Scrolling electronic signage
AssigneeEastman Kodak Company
InventorsTheodore Ricks, David Johnson
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Abstract
A display, a signage system including the display, and methods of writing the display, are described, wherein the system includes at least one looped scroll of bistable display media and at least one electronic writehead. The entire display can be written by using the writehead to address individual sections of the display media by moving the writehead relative to the media.
Claims33
An electronically updatable, bistable display, comprising:
- a loop of bistable material having a view side with at least one viewable area, and a second side;
- and
- a writehead adjacent an area of the bistable material,
- wherein the loop of bistable material is movable relative to the writehead.
The method of writing an electronically updatable, bistable display, wherein the display comprises a loop of bistable material having a view side with at least one viewing area, and a second side;
- and a writehead adjacent an area of the bistable material, wherein the loop of bistable material is movable relative to the writehead, wherein the method comprises:
- moving the bistable material relative to the writehead;
- and
- forming an image on at least a portion of at least one viewing area of the bistable material with the writehead.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.