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| 8179589 | Methods and compositions for improved electrophoretic display performance The invention is directed to novel methods and compositions useful for improving the performance of electrophoretic displays. The methods comprise adding a high absorbance dye or pigment, or conductive particles, or a conductive filler in the form of nanoparticles a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179590 | Electro-optical display An electro-optical display includes colorant particles that are suspended in a carrier fluid. The colorant particles are controlled by three different types of electrodes. An exposed electrode acts on the colorant particles in an electrokinetic manner by compacting ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174754 | Display method applied to electrophoretic display An electrophoretic display includes a plurality of pixels. A display method applied to the electrophoretic display includes the following steps. Firstly, a first frame is displayed on the pixels at a first time. Next, a difference amount between the pixels at the fi... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174753 | Methods and circuits for distributing power to SPD loads Methods and circuits for distributing power to suspended-particle-device (SPD) film products including SPD windows, SPD shades, and other SPD products, which are referred to generally as SPD loads. A driving voltage derived from a primary power source is provided to... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174755 | Microcapsules for electrophoretic display devices, and processes for their production, and their applications The microcapsules for electrophoretic display devices according to the present invention each enclose a dispersion containing electrophoretic particles and a solvent in a shell having an inner shell made of a mercapto group-containing amino resin and an outer shell ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169690 | Color display devices The present invention is directed to color display devices. The color display devices comprise display cells which is capable of displaying multiple color states. The display device may also comprise black matrix layers or a brightness enhancement structure on the v... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169691 | Multi color display panel One embodiment of the present invention is a multi color display panel, having a transparent substrate, a color filter layer, a transparent electrode layer, a microcapsule layer, an adhesive layer; and a rear electrode plate, wherein the rear electrode plate is an e... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164823 | Display system, manufacture method thereof and display medium A display system is built up of at least one display cell comprising an assembly which has at least a first electrode and a second electrode and in which there are mutually non-miscible first and second liquids filled, wherein either one of the first and second elec... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164822 | Display device, method of manufacturing display device and electronic apparatus A display device having a display surface, comprises: a contact particle-containing layer including a wall portion with an inner surface for defining a space, contact particles electrically charged and provided within the space in a contact state that the contact pa... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159741 | Electronic paper display device and manufacturing method thereof An electronic paper display device and a method of manufacturing the electronic paper display device are disclosed. The method can include forming a plurality of relievo patterns on a lower board, in which the relievo patterns are formed to be independent and separa... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154791 | Light control film Disclosed is a light control film comprising: two transparent electroconductive resin substrates; and a light control layer sandwiched between the two transparent electroconductive resin substrates, the light contr... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154789 | Electronic paper display device and manufacturing method thereof The electronic paper display device may include a first electrode; a dielectric layer that is disposed on the first electrode and has a plurality of cells defined by a barrier; a second electrode that faces the dielectric layer; and electronic balls that are dispose... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154790 | Electrophoretic display structures This invention relates to a display device comprising a plurality of display cells, wherein said display cells are separated by slanted partition walls. This invention also relates to a display device comprising a plurality of display cells, wherein said display cel... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149498 | Package structure of a flexible display device A package structure of flexible display device includes a flexible opto-electronic display panel, a first barrier layer and a second barrier layer. The flexible opto-electronic display panel includes a backplane, a flexible frontplane, and a display media layer. The... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149499 | Electrophoretic display device and electronic apparatus An electrophoretic display device includes a display element including a pair of first and second substrates which are opposed to each other, and a microcapsule enclosing a display material changed in optical characteristics in response to an electric impulse, the m... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144386 | Particles for display media and information display panel using same There are provided particles for display media capable of properly controlling change in an amount of charge by heating and an information display panel, by using the particles for display media capable of eliminating a display failure and reduction in contrast rati... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144388 | Display apparatus and display sheet A display apparatus includes: an electrode layer; a display layer that is provided on the electrode layer, and that includes a plurality of containers containing at least one of positively charged first particles and negatively charged second particles; a film provi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144387 | Display device An electrophoretic display includes a lower substrate, an upper substrate, a color display layer on the lower substrate, a pixel electrode on the lower substrate, and a common electrode on the lower substrate or the upper substrate. The common electrode does not ove... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144389 | Electronic paper An object of the present invention is to increase the resistance of electronic paper to external stress. The resistance to external stress is increased by providing an element formation layer, which includes an integrated circuit portion, a first electrode, a second... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130441 | Electrophoretic light modulator An electrophoretic light modulator includes a plurality of similarly charged particles comprising a first optical characteristic. The electrophoretic light modulator also includes at least one reflecting surface comprising a second optical characteristic different t... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8120840 | Electrorheological fluid having properties of newtonian fluid An electrorheological fluid is provided. The electrorheological fluid includes polarizing particles and a dispersion medium in which the polarizing particles are dispersed. The polarizing particles may include silica particles. The dispersion medium may include sili... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120837 | Display media particles and information display panel using the same A display media particle used for an information display panel having display media constituted of particles sealed between two substrates, at least one of which is transparent, for displaying information by moving the display media, is formed of a mother particle | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120838 | Electrophoretic display device The present invention in one aspect relates to a solar cell formed on a substrate, a bottom electrode member formed on the solar cell, an electrophoretic display panel formed on the bottom electrode member, having a plurality of electrophoretic cell structures spati... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120835 | Electro-phoresis device Provided is an electro-phoresis device that includes a light control layer, a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode. The light control layer may include a plurality of electro-phoresis particles. The first electrode and the second electrode may f... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120836 | Luminance enhancement structure for reflective display devices The present invention is directed to luminance enhancement structures for reflective display devices. The structure comprises columns and grooves, wherein each of said grooves has a cross-section comprising an apex angle and two edge lines. The structure increases t... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120839 | Suspended particle device electronic control processes A scalable apparatus and a network environment dynamically changes the light transparency of a single SPD device, a small number of SPD devices or thousands of such SPD devices installed in windows in automobiles, aircraft, trains, marine vehicles, residential homes... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115990 | Display device and pixel structure thereof A pixel structure of a display device disposed on a substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixel structure. Each sub-pixel structure includes a light-absorption region, a reflection region, a first electrode disposed in the light-absorption region, a second electrode... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8111449 | Electrophoretic displaying apparatus An electrophoretic displaying apparatus, comprises: a first substrate and a second substrate placed opposite with a predetermined interval; a plurality of pixel electrodes arranged on the first substrate; signal lines arranged between the adjoining pixel electrodes;... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111447 | Electronic device based on electrowetting effect An electronic device comprises an array of electro wetting cells, each cell comprising first and second liquids (14,18) which are immiscible in each other. An electrode arrangement (60a,60b) is used to control the position of the i... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8111448 | Electrophoretic display device An electrophoretic display device includes pixel electrodes, a transparent electrode, and an electrophoretic ink layer including cavities. Each cavity is arranged between one of the pixel electrodes and the transparent electrode, and each cavity comprises suspension... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8107159 | Electrophoretic display An electronic device includes a first substrate made of thin plastic sheet; a second substrate made of thin plastic sheet opposing the first substrate; a chamber formed between portions of the first and second substrates; and a sealing structure configured to seal t... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098420 | Display method of electrophoresis display device A display method of an electrophoresis display (EPD) device having a display area and a plurality of pixels located in the display area is provided. In the display method, firstly, the display area is divided into a plurality of unit areas. A plurality of pixels exi... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098421 | Application independent operational controls of a suspended particle device A scalable apparatus and a network environment dynamically changes the light transparency of a single SPD device, a small number of SPD devices or thousands of such SPD devices installed in windows in automobiles, aircraft, trains, marine vehicles, residential homes... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098418 | Electro-optic displays, and color filters for use therein A process for producing a color electro-optic display uses an electro-optic sub-assembly comprising an electro-optic layer and a light-transmissive electrically-conductive layer. This sub-assembly is laminated to a backplane comprising a plurality of electrodes with... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098419 | Light control film and light control glass The present invention relates to a light control film, comprising: two transparent electroconductive resin substrates; and a light control layer sandwiched by the two transparent electroconductive resin substrates,... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094364 | Optical film for display apparatus using electrophoresis and filter for display apparatus having the same An optical film for a display apparatus using electrophoresis includes a transparent base having partition walls dividing the transparent base into cells, an electrophoresis dispersion which fills the cells and contains a dielectric medium and charged pigment partic... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8094365 | White particles for display, particle dispersion for display, display medium and display device White particles for display including first white particles that move in response to an electric field and second white particles that do not move in response to an electric field, the second white particles having a volume average particle size that is less than th... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089687 | Electro-optical display systems Electro-optical display systems are disclosed. An electro-optical display system may include a display volume containing a fluid having a plurality of colorant particles; a dielectric layer adjacent the display volume, the dielectric layer including recessed regions... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089686 | Electronic display device providing static grayscale image In one embodiment, a device includes a first display element including: a first electrode; a transparent dielectric layer having recessed regions therein over the first electrode; a halftoned second electrode opposite the first electrode; and a fluid with colorant p... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8089685 | Method, apparatus and media for displaying information An apparatus for forming an image using an electrophoretic particle suspension containing media including: a transitioner for sufficiently lowering a viscosity of the suspension to facilitate mobility of at least some of the electrophoretic particles; and, imaging e... | 01/03/2012 |
