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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 29, 2016
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Petrus Maria De Greef, Waalre, NL;
Gor Manukyan, Veldoven, NL;
AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and a related method of controlling an electrowetting element of the apparatus. Display effect data is received which is indicative of a requested display effect for two electrowetting elements. Based on the display effect data, one of the electrowetting elements is switched to either: a state with a first fluid contacting substantially all of each of a first surface portion and a second surface portion of a support plate surface; or a state with the first fluid contacting part of the first surface portion and a second fluid contacting substantially all of the second surface portion and a second part of the first surface portion. The other electrowetting element is, based on the display effect data, switched to a state in which the first fluid contacts substantially all of a first surface portion and the second fluid contacts substantially all of a second surface portion. For each electrowetting element, the first surface portion lies in a different plane from the second surface portion.