DisplayLink demos world’s first USB-connected display

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DisplayLink Inc. is planning to demonstrate Samsung SyncMaster 940UX - the world’s first USB-connected display - at CeBIT 2007 in Hannover, Germany, March 15-21. It will also demonstrate its innovative Wi-Fi and wireless UWB network display technology.

DisplayLink’s technology provides high-image quality and high-performance monitor/mouse/keyboard interactivity over wireless and USB connections to a PC.

Samsung SyncMaster 940UX integrates DisplayLink technology directly into the display, instead of VGA or DVI technology, to connect to a PC via USB 2.0.

The software allows the display to come online instantly and reliably, with all of the proper display settings, every time it’s connected to the computer. The solution provides real-time interactivity, DVD-quality video playback and crisp 32-bit true-color graphics.

DisplayLink produces high-performance graphics networking chips for monitor manufacturers, PC OEMs and PC accessory companies, enabling them to develop network display products including USB-connected monitors, video-capable USB laptop docking stations, Skype video phones, picture frames and other devices, for which there is growing consumer demand.

The complete DisplayLink solution comprises Virtual Graphics Card (VGC) software that runs on a Windows host PC, and a Hardware Rendering Engine (HRE) inside the DL-120 or DL-160 graphics networking chips at the display end. The VGC software processes a stream of display information using the company’s proprietary adaptive graphics protocol and transmits it over a USB 2.0, wireless USB, or Wi-Fi link to the DL-120 or DL-160 chip that reconstructs the image on the display.

DisplayLink Corp is headquartered in California, USA and has R&D and product development activities in Cambridge.