IEC TR 63340-1:2025

Electronic displays for special applications - Part 1: General introduction

IEC TR 63340-1:2025, which is a Technical Report, provides related information for future standardizations of various display applications. This document includes overview of display applications, and the possible strategies to standardize these application fields.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 08-Jan-2025
• ICS: 31.120 - Electronic display devices
• Technical Committee: TC 110 - Electronic displays
• Drafting Committee: PT 63340 - TC 110/PT 63340
• Current Stage: PPUB - Publication issued
• Start Date: 24-Jan-2025
• Due Date: 09-Jan-2025
• Completion Date: 09-Jan-2025

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms . 6
4 Significance of application standardization . 7
5 Threshold value stipulation and further improvement issues . 8
6 Collaboration modes with related TCs . 9
7 Application candidate extraction using inventory table . 9
7.1 Purpose and procedure . 9
7.2 Application candidate list . 9
7.3 Inventory table and evaluation . 10
7.4 Typical examples of prioritized special applications . 13
8 Possible strategies and schemes for application field standardization . 14
Annex A (informative) IEC TC 110 contributions to display applications . 16
Annex B (informative) Considerations for education application . 17
Bibliography . 18

Figure 1 – Standardization approach based on technology, function and application
aspects . 8
Figure 2 – Display application candidates to extract special applications . 10
Figure 3 – Possible flow to propose new standardization in application field . 14

Table 1 – Inventory table of display applications with low priority . 11
Table 2 – Inventory table of display applications with high priority – Five extracted
application candidates . 12

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Part 1: General introduction
FOREWORD
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IEC TR 63340-1 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 110: Electronic displays. It is
a Technical Report.
The text of this Technical Report is based on the following documents:
Draft Report on voting
110/1709/DTR 110/1728/RVDTR
Full information on the voting for its approval can be found in the report on voting indicated in
the above table.
The language used for the development of this Technical Report is English.

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INTRODUCTION
This document intends to gather related information for future standardizations of various
display applications, and to clarify the relationship to normative aspects of the standardization
in these application fields. Because a Technical Report (TR) is entirely informative, this
document does not intend to formulate strong strategies. This document provides possibilities
and candidates of strategies to extract application fields for standardization. The relation and
difference between application-based standardization and technology-based standardization
are discussed in Clause 4. In the application-based standardization, how to adopt something to
others is analyzed with clarifying "context of use" and "an optimum degree". Therefore,
requirements, required threshold values, or specifications are important. In addition, by
technology developments these requirements become advanced more, and Clause 5 explains
how to update these requirements in standards. There are some applications for which technical
committees (TCs) have already been established, and the collaboration modes with related TCs
are explained in Clause 6. In Clause 7, five application candidates have been extracted using
inventory tables, and the key criteria is the public and societal natures. Clause 8 explains
possible strategies and schemes for application-based standardization. The necessities of each
application standardization are described in other TRs.

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Part 1: General introduction
1 Scope
This part of IEC 63340, which is a Technical Report, provides related information for future
standardizations of various display applications. This document includes overview of display
applications, and the possible strategies to standardize these application fields.
2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms
3.1 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminology databases for use in standardization at the following
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3.1.1
standardization
activity of establishing, with regard to actual or potential problems, provisions for common and
repeated use, aimed at the achievement of the optimum degree of order in a given context
Note 1 to entry: In particular, the activity consists of the processes of formulating, issuing and implementing
standards.
Note 2 to entry: Important benefits of standardization are improvement of the suitability of products, processes and
services for their intended purposes, prevention of barriers to trade and facilitation of technological cooperation.
[SOURCE: ISO/IEC GUIDE 2:2004, 1.1]
3.2 Abbreviated terms
HMI human–machine interfaces
JWG joint working group
PT project team
SDG Sustainable Development Goals
SDO standards development organization
TC technical committee
TR technical report
WG working group
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