New Electronics publishes 42T article on Colour Gamut standard

An IEC standard is under development to provide an informative and quantitative visualisation of colour capability, replacing the chromaticity plot, as Dr Euan Smith of 42T explains

As an optical physicist by training, Dr Euan Smith, who is Head of Systems & Photonics at 42T, is an expert on everything to do with display technology.

In his article that was published by New Electronics magazine this month, Euan uses chromaticity plots to describe how colour capability is a relic of cathode-ray tube (CRT) displays and is no longer valid.

He goes on to discuss how the Gamut Ring plot is the new standard and should always be used, especially for laser displays.

He says, "A modern display may use complex digital processing to improve various aspect of display performance, and in particular, may reproduce colours using more than just the three traditional colorants."

Read the article now as published by New Electronics, September 2024 here

More about Euan

He has taken a varied path over 25 years of commercially facing technology development and technical leadership, mostly within start-ups, and occasionally hunched in the back of a clean-room in China trying to get the production process to work. He is an author on over 40 patent families, more than 160 patents in total, across diverse technical areas.

Euan still publishes the occasional paper and is a contributing author to optoelectronic handbooks, and an international speaker on this, and other subjects. His article was also featured in Startups magazine's Survival Guide of 2024/5.

He has enjoyed challenges from nano-scale photonics to system-level display design, image processing on restricted embedded systems, through to full-stack web-app development, always while balancing the competing requirements of customers and the limits of technology.

Read about Euan's review paper on the subject presented at this year's Display Week event in Silicon Valley here.

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