ILJIN Display developed a coin-size laser video projector module that can fit into portable gadgets such as mobile phones and digital cameras. 
 
  Iljin Display demonstrated various prototypes of mini-size projectors, which use its Single LCD Panel technology. Using the technology, users can project photos and video images on the wall from the built-in projector, making a seven-inch, full-color screen. 

  About a half of mobile phones sold these days are equipped with a digital camera. In the future ILJIN Display expects many mobile phones will have built-in projectors too. 
 
  ILJIN Display expects about five percent of all mobile phones to have the video projector function by 2010. That is more than 60 million units. ILJIN Display aims to grab about 30 percent of the market at least, or 530 billion won a year.
 
  Traditional projectors are usually bulky, as they contain three separate LCD glass panels, one each for the red, green, and blue components of the video signal. But Iljin’s new technology reduced it to a single panel, by switching the light signal between three colors within one millisecond. 
 
  The new method dramatically decreases the size the projectors, as well as the manufacturing cost. The smallest of the demonstrated prototypes was about the size of a packet of cigarettes, and it could be reduced to the size of a matchbox by the end of the year. The LCD panel itself is only 0.24-inch wide, which can easily fit into mobile phones.