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  • Infocomm: Sony launches new 'CANVAS' LED Display Wall

    At InfoComm 2016, Sony will highlight its display capabilities in a big way, re-defining the landscape for large-scale visual entertainment. The new technology, Crystal LED Integrated Structure (CLEDIS), uses Sony’s ultrafine LEDs in a unique surface mounting structure as its light source to deliver a visual experience not possible with even the highest-end conventional LED array.


    New Canvas for Creativity 99% Black Surface Area for High Contrast, High Resolution, Immersive Visuals

    “It’s a new type of canvas for limitless flexibility and creativity in public spaces and high-end visual entertainment,” said Kevin O’Connor, senior manager, sales and marketing, visual simulation and entertainment at Sony Electronics. “Compared to the technologies currently available for large-scale display, it’s a leap forward in depth, contrast, color, resolution – and pure visual impact.”

    The new display technology is designed for commercial applications and immersive experiences, from industrial product design and manufacturing, theme parks, museums, and high-traffic lobbies to corporate boardrooms and broadcast studios – any environment requiring realistic simulation on a large scale and detailed video displays.



    The self-emitting display technology uses R (red), G (green), and B (blue) ultrafine LEDs mounted on the display surface, with each pixel emitting light independently. Each pixel is only 0.003 mm2 in size, allowing the remaining surface area to be more than 99% black.

    This high black-to-surface ratio contributes to the technology’s high contrast ratio in light and dark viewing environments. The surface-mounted light source also improves light use efficiency.

    The technology has a viewing angle of nearly 180 degrees, with corner-to-corner image uniformity in terms of brightness and color, even on a large screen.

    The canvas has a brightness of 1000 cd/m2 (1000 nits), and will support High Dynamic Range (HDR) content, producing imagery with 10-bit color depth and a wide color gamut (approximately 140% of sRGB).

    The scalable system is made up of multiple display units (each measuring 18 x 16 inches) that can be joined together with no bezels to create a limitless and seamless large-screen display.

    The canvas also features Sony’s unique pixel drive circuitry, to achieve fast video response with a frame rate of 120fps. This is critical for sports, concerts, or training simulations, where users need to present large screen visuals with no delay or motion artifacts.

    The new technology — display unit and display controller — will be shown for the first time in public at InfoComm 2016 (Booth C770 in Las Vegas, June 8 to 10, in an 8Kx2K, 32’x9’ configuration and is planned to be available in early 2017.

    Key Specifications:CLEDIS Structure


    A visual representation of the light source, approximately 0.003 mm2 in size; black area covers over 99% of the screen surface

    https://youtu.be/iPopUGb_jIk

    This is a new generation of CLED, a technology demonstarted at CES 2012 as a 55" Crystal LED TV, this time the Integrated Structure version is demonstarted as an actual Videowall 'product' at Commercial AV show Infocomm. So no OLED Tv alternative, as Sony demonstrated high zonecount 4000 nits LED-LCD TV prototype as alternative for OLED's HDR and black level advantage.



    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dxXUtx2RN0

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    The specs:

    Key Specifications:

    Display Unit:

    Panel size (per unit): 403 mm ×453 mm
    Number of pixels (per unit): 320 × 360 × RGB
    Pixel configuration: RGB LEDs
    Brightness: Up to approximately 1,000 cd/m²
    Viewing angle: Almost 180 degrees
    Contrast: More than 1,000,000:1
    Color: Approximately 140% sRGB coverage
    Frame rate: Up to 120fps
    Display Controller:

    Size: 440 mm × 349 mm × 65mm (excluding protruding areas)
    Maximum input resolution (per controller): 3840 × 2160
    Inputs: Display Port ×2  DVI-D (single link) ×4
    Maximum number of units that can be controlled (per controller): 72 units
    Number of controllers that can be synced together: Up to 20

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    • #3
      First review from the showfloor:

      Sony’s Canvas Display – Best of Show at InfoComm 2016?
      DISPLAY DAILY Chris Chinnock 19 hours 48 mins ago Hits: 844

      I can’t really crown Sony's CLEDIS display my best of show winner, as I have only been here one day and have not seen all the cool stuff yet - but this one will be hard to top. It truly is a new display category, as it is the first commercial product using a new class of LEDs: microLEDs (although Sony doesn't like that word - TA).

      The display (Sony Returns to Crystal LED With CLEDIS - subscription required) was officially unveiled in a press conference on the opening morning of InfoComm. Image quality is stunning. It is a tiled solution much like conventional LED modules, but there were only very slightly visible seams between modules. On display was a 32’x9’ (9.75m x 2.74m) system with a resolution of 8Kx2K.

      Sony canvas 3

      I think this is a new class of LED video wall, because the packaging of the LEDs is completely different than conventional LED video wall modules. The Canvas display is composed of Sony’s CLEDIS (Crystal LED Integrated Structure) technology. The pixel pitch is stated as 1.2mm. On a conventional 1.2mm-pitch LED video wall module, the RGB LED device will take up a fair degree of this real estate, perhaps 50-70% of the pixel area. With Canvas, the emitting area is only 1% of the pixel area! That’s right, 99% of the module is black, making for really high contrast potential, especially in well-lit environments.

      One might think that having a pixel with only 1% emitting area might create a display with points of light, or a highly pixellated image. It does not appear this way at all; the CLEDIS display is quite smooth and continuous. If you get to about 2 feet away you can now see some structure in the pixels, especially on white content, but you don’t see a point of light surrounded by black.

      The photo on the left below is from the Sony web site, showing the LED surrounded by black. The photo on the right is a section of white content that was displayed on the Canvas screen at InfoComm. This looks like most of the pixel area is white with some sort of structure in the corners of the pixel.  That leads me to suspect that Sony has an optical layer on top of each module that is expanding the light from this tiny LED to fill the full pixel area. It could be a microlens array or diffuser, for example. This is all pure speculation on my part, mind you, but the result is a smooth continuous image with great contrast.

      Sony Canvas 2

          Sony Canvas 1

















      And there is more. Each module is 403 x 453 mm with a resolution of 320 x 360 x RGB. Peak luminance is around 1000 cd/m² and the display will support HDR (presumably HDR10) in future releases. The viewing angle is about 180° and contrast is 1M:1, although it is unclear exactly how this was measured. The color gamut is 140% of the Rec. 709 gamut. And it can operate at 120 fps!

      Sony is also offering a full control system. Each controller can manage up to 72 modules with a maximum input resolution of 3840x2160. But 20 controllers can be chained together to create massive video walls.

      In back of the 8Kx2K Canvas display, Sony showed the controller architecture. This consisted of a media server and an image generator, each with two HDMI outputs. These are fed to two HDMI-to-IP conversion modules, which send the signals over fiber optics to an IP switch, which appeared to be an off-the shelf 10 Gbps device. At the display, the data is converted from an IP format to a DVI format and sent to two display controllers, which then drive signals to the Canvas display. We presume the signal is daisy chained between modules.

      This is an indoor solution aimed at the same application where fine pitch LEDs compete now. Sony has not disclosed pricing but you can assume it will be expensive. There are many other details, like power consumption, that have not been revealed that we hope to learn more about over time.

      What do all of you think about this display?

      - Chris Chinnock

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      • #4
        3 micron micro LEDs embedded in clear diffractive substrate.

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReB5ckqHaA4

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        • #5
          Wow, nice.

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          • #6
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFpptSFBWTM

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_0DZcCqk8

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zssVRt0_Now

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRucBViqF6U

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