Xerox Corp has formed dpiX Inc in Palo Alto to exploit super-high resolution active matrix liquid crystal display technology developed at its Palo Alto Research Center. The new company will launch flat panel displays later this year that can put up 7m pixels on a 13.5 diagonal screen, compared with the 300,000 of 640 by 480 screens. They will cost around $10,000 with initial target markets being aircraft instrumentation and display of medical X rays. The company says the colour displays, matching the resolution of 300 dot per inch laser printers, are the result of more than a decade of thin-film transistor research at Xerox, and forecasts that over time, they will revolutionize the way information is viewed. Among their findings, the company told Reuter, its scientists learned that the human eye has trouble determining spatial relationships when viewing objects coloured blue, so in addition to the blue, green and red picture elements found in current computer screens, the new dpiX diplays add an extra green element that tricks the eye into seeing images more clearly. After launch of displays for X-rays and aircraft instrumentation, dpiX will go for the broader publishing, graphic design, scientific modeling, business information and multimedia markets, at around the turn of the year.
