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PANORAM DEBUTS INNOVATIVE 4.23 MILLION PIXEL DIGITAL IMAGING TABLE DISPLAY FOR ELECTRONIC MAPPING, INTELLIGENCE AND SCIENTIFIC ANALYSIS
SUN VALLEY (CA), June 18, 2002


Panoram Technologies announces the unprecedented DIT-1 - a Digital Imaging Table, employing a state-of-the-art multi-projector imaging technology. The 65-inch diagonal "light table" has near print quality resolution intended for use in critical imaging applications such as intelligence, mapping, mission planning, navigation, command and control, medical and scientific computing.

The introduction of the DIT represents a major turning point in the development of an electronic replacement for paper maps. In June of 2001, Panoram revealed a new technology called Seamless Matrix Blending, which allowed the arraying of projectors in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. Though this new technology was key to the development of the DIT, the problem was making a display small and reliable enough to be usable as an imaging table.

Fortuitously, Panoram was also already in discussions with Olympus Optical of Japan, about creating a technology alliance between the companies. Stemming from both its optical and electronic expertise, Olympus had developed an automatic calibration technology that Theo Mayer, CEO of Panoram Technologies, felt would immediately lend itself to such a product. Less than 9 months later, the DIT-1 digital imaging table has become the first product in a planned series of advanced display system solutions for the newly-allied companies.

The DIT-1 uses four seamlessly blended projectors to create the 4.23 million pixel, 65-inch, table-oriented display. It offers a combination of resolution and form factor never before available. The system can display high-resolution stills, graphic animations, video and even images from laptop computers. One of the system's important capabilities is its ability to merge mapping data with surveillance images from satellites and unmanned air vehicles. With global positioning satellite and wireless technologies providing reliable location information for key assets such as equipment and personnel, this kind of mapping/imaging/asset overlay technology becomes a very important tool for a variety of applications that extend beyond military operations to disaster management, law enforcement dispatching, fighting forest fires, search and rescue, and a whole host of scientific imaging applications.