SHARP EXPANDS ITS REPERTOIRE OF LCDs FOR IN-CAR USE

摘要

The display-research arm of Sharp Electronics has revealed some of its advanced work exploring options in LCD technology for automotive use, including an enhanced version of its dual-view LCD panel and a dual-depth panel that shows information on two visual planes. Sharp supplies its dual-view panels to two car manufacturers, which install them in the center console of the dashboard. The dual-view panel shows two separate images when you view them off-center from either side of the display. In the automotive application, the driver can see only relevant information, such as navigation or car-system menus, while the front-seat passenger views entertainment content In the first generation of panels, now in production, Sharp achieves the image separation with a parallax barrier: The two images appear on interleaved vertical pixel strips, and a vertical linear grating in front of the screen obscures the set of pixel strips corresponding to the "hidden" image on the respective side.