WO2010060059A2 - Afficheur réfléchissant en pleines couleurs - Google Patents

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WO2010060059A2
WO2010060059A2 PCT/US2009/065578 US2009065578W WO2010060059A2 WO 2010060059 A2 WO2010060059 A2 WO 2010060059A2 US 2009065578 W US2009065578 W US 2009065578W WO 2010060059 A2 WO2010060059 A2 WO 2010060059A2
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Charles O. Edwards
James Caruso
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G3/00—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes
    • G09G3/20—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters
    • G09G3/34—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters by control of light from an independent source
    • G09G3/3486—Control arrangements or circuits, of interest only in connection with visual indicators other than cathode-ray tubes for presentation of an assembly of a number of characters, e.g. a page, by composing the assembly by combination of individual elements arranged in a matrix no fixed position being assigned to or needed to be assigned to the individual characters or partial characters by control of light from an independent source using light modulating elements actuated by a magnetic field
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F9/00—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements
    • G09F9/30—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements
    • G09F9/37—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements being movable elements
    • G09F9/375—Indicating arrangements for variable information in which the information is built-up on a support by selection or combination of individual elements in which the desired character or characters are formed by combining individual elements being movable elements the position of the elements being controlled by the application of a magnetic field
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G2300/00—Aspects of the constitution of display devices
    • G09G2300/04—Structural and physical details of display devices
    • G09G2300/0439—Pixel structures
    • G09G2300/0452—Details of colour pixel setup, e.g. pixel composed of a red, a blue and two green components
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09G—ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION
    • G09G2300/00—Aspects of the constitution of display devices
    • G09G2300/04—Structural and physical details of display devices
    • G09G2300/0469—Details of the physics of pixel operation
    • G09G2300/0473—Use of light emitting or modulating elements having two or more stable states when no power is applied

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  • the present invention comprises methods and devices for reflective color displays, wherein each sub-pixel preferably comprises at least one magneto-optical element that can rotate in more than two stable positions, with corresponding colors, thereby forming a multi-stable (i.e. having more than 2 stable states) display.
  • Such displays are preferably highly light reflective and preferably have low power consumption and increased resolution.
  • each sub-pixel can only produce one color, for example G or green (or be turned off and display black or K), as shown in Figure 1.
  • K denotes black
  • W is white
  • R is red
  • G is green
  • B is blue.
  • Each pixel comprises more than one single-color sub-pixels. This pixel design is fundamentally limited because it has limited color combinations and also operates best as a light emitting display.
  • a reflective LCD display only has about 16% or less reflectivity due to the loss of light resulting from the use of polarizing layers in the display.
  • An embodiment of the present invention is a reflective display comprising display elements, wherein the smallest display element can display more than one color.
  • the smallest display element preferably comprises a magneto-optical element.
  • the magneto-optical element is preferably rotatable by a magnetic field, preferably comprises two or more stable states, and/or preferably comprises a solid shape and more than one color on a surface of the solid shape.
  • the magneto-optical element optionally comprises a magnet within the solid shape. The number of poles of the magnet is the same as the number of colors on the surface.
  • the magneto-optical element optionally comprises a magnetic material extruded with one or more outer colored layers.
  • the magnetic material optionally comprises a magnetic powder blended with a plastic.
  • the reflective display preferably further comprises a mask for at least partially masking off from a viewer one or more areas of color adjacent to a desired display color area or a lens for magnifying a desired color area.
  • Two or more smallest display elements optionally comprise a pixel.
  • the reflectivity of the pixel is preferably greater than approximately 16%, more preferably greater than 34%, even more preferably greater than approximately 50%, and most preferably greater than approximately 70%.
  • Each pixel preferably comprises a plurality of sub-pixels, each of which preferably comprises one or more magneto-optical elements each having a same color configuration.
  • Each of the magneto- optical elements preferably comprises four colors, the four colors comprising black, white, and two colors selected from the group consisting of red, green, and blue.
  • Each of the primary colors is preferably disposed on the surface between the black and white colors.
  • Each pixel optionally comprises three sub-pixels, wherein the first sub-pixel comprises one or more magneto-optical elements each comprising the colors red, black, green, and white; the second sub-pixel comprises one or more magneto-optical elements each comprising the colors red, black, blue, and white; and the third sub-pixel comprises one or more magneto-optical elements each comprising the colors green, black, blue, and white.
  • the color of each subpixel is preferably selected to enhance a resolution of the display.
  • An embodiment of the present invention is a reflective display having a reflectivity of greater than approximately 16%, preferably greater than approximately 34%, more preferably greater than approximately 50%, and even more preferably greater than approximately 70%.
  • the display is preferably a full color display.
  • Figure 1 shows pixel and sub-pixel architectures known in the art.
  • Figure 2 shows a four-color magneto-optical element (MOE) of one embodiment of the present invention.
  • the element on the right comprises four magnetic poles.
  • Figure 3 shows a pixel comprising a plurality of MOE sub-pixels.
  • Figure 4 shows MOEs configured to produce a high reflectivity display sub-pixel.
  • Figure 5 shows a view of a pixel comprising three sub-pixels, each sub-pixel comprising three of the MOEs shown below each sub-pixel.
  • Figure 6 compares colors generated by an embodiment of the present invention with those generated by a traditional RGB display.
  • Figure 7 shows the ability of an embodiment of the present invention to display a large number of shades of a desired color.
  • Figure 8 shows the display of a portion of an object on both a LCD pixel and a MOE-based pixel in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
  • each pixel comprises a rotating magneto-optical element (MOE) with more than two optical states.
  • MOE rotating magneto-optical element
  • These optical states preferably comprise different colors, although they may comprise other optical characteristics, for example amount of gray-scale or optical layers which may comprise optical effects such as, for example, mirrors, luminescent materials, or color and black and white pigments.
  • this MOE may comprise, for example, four color states and comprise a four- pole permanent magnet.
  • the four poles are preferably arranged as shown in Figure 2, although other arrangements may be used, including but not limited to two dipole, quadrupole, or quadra- pole magnet configurations.
  • Such four pole MOEs can present four different colors by rotation about their center axis to produce four color or full color display devices.
  • the MOEs can be rotated by an external magnetic field, such as a printed circuit board comprising metallic coils, externally applied magnets, inductive magnetic coils, and/or a scanning magnetic or electromagnetic actuator array.
  • a single MOE can present more than one color (for example, black and three other colors) in a single sub- pixel, in contrast with the smallest display element in a traditional RGB display, a sub-pixel, which can display either black (off) or a single color, as shown in Figure 1.
  • These MOEs can thus comprise a highly reflective four color display. Although four colors are shown in Figure 2, any number of colors may be employed on a single MOE.
  • each color field on the MOE is uninterrupted; i.e. no visual line bisects or otherwise runs through a color field on the MOEs of the present invention. The only lines are lines between color fields (which occur every 90 degrees in the example embodiment shown in Figure 2).
  • the term "smallest display element” means a sub-pixel, pixel, MOE, display element or the like, and/or the location thereof, which cannot be divided further into smaller display elements.
  • color means color, tint, shade, gray-scale level, pigment, optical effect, and the like.
  • more than one color means more than one color when activated and not off, or alternatively means more than one color and black.
  • An MOE of the present invention may have any aspect ratio, and may comprise any shape.
  • solid shape means a cylinder, rectangular parallelepiped, prism, right prism, right circular cylinder, cube, cuboid, hexagonal parallelepiped, any cylindrical or preferably regular rectangular solid or polygonal prism, and the like.
  • Such MOEs may optionally be used together to produce various sub-pixels, pixels and displays. As shown in Figure 3, three different four pole four-color MOEs each act as a sub-pixel, where the leftmost MOE is RGWK, the middle MOE is RBWK, and the rightmost MOE is GBWK. This configuration may be used to construct a full color display device or another optical device requiring simple indicators or areas of target color not necessarily considered a graphic display. Displays produced with these elements may be used for indoor and outdoor information displays, digital signage displays and advertising (for example billboards).
  • the multi-pole MOEs comprising more than one color described herein can be produced in a number of ways, including but not limited to mechanical insertion of magnetic structures into structures having more than one color, or a coloration step on top of a magnetic structure.
  • a preferred method comprises an extrusion process whereby a magnetic structured core is co- extruded with the outer colored layers or layers.
  • the magnetic material preferably comprises a permanent magnetic material such as a ferrite, ceramic magnetic material or a rare-earth magnetic powder (such as Neodymium Iron Boron (Nd 2 Fe 14 B) or Samarium Cobalt, (SmCo 5 )).
  • This magnetic material is preferably blended with a plastic like Nylon, POM or similar. Magnetic powder is typically isotropic, making it easy to use in peptization and extrusion processes.
  • the extruded material can be magnetized by the application of a high-strength magnetic field sufficiently strong enough to orient the domains of the magnetic material.
  • An embodiment of the present invention comprises a display having a reflectivity greater than approximately 34%.
  • the K and W create a net "grey" effect that slightly decreases the target color saturation but does not impact the hue. This results in a greater than twice improved white and greater than 1.5 times the color saturation over traditional RGB reflective pixels as shown in Figure 1.
  • a faceplate-type structure or overlay may optionally be used to mask off the unwanted colors, or a lens may be disposed between the viewer and the MOE to magnify only the desired color and not the adjacent colors.
  • MOEs can be combined to form a full color display.
  • the MOE pixel architecture shown in Figure 5 comprises three sub-pixels (RGWK, RBWK, and GBWK) which combined make up a complete pixel. Because each MOE comprises only four colors (one for each 90 degree rotation/MOE position, each sub-pixel in this embodiment is missing one of the primary colors. For example, the GBKW MOE is missing red (R). This configuration can negatively impact color saturation of pure primary colors. However, the net reflectivity efficiency is much higher than the theoretical maximum 33 1/3% reflectivity per color of traditional reflective RGB displays. The largest efficiency gain is in the black and white image component.
  • pixel white For traditional RGB pixels, white has a maximum reflectivity of only 33 1/3%, but in this embodiment of the present invention, when each four-color MOE displays white, pixel white can achieve approximately 72% reflectivity. (This is less than 100% due to approximately 28% contamination from adjacent colors being visible to the viewer, as discussed above.) Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention do not require the use of polarizers (as in LCD displays), which can reduce reflectivity by 50% or more.
  • Another embodiment of the present invention is a display comprising more than four color pixel states. If each MOE has four different color states (for example RGKW), many more combinations of MOE sub-pixels are available for generating shades of color. As shown in Figure 6, this embodiment comprises a pixel design with each pixel comprising three four pole MOEs, each MOE comprising four colors: two of the three RGB colors, black, and white. With this design there are 64 available pixel states. By adding more MOEs per pixel or sub-pixel, more combinations are achievable to provide a larger number of pixel states. A traditional RGB architecture can have only eight states (assuming bi-stable, solid-color sub-pixels). This provides significantly increased color rendering, especially regarding color brightness due to enhanced reflectivity as discussed above.
  • the 64 available pixel states resulting from the combination of three four-color sub-pixels enables various blends and shades of color to be displayed, as shown in Figure 7.
  • displays according to various embodiments of the present invention have the ability to more closely match desired colors and grey scales.
  • typical RGB display pixels each comprise sub-pixels which can each generate only one color or black (turned off).
  • each sub-pixel preferably comprises more than one color state
  • embodiments of the present invention may comprise enhanced image resolution compared to other display technologies with the same pixel and sub-pixel sizes.
  • the edge of a red apple against a white background is displayed on both a traditional RGB LCD display pixel and a 4- color MOE-based display pixel in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
  • pixels are generally considered a single optical value and the three sub-pixels are blended into a single optical color.
  • the red apple/white background transition cuts through the LCD pixel's center green sub-pixel
  • the red, green blue pixels typically work together and blend (for example 50%B, 50%G, 100%R) to produce pink, not red on the left of the pixel and white in the balance of the pixel.
  • each sub-pixel can produce more than one color the left and center sub-pixels can be red and the right sub-pixel can be white.
  • the display architectures comprising smallest display elements or locations each able to display more than one color in accordance with embodiments of the present invention enables the development of new imaging algorithms and stochastic image analysis. These algorithms and stochastic image analysis can also be used in other new display technologies, for example electrostatic displays or layered filter-based displays. Such stochastic analysis can take into account the more than one color states of each MOE, sub-pixel and/or pixel, increasing performance of displays in such areas as reflectivity, color purity and resolution. For example, as shown in Figure 8, sub-pixels can accommodate the geometry of the apple edge cutting across the pixel and enhance the detail and color values within the pixel. This may be accomplished by intelligently selecting the colors used in each sub-pixel.
  • MOE-based displays Using advanced error-diffusion or stochastic algorithms it may also be possible to eliminate the entire three RGB sub-pixels per full color pixel structure with MOE-based displays disclosed herein. By distributing all three types of MOE color pixels evenly over the display it may be possible to use an error diffusion (or stochastic) algorithm to display images using each MOE-based smallest display element (e.g. a single MOE) as a distinct pixel rather than a sub-pixel of a larger pixel.
  • error diffusion or stochastic

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L'invention concerne des afficheurs réfléchissants en couleur. Chaque pixel ou sous-pixel de l’afficheur comporte de préférence au moins un élément magnéto-optique susceptible de tourner dans plus de deux positions stables, en affichant une couleur correspondant à chaque position. Chaque élément peut ainsi afficher plus d’une couleur (en plus du noir, si on le souhaite). Des éléments multiples peuvent être combinés pour former un sous-pixel et / ou un pixel. Les afficheurs réfléchissent de préférence fortement la lumière et présentent de préférence une faible consommation d’énergie et une résolution accrue.
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