PenTile technology was originally developed by Clairvoyante, Inc. Clairvoyante was founded in July 2000 by Candice H. Brown Elliott. Ms. Brown Elliott theorized that display performance could be significantly improved by capitalizing on the principals of human color perception, which led her to develop PenTile® subpixel layouts and related image-processing algorithms. Samsung Electronics acquired Clairvoyante’s assets in March 2008. Nouvoyance was founded in early 2008 as an independent enterprise to provide continued engineering support, research, and development of PenTile technology and other improvements to color displays. Nouvoyance is led by CEO Candice Brown Elliott and Executive Vice President Joel Pollack, formerly CEO of Clairvoyante and prior to that a senior executive with Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas.
Mr. Joel Pollack
Joel Pollack is the Executive Vice President of Strategic Sales and Marketing for PenTile Technology. Mr. Pollack’s 45 years in the LCD field include management at Sharp, Xerox Webster Research Center, and Tektronix. Mr. Pollack holds a B.S. in Physics from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Masters in Materials Science from the University of Rochester.
Ms. Candice H. Brown Elliott
Candice Brown Elliott is the inventor of PenTile technology and the CEO of Nouvoyance. She’s a 35-year veteran of the display and semiconductor industries, holding positions in R&D, manufacturing, and engineering management at Fairchild, Advanced Micro Devices, Planar Systems, and the Micro Display Corporation. Ms. Elliott has been granted 58 U.S. patents and holds a dual B.S. in Physics and Psychology from Excelsior College, University of the State of New York.
