2nd Generation of e-paper —Looking back and Forecast of e-paper—

Abstract

“Technical Committee on Electronic Paper” of the Imaging Society of Japan (ISJ) set a theme to “think about an image in the future of the electronic paper” from about 2000 and announced the discussion of the application scenario of the electronic paper every three years. In 2011, we returned to the origin that started a discussion of the electronic paper application ten years ago and analyzed a product put to practical use, a display technology and a market trend, and reported the new application scenes of the electronic paper expected in next ten years.

We took up “the second generation electronic paper” as the agenda from 2012, and discussed about a picture of the future electronic paper from various viewing points, such as “a social background”, “a product trend” and “future keywords”. This paper reports “the second generation electronic paper” suggested based on the discussion of the technical committee.