UC Irvine Spinoff Hiperwall, Inc. Signs Global OEM Agreement with Samsung Electronics
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UC Irvine Spinoff Hiperwall, Inc. Signs Global OEM Agreement with Samsung Electronics
IRVINE, Calif. (Jan. 6, 2009) – Hiperwall, Inc., announced today, that it has entered into a global distribution agreement with technology giant Samsung Electronics. Under the terms of the agreement, Samsung will distribute and support Hiperwall’s video wall technology via its network of worldwide sales and marketing subsidiaries. The technology will be displayed at the Samsung booth No. 11033 in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES.
“Samsung’s focus is to bring advanced commercial displays to market with superior viewing characteristics and enhanced functionality,” said R.A. Atanus, vice president of product marketing and engineering services, Samsung Electronics America, Inc. “The Hiperwall technology gives us the ability to deliver to new market segments turn-key video wall solutions that offer outstanding performance and functionality at unmatched price points. As a Top 10 IT school, University of California, Irvine has provided us an invaluable resource for advancing the state of the art in video wall capability.”
Hiperwall technology enables users to create a very large format, ultra-high-resolution video wall from a group of contiguously mounted monitors. The software coordinates the display of each individual monitor so they appear to the viewer as one large display. Hiperwall supports the display of images up to one gigabyte or larger in size. The system can move, zoom and otherwise manipulate these extremely large images in real time, providing unique viewing capabilities
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that are valued in a variety of fields including medical, satellite and other forms of scientific imaging. The Hiperwall system also offers the ability to display real-time duplicates of screen images from one or more PCs connected to the video wall. Each duplicate is automatically updated as the image changes on the screen of the originating PC. As a result, an entire room of people can see what is happening on multiple PCs, eliminating the need to crowd around conventional desktop monitors. This capability enables a Hiperwall installation to meet the control room requirements of transportation systems, trading floors, command centers, the power industry, and other venues where there is a need for several people to view multiple data sources simultaneously.
“As the No. 1 LCD display maker in the world, we are delighted that Samsung has chosen the innovative Hiperwall technology, which was originally developed by researchers at UC Irvine’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2),” said Jeff Greenberg, CEO of Hiperwall, Inc. “We have now enhanced that technology to create a market-ready product and partnered with Samsung to provide global distribution, sales and support capabilities for this technology.”
“We determined that Samsung’s LCD display product line was ideally suited for use with Hiperwall due to their Samsung ID mounting system, embedded PC, industry-leading brightness and their innovative thin bezel design.”
Primary advantages to the Hiperwall technology over other systems are a lower cost infrastructure, simplified installation and ease of use due to the elimination of specialized servers and switches. Hiperwall enables users to mix a variety of content and manage extremely large images in real time. The solution’s incredible imaging is driven by innovative software that coordinates a bunch of individual monitors to make them look and behave like a single large format ultra-high resolution display.
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About Hiperwall, Inc.
Hiperwall, Inc. is a University of California at Irvine (UCI) spinoff established to commercialize video wall display technology based on research and technology developed at UCI’s California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Hiperwall is a high-performance low-cost video wall software solution that can display a wide variety of content with unmatched speed, flexibility and functionality in extremely high-resolution. The commercialization of the Hiperwall system was completed with the assistance of UCI, Tech Coast Works, and The Orange County Business Incubation Network, a public benefit initiative of the Don Beall Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at UC Irvine’s Paul Merage School of Business.
About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor,
telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies
with 2007 consolidated sales of US$103.4 billion. Employing
approximately 150,000 people in 134 offices in 62 countries, the
company consists of five main business units: Digital Media Business,
LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, Telecommunication Business and
Digital Appliance Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing
global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital
TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information,
please visit www.samsung.com.