A technology for video projection, also call DMD (Digital Micro-mirror Device). It is a large chip with about a million tiny mirrors on its surface. The chip can tilt each mirror to vary the amount of light reflected off of it.

At the heart of every Digital Light Processing(tm) projection system is an optical semiconductor known as the Digital Micromirror Device, or DMD chip, which was invented by Dr. Larry Hornbeck of Texas Instruments in 1987. The DMD chip is probably the world's most sophisticated light switch. It contains a rectangular array of up to 2 million hinge-mounted microscopic mirrors; each of these micromirrors measures less than one-fifth the width of a human hair. When a DMD chip is coordinated with a digital video or graphic signal, a light source, and a projection lens, its mirrors can reflect an all-digital image onto a screen or other surface. The DMD and the sophisticated electronics that surround it are what we call Digital Light Processing(tm) technology.

Digital Light Processing. A technology developed by Texas Instruments that reflects light from hundreds of thousands of tiny mirrors on a semiconductor chip to project an image. The chip itself is called a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD).

Digital Light Processor. Reflective MEMs based micro display from Texas Instruments, modulates light by either reflecting to light absorber or through projection optics, gray scale achieved by pulse width modulation

A projection TV technology developed by Texas Instruments, based on their Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) microchip. Each DMD chip has hundreds of thousands of tiny swiveling mirrors which are used to create the image. The popular HD2 DLP chip has an array of 1280 by 720 mirrors, where each mirror represents a single pixel to provide 720p resolution. DLP technology is used in both front- and rear-projection systems. There are two basic types of DLP projector: "single-chip" projectors use a single DMD chip along with a spinning color wheel, while much more expensive "3-chip" projectors dedicate a chip to each basic color: red, green, and blue.

A proprietary electro-mechanical device invented by Texas Instruments that reflects light on a pixel-by-pixel basis to create a projected image. The key components of a DLP are the digital micromirror device, which actually stores image information and reflects light with thousands of 16x16-micron mirrors based on that information, a scan converter that decodes multiple signal sources into progressive red, green and blue information and an RGB color filter wheel.

A display technology by Texas Instruments that is based on the digital micromirror device (DMD), and projects extremely bright, high-quality, high-definition images.

Digital Light Processor. Used to control Digital Micro-mirror Devices (DMD) in order to make an extremely bright sharp pictures.

Digital Light Processing. DLPâ„¢ technology delivers the clearest, sharpest, brightest, most accurate images in a broad range of projection and display applications including business projectors, home entertainment projectors, large screen tabletop TVs, video walls and projection systems used in commercial entertainment. DLP Cinemaâ„¢ technology, which delivers large screen images that are superior in many respects to film, is helping to revolutionize the movie industry.

Digital Light Processing. The commercial name for this technology from Texas Instruments (TI): The technology inside is often referred to as either "micro-mirrors", or DMD: It works this way: build a few hundred thousand tiny mirrors, and line them up in 800 rows of 600 mirrors each. Now attach a hinge to each of those 480,000 mirrors. Attach each of those 480,000 hinges to its own very tiny motor! Power each motor with electrostatic energy! The motors tilt their mirrors up to 20 degrees at incredible speeds. This allows the mirrors to modulate light from a lamp, and send the "modulated signal" out through a lens, on to a screen. The most amazing part of DLP micro mirrors, is the scale of size. The 480,000 mirrors (actually 580,000 are used), hinges and motors are packed onto a "wafer" a bit larger than your thumbnail.

TM (DIGITAL LIGHT PROCESSING) Developed by Texas Instruments, the DLP chip is a reflective surface made up of thousands of tiny mirrors. Each mirror represents a single pixel. In a DLP projector, light from the projector's lamp is directed onto the surface of the DLP chip. A color wheel consisting of red, green, blue and sometimes clear segments spins between the lamp and the chip to modulate the color. The mirrors move back and forth, directing light either into the lens path or away from the lens path. DLP technology offers a very high contrast ratio, with less space between pixels (reduces screen door effect) for smoother images, along with fewer components, allowing the projector to be packaged into an extremely compact design.

Digital Light Processing. A Texas Instruments process of projecting video images using a light source reflecting off of an array of tens of thousands of microscopic mirrors. Each mirror represents a pixel and reflects light toward the lens for white and away from it for black, modulating in between for various shades of gray. Three-chip versions use separate arrays for the red, green, and blue colors. Single-chip arrays use a color-filter wheel that alternates each filter color in front of the mirror array at appropriate intervals.

Digital light projection. A technique developed by Texas Instruments that creates a video image on a piece of silicon and uses mirrors and light to project the image onto a viewable screen. Digital satellite service (DSS) MPEG-2-based digital transmission format (e.g., DirectTV).

Digital Light Processing. A technology developed by Texas Instruments that reflects light off of the surface of a digital micromirror device (DMD). This allows for a more clear, high-definition processing that gives microportable projectors the same presentation capabilities as larger projectors.

Digital Light Processing® is a proprietary Texas Instruments technology that uses micro-mirrors on a chip to switch light for video projection, including digital televisions. This is a competing technology for LCD-based projectors.

DLP is the display technology developed by Texas Instruments that uses mirrors to display an image. Advantages to DLP technology in projectors are the ability to produce amazingly high contrast ratios and super light projectors. The disadvantages of DLP are generally colors that are not as vibrant and saturated and what's called a "Rainbow Effect". A rainbow effect is an illusion of artifacts that some people will see when watching video on a DLP projector.

Digital Light Processing. This is a line of projection televisions that provide premium quality picture quality without the use of a cathode ray tube. The projectors use a digital micro mirror device (DMD) to produce the images, which are then enlarged to fill the screen. The DMD device has more than 1.3 million tiny mirrors that are used to create the images in the same manner as pixels are used in cathode ray tube devices. DLP equipped televisions typically have a higher lumen and contrast ratios.

Stands for Digital Light Processing.

Digital light processing. A rear projection television based upon technology that uses a chip with hundreds of thousands of microscopic moving mirrors. Each mirror corresponds to a single pixel on the screen. Light is reflected through an RGB color wheel to create the required colors. More expensive models use three separate mirror devices, one for each color, instead of using a color wheel. For more information, see our article on TV technologies.

Digital Light Processor, projector technology based on DMD.

Digital Light Projector. A projector screen technology that relies on using individually controlled tiny mirrors (micro mirrors) to produce an image. Developed originally by Texas Instruments.

A video processing system created by Texas Instruments. DLP projects images by using a light source to reflect off of an array of tens of thousands of microscopic mirrors. Each mirror represents a pixel. The reflected light is directed through a lens and onto a screen, creating the image. DLP is considered the leading projection technology.

Digital Light Processing. The name for a new technology from Texas Instruments: The technology inside is sometimes referred to as either "micro-mirrors", or DMD: It works in the same way ancient people used to signal each other by flashing sunlight off mirrors. However the modern version replaces the sun with a powerful lamp and uses hundreds of thousands of rotating mirrors, lined up in 800 rows of 600 mirrors each. Attach each of those 480,000 hinges to its own motor. The motors tilt their mirrors up to 20 degrees at incredible speeds. allowing the mirrors to modulate light from the lamp, and send the "modulated signal" out through a lens, on to a screen. Now comes the hard part - The 480,000 mirrors (actually 580,000 are used), hinges and motors are packed onto a "wafer" a bit larger than your thumbnail.

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Is an abbreviation for digital light processing which is Texas Instrument's proprietary technology. This technology uses a large number of very small mirrors that represent pixels. These mirrors move rapidly on and off to change to intensity of each pixel. The color of each pixel can be based on an individual DLP for each color primary or a single DLP device that uses a color wheel to change the color.

Related website] (Digital Light Processing) A technology employed to provide a digital signal between a source and it's output device, such as a projector

Acronym for Digital Light Processing(tm); a data projection technology developed by Texas Instruments using a microprocessor to display bright, colourful images in fully lit rooms. Used primarily in portable and ultra-portable projectors, the DLP chip is the size of a postage stamp and contains millions of microscopic mirrors — one for each pixel — that flip on an axis, reflecting light through a colour wheel to create your image.

Abbreviation of Digital Light Processing(tm). It is a digital, reflective technology, which was developed by Texas Instruments. DLP provides an imaging quality that satisfies the highest standards. These include natural colours, even graphic display. Data is displayed without colour convergence problems, as the technology manages with only one transmitter.

Digital Light Processing®. An all-digital technique for projecting video images in high definition.

Digital Light Processor. An all-digital display technology that makes use of a DMD (Digital Micromirror Device) and reproduces sharp, bright images without degradation.

Digital Light Processor (DLPâ„¢), a proprietary technology developed by Texas Instruments as a microdisplay projection element. DLP uses an array of tiny mirrors on a silicon chip to reflect light from a projection lamp to form an image. Requires a lamp, color wheel, and optics to make front-projection and rear-projection displays.

Texas Instruments Inc Digital Light Processing technology, the projection and display technology which uses Digital Micromirror Devices (DMD's) to control the light output. DLP technology enables very compact, high brightness, high-resolution digital projectors.

Digital Light Processing. An all digital display technology that turns image data into light. Enabled by a DMD device, DLP is capable of projecting sharp, clear images of almost any size without losing any of the original image resolution.

Digital Light Processing. A type of display technology developed by Texas Instruments. This technology consists of thousands of tiny mirrors that reflect light to produce images. For a more detailed explanation, please refer to our Display Definitions reference guide in the Resources section of our site.

Digital video display technology that uses a vast array of tiny mirrors (around 500,000) that pivot on or off to reflect or not reflect red, green and blue light.

Created by Texas Instruments, DLP, or Digital Light Processing, works by shining a light onto a semiconductor called a digital micromirror device (DMD), but not before passing through a fast-spinning red, green, and blue color wheel. As light passes through the color wheel, the DMD uses mirrors on its surface to translate the light to form an image, then reflecting the image onto a large screen. DLP’s are also lighter and narrower than CRTs, but are too heavy and bulky to hang from a wall. Burn-in is not a factor with DLP’s.

Digital Light Processing. An imaging technology for video projection developed by Texas Instruments, based on the modulation of light reflected from mirror elements known as Micromirrors(tm). Each pixel is represented by its own Micromirror, which mechanically tilts in accordance to the extent of light reflected toward or away from the screen. A matrix of Micromirrors comprising the video image is situated on a microchip, or DMD(tm) (Digital Micromirror Device). DLP is implemented as a three-chip configuration (one DMD for each of the RGB colors), or as a one-chip configuration (R, G, and B are sequentially processed by a single DMD via a color wheel).

Digital light processing is a display technology invented by Texas Instruments that uses a digital micro-mirror device coupled with a spinning colour wheel to produce an image. The micro-mirror device is essentially a processing chip covered in thousands of tiny tilting mirrors that represent each pixel. The mirrors tilt towards the projector's light to turn a pixel on, and away to turn it off. The colour wheel synchronises with the mirrors to produce images onscreen. The advantages of DLP are a very fine pixel structure, improved blacks and superior contrast. A disadvantage for some people is the appearance of rainbows in the image as a result of the fact that DLP relies on persistence of vision to create a picture by sequentially projecting red, green and blue parts of the image.

Digital Light Processing. A micromirror display technology commercialized by Texas Instruments. Each image pixel in a large array is represented by an electrostatic driven MEMS Mirror. This reflective technology is far brighter than transmission LCD technology. Technology is widely licensed to conference display projector manufactures such as Proxima and InFocus.

Digital Light Processor. Digital Light Processing (DLP) generates images by reflecting light off the surface of a digital micromirror device (DMD) containing hundreds of thousands of tiny mirrors, then through a color wheel and a lens and onto the screen. Higher resolution projectors have more mirrors in their DMD's-reflecting a greater amount of light for brighter images.

The core of the DLP systems from Texas Instruments Inc is the Digital Micro Mirror Device, a semiconductor light switch controlling thousands of tiny mirrors on a single microchip. The mirrors are digitally controlled and individually activated to create very high definition, high contrast images with absolute picture uniformity, and full colour saturation from middle to all edges.

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Digital Light Processing, a method of transmitting computer and video signals through a projector, invented by Texas Instruments Ltd. The technology uses a Digital Mirror Device (DMD) mounted on a hinge between two posts, which can be turned 'on' by charging an electrode. By arranging over a million mirrors on a chip the size of a postage stamp and combining a lamp system, it is used to create the DLP system - replacing the three TFT-panel system in LCD projectors. With a mirror 'on', the light is reflected out through the lens; when 'off' it is diverted to a light absorber. The result is brighter pictures and simpler optics, enabling projectors to be smaller and lighter than LCD equivalents.

Digital Light Processing. Developed by Texas Instruments, DLP is a light processing system that utilized hundreds of thousands of tiny spinning mirrors to reflect images. Many feel it is the most accurate reproduction of color and images available today.

Digital light processing, See DMD

The main DLP systems - Digital Micro Mirror Device use a semiconductor light switch to control thousands of tiny mirrors on a single microchip. Digitally controlled these mirrors create high definition, high contrast images with absolute picture uniformity, and full colour saturation.

Digital Light Processing is a technology developed by Texas Instruments that is based on a digital micromirror device (DMD), this is a computer chip with millions of microscopic, hinged mirrors. The chip is no larger than the average thumbnail and contains some 480,000+ mirrors. Red, green and blue light is filtered through a colour wheel that spins at high speed and directed at the DMD witch switches the mirrors to reflect the light or not. The reflected light is directed through a lens and onto a screen, creating the image. High end projectors use three DMDs and have no need for the colour wheel. Each of the DMD corresponds to a separate colour red green and blue.

Digital Light Processing.  In 1977 it was developed by Texas Instruments.  A microchip used by projector subsystems to replace CRT technology.  THey use an array of mirrors and memory cells.  A digital image is stored in the memory, and then projected when light is reflected onto the mirrors.

Digital Light Projection is a technology developed by TI.

Digital Light Processing. Technology developed by Texas Instruments that is based on a digital micromirror device (a chip with millions of microscopic, hinged mirrors). Red, green and blue light is filtered through a color wheel and directed alternately onto the DMD, which switches on and off up to 5,000 times a second. The reflected light is directed through a lens and onto a screen, creating the image. High end HDTV projectors use three DMDs and forgo the color wheel--each DMD corresponds to a separate color (red, green and blue).

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Digital Light Projectors. (see also: Data Projector, InFocus Projector, PowerPoint, Presentation Graphics Program.)

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Digital Light Processing (DLP) is a technology used in projectors and video projectors. It was originally developed at Texas Instruments, in 1987 by Dr. Larry Hornbeck.