Opening Keynote Address
Room: LVCC N257/N259/N261
Patrick Griffis
Vice President, Digital Living Network Alliance
and Director of Worldwide Media Standards
Microsoft
Digital Content Throughout the Networked Home
Consumers are acquiring, viewing,
and managing an increasing amount of digital media on electronic devices
in the consumer electronics (CE), mobile, and PC domains. They want to
easily and conveniently enjoy the content - regardless of its original
source - across different devices and locations in the home.
In this presentation, Pat Griffis, will examine the trends that are fueling
the proliferation of digital media and IP networking. He will discuss
advancements in technology and standards that will facilitate the seamless
interaction among CE, mobile and PC devices that further enhance the consumer
experience, and drive growth opportunities for manufacturers and software
developers.
Patrick Griffis is Director, Worldwide Media Standards for the Windows
Strategic Relations & Policy group. Pat is also vice chair of the Digital
Lifestyle Networking Alliance (formerly the Digital Home Working Group),
as well as a member of the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC),
and the ATSC Forum. He is US Head of Delegation to ITU-R Study Group 6
Working Party-6M on Multimedia and Vice Chair of the joint ITU-R/T rapporteur's
group on Interactive TV harmonization.
Prior to joining Microsoft in 1998, Pat spent 15 years at Panasonic in
various senior management positions including Vice President of Strategic
Product Development at Panasonic Broadcast where he helped launch DVCPRO
and had responsibility for Panasonic's corporate HDTV strategy coordination
for the USA. Pat started his career at RCA Consumer Electronics Division
in Indianapolis, USA where he earned 8 patents in TV design. Pat holds
a BSEE from Tufts University and an MSEE from Purdue University.
Tuesday, January 11, 2005 12:30
PM
Room: LVCC N257/N259/N261
Dr. Shigeo Kubota
Chief Technology Officer, Devices Technology
Sony Corporation
by New Light Sources
Cathode ray tube (CRT) has long been dominating the display device market due to its excellent picture quality. Color gamut for CRT generated by primary colors of electron- beam-excited phosphors has been a standard. Recently, various flat panel displays are proliferating in the consumer electronics space. They use a variety of light sources. However, most of them are still relying upon phosphors illuminated by some exciters. Thanks to the progress of laser and light emitting diode (LED) technologies, displays which use these solid-state light sources became more and more realistic. Laser and LED based display can basically reproduce much wider color gamut than that for conventional phosphor-based light source displays. In this talk, the Grating Light Valve laser projector and the LED backlit LCD-TV will be presented in terms of the technological challenges in utilizing these light sources in conjunction with new color rendering scheme. Some related technologies such as spectral selective high contrast screen will also be addressed.