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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 27, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 03, 1996
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
Image scanner and display apparatus including an array of organic electroluminescent devices, each device operating as a light emitter when forward biased and as a light detector when reverse biased. Electronics coupled to the array and having a display mode and a scanner mode, the electronics sequentially forward biasing the array of organic electroluminescent devices, one row at a time, to emit light in the display mode, and sequentially forward biasing alternate columns of devices to emit light, one column at a time, and reverse biasing an associated column of devices for detecting light in the scanning mode, whereby light emitted from a forward biased column and reflected by information being scanned is received by the reverse biased associated column.