Creator Technology B.v.

Flexterra, Inc.

Apple Inc.

Polymer Vision Limited

Polyera Corporation

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

University of Cincinnati

Creator Technologies B.v.

Hjalmar Edzer Ayco Huitema

Philippe Inagaki

Johannes Cornelis Adriaan Hamers

Gerwin Hermanus Gelinck

Erik Van Veenendaal

Kwok Wah Mok

Samuel Mason Curry

Petrus Johannes Gerardus Van Lieshout

Nicolaas Aldegonda Jan Maria Van Aerle

Christoph Wilhelm Sele

Wieger Markvoort

Bart Peeters

Monica Johanna Beenhakkers

Leendert Mark Hage

Xia Li

Hopil Bae

Derek Keith Shaeffer

Mahdi Farrokh Baroughi

Hasan Akyol

Volker Barnhart Verschoor

Tore Nauta

Henry C Jen

Xiaofeng Wang

Xiang Lu

John T Wetherell

Hendrik Dirk Visser

Bas Jan Emile Van Rens

Thomas Charisoulis

Rik Kruidhof

Eugenio Cantatore

Xiang Fang

Ann Laurent Torres

Peter Albert Cirkel

Nicolaas Willem Schellingerhout

Cornelis Jan Hendrik De Zeeuw

Sam S Li

Raymond Wilhelmus Louis Lafarre

Jason C Heikenfeld

Martinus Hermanus Wilhelmus Maria Van Delden

Jozef Thomas Martinus Van Beek

Josh Morenstein

Maarten Peter Bodlaender

Perry Q Anderson

Fredericus Johannes Touwslager

Robert Sjang Josine Van Dijk

Michael Johannes Anna Maria Walters

Remy O'Leary Pieron

Christian Scott Ross

Matthew David Inouye

Bart-Hendrik Huisman

Leendert Marinus Hage

Nick Cronan

Gijs Peters

Antonius Lucien Adrianus Maria Kemmeren

Kenny Darmadji

Galileo June Adeva Destura

Justin Baum

Mark Andrew Biasotti

Pieter J G Van Lieshout

Pieter Jg Van Lieshout

Coert Petrus Ansems

Petrus Van Lieshout

Aubrey Anderson

Pieter JG Van Lieshout

Pieter Johannes Gerardus Van Lieshout

Michiel Adrianus Johannes H J Schellekens

Lucas Martinus Bouten

A local active matrix display panel, circuits and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, a local active matrix display panel includes an array of pixel driver chip, a thin film transistor layer in electrical contact with the array of pixel driver chips, and an array of light emitting diodes electrically connected with the thin film transistor layer.

Local active matrix architecture

Local passive matrix displays and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, the display includes a pixel driver chip coupled with a matrix of rows and columns of LEDs. The pixel driver chips may be arranged in rows across the display with separate portions to operate separate matrices of LEDs.

Local passive matrix display

A dynamically flexible, attachable article, such as a wristband or an armband, includes a flexible electronic component coupled to a flexible support in a manner that is bendable or conformable to a user's wrist or other curved surface in a manner that makes the flexible electronic component easily viewable to the user. The attachable article also includes a connection mechanism disposed proximate to one or both of first and second ends of the attachable article to connect two different portions of the article together.

Attachable device having a flexible electronic component

Techniques for optimizing the display area of an electronic display of an article include maximizing the contiguous area of the display, on one or more surfaces of the article, on which text or images may be presented to a user, and/or to minimize the area of a border of the display that is viewable to the user. Optimization techniques may include bending portions of the display, and/or minimizing the footprint of the display border by particularly configuring the electrical connections to the display elements. These optimization techniques may be applied to rigid electronic displays, to statically-flexed displays, or to dynamically flexible displays, as well as to other rigid, statically-flexed, or dynamically flexible electronic sheets of individual electronic elements, such as lighting arrays, solar cell arrays, sensor arrays, etc.

Optimization of electronic display areas

A dynamically flexible article or device, such as a wristband, an armband, a rollable e-reader, or a belt, includes a flexible electronic component (e.g., a flexible display) and a support structure coupled to the flexible electronic component. The support structure is configured to limit bending of the flexible electronic component to a range within a bending tolerance of the flexible electronic component.

Support structures for a flexible electronic component

A method for updating images displayed on an electronic display of a mobile device includes determining a time interval between successive updates of an image frame. The image frame is displayed on the electronic display, and the mobile device is configured to be in a low power mode between the successive updates. The method also includes receiving one or more application updates within the time interval after a first update of the image frame, and updating the image frame after the time interval based on the one or more application updates.

Low power display updates

An attachable article, e.g., a wristband or armband, includes a dynamically flexible electronic display disposed on a flexible substrate that is bendable or conformable to a user's wrist or other curved surface, and that enables images to be displayed in a manner that makes these images easily viewable to the user. The flexible substrate is supported to limit the bending motion of the flexible electronic display within the display's tolerance limits. Additionally, the flexible substrate may be incorporated into a flexible support having any of various clasping mechanisms and sensors capable of detecting movement, orientation, forces, acceleration, and other user movements so that user manipulation of the article causes a change in the presentation of content on the flexible display and/or may serve as a user input to cause the attachable article to perform one or more actions.

Flexible electronic display with user interface based on sensed movements

An article with automatic detection capabilities includes a dynamically flexible display and one or more detection elements. Based on signals generated by the detection elements, the article automatically detects/determines conditions associated with the article, and performs actions based on the conditions. Automatically detectable conditions may include a flex state or degree of flex of the display, an identity of an object supporting the article, a contextual environment and/or contextual location in which the article is situated, an orientation of the article, and/or other conditions. Resulting actions may include adapting an image content presented on the display, launching and/or closing applications, changing an operational mode of the article, and/or other actions that may be performed by optoelectronic elements of the flexible display and/or by other electronic elements of the article. The article may include a fastener that allows the article to be releasably attached to itself and/or to other objects.

Attachable device with flexible display and detection of flex state and/or location

A dynamically flexible article or device, such as a mobile device includes a first flexible electronic component (e.g., a flexible display) disposed on a first surface of the device and a second flexible electronic component (e.g., a flexible display) disposed on a second surface of the device different from the first surface.

Device with flexible electronic components on multiple surfaces

A touch interface includes a plurality of emitters arranged along a first edge of a flexible electronics component to emit light that propagates across a surface of the flexible electronics component and a plurality of receivers arranged along a second edge of the flexible electronics component to detect light. The touch interface further includes a touch controller coupled to the plurality of emitters and the plurality of receivers. The touch controller is configured to cause one or more of the plurality of emitters to emit light, receive one or more signals indicative of detected light at the plurality of receivers, and determine at least one of a user interaction with the flexible electronics component or a current state of flexing of the flexible electronics component.

Infrared touch system for flexible displays

An attachable article or device, such as a wristband, includes a flexible electronic display disposed thereon in a manner that is bendable or conformable to a user's wrist or other curved surface, and that enables various images to be displayed on the electronic display in a manner that is easily viewable to the user. The article further includes a connection mechanism that releasably connects the two ends of the article together. The article can, in some cases, include two different sized tail segments. As the shorter tail segment of the article tends to be subjected to more stress over time, the article can be structured in a manner that mitigates the amount of stress to which the shorter tail segment is subjected to over time, while at the same time maintaining a maximum, viewable display area on the shorter tail and longer tail segments of the article, particularly when the shorter tail segment is curved to a greater degree (e.g., when curved around a user's wrist).

Attachable, flexible display device with flexible tail

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