Monday, November 14, 2011

Scalable Display inks license deal with GEO Semiconductor

By Rodney H. Brown

Cambridge software company Scalable Display Technologies Inc. have entered into a license agreement with GEO Semiconductor Inc., which gives Scalable rights to develop on GEO’s API libraries.

While no financial details of the license agreement were disclosed, Scalable gets the ability to make sure that its auto-calibration software for displays using multiple projectors will work with projectors that are based on the integrated circuit chips made by California-based GEO, officials said in a release. In addition to working with the GEO APIs, the deal allows Scalable to better integrate the conversion software that accompanies the GEO chips in projectors and other display devices.

According to Rajeev Surati, president of Scalable Display, the company has had a “long standing relationship with GEO Semiconductor” and the new agreement is more of a formalization of the relationship.

In May, Scalable raised $449,061 in an equity offering, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing indicated that the proceeds from the offering may be used for Scalable Display’s working capital, in addition to normal salary pay of some of the officers named in the filing.

Founded in 2004, Scalable is based on patented technology developed at MIT during the 1990s by Rajeev Surati and thesis advisor Tom Knight Jr., according to the company’s website. That software takes images from a camera that shows all of the individual parts of a multi-projector display and seamlessly blends their edges to make one giant display. In May of 2009, Scalable worked an original equipment manufacturer agreement with NEC Corp. to provide its alignment software.