computer science

ViewSonic

ViewSonic is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand ViewSonic rather than just read about it. In short: ViewSonic Corporation is an American privately held multinational electronics company with headquarters in Brea, California, United States. The company was founded in 1987 as Keypoint Technology Corporation by James Chu and was renamed to its present name in 1993, after a brand name of monitors launched in 1990.

Key takeaways

ViewSonic belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect ViewSonic to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of ViewSonic from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

ViewSonic Corporation is an American privately held multinational electronics company with headquarters in Brea, California, United States. The company was founded in 1987 as Keypoint Technology Corporation by James Chu and was renamed to its present name in 1993, after a brand name of monitors launched in 1990. Today, ViewSonic specializes in visual display hardware—including liquid-crystal displays, projectors, and interactive whiteboards—as well as digital whiteboarding software. The company trades in three key markets: education, enterprise, and entertainment.

Company history The company was initially founded as Keypoint Technology Corporation in 1987 by James Chu. In 1990, it launched the ViewSonic line of color computer monitors, and shortly afterward the company renamed itself after its monitor brand. The ViewSonic logo features Gouldian finches, colorful birds native to Australia. In the mid-1990s, ViewSonic rose to become one of the top-rated makers of computer CRT monitors, alongside Sony, NEC, MAG InnoVision, and Panasonic. ViewSonic soon displaced the rest of these companies to emerge as the largest display manufacturer from America/Japan at the turn of the millennium. In 2000, ViewSonic acquired the Nokia Display Products' branded business. In 2002 ViewSonic announced a 3840x2400 WQUXGA, 22.2-inch monitor, VP2290. In 2005, ViewSonic and Tatung won a British patent lawsuit filed against them by LG Philips in a dispute over which company created technology for rear mounting of LCDs in a mobile PC (U.K. Patent GB2346464B, titled “portable computer"). On July 2, 2007, the company filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to raise up to $143.8M in an IPO on NASDAQ. On March 5, 2008, the company filed a withdraw request with the Securities and Exchange Commission saying "terms currently obtainable in the public marketplace are not sufficiently attractive to the Registrant to warrant proceeding with the initial public offering". In 2017, ViewSonic entered the interactive whiteboard market with its ViewBoard flat panels and myViewBoard software. ViewSonic was named a best-selling collaboration display brand in 2018. By 2019, more than 5,500 elementary and junior high schools in the United States had installed ViewBoards, and ViewSonic ranked third in global interactive display market share, excluding China. ViewSonic became a Google for Education partner in 2019 and a Microsoft Education partner in 2020.

Operations ViewSonic has its headquarters in Brea, California, United States and a research & development center in New Taipei City, Taiwan. As of 2021, ViewSonic is selling globally with offices in Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Italy, Ukraine, Turkey, Spain, Sweden, Greece, Switzerland, Australia, Taiwan, Malaysia, India, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Singapore, Japan, and the United States.

Product history

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with ViewSonic

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what ViewSonic claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to ViewSonic before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about ViewSonic ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of ViewSonic

In research: ViewSonic appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses ViewSonic in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: ViewSonic is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics American companies established in 1987, Computer companies established in 1987, Computer companies of Taiwan, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for ViewSonic outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study ViewSonic in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what ViewSonic means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain ViewSonic out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is ViewSonic in simple terms?

Why does ViewSonic matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study ViewSonic?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on ViewSonic.