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On January 9th, US time, CES2024 officially opened with over 4000 exhibitors and more than 130,000 attendees who gathered at the event to collectively anticipate the trends and directions of the technology industry in the coming year. Looking at the new display products released this year, companies are maintaining their pace in the development of traditional TV and monitor applications while beginning to focus more on the long-term development of the display industry, especially in the field of automotive displays and the still-nascent micro-display sector. The continuous advancement of new display technologies, coupled with the growing demand for new market needs, is gradually leading the display industry into a new pattern of development.

More display manufacturers are focusing on the development of automotive displays, with companies such as AU Optronics, Innolux, BOE, TCL CSOT, Visionox, Tianma, Huizhou, Samsung, and LG showcasing the application of Mini/Micro LED and OLED display technologies in smart cockpits.

Keeping pace with technological development, many manufacturers are involved. On February 28th, Menetech Smart held a new product launch event and its 15th-anniversary celebration. Tang Yangshu, the founder, chairman, and CEO of Menetech Smart, delivered a keynote report titled "One Life, Three, and All Things." Mr. Tang introduced the strategic direction of Menetech Smart and its 1+3 industrial machine vision product strategy. Focusing on visual systems and deeply cultivating the field of machine vision, the company has full autonomous design and development capabilities and profound technical accumulation in optical solutions, visual algorithms, motion control, and data analysis and processing. Focusing on industry-specific equipment, Menetech Smart has a rich array of product solutions, ensuring quality reliability with its robust technology and product capabilities. In the general-purpose visual application market, by focusing on certain niche areas, the company continuously innovates and iterates, working closely and continuously with customers to provide visual solutions that are platform-based, modular, and universally applicable, truly promoting industry development. Overall, the company continues to promote platformization, modularization, and universal applicability.

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Focusing on specific solutions, Dr. Zhang Liang provided a detailed analysis of the "IdeaPi, the world's first integrated visual inspection platform," introducing its core advantages, which include the ability to achieve the industry's highest-density component high-speed analysis, the industry's largest format basic analysis, and the detection of the industry's smallest Mini LED crystal size. At the same time, using advanced artificial intelligence technology, it can achieve the industry's fastest flying imaging and has the industry's highest precision detection capabilities with convenient graphical programming.

Among them, the Mini/Micro LED inspection equipment has industry-leading excellent performance: 1. High-precision calibration technology that can reduce measurement errors to less than 5um, 2. Sub-pixel size measurement with positioning accuracy less than pixel resolution, 3. Capable of flying photography with operating speeds up to 500mm/s for rapid scanning of large format substrates. 4. Capable of multiple parallel computations, instantly obtaining detection results for hundreds of thousands of components. 5. Open AI tools that can be trained and detected according to customer requirements, with big data models automatically determining NG/OK without the need for manual repeated adjustments, easily improving the direct pass rate.

Subsequently, Xiong Jiao, the project manager of the R&D department at Menetech Smart, further introduced the features of IdeaPi, providing a detailed explanation from target positioning to size measurement, artificial intelligence segmentation, detection and recognition, all the way to visual guidance.From various dimensions of the report, it can be seen that machine vision aids in the mass production of Micro LED, and Mengtuo Intelligent Technology is ready for it!

Next, at the Mengtuo Intelligent New Product Launch and 15th Anniversary Celebration, an expert roundtable forum was held, hosted by Xu Huimin, a senior technology media person and the head of the Shanghai reporter station of the "Electronic Newspaper."

Chen Lihua, General Manager of the Applied Electronic Ecology Platform of Digital China Group and Editor-in-Chief of "Semiconductor Industry Review," first shared the technological advantages of Micro LED from the perspective of industrial innovation, empowering new markets and applications. She discussed three areas where the application is particularly prominent: the first is in large display devices, mainly high-end TVs and display screens; the second is that Micro LED will be applied to various smart wearable devices, especially with the maturity of the market and the expansion of production capacity, it is expected to accelerate penetration in the AR/VR field; the third, Micro LED is most optimistic about the automotive market. Currently, Micro LED pixel car lights are gradually being applied to high-end models, such as NIO's ET9 and the latest Porsche Cayenne. In terms of the industry chain, AU Optronics, BOE, and Tianma are also actively launching smart cockpit-related products. She also mentioned that the exploration of Micro LED displays in mainland China is currently at the forefront. The technological innovation and mass production of Micro LED require a rich application scenario to drive the growth of demand, and more importantly, the joint construction of the industry chain and ecosystem.

Zhang Jianzhou, a doctor, doctoral supervisor from Sichuan University, also gave a speech. Zhang Jianzhou obtained a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the University of Electronic Science and Technology, a master's degree from the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a doctorate from the University of Electronic Science and Technology, and engaged in postdoctoral research at the Institute of Automation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is engaged in research on computer vision, machine vision, and artificial intelligence. He is in charge of national natural science fund projects and provincial, municipal, and corporate industry-university-research projects. In 2005, he was selected as a candidate for the reserve of academic and technical leaders in Sichuan Province, and in 2019, he participated in the "Computer Vision" project of the American Institute for Computational and Experimental Mathematics (ICERM). Professor Zhang shared how machine vision can help the first year of mass production of Micro LED. Here, Professor Zhang elaborated on the technology and application of machine vision. Compared with ordinary LEDs, Micro LEDs have the characteristics of small size, large quantity, and high density, coupled with the continuous reduction of spacing, which brings various challenges to the supply chain production process. Therefore, the mass production and marketization of Micro LED can only be supported by the mature technology of machine vision and artificial intelligence.

With the gradual advancement of the first year of mass production of Micro LED, the application of Mini/Micro LED in various displays is continuously increasing, including the emergence of many conceptual products and the release of actual products. It has indeed brought a qualitative leap in consumer upgrades and experiences.

Liu Jingwei, CEO of "Audio-Visual Network," Secretary-General of "Global Audio-Visual Network," and General Manager of "Audio-Visual Hui Media," brought a description of the beautiful prospects of new audio-visual products! Secretary Liu talked about how the audio-visual industry has been continuously exploring and changing during its long-term development process. From the perspective of the display field, from LCD to LED, projection, and then to Mini/Micro LED, from technological progress to product progress, it has led the transformation of scenes and the change of smart life, the transformation of commercial intelligence, and the transformation of industrial intelligence step by step. Mini/Micro LED, as a highly representative new display product, with highly integrated core and ultimate display effect, will become an important force in the development of the next display industry.

Looking to the future, the integration of advanced AI technology development such as artificial intelligence, OPEN AI, Sora, etc., will inevitably provide a strong push for the audio-visual industry, and more extreme display will become a must for a better audio-visual future. The first year of mass production of Mini/Micro LED has arrived, and the future audio-visual revolution is also underway.

A new generation of beautiful audio-visual products will enter thousands of households, and the contribution of Mengtuo Intelligent Technology is indispensable!

As the Director of R&D of Mengtuo Intelligent, Zhang Liang talked about how to keep up with the latest technology trends as a research and development leader and to escort the mass production of Micro LED. The development of a groundbreaking product requires day and night efforts. The size of Micro LED chips is reduced by several times, and the number of chips used per unit area is increased by several times, coupled with the continuous reduction of spacing, which brings various challenges to the supply chain production process. To promote the mass production and marketization of Micro LED, controlling precision and improving the yield rate are one of the important factors, and also the premise for the large-scale industrialization of Micro LED technology.The star expert of this forum is Sun Xiaowei, who is currently a Chair Professor at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), an Honorary Doctor of the Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, a Foreign Academician of the Russian Academy of Engineering, a National Distinguished Expert, the Executive Dean of the Institute for Nano Science and Application, and the Director of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He serves as the Director of the SUSTech-Huawei Joint Laboratory for Photonic Industry Innovation, the Director of the Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage Technology of the Ministry of Education, and the Director of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Quantum Dot Advanced Display and Lighting. Prior to joining SUSTech, Professor Sun was a Full Professor and the Director of the Microelectronics Center at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. In 2009, he was awarded the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Technology and Innovation Award, in 2013 he received the prestigious Jacques-Beaulieu Distinguished Research Chair Award from the National Research Council of Canada, and in 2023 he was honored with the SID Slottow-Owaki Prize. His domestic awards include the Second Prize of the 2022 Shenzhen Natural Science Award and the Second Prize of the 2022 Guangdong Province Science and Technology Award for Natural Science. Professor Sun is an Academician of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Materials Science, a Fellow of the Optical Society (Optica, formerly OSA), the International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), the Society for Information Display (SID), and the Institute of Physics (loP), and a Distinguished Lecturer of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He is the first Chinese mainland scholar to be elected as a Fellow of the Society for Information Display (SID Fellow). Professor Sun is the founder and chairman of the Society for Energy Photonics, which is dedicated to promoting photonics technology-based energy solutions to combat global warming and climate change. His current main research areas include wide bandgap semiconductor materials and devices, advanced displays, and naked-eye 3D technology. He has published over 600 articles in academic journals, with 40,000 citations and an H-index of 98 (Google Scholar), and is recognized as an Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholar and among the top 2% of scientists worldwide by Stanford University. Professor Sun elaborates on the widely anticipated future prospects of Micro LED, which is highly regarded by the industry. He introduces feedback from downstream production enterprises, highlighting the unique advantages that MTI (MentorTech Innovation) equipment possesses.

MentorTech Innovation has been serving over 18,000 customers from more than 100 countries and regions for the past 15 years. Today's position at the forefront of emerging technologies is inseparable from its tireless pioneering spirit, akin to the "Xi Geng Niu" (Morning Plow Ox). We have witnessed the remarkable growth of this enterprise from small to large, as reflected in the passionate speech by Chairman Tang Yangshu at the event: "In youth, we all have dreams, and with dreams come sorrows. To strengthen our country, we must take responsibility, and with action, we always encounter obstacles. Never forget the original intention of entrepreneurship, for with a team comes thought. Overcoming all difficulties head-on, with thought, there will eventually be agitation."

At this product launch event and 15th-anniversary celebration, with over 300 distinguished guests in attendance, we see that MentorTech Innovation has the capability to provide downstream enterprises with sufficient technology, products, and services. Together with partners, they will bring high-quality and high-specification Micro LED products and solutions to the market, ushering in a more advanced user display experience in the display field for our country.

Since its establishment in 2010, MentorTech Innovation has gone through 15 years of development, specializing in the research and development of software and hardware technology, product design and manufacturing, and optical solutions with industrial machine vision and artificial intelligence as the main focus. It focuses on providing automation production and inspection equipment, visual solutions for customers in new display, pan-semiconductor, and electronics industries. The company is committed to equipping global industrial robots with the best brains and eyes and aims to become a leading brand in the niche market of China's industrial machine vision industry.

From the exploration stage of industrial machine vision software from 2009 to 2013, to the budding stage of industrial vision software from 2013 to 2018, and then to the SIP layout from 2018 to 2024, the development stage of industrial machine vision software, with 15 years of independent technology accumulation, MentorTech Innovation has formed a 1+3 core product strategy.It seems like you've provided a text with multiple " " characters, which are non-breaking space characters. These are often used in HTML to ensure that spaces are not collapsed. If you're looking for a translation of a specific text, please provide the actual content you'd like translated into English. If you need assistance with something else, feel free to ask!Please provide the text you would like translated into English, and I will be happy to assist you.