February 9, 2006, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Speaker:  Arthur Berman, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, LightMaster Systems

Title:  Optical Engine for LCoS Microdisplay

Abstract:   The rational for the product developed by LMS lies with the fact that, although LCOS provides a very attractive basis for a HDTV product and many companies have designed, built and shown good looking prototypes, until recently there have been few products in the marketplace. We concluded that one major reason for the absence of LCOS products was the difficulty in aligning and compensating microdisplays when these tasks were undertaken in high volume manufacturing.

To address these practical problems, LMS designed and is now in production of a light management system (which we call a Photon Processor) that integrates the microdisplays and all of the optical components needed to create the video image.

In this way, with the LMS Photon Processor as the starting point, a wide range of companies can design and produce a good looking LCOS based HDTV for a modest development cost, in a reduced time frame and with a greatly increased prospect that the project will yield a satisfactory product.

The presentation will include a discussion of the innovative means by which LMS solved these manufacturing problems.

Speaker Background: With a Ph.D. in physics from Kent State University, Dr. Berman has specialized in the business and science of liquid crystal technologies. The early part of his career
was spent in developing commercial display products in the United States at companies
including Beckman Instruments, Motorola and Ladcor and in developing LCD manufacturing
facilities in Asia and Eastern Europe. Activities in the middle part of his career
focused on developing military systems and commercial 3D devices based on liquid
crystals. This phase included employment at Optical Shields and Kaiser Electronics.
More recently, Berman has specialized in development and production of video
projection and LCOS related products.