expand the color range and in the contrary, because of the increase of driving ASIC integration, cost competitiveness is higher".

TI DLP front projection Product Manager Lars Yoder said: "TI is committed to provide customers with innovative technology and advanced products, and consumers to provide excellent image quality as the ultimate goal. DLP technology to show the bright colors and excellent quality, so that DLP has become the preferred technology of high family theater. Now, with the industry's leading BrilliantColor technology, we will be able to bring the rich and colorful color into the field of business and education."

Equipment manufacturers can use this technology to develop multi color projector more easily. Multi color projector, South Korea's Samsung Electronics and Holland PHILPS and other companies are developing. For example, Samsung had developed prior to R, G, B on the basis of an additional 3 colors of yellow and blue color wheel DLP projector. The prototype for the 5 color color into the image signal processing algorithm for autonomous samsung. However, because of the BrilliantColor technology used to deal with the use of ASIC image signal using multi primary color wheel, therefore does not have the technology development experience of this equipment manufacturers also can wide color range of projector.

As a way to expand the projector color range, except for the increase in the number of colors of the color wheel, the light emitting diode (LED) light source method in development. For example, the German OSRAM Opto semiconductor company is developing the LED can be used as a rear projection light source. In this regard, TI said: LED light source is expected to significantly improve the performance of the projector, we are quite concerned about this technology".

According to my understanding: according to Japan's Techno Systems Research report, the DLP subsystem shipments in 2004 within a year of more than 2 million 650 thousand units, becoming the world's largest panel subsystem suppliers; and the Pacific media