AU Optronics Corporation (AUO) recently announced a series of forthcoming innovations, including the world's first 24-inch 2D/3D mix mode panel, a range of 4.3- inch to 15-inch multi-touch panels, and the world's first 2.8-inch image / fingerprint scanning technology on a QVGA mobile device panel. AUO plans to showcase these new technological achievements at the upcoming FPD International 2008 that will be held in Yokohama, Japan.

AUO is releasing for the first time a 2.8-inch VGA UV-sensing mobile phone panel that cannot only sense UV rays but also alerts users in real time to their exposure to harmful UV. In addition, AUO boasts another groundbreaking innovation, the world's first 2.8-inch QVGA mobile phone panel with image and fingerprint scanning technology, with the high sensing resolution of up to 288 dpi, bringing mobile phone technology to a new level.

After the image is scanned, the technology can enhance it and then show the scanned image in real time. This new technology makes consumers' dreams come true: using fingerprint identity while shopping in the future. Yet another 2.2- inch mobile phone panel applies modern optics technology to be borderless, increasing the viewable size of the screen active area. The borderless panel model will revolutionize the mobile phone aesthetic design for the future.

Other small and mid-sized innovations also include: a 6.5-inch WVGA ultra- high contrast display panel that uses new pixel design with a high contrast ratio of 2000:1 and the 4.3-inch in-cell multi-touch panel that will be implemented in the up and coming Mobile Internet Device (MID), one of the top platforms and user interfaces.

The newly released advanced technologies should be ready for mass production next year at the earliest.