Pioneer Corporation unveils concepts for future plasma display technologies under the code name "Project KURO". After a year Pioneer engineers preview future Project KURO concepts for extreme contrast and advanced design.

- Project KURO extreme contrast concept:

The extreme contrast concept is the industry's first plasma that can achieve absolute black with no measurable light emitting from the display, when reproducing black. Contrast ratio is defined as the ratio of the luminosity of the brightest color (white) to that of the darkest color (black). A high contrast ratio is desirable to recreate ideal picture quality. In televisions black is most true and accurate color.

Pioneer has reproduced an absolute black by achieving zero-idling luminance in more than six million cells. Ultimately, the KURO extreme contrast concept has a contrast ratio that is literally beyond measurement, rendering the debate of contrast ratio irrelevant.

- Project KURO advanced design concept:

At 9mm thick - the world's thinnest in 50-inch class, this groundbreaking Project KURO technology results in a picture that appears to be floating on a wall. In addition, its extremely light weight of 18.6 kg/41 lbs allows the television to easily be wall-mounted.

Toshiba Showcases Latest Advanced Technologies:-

Toshiba Corporation announced the diverse line-up of advanced technologies and systems that the company will bring to the market.

AV Notebook PC "Qosmio" with "SpursEngine"

"Qosmio" has led the way in bringing advanced entertainment capabilities to AV notebook PCs. The Qosmio integrates Toshiba's new "SpursEngine," a co-processor derived from the Cell Broadband Engine(TM) (1, 2) (Cell/B.E.) processor and Toshiba's image processing technology, and bring awesome levels of processing power to consumer electronics.


Real-time face morphing

Real-time transformations of hair styles and makeup that instantaneously recognize and process changes in position, angle, and facial expression captured by an integrated camera, and render them as computer graphics.

Hand gesture

Remote-controller-free, hand gesture control of video, where simply moving the hand can control, for example, playback or pause.

Video indexing

once a face appears on screen; it is recognized and stored in an easily searched index that allows viewers to find and playback video segments featuring a specific person.

Super-resolution

Image super-resolution creates high definition (HD) video from standard definition (SD) video, for instance video library recorded so far, by enhancing pixel resolution.

High-speed video editing and trans-coding

SpursEngine's high-speed trans-coding from MPEG2 to H.264 achieves faster editing and recording of HD video to HD DVD discs.

TV with Cell Broadband Engine

TVs empowered with the high performance Cell/B.E. multi-core processor offer new dimensions in visual entertainment