Touch Taiwan used to present innovations, trends and technologies in a physical event in Taipei. This year, end of April, it was an online expo, presenting, under five themes, including Smart Displays, a comprehensive industry ecosystem gathering 296 suppliers from Taiwan. Other themes are: “Smart Manufacturing”, “Advanced Equipment”, “Industrial Materials” and “Startup Innovations”.
ITRI is a technology research and development institution in Taiwan, with headquarters in Hsinchu City. Founded in 1973, its mission is to drive industrial development, create economic value, and enhance social well-being through technology R&D. It pioneered in IC development and started to nurture new tech ventures and deliver its R&D results to industries.
To enable smart cities and Mobility as a Service (MaaS), ITRI has developed the world’s first transparent display of virtual-real fusion smart car windows. This smart window provides passengers with real-time and intuitive scene-fusion information, which enhances the user’s experience in smart car cabins. The information fusion accuracy can reach 80%, with a fusion frequency of 30 FPS. This technology can be applied to the fields of smart mobility and smart edutainment.
Another technology is panel-level RDL technology. It can be applied to the driver circuit of microLED display panels to increase panel design flexibility. ITRI’s panel-level RDL can control panel warpage during processing to 1%, and the line width and line spacing of thick copper conductors can reach 2 µm. This helps the integration of functional components.
ITRI also developed Low Diffraction AM Micro LED Display Technology to improve the background visibility of transparent panels, with a diffraction intensity of less than 1% — much lower than the current 30%-40% of most transparent displays. This offers advantages to the application of transparent displays such as smart windows of vehicles.
