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Imaging & Displays

Data Phone/Handheld Internet Display
Wearable Display
The long-term viability of portable and handheld devices, including smart phones, is dependent upon their providing an easy to use tool with which people can access information. In the world of displays, like many other industries, content is king and thus the standard setter. High resolution or SVGA to XGA is the web and PC content standard of choice — both today and in the immediate future. To comply, devices must incorporate a display solution that provides this resolution.

Microdisplays (tiny high resolution display on a chip) are part of the solution, but without the critical magnifying and illumination optics, they can't display high-definition Web content. You simply can't read the microdisplay when it is the size of a tiny silicon chip - by definition it's microscopic!

In this application, the DigiLens ASIL holographically encapsulates the prescriptions of multiple lenses within a slim glass (laminated) solid state ASIL, saving space and decreasing weight, complexity and cost. The optical characteristics are calculated, computer-generated, and holographically recorded using proprietary software. When the ASIL is embedded within a display, any single layer of the multi-layer DigiLens ASIL may be switched clear momentarily, allowing the next "stacked" layer's optical properties to become activated. For instance, by switching a layer clear and synchronizing it with each of the microdisplay RGB sequential display cycles, the DigiLens is able to solve this complex magnification problem resulting in a clear big (microdisplay) screen to look at….. all from your cell phone!

 
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