DLP Technology Awards/Recognition

List of awards won by DLP Technology, its inventors, Dr. Larry Hornbeck and Dr. William E. ('Ed') Nelson and others.

March 2009

SID Display of the Year Awards (First Gen. DLP Pico Chipset)

February 2009

Global Mobile Awards at MWC 2009 finalist – Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough (First Gen. DLP Pico Chipset) March 2009 - 2009 InfoComm International Adjunct Faculty (Frank Moizio)

January 2009

ZDNet’s The Best of CES for Business (Samsung MBP200)

January 2009

LATOP Magazine’s Best of CES 2009 Awards – Best Projector (Samsung MBP200)

January 2009

LATOP Magazine’s Best of CES 2009 Awards – Runner-up (WowWee Cinemin) February 2009 - Insight Media CES 2009 Best Buzz Awards – Best Pico Projector (Samsung W7900 and WowWee Cinemin Suite)

January 2009

Global Mobile Awards at MWC 2009 finalist – Best Mobile Technology Breakthrough (First Gen. DLP Pico Chipset)

February 2005

The 70-inch DLP TV receives the Best Buzz Award at CES from Insight Media.

January 2005

The RCA Scenium Profiles HD61THW263 DLP TV takes top honors at CES, receiving the Best of Innovations Award for Digital Display.

December 2004

IEEE names Dr. Hornbeck recipient of the 2004 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award for his pioneering work on, and sustained development of, the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), the chip at the heart of DLP technology.

November 2004

Small Times honors Dr. Hornbeck with its 2004 Best of Small Tech Lifetime Achievement Award for his pioneering and sustained technical contributions to DLP technology.

January 2004

Samsung takes top honors at International CES with its HLP5685W DLP TV, winning the Best of Innovations Award for the video category.

October 2003

DLP technology is selected by the National Television Academy to receive the Technology And Engineering Emmy® Award for "Pioneering Development of Mass-Produced Digital Reflective Imaging Technology for Consumer Rear Projection Television."

November 2002

DLP technology receives the 2002 Small Times Magazine "Best Of Small Tech" Product Award. The Best of Small Tech Awards recognize the best people, products and companies in nanotechnology, MEMS and microsystems.

October 2002

Dr. Larry Hornbeck, inventor of the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) that makes DLP technology possible, receives the David Sarnoff Medal from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE).

March 2002

Dr. Larry Hornbeck is elected SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) Fellow for 2002

November 2001

DLP technology receives the Judges' Award from The Royal Television Society (RTS).

October 2000

DLP technology receives the Technical and Scientific Achievement Award from the BKSTS (The British Kinematograph, Sound and Television Society).

April 2000

DLP® technology honored by 'Television Broadcast' as 'Editors' Pick of Show' at National Association of Broadcaster (NAB) Exhibition for HDTV demonstration.

October 1999

DLP technology receives 'Golden Note' award from The Academy for Advancing High Performance Audio & Video. The award recognizes DLP® technology as 'The Most Innovative Video Technology'.

May 1999

Dr. Larry Hornbeck receives the prestigious Karl Ferdinand Braun Prize at The Society for Information Display's 1999 International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition.

June 1998

DLP technology receives Emmy award from The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for Outstanding Achievement In Engineering Development.

May 1998

William E. Nelson Receives Kosar Memorial Award from The Society for Imaging Science and Technology.

February 1997

Dr. Larry Hornbeck and Dr. Ed Nelson receive award from The Rank Prize Fund.

December 1995

DLP technology named 1995 Display of the Year by Information Display Magazine.

October 1995

Dr. Larry Hornbeck Receives Eduard Rhein Award.