Our news
9/22/23: Sun Innovations plans to present and exhibit our PLED technology in International Display Week (IDW) to be held in Niigata, Japan on Dec. 6-8, 2023.
9/20/23: Sun Innovations will present and exhibit its latest developments on PLED in the annual “Vehicle Displays and Interfaces Symposium and Expo” in Detroit on Sep. 26-27. Our Booth # 810 (Vehicle Display New). Pls send inquiry to sales@sun-innovations.com on the discount code to register and visit us in the show.
9/18/23: Sun Innovations launched an updated website with our latest emissive display materials and products offerings.
February 2021: Sun Innovations now has Gobo projectors available to work with MediaGlass film. Please see our Gobo page for video samples and details.
ISSA 2020: Sun Innovations launched our new Covidaway product at ISSA 2020.
Summer 2020 COVID Display Solutions: MediaGlass turns sneeze guard plexiglass into a TV-type emissive display screen. In an era when isolation and sneeze guard barriers are making customers feel less human connection to customer service staff, this novel technology delights and informs. Display safety precautions, FAQ, promotions, ads, & even DOOH. How? Attaching Sun’s patented clear emissive film to the glass, it glows under UV projection, so TV images appear as if by magic; minute phosphors change the UV & IR light from invisible to visible, right on the surface of the film! Available in economical monochrome or dazzling color. More details here.
Digital Signage Expo (DSE) 2016: Visit Sun Innovations at booth FT2 – see us demonstrate MediaGlass, our emissive display product that digitize glass without blocking the view behind it and enables large, scalable HD video or laser displays with unlimited viewing angles.Digital Signage Expo (DSE) 2016 : Visit Sun Innovations at booth FT2 – see us demonstrate MediaGlass, our emissive display product that digitize glass without blocking the view behind it and enables large, scalable HD video or laser displays with unlimited viewing angles.
January 2016: Sun Innovations introduces the 1st multiple-colors HD-image display on haze-free transparent emissive screen, using compact and energy efficient visible LED DLP projector. It displays colors from Green to Red (including white) on glass windows of any form factor in buildings or vehicles, with a very light tint.
September 2015: Sun Innovations introduces the 1st HD-image display on water-clear emissive screen, with compact and energy efficient blue-ray-LED DLP projector. Digital information can be displayed in colors of Blue, White, or Red, on glass windows of any form factor in buildings or vehicles coated by the screen, without affecting the glass transparency. The projected blue-ray light is fully blocked by the screen without leaking through. b
SID’s Display Week 2015:: Visit Sun Innovations at Booth 1623, San Jose Convention Center June 2-4 Dr. Ted Sun to presents on Next-Generation Automotive Display Technologies. San Jose Convention Center, Room LL20A Thursday, June 4, 2015, 10:40 AM – 12:00 PM
CES 2015: Sun Innovations at Las Vegas, Level 2 Eureka Park Booth 75282, Las Vegas JANUARY 6-9, 2015. Visit Sun Innovations at Booth: 35203
https://www.youtube.com/embed/ObuYex5SrXA
SID Trade Show: Sun Innovations has been selected for 3 years in a row to demonstrate its peerless technology at SID’s Innovation Zone. See our technology demonstrations at SID Display Week 2014, Table #14, June 3-5, 2014 San Diego Convention Center.
SEMA 2014: Las Vegas Convention Center Exhibition: Nov 4-7
Jan. 2014 Fremont, CA: After years of R&D,Sun Innovations successfully developed the 1st transparent color projection display that present HD-Video on optic clear emissive screen, with large projection and unlimited viewing angles. This technology is currently limited to selective business clients and collaborators only.
Nov. 2013. Fremont, CA: On invitation of the Information Display (ID) Magazine, Sun Innovations contributed a featured “frontline technology” article on “Novel Emissive Projection Display Digitizes Glass Windows”, authored by Dr. Ted Sun and Botao Cheng on Nov. issue of the ID magazine.
June 2013: SID, Vancouver, BC: Sun Innovations show cased the innovative color transparent display and the 1st black emissive projection screen in Annual Conference of Society of Information Display (SID) in Vancouver, BC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSYzoKjYhks
June 2013: SID, Vancouver, BC: On invitation of the SID conference, Dr. Ted Sun presented 2 papers on the innovative transparent display, and black emissive projection display technology, respectively, in the annual technical conference of Society of Information Display (SID)
Jan. 2013: CES, Las Vegas: Sun Innovations show cased its innovative “transparent Display” and full windshield heads-up display (HUD) technologies on water-clear screen, with unlimited viewing angles, in Consumer Electronic show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z316TkOQ9Yw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ4MYpFkU1w
http://on.aol.com/video/sun-innovations-laser-windshield-display-first-look-517638289
http://www.mirrorcletech.com/pdf/press/2013-01-21-PressRelease-MirrorcleAtCES2013.pdf
November 2012: Sun Innovations successfully completed NSF SBIR grant and was awarded.
December 2012: We are trhirlled to anounce that Sun Innovations, Inc. was selected to showcase our innovative transparent display technology in CES 2012 exhibiting in Eureka Park
Sun Innovations was selected in SID Innovations Zone (I-Zone)
March 2011: Our “Transparent emissive projection display” technology was recognized as a winner of esteemed 2011 “R&D 100”.
Link: http://www.rdmag.com/Awards/RD-100-Awards/2011/06/R-D-100-2011-Winners-Overview/ http://www.rdmag.com/Awards/RD-100-Awards/2011/06/R-D-100-2011-Winners-Overview/“>http://www.rdmag.com/Awards/RD-100-Awards/2011/06/R-D-100-2011-Winners-Overview/
August 2011: In a LiveScience.com article titled New Display Technology Makes Your Windshield a Dashboard, Bernadine Okoro reports on the technologies applications and IP transfer from SuperImaging to Sun Innovations.
December 2010: SuperImaging, Inc., angel-funded in late 2004, pioneered transparent display technologies and related intellectual property, serving major business clients in automobiles, retail advertisements etc. The entire intellectual property portfoliio was successfully transferred to Sun Innovations, Inc., and SuperImaging was dissolved. Sun Innovations, Inc. has been relentlessly focusing on turning the new display technology to great transparent display products that serve a bwide range of applications.
September 2010: Launched the color transparent display with laser projectors
We launched the 1st color transparent display product in the 2010 Global Expo (Shanghai), with proprietary fluorescent color screen and a dual-wavelength laser projector. It plays live color animations on a crystal clear glass panel.
April 2010: New Dual Color MediaGlass Projector Available!
We are pleased to announce we now have dual color laser projectors for sale. We’ve previously made these available as automotive HUD development kits for automotive OEM R&D. An example of this is is seen in recent articles on GM’s driver vision enhancement/safety technology, featuring SuperImaging dual color full windshield displays. In that system, GM uses blue lines to highlight the sides of the road in fog or at night, and red lines to highlight road signs or dangers.
Both the small sized HUD TransPlay projector and the larger retail/theater MediaGlass projectors have benefited from advances in laser diode and transparent red nanoparticle technology, allowing us to substantially boost laser output and display screen brightness for our red color. This has increased our HUD film longevity by orders of magnitude, as well as image brightness due to higher projector output. Also, in alignment with our early 2009 expectations, improved electronic engineering has allowed us to release a dual color version of the MediaGlass projector, featuring a Pangolin software interface for easy content generation. This projector is ideal for stopping people in their tracks to look at a display, whether it be during a theater presentation, an in-store advertising display, or a tradeshow booth. With bright glowing lines appearing to move on a large scale in 3D, the viewer is entranced. A photo follows, but like recent 3D films, nothing compares to seeing it in person:
March 2010: Saint-Gobain Paris Quantum Glass Demo
SuperImaging is pleased to announce our first European installation, by leading glass company Saint-Gobain in Paris. Located in their A Glass House showroom at 4 passage Sainte Avoye (access 8 rue Rambuteau) 75003 Paris, SuperImaging’s patented display technology has been coupled with Quantum Glass’s innovative glass technologies, so our nanoparticles are embedded within the glass rather than a plastic film.
March 2009: Superimaging exhibits MediaGlass advertising solution at GlobalShop 2009. Ad agencies and retailers stopped in their tracks when they saw MediaGlass demonstrations at GlobalShop. With various animations of dancing couples, animals, fireworks, and moving logos, SuperImaging demonstrated once again that MediaGlass grabs people’s attention, and stands out from standard messaging delivery systems so the prospective customers remember the message.
December 2009: This video shows the MediaGlass messaging system installed at the Pavilion Antique store in San Anselmo, CA, just north of San Francisco. Line art animations of antique furniture move and spin on the window, for a 3D hologram feel. The window is kept completely clear, so merchandise is visible, while the Christmas tree and the animated falling snowflakes complement each other. The point of differentiation with this technology is that is allows one to put animated messaging on completely clear surfaces. Nothing else does that. You can use posters. You can use opaque LCD screens. You can hang a TV in the window. You can frost a window to make it translucent so it catches part but not all of a projected image. But none of the alternatives keep the window clear, so you can use the window for what it is, a transparent barrier, and still see through it. With all alternative technologies, you might as well have a wall instead of a window. As we all know, windows are better and invite customers into the store. Keep your windows. Use them for dynamic messaging with SuperImaging’s MediaGlass!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4cgzsH2mqWA
November 2009: Industry players at LDI 2009 exhibited strong interest in SuperImaging film technology for large scale clear screens, such as in the stage foreground in front of an opening scene, as well as for other special effects in the background and on the sides of the stage.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OSq1XwOX1fM
July 2009: SuperImaging is pleased to announce that we have moved to a new location. In a recessionary environment when most companies are laying off workers and shrinking capacity, we’re almost doubling our office, lab, and production space. We expect this will allow us to better handle the R&D challenges of the coming years, delivering more nanotech display solutions to a variety of industries.
January 2009: Superimaging exhibits MediaGlass advertising solution and prototype heads up display projector at Tokyo Big Site’s Laser & Photonics tradeshow
January 2009: SuperImaging exhibits at CES
September 2008: Researchers at General Motors R&D labs in Warren, MI, are working on an enhanced vision system. Various elements, including patent-pending technology from GM as well as patented technology from California-based SuperImaging, can effectively highlight on the windshield the road’s edge during foggy weather. Click to download PDF | Click to read article
July 2008: General Motors researchers are working on a windshield that combines lasers, infrared sensors and a camera to take what’s happening on the road and enhance it, so aging drivers with vision problems are able to see a little more clearly. Click to read article.
March 2008: SuperImaging announces the issuance of it’s first Japanese patent No. P2006-538441.
January 2008: Visteon demonstrated the windshield display technology of Superimaging in BMW X5 concept car in the Las Vegas Consumer Electronic Show (CES)
May 2007: Superimaging presented the transparent display technology in the Society of Information Display conference in Long Beach, CA.
May 2007: Superimaging completes a full color transparent display prototype. To this point, we only had two colors available to us with our DLP technology. The third color (green) allows us to create full color and true black and white imagery. More details to come as we settle down and gather additional data on this major breakthrough.
May 2007: SuperImaging announces the issuance of the US patent ” Emission of visible light in response to absorption of excitation light”
February 2007: SuperImaging announces the issuance of the US patent ” Microstructures integrated into a transparent substrate which scatter incident light to display an image”
January 2007: Superimaging Transplay & MediaGlass Technology™ debuts in General Motor’s show-stopping Chevy Volt Concept car at the 2007 North American International Auto Show.
August 2006: SuperImaging announces the issuance of the US patent “System and method for a transparent color image display utilizing fluorescence conversion of nano particles and molecules”
January 2006: SuperImaging announces the issuance of the US patent “Light emitting material integrated into a substantially transparent substrate” No. 6,986,581. Multiple US and international patents are in the pipeline
January 2006: SuperImaging presents the TransPlay Laser Projection System at the National Retail Federation. The technology will enable retailers to display and change messages on storefront glass, without affecting the view into the store. Given the huge level of interest, SuperImaging is looking for potential OEM partner to manufacture and distribute the projector.
October 2005: SuperImaging has developed and delivered the first full windshield transparent display system to a major European automobile customer. Information-on-Demand can be displayed anywhere on windshield and can be viewed from anywhere in the vehicle, without affecting the direct view of the driver.
August 2005: SuperImaging has developed and demonstrated in the laboratory the patent pending multiple color DLP projection display on fully transparent substrate. We are open to collaborate with Companies who are interested in the manufacturing of the DLP projector and distribution of the color TransPlay products to the market place
March 2004: BUSINESS WRITER, Windshields read like dashboards (By Francine Brevetti) Ted Sun says that for every second a driver traveling at 60 mph lifts his eyes from the road, he travels 100 feet. Such life-threatening distractions include looking at the dashboard. For just a second. Click to read full article.
February 2004: | EAST BAY BUSINESS TIMES, Display firm gives heads-up to investors
(By Dan Gallagher) Ted Sun sees a day when his technology can be used in next-generation heads-up displays for automobiles, or to help store owners save on paint and posters by simply projecting an image onto their windows. Click to read full article.
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Our news 9/22/23: Sun Innovations plans to present and exhibit our PLED technology in International Display Week (IDW) to be held in Niigata, Japan on Dec. 6-8, 2023. 9/20/23: Sun Innovations will present and exhibit its latest developments on PLED in the annual “Vehicle Displays and Interfaces Symposium and Expo” in Detroit on Sep. 26-27.…