This technology has the capability of displaying large, high-definition images, and that is what we have demonstrated at the ARPA High Definition Systems Conference. The digital design of the DMD display will also facilitate the convergence of computers and televisions. The digital design allows a DMD display to serve as an all-digital interface to multiple information systems. Today's display systems are unable to digitally present information from multiple sources simultaneously. As new, multiple information networks emerge, the need to simultaneously receive and show information from multiple sources will become a user requirement.
Aspect ratio describes the ratio of the width to the height of the screen.
The projector provides a 256-level gray scale and uses eight bits of data per color. Each device has more than 2.3 million mirrors. A resolution of 1716 x 960 was chosen for demonstration purposes due to the video input source. The DMD also has the resolution capability to handle the proposed North American, high-definition standard of 1920 x 1080. We've made substantial progress compared to the projection display we demonstrated here 12 months ago, and look forward to the expected performance of the system at completion of the contract later this year.