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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2001
Filed:
Sep. 28, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Harald Reinhart Bock, Oxford, GB;
Andrew James Hudson, Abingdon, GB;
Judy Megan Rorison, Cheltenham, GB;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract
A display device has two or more display elements. The display device is addressed by applying a set of data signals for one display element and a strobe signal for a second display element simultaneously to a layer of electrodes common to both display elements. Preferentially, the strobe signal for the second element is applied to one electrode, and the data signals for the first element are applied to all other electrodes. The data signals for the one display element are controllable independently from the strobe signal for the second display element.