Design and analysis of the whole backlight (or frontlight) unit and parts used to construct the backlight unit such as CCFL lamps, optical films and functional resins. In most cases, microstructure or a microlens array formed on surfaces of the light guide plate is a key component in the backlight system design because it takes an important role in control of luminance distribution.
Design and analysis of an LED that is getting more and more used today not only as a light source of backlight or frontlight units but also as an illuminant of various kinds of lighting fixtures. The common construction of the LED employs some lens or a reflector to control the light emitted out of the LED chip. In case of a white LED, phospher material is used to produce a color shift from its original color.
Design and analysis of automotive parts especially those where light takes an essential role. Instrument panels are the typical automotive component of that kind because they usually utilize illumination to present information to drivers and passengers. The peculiarity in the design of the instrument panel is how to keep good visibility in changing environmental light.
Aircraft equipments
Reproduction, analysis and design of illumination and equipments used in aircrafts for better comfort and functionality. The virtual mockup allows engineers to bring both artificial lighting and sunlight under their control. It provides a different, higher level of computer-based design experience through the photo-realistic reproduction of equipments.
Reproduction and evaluation of coatings such as a paint coat with metallic or pearlescent characteristics. As almost all visual effects a paint coat creates can be represented using a bi-directional reflectance distribution function (BRDF), the coat can be reproduced under any arbitrary lighting conditions by assigning a precisely measured BRDF to surfaces of objects placed in a virtual space.
Lighting fixtures
Design and analysis of the whole lighting fixture and parts used to construct the lighting fixture such as a lamp and reflector. Lamps can be modeled precisely by assigning the local angular intensity distribution independently for each point of the emitting surface or by building the lamp construction details based on the mechanism they work. Parametric modeling of the reflector allows the user to easily shape the reflector in arbitrary constraints.
Analysis and evaluation of a lens system through the behavior of light inside the system and visualization of objects observed through the lenses. The powerful physics-based rendering reproduces not only focus/defocus effects but also unwanted influences the straylight (parasitic light) creates, which allows designers to intuitively and quickly evaluate the performance of the system using their sense of vision.
Backlight units
LED (Light Emitting Diode)
Automotive parts
Aircraft equipments
Coatings
Lighting fixtures
Lenses