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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 21, 2011
Applicant:
Hiroaki Kanamori, Suwa, JP;
Inventor:
Hiroaki Kanamori, Suwa, JP;
Assignee:
Seiko Epson Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G09G 5/10 (2006.01); G02F 1/167 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/167 (2013.01);
Abstract
A driving method for driving an electrophoretic display apparatus includes writing first image data into a display unit provided with a plurality of pixels; creating second image data including image data which corresponds to first contour pixels, and which is extracted from the first image data, each of the first contour pixels being a first pixel located adjacent to a second pixel having a gray-scale level different from a gray-scale level of the first pixel, the first pixel and the second pixel being included in the plurality of pixels; and writing the second image data into the display unit.