Today Patently Apple published the headline :
Apple Granted a Patent for an Entirely New Class of Computer
http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2013/12/apple-granted-a-patent-for-an-entirely-new-cla…
Here is the Apple Patent # 8,610,726
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv…
Basically Apple proposes a pico projector to be substituted for a conventional monitor.
The source for the projection is listed as laser or LED which has got the MVIS crowd all in a tizzy .
"In respect to the projector, Apple states that they may a light emitting diode (LED) or laser diode based light source."
Fraunhofer has developed LED's for pico projectors / smartphones :
http://www.fraunhofer.de/en/press/research-news/2012/may/mini-projector-for-smartphones.html
So LED is doable .
Now for the good part :
Fraunhofer has also developed an ultra small OLED pico projector .
Source date of this pdf is way back in 6/9/2009 . So they know this can be done with OLED
http://www.wiley-vch.de/berlin/journals/op/09-02/OP0902_S34-S36.pdf
However, what has stopped progress IMO is this statement :
" For micro projection applications, high brightness (at least 10,000 nits) is one of the most important target parameters."
From the last EMAN CC:
"Our first color display will be capable of about 5,000 nits and in the future we are going to moving this to about 10,000 and finally above the 10,000."
To get an idea of the projection potential , view the monocrome green projection in figure 3 from this Fraunhofer link. The features states up to 30,000 cd/m2 (nits) monochrome . ( up to ? )
http://www.comedd.fraunhofer.de/content/dam/comedd/common/products/COMEDD/hypoled-e.pdf
EMAN is up to 17,000 monochrome green .
"During his video, Andrew talks about a new monochrome green panel that produces 17,000 nits "
https://www.oled-info.com/emagin-introduce-new-oled-xls-series-worlds-brightest-full-color-oled-mi…
So with EMAN high brightness OLED color displays , are applications for cell phones and substitutes for computer monitors in our future ?
