Highlights from the 2021 LIPA Annual General Meeting Presentations
Held (virtually) on Tuesday, December 7, 2021, from 8am-12pm EST
15 speakers from 14 companies; 6 members, 2 previous-members, 6 consultants
Summary of Presenters
| Speaker | Company | Title/Topic |
| Goran Stojmenovik | Barco | Chairman’s Welcome Message |
| Anabel Martinez | AMSL – Admin | Membership Summary |
| Wei Gu | Appotronics | Membership report/new member introductions |
| Mark Roslon | Seiko-Epson | New Communications Chairman |
| Bill Beck | BTM Consulting | Communications Committee Annual Report |
| Goran Stojmenovik | Barco | Regulatory Committee report and update |
| Karl Schulmeister | Seibersdorf Laboratories | New EU Consumer Laser Product Safety Standard EN 50689 |
| Rosemary Abowd | PMA Research | Projector Market Overview – Pandemic Chain Reaction |
| David Hancock | OMDIA | Cinema Rebuilding after Existential (Covid) Crisis |
| Wei Gu | Appotronics/ForMovie | Ultra-Short-Throw 4K Laser Projection TV Market update |
| Brian Montalbano | Nichia-USA | Nichia Laser Presentation LIPA 2021 |
| Caspar J.W. Ruan | Foxconn | On study of Multi-emitter RGB Semiconductor Laser |
| Dr. Yu Xin | Appotronics | Laser Phosphor Hybrids (PJs and Laser TV) technical update |
| Pete Ludé | Mission Rock Digital | Projecting the Future of Projectors (and other display options |
| Kristofer Oberascher | Texas Instruments | Phase Modulation for LIPs |
| Alberto Alfier | Osram-ClayPaky | Laser Illuminated Lighting Progress |
| Greg Niven | Kyocera-SLD | Laser Lighting Update from Kyocera-SLD |
Denotes current LIPA member
Annual General Meeting (AGM2021) purpose is to provide membership with a formal update of LIPA’s activities progress for the year via reports from Regulatory, Communications and Membership committee members.
The meeting ran for 4+ hours and was divided into 4 sessions: LIPA/Committee updates; Market Updates; Technology Updates and “Blue Sky” Future View. There were 43 “video visitors” – 35 members, 5 speakers and 3 guests.
LIPA 2021 Highlights –
- Chairman Goran Stojmenovik of Barco welcomed all participants and highlighted the fact that LIPA celebrated the 10th anniversary of its founding in May 2011 at a Video Meeting in May
- Goran recognized fellow officers: Richard McPherson of SharpNEC – Treasurer and Tim Ryan of TI, Secretary
- LIPA’s Membership Chairman, Wei Gu of Appotronics, welcomed 2 new members – Foxconn (Hon Hai) and Dolby Labs
- LIPA introduced newly appointed Communications Chairman, Mark Roslon from Seiko-Epson
- Bill Beck of BTM Consulting, reviewed the Committees activities and projects for 2021, including a number of regulatory bulletins, articles, blog posts, and a Global (virtual) Celebration of LIPA’s 10th Anniversary attended by over 80 participants: current and past members, founders and LIP pioneers going back to 1992
- Goran, Introduced Takashi Ikeda of Panasonic as new Regulatory Chairman, who replaced founding member Hideyuki Kanayama, also of Panasonic, who retired recently
- LIPA’s Regulatory Committee produced and published 3
new Bulletins in 2021
- Laser Light Show (LLS) variances for Dealers and Distributors
- FDA variance Separation Height (SH) requirement reduced from 3m to 2.5 m
- Traditional Lamp Illumination regulation harmonized with Laser illumination based on Risk Group “Equal Footing” finally established
- The Regulatory Committee updated the audience on the Small Source Task Force’s report to the FDA. Goal is to push for “no variance” classification Risk Group 2 for very small chip w/angular subtense under 5mrad
