Sharp is releasing a 4K2K (3,840×2,160 dots) display compliant 32V IGZO touchscreen LCD monitor “PN-K322B” on July 30.
With IGZO technology and edge LED backlight, the monitor is only 36mm long. It has a sliding stand so that you can adjust the monitor’s angle. The accompanying stylus pen’s tip is only 2mm diameter.
It features a palm cancellation function that allows you to input with the stylus pen even while your hand is touching on the screen.
From Panasonic’s “Let’s note” series, the new convertible PC “AX3 series” will be out on June 21. It has Intel Core i7 processor CPU and full HD IPS panel (1920 x 1080 dot) built-in.
Strong and light magnesium alloy is used as a material for the body and the “AX3″ weights only 1.14kg. It features a touch panel display which can be rotated in a 360-degree circle and make it a tablet style. It is the first convertible “Let’s note” PC.
Price: Open price OS: Windows 8 Pro 64 bit Colors: black, silver Memory: 4GB SSD: 128GB Display: 11.6 inch full HD (1920 x 1080)
Fujitsu is going to release the Windows 8 desktop PC “ESPRIMO FH78/LD” on June 7.
“ESPRIMO FH78/LD” featuring 23 inch full HD LCD has high-power speakers (maximum output is 30W: 10W x 2 satellite speaker) with sub-woofer (10W sub-woofer), jointly-developed with Pioneer.
It has built-in wide-viewing angle IPS technology, making beautiful images viewable from every angle.
The HDD is 3TB and CPU is Intel Core i7-4700MQ. It has digital terrestrial broadcasting/BS/CS TV tuners and 4 USB3.0 ports for fast data transfer.
Price: open price Release date: June 7 Color: white, black Memory: 8GB (maximum 16GB) Storage: 3TB HDD Size: 571 × 201 × 431mm Weight: 10.8kg
Fujitsu is going to release Windows 8 Ultrabook “LIFEBOOK UH90/L” on June 28.
“LIFEBOOK UH90/L” is a notebook PC with a 14 inch LCD touch panel. The thickest part is only 15.5 mm thick making it the thinnest Ultrabook. It was designed under the basic concept of “Katana” (Japanese sword), striving to make it both elegant and tough. It is manufactured in Japan through all steps of the manufacturing process.
The CPU is an Intel Core i5-4200U processor. It has a large capacity 500GB HDD and 2 USB3.0 ports with fast data transfer rates built-in.
Because of its 3200x1800dot IGZO LCD touch panel, the display is 2.7 times more fine than full HD and the pixel density is 262ppi. Fujitsu’s special touch panel surface treatment, called “Super glide coating” was given to the screen for smoother operational touch.
Price: open price Release date: June 28 Colors: red, black Memory: 4GB Storage: 500GB Hybrid HDD Wireless connection: Bluetooth v4.0＋HS, IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n, Intel WiDi Size: 329.9 × 229.9 × 9.2〜15.5mm Weight: 1.39kg
Four new desktop models from Sony’s VAIO L Series will be released on May 18. This included 3 touch panel models and 1 non-touch panel model. All feature 24-inch (1920×1080) LED Full HD displays, Windows 8 64 bit, upgradable to Windows 8 Pro, Intel Core i7 or i5, 8GB memory, upgradable to 16GB, and 2 TB or 3 TB HDD.
L series:
SVL24149CJB – About ¥255,000 – Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor (2.40 GHz) – 3D compliant 24 inch (1920×1080) display – Memory: 8GB/ Max 16GB, HDD: 3TB – Windows 8 64 bit, upgradable to Windows 8 Pro – Color: black – Touch panel
SVL24148CJW, B – About ¥230,000 – Intel Core i7-3630QM Processor (2.40 GHz) – 24 inch (1920×1080) display – Memory: 8GB/ Max 16GB, HDD: 3TB – Windows 8 64 bit, upgradable to Windows 8 Pro – Color: white, black – Touch panel
SVL24147CJW, B – About ¥210,000 – Intel Core i5-3230M Processor (2.60 GHz) – 24 inch (1920×1080) display – Memory: 8GB/ Max 16GB, HDD: 3TB – Windows 8 64 bit, upgradable to Windows 8 Pro – Color: white, black – Touch panel
SVL24146CJWI – About ¥190,000 – Intel Core i5-3230M Processor (2.60 GHz) – 24 inch (1920×1080) display – Memory: 8GB/ Max 16GB, HDD: 2TB – Windows 8 64 bit, upgradable to Windows 8 Pro – Color: white – Non-touch panel
New models from Sony’s VAIO series will be released beginning on May 18. This included 3 touch panel Fit models and 1 non-touch panel Fit model, as well as the latest version of the Duo 11, featuring the “Surf Slider” tablet/laptop sliding display and digitizer stylus pen.
VAIO Fit 15, 2 models:
SVF15A18CJS, B, P – About ¥180,000 – Intel Core i7-3537U Processor (2GHz) – 15.5 inch full HD (1920×1080) display – Memory: 8GB, HDD: Hybrid HDD 1TB – Windows 8 64 bit – Color: silver, black, pink – Touch panel
SVF15A17CJS, B, P – About ¥165,000 – Intel Core i5-3337U Processor (1.80GHz) – 15.5 inch full HD (1920×1080) display – Memory: 8GB, HDD: Hybrid HDD 1TB – Windows 8 64 bit – Color: silver, black, pink – Touch panel
VAIO Fit 14:
SVF14A19CJS, B, P – About ¥150,000 – Intel Core i3-3227U Processor (1.90GHz) – 14 inch (1600×900) display – Memory: 4GB, HDD: Hybrid HDD 1TB – Windows 8 64 bit – Color: silver, black, pink – Touch panel
VAIO Fit 15E:
SVF15217CJW, B – About ¥105,000 – Intel Pentium 2117U Processor (1.80GHz) – 15.5 inch (1366×768) display – Memory: 4GB, HDD: HDD 1TB – Windows 8 64 bit – Color: white, black – Non-touch panel
VAIO Duo 11:
SVD11239CJS, B – About ¥160,000 – Intel Core i5-3337U Processor (1.80GHz) – By sliding a display, you can use it as both tablet and laptop (Surf Slider style) – It comes with a digitizer stylus pen – 11.6 inch full HD(1920×1080) display – Memory: 6GB, SSD: 128GB – Windows 8 64 bit – Colors: silver, black
Toshiba is releasing “Dynabook KIRA V832″ – the first 13.3 inch WQHD LCD Monitor touch panel Ultrabook – on April 24.
The screen features a 3.7 million pixel (2,560×1,440) high-definition LCD, which is better than full HD display. The battery life is 9.5 hours long. Intel Core i5-3337U processor, 128GB SSD, 8GB RAM, and keyboard with backlight are built-in.
Price: open price Size: 316 x 207 x 9.5-19.8 mm Weight: 1.35 kg OS: Windows 8 64bit
Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a next generation user interface which can accurately detect the users finger and what it is touching, creating an interactive touchscreen-like system, using objects in the real word.
“We think paper and many other objects could be manipulated by touching them, as with a touchscreen. This system doesn’t use any special hardware; it consists of just a device like an ordinary webcam, plus a commercial projector. Its capabilities are achieved by image processing technology.”
Using this technology, information can be imported from a document as data, by selecting the necessary parts with your finger.
This technology measures the shape of real-world objects, and automatically adjusts the coordinate systems for the camera, projector, and real world. In this way, it can coordinate the display with touching, not only for flat surfaces like tables and paper, but also for the curved surfaces of objects such as books.
“Until now, gesturing has often been used to operate PCs and other devices. But with this interface, we’re not operating a PC, but touching actual objects directly, and combining them with ICT equipment.”
“The system is designed not to react when you make ordinary motions on a table. It can be operated when you point with one finger. What this means is, the system serves as an interface combining analog operations and digital devices.”
To detect touch accurately, the system needs to detect fingertip height accurately. In particular, with the low-resolution camera used here (320 x 180), if fingertip detection is off by a single pixel, the height changes by 1 cm. So, the system requires technology for recognizing fingertips with high precision.
“Using a low-res webcam gives a fuzzy picture, but the system calculates 3D positions with high precision, by compensating through image processing.”
This system also includes technology for controlling color and brightness, in line with the ambient light, and correcting for individual differences in hand color. In this way, it can identify fingertips consistently, with little influence from the environment or individual differences.
Also, in situations that don’t use touch, the system can be operated by gesturing. In this demo, when you move your fist, you can manipulate the viewpoint for 3D CAD data. So, there could be applications for this touch system by combining it with current gesture systems.
“For example, we think this system could be used to show detailed information at a travel agent’s counter, or when you need to fill in forms at City Hall.”
“We aim to develop a commercial version of this system by fiscal 2014. It’s still at the demonstration level, so it’s not been used in actual settings. Next, we’d like to get people to use it for actual tasks, see what issues arise, and evaluate usability. We want to reflect such feedback in this system.”
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Panasonic is releasing new model “DMC-GF6″ in its LUMIX series on April 24. It features a 1.6 million pixel Live MOS sensor and LUMIX’s unique image processing engine “Venus Engine” that improves resolution, so you can take a high-quality photo/movie in a dark area.
NFC and Wi-Fi is built in.
3 models will be out on April 24 with 3 different colors (white, black, red): DMC-GF6 – Camera only DMC-GF6X – Camera with electric-powered zoom lens DMC-GF6W – Camera with standard/tele lens
LCD touch panel has adjustable angle; 180-degree to upper direction and 45-degree to down direction. It takes only 0.5 seconds to be able to shoot after turning the camera on, so you can release the shutter right after you find an object you want to take a picture of. Speed of continuous shooting is 4.2 times per second.
It has an improved version of the “Omakase iA” feature that helps the user choose the best shooting mode depending on the target object and it has added a food recognition function to make pictures of dishes look delicious.
There are several other functions to enable you to enhance photos, including 19 different kinds of filter functions.
Size: 111.2 x 64.8 x 38.4mm Weight: 323g Camera: 4/3 inch Live Mos senser, 1.6 million effective pixels ISO: ISO160-25600
For professional use, Sony is releasing an All-in-one movie creating device called Anycast Touch “AWS-750″. It contains a lot of functions necessary for professional movie creation, including video switcher, audio mixer, streaming encoder, recording, create a ticker, etc.
It has a compact body (about the size of a small briefcase) with a sliding touch panel monitor and it is only 6 kg, which allows for operation in a small space with a few people.
Its greatest feature is you can airplay an event through one-touch operation by setting up images that you want to compose, create effects, set titles, adjust the angles of cameras for each scene in advance and set scenes to the pacing of the event. It is intuitive for users with low experience.
Release date: September, 2013 Price: 2,100,000 yen
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