The Kopin Corporation is used to build microdisplays for all sorts of things and thus it has announced an even smaller color display. How did they do it? Well it seems that Kopin managed to shrink those color dots to just 2.9 x 8.7 µm in order to get a VGA display that measures only 0.27-inch. That’s the smallest VGA color-filter LCD used to date so I guess that Kopin really knows what it’s doing when it comes to microdisplays. These tiny LCDs will probably be used in digital single-lens-reflex cameras packing high-resolution electronic viewfinders so let’s get ready to wait a while for these new DSLR cameras.

Dr. John C.C.Fan, Kopin’s President and CEO had this to say about Kopin’s plan:

This small color dot size is an important achievement in our previously announced goal to create a 2048 x 2048-resolution display in a size smaller than a typical postage stamp. Using the same color dot size, we can create SVGA (800 x 600) displays in a 0.34” diagonal size, XGA (1024 x 768) displays in a 0.44” diagonal and SXGA (1280 x 1024) displays in a 0.56” diagonal size. These ultra-compact displays should be ideal for high-end digital still cameras requiring high-resolution electronic viewfinders.

Anyone excited yet?

via Press

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