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Multi touch, image sensing and power generating diodes in display

360 points posted to Desktops, Monitors and Displays by j.bandringa 07/09/07




I would like to have an image sensing, power generating and multi touch display. Multifunctional organic diodes can do this.




Multifunctional organic diodes can:


• Show you something like a regular display (OLED);


• See you like a webcam (photodiode);


• Built multi touch sensing displays;


• Generate electricity like a solar cell.




I would like Dell to promote research in this field. Here you find a patent of a multifunctional organic diode. It's written in Japanese though. Take a look at the videos in the comments if you want.

j.bandringa
07/10/07
To get an idea





OLED





Webcam

• Apple is working on a display that sees you. Read the full patent, here.

• Sharp develops
LCD Panel Embedded with Image Sensor

• An other patent for a display type image sensor



Multi touch



Solar panel

This article tells about research on an OLED that can produce electricty.



arcette
07/14/07
Sure that's cool but I really doubt that the technology can be implemented within the next 10 or 20 years.Even then it'll be outrageously priced.
j.bandringa
08/11/07
I would like Dell to make this idea become reality faster and cheaper than you think :) .
mlazarov
Mar 26
There are already prototypes of image-sensing displays made by a company called Planar (shown at SIGGRAPH 2007) using conventional TFT manufacturing. The problem with these displays is that they effectively act as scanners without any imaging optics (like a camera lens). I don't think a microlens array would even address this problem.
 
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