Sharp Announces Triple-View LCD
By Geoff Duncan
September 27, 2006
Japan's Sharp Corporation announced today it has developed an LCD display which can show different images to viewers at three different angles.
Folks were a little skeptical last year when Sharp announced it had developed an dual-view LCD screen which could display different images to viewers on the left and the right. This year, Sharp is upping the ante, claiming to have developed a new triple-view LCD display (Japanese) which can show different images to the left, right, and center.
In theory, a triple view LCD panel installed in a car could enable a drive to view a navigation system, a passenger to surf the Web, and backseat passenger to enjoy quality video entertainment programming. And Sharp is probably right to be thinking about putting a triple-view LCD in cars: that's where most of the interest in the dual-view LCDs has been. Another possible application is store signing and other public displays.