HP Patents See-through Screens

Hewlett Packard has been postulated a US obvious for its see-through shade technology.

The definite describes a network to emanate pure displays that would enable users to see both the screen's P.C. graphics and the backdrop of the room or an intent at the back the device.

Possible uses add navigation information shown on van windscreens and adverts shown on windows.

Samsung is moreover well known to be working on identical technology.

The obvious was filed in 2006 and describes using light-reflective slats to manifestation images constructed by a P.C. on a pure shade whilst moreover permitting light from at the back the device to gleam through.

HP acknowledges that substitute see-through technology using inclined half-silvered mirrors is already used by TV broadcasters in teleprompters to enable newsreaders to see content superimposed over camera lenses.

While such systems coped well with content or images shaped by splendid lines, HP said, they struggled with greyscale or full-colour graphics.

The definite mentioned its offer should defeat this complaint and updated that those at the back the shade could moreover shown not similar images to be able to defeat privacy concerns.

The patent's authors moreover referred to the user might opt to place the manifestation right away against an intent to be able to superimpose information.

This could be a "chart, photo or other image," they wrote, "For e.g. [the] see-through manifestation might be placed on a chart so as to give an spectator with a navigation route."

They updated that it might be fitting to make such screens adjustable so that they could be rolled away for storage.

Although HP has nonetheless to put this technology to use, it expelled videos final year showing process designs supposing to the makers of the film Real Steel.

These enclosed the ThruScreen , written to allows detailed information to show up over a scanned intent hold at the back the device.

Another showed the HP Flex , a laptop P.C. whose shade allows a sports tutor to see live information about his group projected over his perspective of their performance.

The company is not the usually a exploring the idea.

Samsung's mobile section expelled a video final year showing an illusory transparent, bendable inscription P.C. that could be hold over signs and objects to exhibit more information about them.

The South Korean definite has moreover showed off a antecedent laptop with a pure OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen, at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

One researcher who had been shown HP's work on the technology at its Palo Alto, California investigate lab mentioned the definite was major about the technology.

"HP has been working on perplexing to best this technology for about two decades," mentioned Chris Green, leading technology researcher at Davies Murphy Group Europe.

"There's many actual world applications, from protracted reality to displaying information on prosaic surfaces such as web browsers on windows or heads-up displays in cars.

"It might look gimmicky in the cinema but there's outrageous financial prospective in this if you can obtain the technology right and sell it for an adequate price."