Hirayama showed figures from DisplaySearch that forecasted that the deal in for 3-D TVs would bloom from under 25 million units and under $3 billion. Televisions.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Future televisions will be smarter, more intuitive, and facet even more technically plausible advanced displays, according to a panel of experts at the International Solid State Circuits Conference here Tuesday (February 21). Among the technologies that will become more general in coming years are glasses-less 3-D technology and free-viewpoint boob tube (FTV) -- a visual media that allows users to tableau a 3-D background by cleanly changing the viewpoint, as if they were there, panelists said. "Over the latest few years, there have been big changes in ambulant phones and communication devices. I expect alike changes will happen in television, as well," said David Min, wickedness president of LG Electronics Inc's software center.

"However, I believe the changes that will happen in TV will be a bit diverse from what has happened in expressive phones." Min predicted that prospective TVs would integrate more "smart" functionality, more connectivity, better je ne sais quoi displays, and accepted truth capability.  "Being saucy is about providing some connectivity," Min said. "In the prehistoric days, the TV was nothing but a medium. But with connectivity, the TV is getting more intelligent.

" Several panelists talked about the lack for standardization in TV platforms. Min said consumers would determine whether platforms such as Google TV would proliferate. Yuzo Hirayama, principal investigation scientist at Toshiba Corp's multimedia laboratory, said the near time to come of 3-D TV involves glasses-less technology. Toshiba has been selling since 2010 20- and 12-inch 3-D TVs in Japan which do not desire glasses, Hirayama said, and recently demonstrated the basic "large sized" glasses-less 3-D screen, with a diagonal quota of 55-inches, he said. Hirayama showed observations from DisplaySearch that forecasted that the supermarket for 3-D TVs would originate from under 25 million units and under $3 billion in 2011 to more than 200 million units and nearly $20 billion in 2018.

Also Tuesday, Masayuki Tanimoto, a professor from Japan's Nagoya University, presented gen on the example developments in free-viewpoint television, which uses dozens of cameras to seizure 3-D images that users can sail through any vantage point to as though they were there. While the technology is still many years away from commercial availability, Tanimoto told the audience that put asunder of Japan's order for hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup included making FTV of all of the soccer games available. Unfortunately, Japan's tell was not accepted. This scoop as at posted by.

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