brightness

Samsung LCD TV tech goes mobile

News By adding white, Samsung claims the RGBW alignment increases the brightness on the screen by as much as 70 per cent and reduces the amount of power needed for the display since there is a constant brightness factored in.

14 November 2005, 11:18

Kodak increases digital camera sensitivity

News Kodak's new method better reflects how human eyes actually work, separately registering colour and brightness information -- and devoting more pixels to brightness, where the human eye is sensitive to detail.

14 June 2007, 9:28

Photos: Apple's updated 5.5G iPod

News The screen is now 60 per cent brighter than its predecessor, and you can adjust brightness from within the movie playback screen. Apple's improved the iPod screen's brightness, video battery life has been pumped up, and now you can fill it with...

22 September 2006, 10:57

Photos: Comet blows up larger than the sun

News Early on 24 October, Comet Holmes was just another space traveler that could only be seen by a telescope -- until its brightness suddenly grew from magnitude 17 to magnitude 2.8 in a matter of hours. Magnitude measures the brightness of stellar...

Tags: earth, reference, brightness, lab

19 November 2007, 9:45

Samsung announces 'largest ever' organic LED display

News Due for launch next year, the display has a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels and a brightness of 400 lumens, and is the largest OLED matrix display to date according to the company. Samsung SDI, the Korean giant's display division, has announced...

18 May 2004, 17:35

Photos: Vivid photos via HDR technique

News This technique can help make up for a digital sensor's lack of sensitivity to scenes with a wide range of brightness values. The darkroom may be a fading element of the rapidly vanishing world of film photography, but digital photographers do have...

7 August 2006, 10:01

A film projector in a mobile phone?

News The picture brightness won't be as high as that of standard projectors, but it would let pictures on phones and music players escape the confines of the small screens on those devices. A few years from now, you might be able to carry a home cinema...

16 November 2005, 9:39

Photos: LG serves up more Chocolate for Christmas

News Features include two HDMI ports and an 'Eye Intelligent' system that uses an ambient light sensor to tweak the brightness, contrast and sharpness automatically. As the sweltering heat transformed London into the innermost circle of hell, LG...

20 July 2006, 9:52

News.blog: Phone for every mood

News Depending on what kind of day you're having, according to Gear Live, the phone can show "10 variations of brightness and colours with a 128-gradiation LED light. If you crossed a mood ring with a mobile phone, what would you get?

Tags: mobile phone, colours, mood, colour

20 November 2006, 9:26

YouTube directors set for postproduction

News I lowered the brightness and raised the contrast, and instead of a light orange, the dunes became burnt red, which is how they really look. The creator of the video known as 'Where the Hell is Matt? an inspirational montage that features Harding...

31 August 2006, 9:37

New Samsung slimline panel TV screen

News This latest prototype sports a 1,280 by 800-pixel resolution and a maximum screen brightness of 600 nits (A NIT is a measurement of light in candelas per metre squared). Samsung has devised a 40-inch panel that could lead to television sets that...

20 May 2005, 9:14

HD TV makers battle customer confusion

News Panasonic's Liao said consumers routinely misunderstand the benefits and features of hi-def TV, such as improved resolution, colour and brightness. Consumers are confused about high-definition television.

Tags: high definition, shop, consumers, definition

17 August 2006, 9:58

Samsung unveils largest flexible LCD ever

News OLED, though, remains a relatively new technology, and questions about brightness, durability and functionality remain. Samsung has created a flexible LCD screen that measures 178mm (7 inches) diagonally, another technology that may one day be used...

29 November 2005, 9:04

Photos: LG.Philips' tiny LCD tech

News LG.Philips LCD also showed off Pentile display technology, another type of thin display for mobile phones that aims to improve brightness while decreasing power consumption. Last week LG.Philips LCD announced it had created the "world's thinnest...

6 October 2006, 10:00

News.blog: Kodak boosts mobile megapixels

News If you pick up a camera phone from 2003 or and compare to one from 2008, that old one will produce nicer pictures.For product purposes, Kodak is pairing the hole-detector technology with a new colour filter array Kodak calls Clear Pixel that's...

Tags: megapixel, detect, pixel, mobile phones

5 February 2008, 9:11