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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2009
Applicants:
Eiji Miyasaka, Suwa, JP;
Katsutoyo Inoue, Matsumoto, JP;
Yuko Komatsu, Suwa, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 3/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
There is provided a method of driving an electrophoretic display device including a display unit that has a plurality of pixels and an electrophoretic element disposed between substrates forming one pair. The method includes setting an area that at least includes a pixel forming an image component that is formed to have a first gray scale and a pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to the pixel forming the contour of the image component and represents a second gray scale as an image removing area and selectively changing the pixels that constitute the image removing area to have the second gray scale.