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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2007
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2003
Kent D. Vincent, Cupertino, CA (US);
R. Stanley Williams, Redwood City, CA (US);
Xiao-an Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Kent D. Vincent, Cupertino, CA (US);
R. Stanley Williams, Redwood City, CA (US);
Xiao-An Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
Method and apparatus for document content publishing, distribution, and display, including a method of doing business. An electronic display includes at least one reusable imaging stratum forming a pixel array of a bi-modal molecular colorant. Preferably, the molecules have bistable orientations. The imaging stratum having a viewing surface and a back surface. Adjacent said back surface is a background stratum. An addressing device is mounted for selectively switching colorant molecules of the imaging stratum between a transparent orientation and a color-exhibiting orientation. The present invention is adaptable to reflective light, back lit, and projection implementations.