WO2018165509A1 - Pilotes fournissant des séquences de rafraîchissement équilibrées en courant continu pour affichages électrophorétiques en couleur - Google Patents

Pilotes fournissant des séquences de rafraîchissement équilibrées en courant continu pour affichages électrophorétiques en couleur Download PDF

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WO2018165509A1
WO2018165509A1 PCT/US2018/021671 US2018021671W WO2018165509A1 WO 2018165509 A1 WO2018165509 A1 WO 2018165509A1 US 2018021671 W US2018021671 W US 2018021671W WO 2018165509 A1 WO2018165509 A1 WO 2018165509A1
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  • This invention relates to methods for driving electro-optic displays, especially but not exclusively electrophoretic displays capable of rendering more than two colors using a single layer of electrophoretic material comprising a plurality of colored particles, for example white, cyan, yellow, and magenta particles, wherein two particles are positively-charged and two particles are negatively-charged, and one positively-charged particle and one negatively- charged particle has a thick polymer shell.
  • a single layer of electrophoretic material comprising a plurality of colored particles, for example white, cyan, yellow, and magenta particles, wherein two particles are positively-charged and two particles are negatively-charged, and one positively-charged particle and one negatively- charged particle has a thick polymer shell.
  • color as used herein includes black and white. White particles are often of the light scattering type.
  • gray state is used herein in its conventional meaning in the imaging art to refer to a state intermediate two extreme optical states of a pixel, and does not necessarily imply a black-white transition between these two extreme states.
  • E Ink patents and published applications referred to below describe electrophoretic displays in which the extreme states are white and deep blue, so that an intermediate gray state would actually be pale blue. Indeed, as already mentioned, the change in optical state may not be a color change at all.
  • black and white may be used hereinafter to refer to the two extreme optical states of a display, and should be understood as normally including extreme optical states which are not strictly black and white, for example the aforementioned white and dark blue states.
  • bistable and bistability are used herein in their conventional meaning in the art to refer to displays comprising display elements having first and second display states differing in at least one optical property, and such that after any given element has been driven, by means of an addressing pulse of finite duration, to assume either its first or second display state, after the addressing pulse has terminated, that state will persist for at least several times, for example at least four times, the minimum duration of the addressing pulse required to change the state of the display element.
  • U.S. Patent No. 7,170,670 some particle-based electrophoretic displays capable of gray scale are stable not only in their extreme black and white states but also in their intermediate gray states, and the same is true of some other types of electro-optic displays. This type of display is properly called multi-stable rather than bistable, although for convenience the term bistable may be used herein to cover both bistable and multi-stable displays.
  • impulse when used to refer to driving an electrophoretic display, is used herein to refer to the integral of the applied voltage with respect to time during the period in which the display is driven.
  • a particle that absorbs, scatters, or reflects light, either in a broad band or at selected wavelengths, is referred to herein as a colored or pigment particle.
  • Electrophoretic displays can have attributes of good brightness and contrast, wide viewing angles, state bistability, and low power consumption when compared with liquid crystal displays. Nevertheless, problems with the long-term image quality of these displays have prevented their widespread usage. For example, particles that make up electrophoretic displays tend to settle, resulting in inadequate service-life for these displays.
  • electrophoretic media require the presence of a fluid.
  • this fluid is a liquid, but electrophoretic media can be produced using gaseous fluids; see, for example, Kitamura, T., et al., Electrical toner movement for electronic paper-like display, IDW Japan, 2001 , Paper HCS 1 - 1 , and Yamaguchi, Y., et al., Toner display using insulative particles charged triboelectrically, IDW Japan, 2001 , Paper AMD4-4). See also U.S. Patents Nos. 7,321 ,459 and 7,236,291.
  • Such gas-based electrophoretic media appear to be susceptible to the same types of problems due to particle settling as liquid-based electrophoretic media, when the media are used in an orientation which permits such settling, for example in a sign where the medium is disposed in a vertical plane.
  • particle settling appears to be a more serious problem in gas-based electrophoretic media than in liquid-based ones, since the lower viscosity of gaseous suspending fluids as compared with liquid ones allows more rapid settling of the electrophoretic particles.
  • Numerous patents and applications assigned to or in the names of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and E Ink Corporation describe various technologies used in encapsulated electrophoretic and other electro-optic media.
  • Such encapsulated media comprise numerous small capsules, each of which itself comprises an internal phase containing electrophoretically-mobile particles in a fluid medium, and a capsule wall surrounding the internal phase.
  • the capsules are themselves held within a polymeric binder to form a coherent layer positioned between two electrodes.
  • a related type of electrophoretic display is a so-called microcell electrophoretic display.
  • the charged particles and the fluid are not encapsulated wi thin microcapsules but instead are retained within a plurali ty of cavi ties formed within a carrier medium, typically a polymeric film.
  • a carrier medium typically a polymeric film.
  • electrophoretic media are often opaque (since, for example, in many electrophoretic media, the particles substantially block transmission of visible light through the display) and operate in a reflective mode
  • many electrophoretic displays can be made to operate in a so-called shutter mode in which one display state is substantially opaque and one is light- transmissive. See, for example, U.S. Patents Nos. 5,872,552; 6,130,774; 6,144,361 ; 6, 172,798; 6,271 ,823; 6,225,971 ; and 6, 184,856.
  • Dielectrophoretic displays which are similar to electrophoretic displays but rely upon variations in electric field strength, can operate in a similar mode; see U.S. Patent No. 4,418,346.
  • Electro-optic media operating in shutter mode can be used in multi-layer structures for full color displays; in such structures, at least one layer adjacent the viewing surface of the display operates in shutter mode to expose or conceal a second layer more distant from the viewing surface.
  • An encapsulated electrophoretic display typically does not suffer from the clustering and settling failure mode of traditional electrophoretic devices and provides further advantages, such as the ability to print or coat the display on a wide variety of flexible and rigid substrates.
  • Use of the word printing is intended to include all forms of printing and coating, including, but without limitation: pre-metered coatings such as patch die coating, slot or extrusion coating, slide or cascade coating, curtain coating; roll coating such as knife over roll coating, forward and reverse roll coating; gravure coating; dip coating; spray coating; meniscus coating; spin coating; brush coating; air knife coating; silk screen printing processes; electrostatic printing processes; thermal printing processes; ink jet printing processes; electrophoretic deposition (See U.S. Patent No. 7,339,715); and other similar techniques.)
  • pre-metered coatings such as patch die coating, slot or extrusion coating, slide or cascade coating, curtain coating
  • roll coating such as knife over roll coating, forward and reverse roll coating
  • gravure coating dip coating
  • spray coating meniscus coating
  • electrophoretic media essentially di splay only two colors.
  • Such electrophoretic media either use a single type of electrophoretic particle having a first color in a colored fluid having a second, different color (in which case, the first color is displayed when the particles lie adjacent the viewing surface of the display and the second color is displayed when the particles are spaced from the viewing surface), or first and second types of electrophoretic particles having differing first and second colors in an uncolored fluid (in which case, the first color is displayed when the first type of particles lie adjacent the viewing surface of the display and the second color is displayed when the second type of particles lie adjacent the viewing surface).
  • the two colors are black and white.
  • a color filter array may be deposited over the viewing surface of the monochrome (black and white) display. Displays with color filter arrays rely on area sharing and color blending to create color stimuli. The available display area is shared between three or four primary colors such as red/green/blue (RGB) or red/green/blue/white (RGBW), and the filters can be arranged in one-dimensional (stripe) or two-dimensional (2x2) repeat patterns. Other choices of primary colors or more than three primaries are also known in the art.
  • the three (in the case of RGB displays) or four (in the case of RGBW displays) sub-pixels are chosen small enough so that at the intended viewing distance they visually blend together to a single pixel with a uniform color stimulus ('color blending').
  • the inherent disadvantage of area sharing is that the colorants are always present, and colors can only be modulated by switching the corresponding pixels of the underlying monochrome display to white or black (switching the corresponding primary colors on or off).
  • each of the red, green, blue and white primaries occupy one fourth of the display area (one sub-pixel out of four), with the white sub-pixel being as bright as the underlying monochrome display white, and each of the colored sub-pixels being no lighter than one third of the monochrome display white.
  • the brightness of the white color shown by the display as a whole cannot be more than one half of the brightness of the white sub-pixel (white areas of the display are produced by displaying the one white sub-pixel out of each four, plus each colored sub-pixel in its colored form being equivalent to one third of a white sub-pixel, so the three colored sub-pixels combined contribute no more than the one white sub-pixel).
  • the brightness and saturation of colors is lowered by area-sharing with color pixels switched to black.
  • Area sharing is especially problematic when mixing yellow because it is lighter than any other color of equal brightness, and saturated yellow is almost as bright as white. Switching the blue pixels (one fourth of the display area) to black makes the yellow too dark.
  • Multilayer, stacked electrophoretic displays are known in the art; see, for example, J. Heikenfeld, P. Drzaic, J-S Yeo and T. Koch, Journal of the SID, 19(2), 2011, pp. 129-156. In such displays, ambient light passes through images in each of the three subtractive primary colors, in precise analogy with conventional color printing.
  • U.S. Patent No. 6,727,873 describes a stacked electrophoretic display in which three layers of switchable cells are placed over a reflective background. Similar displays are known in which colored particles are moved laterally (see International Application No. WO 2008/065605) or, using a combination of vertical and lateral motion, sequestered into microcells.
  • each layer is provided with electrodes that serve to concentrate or disperse the colored particles on a pixel-by-pixel basis, so that each of the three layers requires a layer of thin-film transistors (TFT's) (two of the three layers of TFT's must be substantially transparent) and a light-transmissive counter- electrode.
  • TFT's thin-film transistors
  • Such a complex arrangement of electrodes is costly to manufacture, and in the present state of the art it is difficult to provide an adequately transparent plane of pixel electrodes, especially as the white state of the display must be viewed through several layers of electrodes.
  • Multi-layer displays also suffer from parallax problems as the thickness of the display stack approaches or exceeds the pixel size.
  • U.S. Applications Publication Nos. 2012/0008188 and 2012/0134009 describe multicolor electrophoretic displays having a single back plane comprising independently addressable pixel electrodes and a common, light-transmissive front electrode. Between the back plane and the front electrode is disposed a plurality of electrophoretic layers. Displays described in these applications are capable of rendering any of the primary colors (red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, white and black) at any pixel location.
  • optical losses in an electrophoretic layer closest to the viewing surface may affect the appearance of images formed in underlying electrophoretic layers.
  • U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2013/0208338 describes a color display comprising an electrophoretic fluid which comprises one or two types of pigment particles dispersed in a clear and colorless or colored sol vent, the electrophoretic fluid being disposed between a common electrode and a plurality of pixel or driving electrodes. The driving electrodes are arranged to expose a background layer.
  • U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2014/0177031 describes a method for driving a display cell filled with an electrophoretic fluid comprising two types of charged particles carrying opposite charge polarities and of two contrast colors.
  • the two types of pigment particles are dispersed in a colored solvent or in a solvent with non-charged or slightly charged colored particles dispersed therein.
  • the method comprises driving the display cell to display the color of the solvent or the color of the non-charged or slightly charged colored particles by applying a driving voltage which is about 1 to about 20% of the full driving voltage.
  • a driving voltage which is about 1 to about 20% of the full driving voltage.
  • U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2014/0092465 and 2014/0092466 describe an electrophoretic fluid, and a method for driving an electrophoretic display.
  • the fluid comprises first, second and third type of pigment particles, all of which are dispersed in a solvent or solvent mixture.
  • the first and second types of pigment particles carry opposite charge polarities, and the third type of pigment particles has a charge level being less than about 50% of the charge level of the first or second type.
  • the three types of pigment particles have different levels of threshold voltage, or different levels of mobility, or both. None of these patent applications disclose full color display in the sense in which that term is used below.
  • U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2007/0031031 describes an image processing device for processing image data in order to display an image on a display medium in which each pixel is capable of displaying white, black and one other color.
  • U.S. Patent Applications Publication Nos. 2008/0151355; 2010/0188732; and 201 1/0279885 describe a color display in which mobile particles move through a porous structure.
  • U.S. Patent Applications Publication Nos. 2008/0303779 and 2010/0020384 describe a display medium comprising first, second and third particles of differing colors. The first and second particles can form aggregates, and the smaller third particles can move through apertures left between the aggregated first and second particles.
  • 201 1 /0134506 describes a display device including an electrophoretic display element including plural types of particles enclosed between a pair of substrates, at least one of the substrates being translucent and each of the respective plural types of particles being charged with the same polarity, differing in optical properties, and differing in either in migration speed and/or electric field threshold value for moving, a translucent display-side electrode provided at the substrate side where the translucent substrate is disposed, a first back-side electrode provided at the side of the other substrate, facing the display-side electrode, and a second backside electrode provided at the side of the other substrate, facing the display-side electrode; and a voltage control section that controls the voltages applied to the display-side electrode, the first back-side electrode, and the second back-side electrode, such that the types of particles having the fastest migration speed from the plural types of particles, or the types of particles having the lowest threshold value from the plural types of particles, are moved, in sequence by each of the different types of particles, to the first back-side electrode or to the second backside electrode, and then the particles
  • U.S. Patent Applications Publication Nos. 201 1/0175939; 201 1/0298835; 2012/0327504; and 2012/0139966 describe color displays which rely upon aggregation of multiple particles and threshold voltages.
  • U.S. Patent Application Publication No. 2013/0222884 describes an electrophoretic particle, which contains a colored particle containing a charged group-containing polymer and a coloring agent, and a branched silicone- based polymer being attached to the colored particle and containing, as copolymerization components, a reactive monomer and at least one monomer selected from a specific group of monomers.
  • 2013/0222885 describes a dispersion liquid for an electrophoretic display containing a dispersion medium, a colored electrophoretic particle group dispersed in the dispersion medium and migrates in an electric field, a non- electrophoretic particle group which does not migrate and has a color different from that of the electrophoretic particle group, and a compound having a neutral polar group and a hydrophobic group, which is contained in the dispersion medium in a ratio of about 0.01 to about 1 mass % based on the entire dispersion liquid.
  • 2013/0222886 describes a dispersion liquid for a display including floating particles containing: core particles including a colorant and a hydrophilic resin; and a shell covering a surface of each of the core particles and containing a hydrophobic resin with a difference in a solubility parameter of 7.95 (J/cm 3 )' 2 or more.
  • U.S. Patent Applications Publication Nos. 2013/0222887 and 2013/0222888 describe an electrophoretic particle having specified chemical compositions.
  • 2014/0104675 describes a particle dispersion including first and second colored particles that move in response to an electric field, and a dispersion medium, the second colored particles having a larger diameter than the first colored particles and the same charging characteristic as a charging characteristic of the first color particles, and in which the ratio (Cs/Cl) of the charge amount Cs of the first colored particles to the charge amount CI of the second colored particles per unit area of the display is less than or equal to 5.
  • I Para 22 To obtain a high-resolution display, individual pixels of a display must be addressable without interference from adjacent pixels.
  • One way to achieve this objective is to provide an array of non-linear elements, such as transistors or diodes, with at least one nonlinear element associated with each pixel, to produce an "active matrix" display.
  • An addressing or pixel electrode which addresses one pixel, is connected to an appropriate voltage source through the associated non-linear element.
  • the non-linear element is a transistor
  • the pixel electrode is connected to the drain of the transistor, and this arrangement will be assumed in the following description, although it is essentially arbitrary and the pixel electrode could be connected to the source of the transistor.
  • the pixels are arranged in a two-dimensional array of rows and columns, such that any specific pixel is uniquely defined by the intersection of one specified row and one specified column.
  • the sources of all the transistors in each column are connected to a single column electrode, while the gates of all the transistors in each row are connected to a single row electrode; again the assignment of sources to rows and gates to columns is conventional but essentially arbitrary, and could be reversed if desired.
  • the row electrodes are connected to a row driver, which essentially ensures that at any given moment only one row is selected, i.e., that there is applied to the selected row electrode a select voltage such as to ensure that all the transistors in the selected row are conductive, while there is applied to all other rows a non- select voltage such as to ensure that all the transistors in these non-selected rows remain non- conductive.
  • the column electrodes are connected to column drivers, which place upon the various column electrodes voltages selected to drive the pixels in the selected row to their desired optical states.
  • the aforementioned voltages are relative to a common front electrode which is conventionally provided on the opposed side of the electro-optic medium from the non-linear array and extends across the whole display.) After a pre -selected interval known as the "line address time" the selected row is deselected, the next row is selected, and the voltages on the column drivers are changed so that the next line of the display is written. This process is repeated so that the entire display is written in a row-by-row manner.
  • each pixel electrode has associated therewith a capacitor electrode such that the pixel electrode and the capacitor electrode form a capacitor; see, for example, international Patent Application WO 01/07961.
  • N-type semiconductor e.g., amorphous silicon
  • the "select" and "non-select" voltages applied to the gate electrodes can be positive and negative, respectively.
  • Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings depicts an exemplary equivalent circuit of a single pixel of an electrophoretic display.
  • the circuit includes a capacitor 10 formed between a pixel electrode and a capacitor electrode.
  • the electrophoretic medium 20 is represented as a capacitor and a resistor in parallel.
  • direct or indirect coupling capacitance 30 between the gate electrode of the transistor associated with the pixel and the pixel electrode may create unwanted noise to the display.
  • the parasitic capacitance 30 is much smaller than that of the storage capacitor 10, and when the pixel rows of a display is being selected or deselected, the parasitic capacitance 30 may result in a small negative offset voltage to the pixel electrode, also known as a "kickback voltage", which is usually less than 2 volts.
  • a common potential V CO m may be supplied to the top plane electrode and the capacitor electrode associated with each pixel, such that, when Vcom is set to a value equal to the kickback voltage (VKB), every voltage supplied to the display may be offset by the same amount, and no net DC-imbalance experienced.
  • V CO m is set to a voltage that is not compensated for the kickback voltage. This may occur when it is desired to apply a higher voltage to the display than is available from the backplane alone. It is well-known in the art that, for example, the maximum voltage applied to the display may be doubled if the backplane is supplied with a choice of a nominal +V, 0, or - V, for example, while Vcomis supplied with -V. The maximum voltage experienced in this case is +2V (i.e., at the backplane relative to the top plane), while the minimum is zero. If negative voltages are needed, the V C om potential must be raised at least to zero. Waveforms used to address a display with positive and negative voltages using top plane switching must therefore have particular frames allocated to each of more than one V CO m voltage setting.
  • I Para 261 A set of waveforms for driving a color electrophoretic di splay having four particles described in U.S. Application Serial No. 14/849,658, incorporated by reference herein.
  • seven different voltages are applied to the pixel electrodes: three positive, three negative, and zero.
  • the maximum voltages used in these waveforms are higher than that can be handled by amorphous silicon thin-film transistors.
  • suitable high voltages can be obtained by the use of top plane switching.
  • V C om is deliberately set to VKB, a separate power supply may be used.
  • the invention involves drivers configured to deliver two-part reset pulses to pixels in color electrophoretic displays.
  • the two-part reset pulses are effective in removing last state information, but do not require more energy or time than needed.
  • the described controllers allow a three (or more)-particle electrophoretic display to update faster while using less energy.
  • the controllers also provide a larger color gamut when the reset pulses are tuned for individual colors.
  • the invention additionally provides a method of driving an electro-optic display which is DC balanced despite the existence of kickback voltages and changes in the voltages applied to the front electrode.
  • the invention involves a method for driving an electrophoretic display having a front electrode, a backplane, and a display medium positioned between the front electrode and the backplane, the display medium comprising three sets of differently-colored particles.
  • the method comprises applying a reset phase and a color transition phase to the display.
  • the reset phase comprises applying a first signal having a first polarity, a first amplitude as a function of time, and a first duration on the front electrode, applying a second signal having a second polarity opposite the first polarity, a second amplitude as a function of time, during the first duration on the backplane, applying a third signal having the second polarity opposite the first polarity, a third amplitude as a function of time, during the second duration on the front electrode, applying a fourth signal equal to the sum of the first and second amplitudes, during the second duration on the backplane.
  • the color transition phase comprises applying a fifth signal having the second polarity, a fourth amplitude as a function of time, and a third duration preceded by the first and second durations on the front electrode, applying a sixth signal having the first polarity, a fifth amplitude as a function of time, and a fourth duration preceded by the first and second durations on the backplane, wherein the sum of the first and second amplitudes as a function of time integrated over the first duration, and the sum of the first, second, and third amplitudes as a function of time integrated over the second duration, and the fourth amplitude as a function of time integrated over the third duration, and the fifth amplitude as a function of time integrated over the fourth duration produces an impulse offset designed to maintain a DC -balance on the display medium over the reset phase and the color transition phase.
  • the reset phase erases previous optical properties rendered on the display.
  • the color transition phase substantially changes the optical property displayed by the display.
  • the first polarity is a negative voltage.
  • the first polarity is a positive voltage.
  • the impulse offset is proportional to a kickback voltage experienced by the display medium.
  • the fourth duration occurs during the third duration. In some embodiments, the third duration and the fourth duration initiate at the same time.
  • the invention includes a method for driving an electrophoretic display having a front electrode, a backplane, and a display medium positioned between the front electrode and the backplane, the display medium comprising three sets of differently- colored particles, the method comprises applying a reset phase and a color transition phase to the display.
  • the reset phase comprises applying a first signal having a first polarity, a first amplitude as a function of time, and a first duration on the front electrode, applying no signal during the first duration on the backplane, applying a second signal having a second polarity opposite the first polarity, a second amplitude as a function of time, during a second duration on the front electrode, applying a third signal having the first polarity, and a third amplitude as a function of time, during the second duration on the backplane.
  • the color transition phase comprises applying a fourth signal having the first polarity, a fourth amplitude as a function of time, and a third duration preceded by the first and second durations on the front electrode, applying a fifth signal having the second polarity, a fifth amplitude as a function of time, and a fourth duration preceded by the first and second durations on the backplane, wherein the sum of the first amplitude as a function of time integrated over the first duration, and the sum of the second and third amplitudes as a function of time integrated over the second duration, and the fourth amplitude as a function of time integrated over the third duration, and the fifth amplitude as a function of time integrated over the fourth duration produces an impulse offset designed to maintain a DC-balance on the display medium over the reset phase and the color transition phase.
  • the reset phase erases previous optical properties rendered on the display.
  • the color transition phase substantially changes the optical property displayed by the display.
  • the first polarity is a negative voltage.
  • the first polarity is a positive voltage.
  • the impulse offset is proportional to a kickback voltage experienced by the display medium.
  • the fourth duration occurs during the third duration. In some embodiments, the third duration and the fourth duration initiate at the same time.
  • the invention includes a controller for an electrophoretic display comprising a front electrode, a backplane, and a display medium positioned between the front electrode and the backplane, the display medium comprising three sets of differently-colored particles, the controller being operatively coupled to the front electrode and the backplane, and configured to apply a reset phase and a color transition phase to the display.
  • the reset phase comprises applying a first signal having a first polarity, a first amplitude as a function of time, and a first duration on the front electrode, applying a second signal having a second polarity opposite the first polarity, a second amplitude as a function of time, during the first duration on the backplane, applying a third signal having the second polarity opposite the first polarity, a third amplitude as a function of time, during the second duration on the front electrode, applying a fourth signal equal to the sum of the first and second amplitudes, during the second duration on the backplane.
  • the color transition phase comprises applying a fifth signal having the second polarity, a fourth amplitude as a function of time, and a third duration preceded by the first and second durations on the front electrode, applying a sixth signal having the first polarity, a fifth amplitude as a function of time, and a fourth duration preceded by the first and second durations on the backplane, wherein the sum of the first and second amplitudes as a function of time integrated over the first duration, and the sum of the first, second, and third amplitudes as a function of time integrated over the second duration, and the fourth amplitude as a function of time integrated over the third duration, and the fifth amplitude as a function of time integrated over the fourth duration produces an impulse offset designed to maintain a DC -balance on the display medium over the reset phase and the color transition phase.
  • the controller applies a different reset phase depending upon the color to be displayed by the electrophoretic display.
  • the display medium comprises white, cyan, yellow, and magenta particles. In some embodiments, the display medium comprises white, red, blue, and green particles.
  • the invention includes a controller for an electrophoretic display comprising a front electrode, a backplane, and a display medium positioned between the front electrode and the backplane, the display medium comprising three sets of differently-colored particles, the controller being operatively coupled to the front electrode and the backplane, and configured to apply a reset phase and a color transition phase to the display.
  • the reset phase comprises applying a first signal having a first polarity, a first amplitude as a function of time, and a first duration on the front electrode, applying no signal during the first duration on the backplane, applying a second signal having a second polarity opposite the first polarity, a second amplitude as a function of time, during a second duration on the front electrode, applying a third signal having the first polarity, and a third amplitude as a function of time, during the second duration on the backplane.
  • the color transition phase comprises applying a fourth signal having the first polarity, a fourth amplitude as a function of time, and a third duration preceded by the first and second durations on the front electrode, applying a fifth signal having the second polarity, a fifth amplitude as a function of time, and a fourth duration preceded by the first and second durations on the backplane, wherein the sum of the first amplitude as a function of time integrated over the first duration, and the sum of the second and third amplitudes as a function of time integrated over the second duration, and the fourth amplitude as a function of time integrated over the third duration, and the fifth amplitude as a function of time integrated over the fourth duration produces an impulse offset designed to maintain a DC -balance on the display medium over the reset phase and the color transition phase.
  • the controller applies a different reset phase depending upon the color to be displayed by the electrophoretic display.
  • the display medium comprises white, cyan, yellow, and magenta particles. In some embodiments, the display medium comprises white, red, blue, and green particles.
  • the electrophoretic media used in the display of the present invention may be any of those described in the aforementioned Application Serial No. 14/849,658. Such media comprise a light-scattering particle, typically white, and three substantially non-light-scattering particles.
  • the electrophoretic medium of the present invention may be in any of the forms discussed above. Thus, the electrophoretic medium may be unencapsulated, encapsulated in discrete capsules surrounded by capsule walls, or in the form of a polymer-dispersed or microcell medium.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates an exemplary equivalent circuit of a single pixel of an electrophoretic display.
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic cross-section showing the positions of the various colored particles in an electrophoretic medium of the present invention when displaying black, white, the three subtractive primary and the three additive primary colors.
  • F IG. 3 shows in schematic form the four types of different pigment particles used in a multi-particle electrophoretic medium
  • FIG. 4 shows in schematic form the relative strengths of interactions between pairs of particles in a multi-particle electrophoretic medium ;
  • F IG. 5 shows behavior of multiple different particles in an electrophoretic medium when subjected to electric fields of varying strength and duration
  • FIG. 6 is an exemplary waveform including a two-part reset phase (A) and a color transition phase (B);
  • FIG. 7 is a schematic voltage against time diagram showing the variation with time of the front and pixel electrodes, and the resultant voltage across the electrophoretic medium, of a waveform used to generate one color in a drive scheme of the present invention.
  • FIG. 8 A shows experimental data of color gamuts produced with various voltage combinations of two-part reset phases;
  • FIG. 8B shows the total experimental color gamut available by implementing a controller that changes the two-part reset phase depending upon the desired color
  • FIG. 9 shows an embodiment of a DC-balanced reset pulse
  • FIG. 10 shows the DC-balanced reset pulse of FIG. 9 as experienced by the electrophoretic particles.
  • the present invention may be used with an electrophoretic medium which comprises one light- scattering particle (typically white) and three other particles providing the three subtractive primary colors.
  • an electrophoretic medium which comprises one light- scattering particle (typically white) and three other particles providing the three subtractive primary colors.
  • the three particles providing the three subtractive primary colors may be substantially non-light-scattering ("SNLS").
  • SNLS particles allows mixing of colors and provides for more color outcomes than can be achieved with the same number of scattering particles.
  • I Para 46 Particles, and these other particles must subsequently be switched to their desired positions at lower voltages.
  • Such a step-wise color-addressing scheme produces flashing of unwanted colors and a long transition time.
  • the present invention does not require the use of a such a stepwise waveform and addressing to all colors can, as described below, be achieved with only two positive and two negative voltages (i.e., only five different voltages, two positive, two negative and zero are required in a display, although as described below in certain embodiments it may be preferred to use more different voltages to address the display).
  • FIG. 2 of the accompanying drawings is a schematic cross- section showing the positions of the various particles in an electrophoretic medium of the present invention when displaying black, white, the three subtractive primary and the three additive primary colors.
  • the viewing surface of the display is at the top (as illustrated), i.e., a user views the display from this direction, and light is incident from this direction.
  • this particle is assumed to be the white pigment.
  • this light-scattering white particle forms a white reflector against which any particles above the white particles (as illustrated in FIG. 2) are viewed.
  • the particles above the white particles may absorb various colors and the color appearing to the user is that resulting from the combination of particles above the white particles. Any particles disposed below (behind from the user's point of view) the white particles are masked by the white particles and do not affect the color displayed. Because the second, third and fourth particles are substantially non-light-scattering, their order or arrangement relative to each other is unimportant, but for reasons already stated, their order or arrangement with respect to the white (light-scattering) particles is critical.
  • one subtractive primary color could be rendered by a particle that scatters light, so that the display would comprise two types of light-scattering particle, one of which would be white and another colored.
  • the position of the light- scattering colored particle with respect to the other colored particles overlying the white particle would be important. For example, in rendering the color black (when all three colored particles lie over the white particles) the scattering colored particle cannot lie over the non- scattering colored particles (otherwise they will be partially or completely hidden behind the scattering particle and the color rendered will be that of the scattering colored particle, not black).
  • FIG. 2 shows an idealized situation in which the colors are uncontaminated (i.e., the light-scattering white particles completely mask any particles lying behind the white particles).
  • the masking by the white particles may be imperfect so that there may be some small absorption of light by a particle that ideally would be completely masked.
  • Such contamination typically reduces both the lightness and the chroma of the color being rendered.
  • a particularly favored standard is SNAP (the standard for newspaper advertising production), which specifies L*, a* and b* values for each of the eight primary colors referred to above. (Hereinafter, "primary colors" will be used to refer to the eight colors, black, white, the three subtract! ve primaries and the three additive primaries as shown in FIG. 2.)
  • a second phenomenon that may be employed to control the motion of a plurality of particles is hetero-aggregati on between different pigment types; see, for example, the aforementioned US 2014/0092465.
  • Such aggregation may be charge-mediated (Coulombic) or may arise as a result of, for example, hydrogen bonding or Van der Waals interactions.
  • the strength of the interaction may be influenced by choice of surface treatment of the pigment particles. For example, Coulombic interactions may be weakened when the closest distance of approach of oppositely-charged particles is maximized by a steric barrier (typically a polymer grafted or adsorbed to the surface of one or both particles).
  • a steric barrier typically a polymer grafted or adsorbed to the surface of one or both particles.
  • such polymeric barriers are used on the first, and second types of particles and may or may not be used on the third and fourth types of particles.
  • a third phenomenon that may be exploited to control the motion of a plurality of particles is voltage- or current-dependent mobility, as described in detail in the aforementioned Application Serial No. 14/277, 107.
  • FIG. 3 shows schematic cross-sectional representations of the four pigment types (1-4) used in preferred embodiments of the invention.
  • the polymer shell adsorbed to the core pigment is indicated by the dark shading, while the core pigment itself is shown as unshaded.
  • a wide variety of forms may be used for the core pigment: spherical, acicular or otherwise anisometric, aggregates of smaller particles (i.e., "grape clusters"), composite particles comprising small pigment particles or dyes dispersed in a binder, and so on as is well known in the art.
  • the polymer shell may be a covalently-bonded polymer made by grafting processes or chemisorption as is well known in the art, or may be physisorbed onto the particle surface.
  • the polymer may be a block copolymer comprising insoluble and soluble segments.
  • First and second particle types in one embodiment of the invention preferably have a more substantial polymer shell than third and fourth particle types.
  • the light-scattering white particle is of the first or second type (either negatively or positively charged).
  • the white particle bears a negative charge (i.e., is of Type 1 ), but it will be clear to those skilled in the art that the general principles described will apply to a set of particles in which the white particles are positively charged.
  • the electric field required to separate an aggregate formed from mixtures of particles of types 3 and 4 in the suspending solvent containing a charge control agent is greater than that required to separate aggregates formed from any other combination of two types of particle.
  • the electric field required to separate aggregates formed between the first and second types of particle is, on the other hand, less than that required to separate aggregates formed between the first and fourth particles or the second and third particles (and of course less than that required to separate the third and fourth particles).
  • the core pigments comprising the particles are shown as having approximately the same size, and the zeta potential of each particle, although not shown, is assumed to be approximately the same. What varies is the thickness of the polymer shell surrounding each core pigment. As shown in FIG. 3, this polymer shell is thicker for particles of types 1 and 2 than for particles of types 3 and 4 - and this is in fact a preferred situation for certain embodiments of the invention.
  • FA PP is the force exerted on the particle by the applied electric field
  • Fc is the Coulombic force exerted on the particle by the second particle of opposite charge
  • ''o is the attractive Van der Waals force exerted on one particle by the second particle
  • Fo is the attractive force exerted by depletion flocculation on the particle pair as a result of (optional) inclusion of a stabilizing polymer into the suspending solvent.
  • Equation (2) F App (2) where q is the charge of the particle, which is related to the zeta potential ( ⁇ ) as shown in equation (2) (approximately, in the Huckel limit), where a is the core pigment radius, s is the thickness of the solvent-swollen polymer shell, and the other symbols have their conventional meanings as known in the art.
  • the Van der Waals forces between the particles may also change substantially if the thickness of the polymer shell increases.
  • the polymer shell on the particles is swollen by the solvent and moves the surfaces of the core pigments that interact through Van der Waals forces further apart.
  • FIG. 4 shows in schematic form the strengths of the electric fields required to separate pairwise aggregates of the particle types of the invention.
  • the interaction between particles of types 3 and 4 is stronger than that between particles of types 2 and 3.
  • the interaction between particles of types 2 and 3 is about equal to that between particles of types 1 and 4 and stronger than that between particles of types 1 and 2. All interactions between pairs of particles of the same sign of charge as weak as or weaker than the interaction between particles of types 1 and 2.
  • FIG. 5 shows how these interactions may be exploited to make all the primary colors (subtractive, additive, black and white), as was discussed generally with reference to FIG. 2.
  • I Para 701 When addressed with a low electric field (FIG. 5(A)), particles 3 and 4 are aggregated and not separated. Particles 1 and 2 are free to move in the field. If particle 1 is the white particle, the color seen viewing from the left is white, and from the right is black. Reversing the polarity of the field switches between black and white states. The transient colors between black and white states, however, are colored. The aggregate of particles 3 and 4 will move very slowly in the field relative to particles 1 and 2.
  • particle 1 is white
  • particle 2 is cyan
  • particle 3 is yellow
  • particle 4 is magenta
  • the core pigment used in the white particle is typically a metal oxide of high refractive index as is well known in the art of electrophoretic displays. Examples of white pigments are described in the Examples below.
  • I Para 751 The core pigments used to make particles of types 2-4, as described above, provide the three subtract) ve primary colors: cyan, magenta and yellow.
  • a display device may be constructed using an electrophoretic fluid of the invention in several ways that are known in the prior art.
  • the electrophoretic fluid may be encapsulated in microcapsules or incorporated into microcell structures that are thereafter sealed with a polymeric layer.
  • the microcapsule or microcell layers may be coated or embossed onto a plastic substrate or film bearing a transparent coating of an electrically conductive material. This assembly may be laminated to a backplane bearing pixel electrodes using an electrically conductive adhesive.
  • each pixel of the display can be driven at five different addressing voltages, designated +Vhigh, +Vi ow , 0, -Vi ow and -Vi,, g h, illustrated as 30V, 1 5V, 0, - 15V and -30V. In practice it may be preferred to use a larger number of addressing voltages. If only three voltages are available (i.e., +Vi,, h, 0, and -Vhigh) it may be possible to achieve the same result as addressing at a lower voltage (say, Vhigh/n where n is a positive integer > 1 ) by addressing with pulses of voltage Vhigh but with a duty cycle of 1/n.
  • Waveforms used in the present invention may comprise three phases: a DC- balancing phase, in which a DC imbalance due to previous waveforms applied to the pixel is corrected, or in which the DC imbalance to be incurred in the subsequent color rendering transition is corrected (as is known in the art), a "reset” phase, in which the pixel is returned to a starting configuration that is at least approximately the same regardless of the previous optical state of the pixel, and a "color rendering” phase as described below.
  • the DC -balancing and reset phases are optional and may be omitted, depending upon the demands of the particular application.
  • the "reset" phase may be the same as the magenta color rendering waveform described below, or may involve driving the maximum possible positive and negative voltages in succession, or may be some other pulse pattern, provided that it returns the display to a state from which the subsequent colors may reproducibly be obtained.
  • the greatest positive and negative voltages (designated ⁇ Vmax in FIG. 6) applied to the pixel electrodes produce respectively the color formed by a mixture of the second and fourth particles (cyan and magenta, to produce a blue color - cf. FIG. 2[E]), or the third particles alone (yellow - cf. FIG. 2[B] - the white pigment scatters light and lies in between the colored pigments). These blue and yellow colors are not necessarily the best blue and yellow attainable by the display.
  • the mid-level positive and negative voltages (designated ⁇ Vmid in FIG. 6) applied to the pixel electrodes produce colors that are black and white, respectively (although not necessarily the best black and white colors attainable by the display - cf. FIG. 5(A)).
  • the other four primary colors may be obtained by moving only the second particles (in this case the cyan particles) relative to the first particles (in this case the white particles), which is achieved using the lowest applied voltages (designated ⁇ Vmin in FIG. 6).
  • moving cyan out of blue by applying -Vmin to the pixel electrodes
  • magenta cf. FIG. 2[E] and [D] for blue and magenta respectively
  • moving cyan into yellow by applying +Vmin to the pixel electrodes
  • provides green cf. FIG. 2[B] and [G] for yellow and green respectively
  • moving cyan out of black by applying -Vmin to the pixel electrodes) provides red (cf. FIG. 2[H] and [C] for black and red respectively)
  • moving cyan into white by applying +Vmin to the pixel electrodes) provides cyan (cf. FIG. 2[A] and
  • FIG. 6 A generic waveform for addressing a color electrophoretic display of the invention is illustrated in FIG. 6, in which the abscissa represents time (in arbitrary units) and the ordinate represents the voltage difference between a pixel electrode and the common front electrode.
  • the magnitudes of the three positive voltages used in the drive scheme illustrated in FIG. 6 may lie between about +3V and +30V, and of the three negative voltages between about -3V and -30V.
  • the highest positive voltage, +V ma x is +30V
  • the medium positive voltage, +Vmid is 1 5V
  • the lowest positive voltage, +V m m is 9V.
  • negative voltages -V m; ix, -V m id and -Vmin are; in a preferred embodiment -30V, - 1 5V and -9V. It is not necessary that the magnitudes of the voltages
  • j-Vj for any of the three voltage levels, although it may be preferable in some cases that this be so.
  • pulses (wherein "pulse” signifies a monopole square wave, i.e., the application of a constant voltage for a predetermined time) at +V max and -V max that serve to erase the previous image rendered on the display (i.e., to "'reset” the display).
  • the lengths of these pulses (ti and t 3 ) and of the rests (i.e., periods of zero voltage between them (t 2 and ti) may be chosen so that the entire waveform (i.e., the integral of voltage with respect to time over the whole waveform as illustrated in FIG.
  • DC balance can be achieved by adjusting the lengths of the pulses and rests in phase A so that the net impulse supplied in this phase is equal in magnitude and opposite in sign to the net impulse supplied in phase B, during which phase the display is switched to a particular desired color.
  • the term "frame” refers to a single update of all the rows in the display. It will be clear to one of ordinary skill in the art that in a display of the invention driven using a thin-film transistor (TFT) array the available time increments on the abscissa of FIG. 6 will typically be quantized by the frame rate of the display. Likewise, it will be clear that the display is addressed by changing the potential of the pixel electrodes relative to the front electrode and that this may be accomplished by changing the potential of either the pixel electrodes or the front electrode, or both. In the present state of the art, typically a matrix of pixel electrodes is present on the backplane, whereas the front electrode is common to all pixels. Therefore, when the potential of the front electrode is changed, the addressing of all pixels is affected. The basic structure of the waveform described above with reference to FIG. 6 is the same whether or not varying voltages are applied to the front electrode.
  • TFT thin-film transistor
  • the generic waveform illustrated in FIG. 6 requires that the driving electronics provide as many as seven different voltages to the data lines during the update of a selected row of the display. While multi-level source drivers capable of delivering seven different voltages are available, many commercially-available source drivers for electrophoretic displays permit only three different voltages to be delivered during a single frame (typically a positive voltage, zero, and a negative voltage). It is possible to modify the generic waveform of FIG.
  • the three voltages supplied to the panel (typically +V, 0 and -V) can be changed from one frame to the next, (i.e., such that, for example, in frame n voltages (+Vmax, 0, -V m m) could be supplied while in frame n+1 voltages (+V m ,d, 0 , -Vmax) could be supplied).
  • top plane switching driving scheme it may be desirable to use a so-called "top plane switching" driving scheme to control an electrophoretic display.
  • the top plane common electrode can be switched between -V, 0 and +V, while the voltages applied to the pixel electrodes can also vary from -V, 0 to +V with pixel transitions in one direction being handled when the common electrode is at 0 and transitions in the other direction being handled when the common electrode is at +V.
  • top plane switching When top plane switching is used in combination with a three-level source driver, the same general principles apply as described above with reference to FIG. 6. Top plane switching may be preferred when the source drivers cannot supply a voltage as high as the preferred Vma . Methods for driving electrophoretic displays using top plane switching are well known in the art.
  • I Para 911 A typical waveform of the (E Ink) prior art is shown below in Table 1 , where the numbers in parentheses correspond to the number of frames driven with the indicated backplane voltage (relative to a top plane assumed to be at zero potential).
  • I Para 921 In the reset phase of this waveform, pulses of the maximum negative and positive voltages are provided to erase the previous state of the display.
  • the number of frames at each voltage are offset by an amount (shows as ⁇ for color x) that compensates for the net impulse in the High/Mid voltage and Low/Mid voltage phases, where the color is rendered.
  • ⁇ is chosen to be half that net impulse. It is not necessary that the reset phase be implemented in precisely the manner illustrated in the Table; for example, when top plane switching is used it is necessary to allocate a particular number of frames to the negative and positive drives. In such a case, it is preferred to provide the maximum number of high voltage pulses consistent with achieving DC balance (i.e., to subtract 2 ⁇ from the negative or positive frames as appropriate).
  • N can be 1 -20.
  • this sequence comprises 14 frames that are allocated positive or negative voltages of magnitude Vmax or Vmid, or zero.
  • the pulse sequences shown are in accord with the discussion given above. It can be seen that in this phase of the waveform the pulse sequences to render the colors white, blue and cyan are the same. Likewise, in this phase the pulse sequences to render yellow and green are the same (since green is achieved starting from a yellow state).
  • a waveform may be divided into sections where the front electrode is supplied with a positive voltage, a negative voltage, and VKB.
  • I Para 96 As discussed above, in some of the waveforms described in the aforementioned Application Serial No. 14/849,658, seven different voltages can be applied to the pixel electrodes: three positive, three negative, and zero. Preferably, the maximum voltages used in these waveforms are higher than that can be handled by amorphous silicon thin-film transistors in the current state of the art. In such cases, high voltages can be obtained by the use of top plane switching, and the driving waveforms can be configured to compensate for the kickback voltage and can be intrinsically DC-balanced by the methods of the present invention.
  • Figure 7 depicts schematically one such waveform used to display a single color. As shown in FIG.
  • the waveforms for every color have the same basic form: i.e., the waveform is intrinsically DC-balanced and can comprise two sections or phases: ( 1 ) a preliminary series of frames that is used to provide a "reset" of the display to a state from which any color may reproducibly be obtained and during which a DC imbalance equal and opposite to the DC imbalance of the remainder of the waveform is provided, and (2) a series of frames that is particular to the color that is to be rendered; cf. Sections A and B of the waveform shown in FIG. 6.
  • the reset of the display ideally erases any memory of a previous state, including remnant voltages and pigment configurations specific to previously- displayed colors. Such an erasure is most effective when the display is addressed at the maximum possible voltage in the "re set/ DC balancing" phase. In addition, sufficient frames may be allocated in this phase to allow for balancing of the most unbalanced color transitions.
  • the front electrode voltage V CO m is set to V p n (allowing for the maximum possible negative voltage between the backplane and the front electrode), and in the remainder, V CO m is set to VnH (allowing for the maximum possible positive voltage between the backplane and the front electrode).
  • V m VnH frames
  • the "desired" waveform (i.e., the actual voltage against time curve which is desired to apply across the electrophoretic medium) is illustrated at the bottom of FIG. 7, and its implementation with top plane switching is shown above, where the potentials applied to the front electrode (V CO m) and to the backplane (BP) are illustrated.
  • the column driver is used connected to a power supply capable of supplying the following voltages: V P H, VnH (the highest positive and negative voltages, typically in the range of ⁇ 10-15 V), V P L, V n i.. (lower positive and negative voltages, typically in the range of ⁇ 1 -10 V), and zero.
  • a kickback voltage V B (a small value that is specific to the particular backplane used, measured as described, for example, in U.S. Patent No. 7,034,783) can be supplied to the front electrode by an additional power supply.
  • I Para 991 As shown in FIG. 7, every backplane voltage is offset by VKB (shown as a negative number) from the voltage supplied by the power supply while the front electrode voltages are not so offset, except when the front electrode is explicitly set to VKB, as described above.
  • VKB shown as a negative number
  • I Para 1001 Although the display of the invention has been described as producing the eight primary colors, in practice, it is preferred that as many colors as possible be produced at the pixel level. A full color gray scale image may then be rendered by dithering between these colors, using techniques well known to those skilled in imaging technology. For example, in addition to the eight primary colors produced as described above, the display may be configured to render an additional eight colors.
  • these additional colors are: light red, light green, light blue, dark cyan, dark magenta, dark yellow, and two levels of gray between black and white.
  • the terms "light” and “dark” as used in this context refer to colors having substantially the same hue angle in a color space such as CIE L*a*b* as the reference color but a higher or lower L*, respectively.
  • I Para 1011 In general, light colors are obtained in the same manner as dark colors, but using waveforms having slightly different net impulse in phases B and C.
  • light red, light green and light blue waveforms have a more negative net impulse in phases B and C than the corresponding red, green and blue waveforms
  • dark cyan, dark magenta, and dark yellow have a more positive net impulse in phases B and C than the corresponding cyan, magenta and yellow waveforms.
  • the change in net impulse may be achieved by altering the lengths of pulses, the number of pulses, or the magnitudes of pulses in phases B and C.
  • Gray colors are typically achieved by a sequence of pulses oscillating between low or mid voltages.
  • the generic waveform illustrated in FIG. 7 requires that the driving electronics provide as many as seven different voltages to the data lines during the update of a selected row of the display. While multi-level source drivers capable of delivering seven different voltages are available, many commercially-available source drivers for electrophoretic displays permit only three different voltages to be delivered during a single frame (typically a positive voltage, zero, and a negative voltage). Herein the term "frame" refers to a single update of all the rows in the display. It is possible to modify the generic waveform of FIG.
  • phase A (the reset phase) it is seen that this phase is divided into two sections of equal duration (illustrated by the dotted lines).
  • the top plane will be held at one potential in the first of these sections, and at a potential of the opposite polarity in the second section.
  • the top plane would have been held at V P H, and the backplane at VJI, to achieve a potential drop across the electrophoretic fluid of V n H - V P H (where the convention is used of referencing the backplane potential relative to that of the top plane).
  • V n H the backplane at V P H.
  • the electrophoretic fluid would have been subjected to a potential of V P H - VnH, the highest potential available.
  • V P H - VnH the highest potential available.
  • exposure to this high voltage might result in an initial pigment arrangement from which an ideal final configuration would be difficult to achieve.
  • magenta pigment which has the same charge polarity as the cyan pigment
  • Such an aggregate would be split by a high applied potential, and thus the magenta would not be controlled and would contaminate the cyan.
  • Phase A It is not necessary, however, to use the maximum possible voltages in both sections of Phase A of the waveform. All that is required in Phase A is that the prior color state be erased such that the newly rendered color is the same no matter which color preceded it, and that the net impulse provided in Phase A balance the net impulse in Phase B.
  • Table 3 shows the case where the backplane is held at zero during the first section of Phase A.
  • the voltage applied is in this case less than in the case of Table 2.
  • the voltage applied in the second section of Phase A is the same as the case for Table 2.
  • the time of application of the lower voltage must of course be correspondingly longer.
  • the color gamut, measured as the volume of the convex hull containing the eight points listed in Table 2, is 20,987 ⁇ 3 .
  • Table 4 shows the case where the backplane is held at zero during the second section of Phase A.
  • the voltage applied in the first section of Phase A is the same as the case for Table 2,
  • the color gamut, measured as the volume of the convex hull containing the eight points listed in Table 2 is 20,339 ⁇ 3 .
  • Figure 8 A shows the results of these experiments as a projection onto the a* b* plane; the abscissa represents a* and the ordinate b*. It can be seen that certain colors (for example, red, magenta, and blue) are rendered better by the Phase A settings corresponding to Tables 2 or 3, while other colors (cyan, green and yellow) are rendered better by Phase A settings corresponding to Table 4.
  • I Para 1 12 Interestingly, the alternative experiment in which the order of the first and second sections of Phase A was reversed gave very poor results, with all colors being contaminated with yellow.
  • Table 5 shows the combination of best colors from this experiment.
  • the color gamut measured as the volume of the convex hull containing the eight points listed in Table 2, is 28,092 ⁇ 3 .
  • the voltages applied in the reset phase (Phase A) of the waveform the color gamut was increased by a factor of about 50%.
  • the results of Table j are depicted in FIG. 8B.
  • phase B With fixed voltages in Phase A, Phase B needs to be made longer in order to compensate for the bias introduced in Phase A for certain colors.
  • top plane switching is employed, the same structure of top plane potentials is fixed no matter which color is to be rendered.
  • the backplane settings corresponding to each top plane potential are varied in Phase A of the waveform according to which color is being rendered, but without violating the condition that the overall waveform, comprising Phases A and B, be DC-balanced.
  • V B lJ the backplane voltage for transition j at frame i
  • V the top plane voltage at frame i .
  • ⁇ ' — 3 ⁇ 4 + njV KB be the total impulse of 7 ⁇ prior to applying the DC-balancing reset, where n j is the update length (in frames) of 7 ⁇ , and V KB is the kickback voltage of the display.
  • aj be the desired DC-balance impulse offset (time*V)
  • d r be the desired total duration of the DC -balancing reset.
  • the DC-balancing reset has two pulses in it, so top-plane voltages will need to be chosen for each pulse, and backplane voltages will need to be chosen for each pulse and each transition.
  • V ⁇ p V B k ⁇ — Vf k + V KB be the voltage of the pulse of transition 7 ⁇ , where V B rkJ is the backplane voltage for the k* reset pulse of transition 7 ⁇ , and V k is the top-plane voltage for the fc* reset pulse. It is important that the voltages for the two pulses be chosen so that V ⁇ p and V- v are of opposite signs for each transition.

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L'invention concerne un procédé de commande d'un affichage électro-optique comportant une électrode avant, un fond de panier et un support d'affichage comprenant au moins trois particules colorées différemment, le support étant positionné entre l'électrode avant et le fond de panier. Le procédé comprend l'application d'une phase de réinitialisation et d'une phase de transition de couleur à l'affichage de telle sorte que la somme de toutes les impulsions résulte en un décalage, lequel maintient un équilibre en courant continu à travers le support d'affichage. L'invention comprend en outre des unités de commande permettant la mise en œuvre dudit procédé.
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