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Goddard Space Flight Center Engineering Colloquium
Date: Monday, September 25, 2000
Dr. Hornbeck will describe Digital Light Processing (DLP) Cinema projection technology, its impact on the movie industry as the industry transitions from film projection to digital projection, and the results of ongoing DLP Cinema field demonstrations around the world
Dr. Hornbeck is
a TI Fellow in Digital Imaging at Texas Instruments (TI) in Dallas. In 1977,
while working at TI, he began the development of analog, optical MEMS (micro-electromechanical
systems) arrays for optical signal processing applications, and in the
1980s he focussed on printing and projection display applications.
In 1987, Dr. Hornbeck invented the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) display
chip, a MEMS array of fast digital light switches monolithically integrated
onto a silicon address circuit. He has continued to develop architectures
and fabrication processes to improve performance and reliability. The DMD
display chip forms the basis for Texas Instruments Digital Light Processing (DLP)
projection display technology. Currently TI is providing display manufacturers
with DLP projection display subsystems for conference room, mobile, home
theater, High-definition Television (HDTV), videowall, and large-venue applications.
Dr. Hornbeck
has received numerous awards for his invention of the DMD display chip,
including Germany's Eduard Rhein Foundation Technology Award, England's
Rank Prize, an Emmy from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,
and the Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize from the Society for Information Display.
He holds thirty patents in Charge-Coupled Devices (CCD), Infrared (IR) image sensor and DMD technology, including
the fundamental patent for the DMD display chip. Dr. Hornbeck received
his Ph.D. in solid-state physics from Case Western Reserve University in
1974.
Colloquium Committee Sponsor: Jim Heaney
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