Displaytech will deliver microdisplays to a range of new products including small projectors, mobile communications devices, data storage, head-mounted displays (HMDs), and more.

Displaytech dramatically improves display-based products by providing high switching speed Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal on Silicon (FLCOS) as microdisplays that deliver real-life, digital images enabling next-generation consumer electronics and storage products by providing FLCOS as a Spatial Light Modulator (SLM). The company’s patented FLCOS that includes Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) semiconductor technologies, enables light switching that is significantly faster than other liquid crystals, making possible the creation of microdisplays that deliver unsurpassed image resolution, power efficiency and ease of manufacturability.

Displaytech will continue to be involved in the electronic viewfinder (EVF) business by sharing ongoing development responsibilities with Citizen Miyota. Based on Displaytech’s patented Ferroelectric Liquid Crystal (FLC) technology, these electronic viewfinders deliver brilliant, real-life images. The low power consumed by the single-chip technology and the compact form factor permits innovative end product design.

Olympus Imaging Corporation has selected the company’s new generation LightView 201k-EV2-E3 (LV201k-E) microdisplay as the electronic viewfinder (EVF) in the Olympus SP-510UZ digital still camera. Hitting store shelves in September 2006, the SP-510 UZ offers 10x optical zoom, the high quality of Olympus ED Zoom Lens, 7.1-megapixcel CCD, a 2.5-inch LCD and 630 shots capability, the longest battery life of the world AA digital cameras. This camera provides full manual controls, ISO 4000 highest sensitivity and RAW shooting.

Displaytech’s LV201k-E is an extremely compact, low power, near-eye microdisplay. It is designed for all digital still camera and video camcorder viewfinder applications, as well as any portable consumer electronic device needing excellent image quality in a low-power, compact package. The LV201k-E is a complete display solution, incorporating the microdisplay panel with integrated interface and control circuitry, as well as the LED illumination and polarization optics. Olympus had previously selected an earlier generation of the LV201k for its SP-500 UZ digital still camera, launched in September of 2005.

FLCOS electronic viewfinders can be found in consumer electronics products from Kodak, JVC, Hitachi, Konica-Minolta, Kyocera or Hewlett-Packard.