Speaker: Dr. Candice H. Brown Elliott
Title: Bay-Area SID Annual Dinner
If you are a technology enthusiast, you and your guest are invited to the BA-SID 2014 Annual Dinner. Join your local display-industry peers for a summer evening of good food, good company, and fascinating information. This year’s keynote speaker at the event is someone you won’t want to miss — Dr. Candice Brown Elliot, Display Industry veteran, inventor of PenTile™ display technology, entrepreneur, technologist and a true inspiration.
Abstract: In the display industry, we often assume that what we display on the screen is what the viewer will see. This is often not case. The Human Vision System, its optics, retina, and the visual cortex in the brain, have quirks that produce surprising and even amusing effects. Using images during her talk, Ms. Elliott will demonstrate and explain the how and why behind optical illusions.
Speaker Biography: Dr. Candice H. Brown Elliott has been an entrepreneur, manager, and technologist in the Display and Semiconductor industries for four decades. She started her first Silicon Valley firm at the age of 15, selling microscopic polymer spheres (beads). Starting as a teenaged secretary at CMX Video Systems in 1976, Candice fell in love with video and display technology, earning her way through college as technician at Conrac Video Monitors and MCA DiscoVision (mastering video laser discs on R&D equipment) later working in manufacturing engineering / R&D at Planar Systems and The MicroDisplay Corp. Her career in video and displays took a temporary detour in the ’80s when she was an engineer supervisor at Fairchild and AMD. She founded Clairvoyante in 2000 to develop and license PenTile™ subpixel rendering (SPR) technology. Clairvoyante was sold to Samsung in 2008. She then founded Nouvoyance, which as an independent partner to Samsung, designed PenTile™ chipcores, earning design wins in hundreds of smartphones, tablets, notebooks, and HD / UD Televisions, shipping hundreds of millions of displays annually. Candice was awarded the Otto Schade Prize for her work on PenTile™ technology by SID in June 2014. Candice is currently consulting for a number of display firms and exploring new entrepreneurial opportunities.