Rambus Inc.

Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Ruediger Johannes Lange

Siebe Tjerk De Zwart

Ramon Pascal Van Gorkom

Peter Alexander Duine

Volker Schoellmann

Bart Andre Salters

Makoto Ishii

Shigeo Mikoshiba

Roel Van Woudenberg

Jurgen Jean Louis Hoppenbrouwers

Tomokazu Shiga

Siebe Tjerk De Zwark

Dirk De Bruin

A display device comprising a light guide (), a front plate (), and an intermediate electromechanically operable foil (). Two electrode layers () are arranged on either side of the foil () to induce electrostatic forces on the foil () and to bring selected portions of the foil into contact with the light guide (), thereby extracting light from the light guide (). The second electrode layer () is arranged on the opposite side of the light guide () with reference to the foil (), and separated from the light guide () by means of a refractive layer (). As no electrode layer is required on the light guide itself, the light path of rays extracted from the light guide is cleaner, and the absorption of light is reduced. The light guide can have a thickness such that the light extracted from the light guide per unit length is sufficient to allow for line-at-a-time addressing.

Line-at-a-time foil display

The invention provides for a method and display apparatus () having driving circuitry for driving a display panel () having a plurality of addressable discharge cells () driven by display pulses (DP), including the steps of applying data pulses (DAP) during the time interval between display pulses (DP) and characterized by the step of priming charges for each of the discharge cells () by means of the reset discharges so as to reduce the required data voltage, and in particular such a method wherein one TV-field period (T) is divided into a plurality of sub-fields (SF) all of which are of substantially equal time durations.

Method and apparatus for driving a display panel

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Eindhoven, Netherlands

Ruediger Johannes Lange