《Digital Light ProcessingTM for HighBrightness》.pdf

Digital Light ProcessingTM for High-Brightness, High-Resolution Applications Larry J. Hornbeck Texas Instruments Incorporated, P.O. Box 655012, MS41, Dallas, TX 75265 phone: 972-995-2260 • email: hbek@dlep 1. ABSTRACT and later at Gretag AG, oil film projectors (including the GE Talaria) have been the workhorse for applications that require Electronic projection display technology for high-brightness projection displays of the highest brightness [1]. But the oil applications had its origins in the Gretag Eidophor, an oil film projector has a number of limitations including size, film-based projection system developed in the early 1940s. A weight, power, setup time, stability, and maintenance. In re- number of solid state technologies have challenged the sponse to these limitations, LCD-based technologies have Eidophor, including CRT-addressed LCD light valves and challenged the oil film projector. These LCD-based projec- active-matrix-addressed LCD panels. More recently, in re- tors are of two general types: (1) CRT-addressed LCD light sponse to various limitations of the LCD technologies