Research and Development

USED SCENE

This is a compact light-weight personal display worn like a pair of glasses and is called a Head Mounted Display or HMD. Konica Minolta’s HMD enables you to simultaneously view images on the display while seeing through your surroundings. Since you can use it in a hands-free manner, it is expected to be utilized for operational tasks requiring manual reference.
(*This is a prototype under development, and its introduction on the market has not yet been decided.)

WEARABLE DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY

A wearable display makes you enjoy images anywhere while worn like a pair of glasses. Konica Minolta has developed a compact and merely 27g display by combining a 3mm optical prism with its original hologram technology.
Using wavelength selection function of hologram optical elements, the see-through display enables you to simultaneously view images on the display and your surroundings. This wearable display is still a prototype and its introduction on the market has not yet been decided. However, its availability is increasingly expected as a personal display in the soon coming mobile-ubiquitous age, not only for entertainment but also for operational tasks requiring manual reference.

WEARABLE DISPLAY Technology

Surface will be marked when the measuring object is large.

USED SCENE

A three-dimensional digitizer is a device to store three-dimensional data obtained by scanning the existing three-dimensional object into a computer.
In recent years, even in the industrial field, together with fields of research organizations and of CG image making, an attempt to utilize this digitizer for reverse engineering and inspection and to shorten the lead time of development and manufacture is drawing public attention as a revolution in “craftsmanship production” process.
Specifically, the Konica Minolta’s three-dimensional digitizer, using the technologies nurtured in its long experience in camera development, can be easily handled as camera.

THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASURING TECHNOLOGY

Using the technologies nurtured in the course of camera development, Konica Minolta is developing a portable three-dimensional digitizer with camera-like ease of operation.
The three-dimensional digitizer employs a light cutting method by slit light as the basic principle. A slit laser beam, generated by a light projecting optical system, is initially applied on an object to be measured, and its reflected light is received by a CCD camera for triangulation. Thus three-dimensional distance data per line of slit light are obtained.

By scanning the slit light with a galvanic mirror, three-dimensional data for the entire object to be measured are obtained.

THREE-DIMENSIONAL MEASURING TECHNOLOGYTO TECHNOLOGY INTRODUCTION

USED SCENE

Usually, people judge color via intuition and experiences depending on visual sensation. There is a field, such as the manufacturing industry, in which convenience is more enhanced by managing colors based on a common standard.
A spectrophotometer receives light reflected by the object and its sensor converts the wavelength of light to numerical values.
Konica Minolta’s spectrophotometer “CM-512m3” is capable of determining numerical values for colors of metallic or pearlescent paint coated on automobiles, which are difficult to express as numerical values based on human senses, and even with other measuring instruments.

MULTIANGLE SPECTROPHOTOMETER

Spectrophotometers, with several tens of sensors, separate the light reflected from the subject, measure reflectivity of each wavelength, and calculate numerical values to express the color.

By dispersing sensors, it is possible to catch all the color variations of metallic or pearlescent painted surfaces whose color vary depending on the viewing angle.

By expressing color more accurate with numerical values, it became possible to accurately describe a specific color to another person. Thus, color data can be easily conveyed not only in the manufacturing industry, but also in all the other fields.

MULTIANGLE SPECTROPHOTOMETER

TAC FILM FOR LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY POLARIZING PLATES

Liquid crystal displays are used widely for various monitors such as personal computers, liquid crystal TVs, mobile phones, and car navigation units. Konica Minolta offers triacetyl cellulose (TAC) film, which is essential material to protect polarizing plates used for liquid crystal displays. Our high quality TAC film has been developed through long years of experience in manufacturing photographic base film.

<Features of Konica Minolta TAC Film>

1. Excellent film uniformity
2. Superb transparency and non-orientation
3. Reliable quality stability
4. Ultimate cleanness
5. High UV protection

A versatile line of products are available and meet various needs related to TFT liquid crystals, whose image quality is ever increasing.