Japanese tech giant Sharp has just announced that it’s hard at work on creating what it calls a Free-Form Display. It basically is a screen like that of any infotainment system or digital gauge cluster you already know, yet it’s one that doesn’t need to have the usual regular (rectangular) shape in order to work.
In the announcement release it posted, it explained that “conventional displays are rectangular because they require a minimal width for the bezel in order to accommodate the drive circuit, called the gate driver, around the perimeter of the screen’s display area. With the Free-Form Display, the gate driver’s function is dispersed throughout the pixels on the display area.”
What this basically means is that, this new type of display can take on any shape may be required without affecting quality, brightness or the viewing angle.
As you can imagine, they will not limit themselves to developing this tech exclusively for automotive use, so you could see it adapted for wearable devices or stationary displays, as well.
By Andrei Nedelea
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