Abstract: Methods and systems produce and render digital video content having individualized or customized product placement at time of production. The system re-defines how product placement is manifested and delivered to content audience members. Specific products from vendors in an output video stream are shown for specific users. There is a degree of granularity, down to single user-level customization for product placement. Essentially, there is a fine-tune matching between a vendor profile and a user. This ability to modularize product placement is done at time of production, while the video is being shot, and immediately broadcasted and rendered on users' devices. Any malleable, non-critical object in a scene is a candidate for product placement and various factors may be used for the customization, such as demographic, geographic, socio-economic and other factors.

Abstract: Methods and systems produce and render digital video content having individualized or customized product placement at time of production. The system re-defines how product placement is manifested and delivered to content audience members. Specific products from vendors in an output video stream are shown for specific users. There is a degree of granularity, down to single user-level customization for product placement. Essentially, there is a fine-tune matching between a vendor profile and a user. This ability to modularize product placement is done at time of production, while the video is being shot, and immediately broadcasted and rendered on users' devices. Any malleable, non-critical object in a scene is a candidate for product placement and various factors may be used for the customization, such as demographic, geographic, socio-economic and other factors.

Abstract: Displays, and methods of displaying images with the displays, which have quantized display characteristics for each of the pixels are disclosed. The displays and methods relate to both spatially and temporally dithering images so that the effective resolution of the display is higher than the result of the native spatial and intensity resolutions of the display, defined by pixel size, pitch, and number of quantization levels of each of the pixels.

Abstract: A display comprises a backlight comprising a plurality of individually-controllable light emitters, a light modulator comprising a plurality of individually-controllable elements, and, a retro-reflective optical layer positioned between the backlight and the light modulator. The retro-reflective optical layer is configured to pass light incident thereon at an angle with respect to a normal to the retro-reflective optical layer of less than a threshold angle ?, and reflect light incident thereon at an angle with respect to a normal to the retro-reflective optical layer of greater than ? in a direction opposite and generally parallel to an incoming direction of incident light.

Abstract: Displays, and methods of displaying images with the displays, which have quantized display characteristics for each of the pixels are disclosed. The displays and methods relate to both spatially and temporally dithering images so that the effective resolution of the display is higher than the result of the native spatial and intensity resolutions of the display, defined by pixel size, pitch, and number of quantization levels of each of the pixels.

Abstract: A display comprises a backlight comprising a plurality of individually-controllable light emitters, a light modulator comprising a plurality of individually-controllable elements, and, a retro-reflective optical layer positioned between the backlight and the light modulator. The retro-reflective optical layer is configured to pass light incident thereon at an angle with respect to a normal to the retro-reflective optical layer of less than a threshold angle ?, and reflect light incident thereon at an angle with respect to a normal to the retro-reflective optical layer of greater than ? in a direction opposite and generally parallel to an incoming direction of incident light.

Abstract: A simple, reliable and cost-effective super-twisted nematic liquid crystal display is disclosed. The liquid crystal display is suitable for application in all portable electronic devices due to the reliable and simple design employing a thin crystal film polarizer and is particularly suitable for outdoor display applications due to its increased environmental robustness. The thin crystal film polarizer also increases the viewing characteristics of the liquid crystal display and provides additional advantages. The disclosed liquid crystal display includes a front and rear polarizer and a super-twisted nematic liquid crystal layer, wherein the liquid crystal layer has a twist angle from about 230° to about 250°. The front and rear transmission axes of the polarizers are angularly displaced by about 70° to about 86° relative to each other.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of color filters, in particular, to a non-absorbing polarization color filters and to high-brightness color liquid crystal display panel with improved image contrast employing non-absorbing polarization color filters and light recycling among neighboring subpixels. The disclosed invention represents a non-absorbing polarization color filter comprising the following elements: a rear broadband multilayer lossless polarizer, a front broadband multilayer lossless polarizer, and a color polarization rotator. The rear broadband multilayer lossless polarizer has a predefined-oriented transmission axis AB. Said front broadband multilayer lossless polarizer is located approximately in parallel with the rear broadband multilayer lossless polarizer, and has a transmission axis approximately parallel or approximately orthogonal with respect to transmission axis AB.