A company called IP Mining corp has a new technology (ZeroBurn) that is capable of eliminating burn-in in plasma and OLED TVs. IP Mining are now looking to license this new technology to TV vendors.

 

Basically it works by monitoring each sub-pixel usage, and then stores a 'usage-profile' for each pixel. It then can change the inline video-signal to 'compensate' for the pixels that have been used more. There's also a mode in which the ZeroBurn runs under utilized subpixels until even luminance is achieved - but this seems like a waste of electricity, which will cause OLEDs to be very non-efficient!

IP Mining say that consumer TV content has changed dramatically over the last few years with
increased use of graphics overlays in news and sports programming and
the escalation of gaming time on the TV.

The local government of the Yamagata Prefecture in Japan will support small and mid-sized companies with OLED research. They have created a fund (called 'Dream and Future Fund for Yamagata Industry') that has selected 20 companies in 4 areas - ultra-precision technology, OLED, automobile and aircraft. One of the companies, OLC is working on OLED lighting.

Japan hopes that the Yamagata Prefecture will be a high-tech center, with OLED lighting being one of focus areas.

Novaled and Plextronics will jointly develop doped and solution processed OLED materials. The two companies will develop an advanced solution processable Hole Injection Layer (HIL) technology for OLEDs. By leveraging Plextronics’ organic conductive ink technology and Novaled’s organic dopant technology, the companies will target these advanced HIL materials for use with solution processed polymer and small molecule emitters, as well as with vacuum deposited small molecule emitters.

Novaled and Plextronics aim to offer a solution processed HIL with the same performance as a Novaled doped small molecule HIL deposited in a vacuum process. They will co-market Plexcore OC inks that incorporate Novaled dopany materials.

There are reports that Samsung will soon launch a new phone - the i5700 Galaxy Lite, a smaller-brother to the i7500 Galaxy. It will have only 1Gb of memory (and a microSD slot) and a 3.2mp camera. The display will still be an touch AMOLED, although it's not clear whether it'll be the same display as the i7500 (3.2" HVGA, 320x480).

The i7500 (with a 5mp camera and 8Gb of memory) is available in Europe, and some countries around the world. In the US it can be bought unlocked for 699$.

Dupont has filed a suit (and fired) against a Chinese-born employee called Hong Meng who was allegedly about to leave to China with DuPont's OLED technology trade secrets. They say he was planning to take the information to Peking University in Beijing, who's already involved in OLED technology.

This is not the first time this happens to DuPont - two years ago another employee was charged with trade secret theft, and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.

The Mirror has an interesting story - LG says that they will offer an OLED monitor (probably the 15" panel) that will be used on the go - so you can take it along with you when you go outside, to be used with your laptop (or other devices) as an external display. OLEDs are thin and light - so this might be an interesting...

LG are also said to be internally experimenting with an OLED laptop - which of course will be a very high-end model.

Kyu Uhm, Head of Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Samsung's Computing Division, said that the company would look to release an OLED laptop towards the end of 2010 - probably in Q3.

Samsung SDI 12.1 inch laptop prototype

"Samsung is the largest OLED screen manufacturer. And as soon as it's available commercially for laptops we will adopt it" he said.

According to Samsung, Gartner believes that OLED notebook will become the norm over the next 5 years.

Here's a video showing LG's upcoming 15" OLED TV at the IFA 2009 exhibition: