HP will develop transparent and flexible screens to display information in cars

Hewlett Packard plans to develop the 'see-through display', a transparent and flexible screen that allows navigation data to be displayed on car windshields and which has been patented this week.

HP has acquired a patent in the United States for the development of its 'see-through display', a project aimed at developing transparent screens that could display navigation data on a vehicle's windshields. After two decades of work on this technology, The company considers the possibility that they could also be flexible screens for greater convenience in storage.. The firm describes it as a system that creates transparent screens that would allow both users to see graphics from the same computer screen or an object that is behind the screen..

The possible uses that HP proposes for its device will be to display navigation data on the windshields of a vehicle and advertisements on the windows thanks to these transparent screens. In fact, Hewlett-Packard thinks that if transparent screens were also flexible, they would be a great advantage for storage., since they could even be rolled up and stored anywhere.

The patent was filed in 2006 and describes the use of reflective lights to display computer-produced images on a transparent screen. However, HP admits that it is nothing new since televisions already use this technology in their 'teleprompters', through a group of mirrors that form a semi-silver angle, to allow news readers to see text superimposed over the lenses of the camera they are looking at.

According to the principal technology analyst at Davies Murphy Group Europe, Chris Green, “HP has been working on perfecting this technology for two decades.”.

Overlapping information

Another possibility that the HP screen would offer would be, according to the patent authors, that users could place the screen directly in front of an object to overlay information. According to themselves, “could be a graph, an illustration or other image. For example, the screen could be placed on a map to serve as an observer of a navigation route.”.

Although the company has not yet launched its technology on the market for further use, Yes, he has made videos over the past year showing design concepts for the creators of the movie Real Steel. One of them shows the HP Flex, a laptop computer whose screen allows a sports coach to see real-time data from his team projected above his point of view.