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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2013
E Ink Corporation, Cambridge, MA (US);
Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Framingham, MA (US);
Thomas Henry Whitesides, Victoria, CA;
E Ink Corporation, Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
A first apparatus for displaying a color image comprises an electro-optic display () having a plurality of pixels, each of which can be independently set to a light-transmissive optical state or a substantially opaque optical state, and lighting means () arranged to flash separate pulses of light of at least two differing colors on to one surface of the electro-optic display (). A second apparatus for generating pulses of light of differing colors comprising a light source and a filter assembly comprising first () and second () electro-optic layers each having a light-transmissive state and a colored state, the two colored states being different, and electrodes to switch these layers between these states.