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Microvision, which specializes in creating ultra-miniature projection displays and image capture products for mobility applications, announced that it plans to unveil advancements in its proprietary ultra-miniature display system, called PicoP(TM). Debut of ultra-miniature display system to be held at the event Society for Information Display (SID 2008). Several prototypes of products based on PicoP will be presented at the exhibition.

In particular, the company plans to show SHOW(TM) - a prototype of a stand-alone pico projector intended for simple plug-and-play integration with mobile devices, such as cell phones, MP3 players, laptops and gaming devices.

Microvision also plans to introduce at SID its SD3000, an advancement in its see-through, full-color wearable display technology platform. Compared to existing wearable display technologies, which partially occlude the user’s surrounding environment or have low brightness levels, the SD3000 demonstrates bright, unobstructed see-through capability, allowing content to be clearly readable in full daylight. According to Dr. Aris Silzars, former President of SID, who recently previewed the SD3000, “Microvision’s transparent display solution surpasses the quality threshold for viewers to read messages, watch videos, or track their surroundings with GPS while still seeing the outside world. This development is really quite impressive.”

Finally, the exhibition will include Microvision’s first projection on-board display for cars, based on the PicoP.

About PicoP:

Microvision’s PicoP display engine is based on a modular, flexible architecture, comprised of directly modulated light sources, custom-drive electronics and software, optical combiners and Microvision’s MEMS single scanning mirror. The tiny scanning mirror itself is less than one square millimeter in area–or about the size of the head of a pin. The single scanning mirror is designed to scan in both horizontal and vertical directions so that a single beam of light can be precisely steered, in a raster-like fashion, at very high speeds to project a complete video image.

The inherent advantages of this architecture include small form factor and low power requirements, while delivering very good image quality. PicoP uses a collimated beam of light to achieve very efficient full-color, hi-resolution, high-contrast images. Additionally, PicoP does not require any projection lenses and is therefore “focus-free” at any distance, which is another huge advantage inherent in the PicoP architecture.

Source: Microvision