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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 11, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 28, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Nicolas Eugene Bergeron, Stein, NL;
Andrea Giraldo, Riehen, CH;
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A display apparatus includes an electrowetting element including a non-switchable color filter, a first support plate with a surface having a first part overlapped by the non-switchable color filter and a second part not overlapped by the non-switchable color filter, and a first and second fluid. A control apparatus of the display apparatus is operable to switch the first fluid between at least a first configuration with the first fluid in contact with the first part but not substantially in contact with the second part and a second configuration with the first fluid in contact with the second part and with the first fluid being at least one of: not substantially in contact with the first part or at least partly in contact with the first part.