Company Press Release:
MicroEmissive Displays
plc (MED) announces the world’s first mobile TV viewing experience
to employ the Mobile
Display Digital Interface (MDDI) standard
March 7, 2007: MicroEmissive
Displays plc (MED) announced the world’s first mobile TV viewing experience
to employ the Mobile Display Digital Interface (MDDI) standard, at 3GSM
2007 in Barcelona in February.
The Personal Display Glasses
(PDG) are the most advanced integrated personal display and mobile phone
solution on the market. They are enabled by the Edinburgh-based firm’s
unique ultra-low power P-OLED eyescreen™ microdisplays, which are created
on a CMOS substrate offering BT.656 and serial RGB digital interfaces.
The full colour eyescreen™
combines superb TV quality moving video images that are free from flicker,
with ultra-low power consumption, enabling greatly extended battery life
for the consumer.
The enhanced battery usage
time made possible by the eyescreen™ will play a vital role in the widespread
adoption of portable head-sets for personal TV and video viewing in the
consumer marketplace.
The innovative design of
the eyescreen™, with its integrated driver ICs and its digital interface,
offers product design engineers a fast, robust design-in solution for smaller,
lighter-weight, stylish products of the future, all for a size comparable
with the pupil of the human eye.
A listed company on the
London Stock Exchange’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), MicroEmissive
Displays was founded in 1999 and has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 registration
for the research, design, development and marketing of digital microdisplay
solutions.
The company is headquartered
in Scotland and employs around 40 people. Its manufacturing plant is in
Dresden, Germany. The company also has sales representatives and applications
support located in Asia, the USA and Europe.
The eyescreen™ enabled PDG
launched in Barcelona by Danish firm Mobintech A/S, has a number of unique
technical features:
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High speed low power digital
MDDI interface around an official VESA standard
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Using the MDDI standard connector
but capable of integrating with almost any connector type on the phone
via an intermediate cable to the PDG
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Analogue stereo audio built-in-ear-buds
or users own favourite wired audio headset or via a Bluetooth headset connected
to the phone
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QVGA resolution in landscape
format (320 x RGB x 240 pixels), 18 bit colors
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Binocular optical module with
two sets of high quality optics
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Focus distance is 2 metres
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Viewing angle is 21 degrees,
equivalent to a 30 inch screen at 2 metre distance