Dual Color Mode
technology enables
crossover function in PLUS projectors.
PLUS Vision’s Dual Color Mode, an innovative
new technology, allows users to easily switch between optimized brightness
for business use and optimized color for home use.
The Dual Color Mode allows users to switch
color wheel configurations between a four-segment configuration, generally
used in business applications, and a six-segment configuration, generally
used when premium colors such as home video, are needed. For a business
application, the four-segment color wheel configuration consisting
of red, green, blue and white (clear) color segments is used. For
home use or when more vibrant color saturation is required, the projector’s
color wheel can be switched to a six-segment color wheel with a red,
green, blue, red, green, blue configuration. These configurations
can easily be switched back and forth by the push of a button.
The color wheel design, more than any other
component, establishes the nominal image performance of a projector.
For example a four-segment wheel establishes the fundamental brightness,
contrast and color purity with an emphasis on brightness and contrast.
Electronic adjustments on the projector allows the user to adjust
brightness, contrast and color qualities around that nominal value
established by the particular color wheel. Now, by having two different
color wheel configurations inside of one projector, two entirely different
nominal values of image performance are available. It is literally
like having two different projectors in one box.
The Dual Color Mode technology is useful in
many different applications for business, education and government.
Some industries such as photography and medical require a business
projector for presentation use, but must also show images that require
vivid, nicely saturated colors. Schools use a combination of both
PC applications and video.
If the colors of a bar chart in a business
application are not completely saturated and perfect, no information
is really lost. On the other hand, in a medical application, if the
colors are not vivid and accurate enough to show the changes in skin
tone before and after treatment, information can be lost.