News from the pico projector

Now even leading companies in mobile communications industry rely on the pico projector technology. The market launch of a pico projector from Samsung is likely to be imminent. Sony Ericsson on the other hand patented a special technique for the pico projector.

In recent months we reported several from developments at the pico projector. Since our last report, there was more news from the industry. Here is an update.

Samsung micro projector MBP-100

The micro projector can be connected to each of Samsung’s mobile phones. He delivers a picture diagonal of up to 20 inches.

micro projector MBP-100 by Samsung (youtube video)

Still there are no further technical details and information on the price available. The launch of the product will be in March 2008 in Korea.

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Even at Sony Ericsson they are already thinking about the future with pico projectors in their mobile phones. They presented no device with pico projector yet, but filed a patent for the technology.

Image from the patent specification from Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson wants to use the built-in camera in the mobile phone analyse the image, produced by the pico projector. With this technology focus, brightness and contrast of the projector should automatically adapt to the particular circumstances.