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E Ink Corporatior

Kenneth R Crounse

Stephen J Telfer

Karl Raymond Amundson

Teck Ping Sim

Yuval Ben-Dov

Demetrious Mark Harrington

Ana L Lattes

Pierre-Yves Emelie

Christopher L Hoogeboom

Matthew J Aprea

Richard J Paolini, Jr

Alain Bouchard

Kosta Ladavac

Chih-Hsiang Ho

Lee Yezek

Theodore A Sjodin

Jason Lin

Michael T Regan

David Darrell Miller

Craig A Herb

Sunil Krishna Sainis

Stephen Bull

Luke M Slominski

Jennifer M Morrison

Jason D Feick

J Ryan Kruse

Joanna F Au

Timothy J O'Malley

Chia-Chen Su

Edward Buckley

Seth J Bishop

Dirk Hertel

Cristina Visani

Zdzislaw Jan Szymborski

Michael Patrick Almon

Hugh M Enxing

Jaya Kumar

Aaron Chen

Irina Paykin

Paroma Palchoudhuri

John L Marshall

Ziyan Wu

Brandon Ian MacDonald

Jonathan L Zalesky

Amit Deliwala

Timothy J O'Malley, Jr

Eugene Bzowej

Abraham Berhane

Theodore H Sjodin

Yuta Asano

Ali Sarvi

Mary E Parent

Yin Al

Brandon Macdonald

Jr Richard J Paolini

Michael Thomas Regan

An electro-optic display having a plurality of pixels is driven from a first image to a second image using a first drive scheme, and then from the second image to a third image using a second drive scheme different from the first drive scheme and having at least one impulse differential gray level having an impulse potential different from the corresponding gray level in the first drive scheme. Each pixel which is in an impulse differential gray level in the second image is driven from the second image to the third image using a modified version of the second drive scheme which reduces its impulse differential The subsequent transition from the third image to a fourth image is also conducted using the modified second drive scheme but after a limited number of transitions using the modified second drive scheme, all subsequent transitions are conducted using the unmodified second drive scheme.

Electro-optic displays and methods for driving the same

Methods for driving an electro-optic displays having a plurality of display pixels are described. The method includes determining a level of stress quantity for a display pixel of the electro-optic display based on at least one prior update to the optical state of the display pixel, and receiving a request to update the optical state of the display pixel. The method also includes applying driving waveforms from first or second update schemes to the display pixel depending on the update scheme used for an immediately prior update of the display pixel and comparisons of the level of stress quantity to two level of stress thresholds.

Methods for driving electro-optic displays

Improved methods for driving an active matrix of pixel electrodes controlled with thin film transistors when the voltage on a top electrode is being altered between driving frames. The methods described increase performance by providing smaller swings in the overall voltage between the top electrode and pixel electrode while reducing stress on the thin film transistor.

High voltage driving using top plane switching with zero voltage frames between driving frames

There are provided methods for driving an electro-optic display having a plurality of display pixels, a such method includes detecting a white-to-white graytone transition on a first pixel; and determining whether a threshold number of cardinal neighbors of the first pixel are not making a graytone transition from white to white, or if the first pixel is a color pixel, and apply a first waveform.

Electro-optic displays, and methods for driving same

A color display, including an electrophoretic medium, wherein the display includes a processor configured to transform image source colors, which are typically standard RGB values, to electrophoretic display device colors, for example ACeP device colors, for displaying the image in the best possible colors on the color display. The processor uses a look up table that depends upon eight primary colors that are produced by the electrophoretic medium.

Color displays configured to convert RGB image data for display on advanced color electronic paper

Methods are disclosed for driving an electrophoretic display having a plurality of display pixels arranged in a matrix comprising a two-dimensional array of rows and columns of display pixels. The methods include dividing the display pixels into groups made up of a plurality of clusters, where each cluster includes a number of adjacent display pixels. The method includes updating one group of display pixels during a first frame, where display pixels not in the one group are not updated during the first frame, and each cluster in the one group of display pixels is updated at the same time. The methods include applying an edge clearing waveform to no more than eight cardinal pixels of the adjacent display pixels of each cluster.

Electro-optic displays and driving methods

Methods for efficiently clearing previous state information when driving a multi-particle color electrophoretic medium, for example, wherein at least two of the particles are colored and subtractive and at least one of the particles is scattering. Typically, such a system includes a white particle and cyan, yellow, and magenta subtractive primary colored particles. The clearing pulse may include two different portions of alternating impulses and the overall waveform may be DC balanced.

Driving sequences to remove prior state information from color electrophoretic displays

A method of driving an electro-optic display including a layer of electro-optic material disposed between a common electrode and a backplane including an array of pixel electrodes, each coupled to a transistor including a source, gate, and drain electrode. The gate electrode is coupled to a gate line, the source electrode is coupled to a scan line, and the drain electrode is coupled to the pixel electrode. A controller provides time-dependent voltages to the gate, scan, and common electrodes, including a common electrode that is the maximum voltage the controller is capable of applying, and a scan line voltage to every pixel that is the maximum voltage the controller is capable of applying. A gate voltage sufficient to activate the pixel transistor to the gate of every pixel transistor is applied, thereby applying voltage potential across the electro-optic material.

Methods for globally applying voltages to the display pixels of electro-optic displays

The present invention is directed to a sealing layer that comprises a poly(vinyl alcohol) homopolymer or a poly(vinyl alcohol-co-ethylene) copolymer, a polyurethane, and a conductive filler. The sealing layer shows good barrier properties to a non-polar fluid. The sealing layer can be used to seal microcells of electro-optic devices, contributing to improved good electro-optic performance of the device, especially at low temperatures.

Sealing layers comprising a conductive filler for sealing microcells of electrophoretic displays

An electrophoretic display includes an electrophoretic medium having a non-polar fluid and two sets of charged pigment particles dispersed in the non-polar fluid and movable through the non-polar fluid under influence of an electric field. The two sets of charged pigment particles have different optical characteristics from each other. The display also includes a light-transmissive electrode on one side of the electrophoretic medium, a rear electrode on an opposite side of the electrophoretic medium, and a dielectric layer having a dielectric constant greater than 5 between the electrophoretic medium and the light-transmissive electrode or between the electrophoretic medium and the rear electrode configured to reduce electrode electrochemical degradation and buildup of remnant voltages in the display.

Layered structure with high dielectric constant for use with active matrix backplanes

There are provided display controllers and driving methods related to those described in US Published Patent Application No. 2013/0194250. These include (a) a display controller having an update buffer, means for removing from the update buffer pixels not requiring updating, and means to ensure that pixels having certain special states are not removed from the update buffer; (b) a method of driving a bistable display wherein, in a pixel undergoing a white-to-white transition and lying adjacent another pixel undergoing a visible transition, there is applied to the pixel one or more balanced pulse pairs and at least one top-off pulse; (c) a method of driving a bistable display by overlaying a non-rectangular item over a pre-existing image content and then removing the item, where only pixels in the region of the item perform transitions (including self-transitions); and (d) a method of driving a bistable display in which a proportion of background pixels not undergoing an optical change are subjected to a refresh pulse to correct optical state drift.

Display controller for bistable electro-optic display

Methods for driving color electrophoretic displays including a plurality of display pixels capable of producing a set of primary colors. The method comprises defining a separation cumulate threshold array and using the separation cumulate threshold array to identify areas of the electrophoretic display that are better suited for dithering and not dithering the areas of the electrophoretic display that exceed the separation cumulate threshold.

Multi-primary display mask-based dithering with low blooming sensitivity

An electrophoretic display comprising a fluid including a first species of particles and a charge control agent disposed between first and second electrodes. When a first addressing impulse have an electrical polarity is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in one direction relative to the electric field, but when a second addressing impulse, larger than the first addressing impulse but having the same electrical polarity, is applied to the medium, the first species of particles move in the opposed direction relative to the electric field.

Colored electrophoretic displays using same polarity reversing address pulse

A system for rendering color images on an electro-optic display when the electro-optic display has a color gamut with a limited palette of primary colors, and/or the gamut is poorly structured (i.e., not a spheroid or obloid). The system uses an iterative process to identify the best color for a given pixel from a palette that is modified to diffuse the color error over the entire electro-optic display. The system additionally accounts for variations in color that are caused by cross-talk between nearby pixels.

Method for rendering color images

A method for driving an electrophoretic display having a plurality of display pixels, the method comprising dividing the plurality of display pixels into a plurality of groups, updating one group of display pixels from the plurality of groups of display pixels, the one group of display pixels includes at least n number of adjacent display pixels being updated at the same time, wherein n is an integer greater than or equal to 2, and applying an edge clearing waveform to no more than (n×2)+2 number of cardinal pixels of the one group of display pixels.

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Somerville, MA, United States of America

Kenneth R Crounse