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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 05, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Stuart Alastair Taylor, Cambridge, GB;
Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen, Cambridge, GB;
John Franciscus Marie Helmes, Steyl, NL;
Stephen Edward Hodges, Cambridge, GB;
James Scott, Cambridge, GB;
Albrecht Schmidt, Satteldorf, DE;
Pascal Knierim, Munich, DE;
Gavin Wood, Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB;
Josh Wolff Fromm, Seattle, WA (US);
Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl, Cambridge, GB;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A display device which includes an electronic paper display additionally comprises power harvesting hardware and display update hardware which is configured to control the updating of the electronic paper display based on a sensed power harvesting level which may, in various embodiments, be a current incoming power level as generated by the power harvesting hardware or a stored power level in a power storage device within the display device.