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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2012
Jean-pierre Bertin, Cesson Sevigne, FR;
Anthony Pesin, Cesson Sevigne Cedex, FR;
Jean-marc Le Foulgoc, Cesson Sevigne Cedex, FR;
Jean-Pierre Bertin, Cesson Sevigne, FR;
Anthony Pesin, Cesson Sevigne Cedex, FR;
Jean-Marc Le Foulgoc, Cesson Sevigne Cedex, FR;
Thomson Licensing, , FR;
Abstract
Method for controlling a display device in an electronic device and associated control device. The electronic device includes a control unit and the display device comprising a plurality of display elements, a display controller and a switching circuit. The display elements have a plurality of pictograms. The display controller having a plurality of storage elements associated with the display elements. The method includes the steps of writing into the storage elements of a contents for display on the display elements, the configuration in standby mode of the electronic device making the storage elements associated with the display elements by the control unit inaccessible, the detection of an event to be indicated by display, and the control of a switching circuit to vary the active pictograms by alternately displaying the contents of at least two of the storage elements on the same display element.