Tivo Corporation

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Charles Alexander

Bradley S Hochberg

Andrew Tatanka Marsh

Leroy Bertrand Keely, Jr

Fadhly Bey

Jesse F Patterson

Daniel E Evanicky

Kelly R Kodama

Roger Hsu

Paul Michael Newby

Julian T Peck

Michael Lundbom

A method is provided to perform anti-aging techniques in an informational display. An informational display is located on the front bezel of a consumer recording device that displays information related to the content being recorded or played or the operation of the device. To increase the life of the display, displayed text is shifted within the display so that pixel use in the display is more evenly distributed with the pixels in the display. To determine the direction and shape of the shift, real-time calculations of pixel use are made or a simulator is used to compute the probable use of each pixel in the display over a certain period of time. Another anti-aging technique is to dim the display of information after a specified amount of time of display at normal brightness.

Program title display with anti-aging

Set top enclosure

DVR bezel

The invention provides a liquid crystal, TFT display with driver lines folded around a light pipe and a digitizer. The digitizer has grid routing lines folded around a shield where the shield is connected to a shield of the computer system electronics. The display drivers and grid controller are mounted inward of an edge of the display. The glass layers surrounding the beads can have different thicknesses and composition while the liquid crystal surrounding the beads can be at a pressure less than atmospheric pressure. A surface of the display provides pen/pencil on paper feel as a digitizer pen is moved across the surface via hardness coatings and surface topography.

Pen-based computer system

Growing community of inventors

Mountain View, CA, United States of America

Charles Alexander