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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2012

Filed:

Aug. 29, 2009
Applicants:

Mitchell S. Burberry, Webster, NY (US);

David M. Johnson, West Henrietta, NY (US);

Charles M. Rankin, Jr., Penfield, NY (US);

Debasis Majumdar, Rochester, NY (US);

Inventors:

Mitchell S. Burberry, Webster, NY (US);

David M. Johnson, West Henrietta, NY (US);

Charles M. Rankin, Jr., Penfield, NY (US);

Debasis Majumdar, Rochester, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

The present invention relates to a bistable matrix-addressable display element comprising a substrate, a bistable electrically modulated imaging layer having a reflection maximum, at least one conductor, and at least one field-spreading layer between said bistable electrically modulated imaging layer and said at least one conductor, wherein said field-spreading layer has a sheet resistance (SER) of less than 10Ohms per square and a method of imaging the display comprising identifying an area to be updated of said bistable matrix-addressable display element, wherein said area to be updated comprises rows of pixels; and applying a sequence of drive signals having a 4-phase approach to image said bistable matrix-addressable display element, which may be characterized as a planar reset, left-slope selection method.


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