- Sunbeam
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Description :The Idea: to modify the image that the projector produces so that the part of the image over the presenter’s face is dimmed. The presenter's face position is detected by a camera. Purpose: to avoid irritation and photochemical damage of the presenter’s eyes. Our Product is a software application for the computer that runs the presentation. It realizes the idea mentioned above by utilizing a web camera that has to be connected to the computer. The first customer is Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, HKUST: we received an agreement to buy 3 our licenses. US Patent application is ready and will be submitted once the funding is received. Competing technology: short-throw projector: it does not have problem that our technology solves. Occupies ~15% of 11M units projectors market; relatively expensive; has installation spot restrictions. The company will be registered once we receive the funding. The team: Viacheslav Sabirov – CEO. Launched successful products as a product manager in a software development company. Oleg Urzhumtsev – software developer. Co-founder of a tech startup; has relevant software development experience. Vladimir Chigrinov – CTO. HKUST Professor. Author of 2 books, 419 journal and conference publications, 50 patents and patent applications. His area of study is critical for our product development. Tuomas Louhela - Business development specialist who has advised leading retail and commercial banks for six years; HKUST MBA. Customers: Educational institutions of all levels. Channels to customers: •web-site; •Resellers: Selling projectors Internet stores, school equipment suppliers; •mobile app developers for teachers; •exhibitions and conferences Objectives: Short term: tight work with early customers and volunteer testers of the product; “box” version of product development and testing; start building the network of resellers. Long term: new products development: scenic lighting system that does not irritate performer’s eyes; gesture control system for projectors.