Sharp launches a small screen 3D without glasses
By Marc Cherki
This tiny touch screen to watch videos in relief without the glasses adjusted.
The Japanese group considers that smartphones will adopt its technology that reproduces images in relief. 3DS Nintendo console should use.
The story accelerates. This Friday, the Japanese group Sharp has introduced a tiny touch screen, color, reproducing 3D videos. The big innovation is that this screen does not require glasses. A step that should be taken seriously. Unfashionable as it may eventually large displays of 3D TVs that are being launched in the U.S. by Samsung and Panasonic but need to don special glasses.
However, to see the effect in relief, it is necessary to be right in front of the small screen, 30 cm apart. "We can only produce small screen in this technology. In addition, 12.7 cm diagonal. It must be well in front, otherwise the perception of 3D fade, "says Patrick Chardin, director at Sharp France. To develop its new technology, the Japanese group has improved its previous innovations. Three years ago, in Tokyo, Sharp has introduced an innovative technology which allowed three people to watch at the same time, a different program broadcast by the same TV, depending on the position of each face on the screen. Each point on the screen was broadcasting a different image depending on the viewing angle of the viewer.
According to this principle, with an image emitted for each eye, the semiconductor division of Sharp has designed its new 3D display device called an "interlaced effect. The additional cost compared to a conventional screen is not excessive. For the screen in landscape consists of a conventional LCD panel on which is placed a filter.
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But because of its limited size for the 3D effect, "we focus on three markets: portable gaming devices, smartphones (note: mobile phones for surfing) and embedded screens , such as GPS in cars " said Patrick Chardin.
Production should begin in September. One of the first objects that can use this technology should be the next portable game console, Nintendo 3DS, announced last week and promised for 2011. For its previous screens of the DS, sold 125 million units, Nintendo had already appealed to Sharp as a supplier.
Nintendo's next console will be presented in June in Los Angeles at E3. The Japanese group said the old games the DS can be reused on its future console. With 3DS, the group led by Satoru Iwata will take another step ahead of the Sony PSP (67 million), which was sold two times less than the DS. In addition, the CEO of Nintendo will reduce competition from the iPhone and iPod Touch which guests are on the market for portable game consoles.
Moreover, it could sell 78 million smartphones equipped with 3D screens by 2018, says DisplaySearch. For now, only one mobile is sold only in Japan by Hitachi, with a 3D effect without glasses.
