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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:
Nov. 25, 2003
Filed:
Jan. 08, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark Thomas Johnson, Eindhoven, NL;
Iain Mcintosh Hunter, Brighton, GB;
Steven Charles Deane, Redhill, GB;
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/153 ; G02F 1/29 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/153 ; G02F 1/29 ;
Abstract
A reset driving scheme for addressing a switching mirror display enables current to flow in two directions through the switching elements. The display is forced into a predefined state and drives the display into the other optical states by using an addressable TFT providing a continous current.