Display and method for driving same
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsSeiji Nishiyama, Naohide Wakita
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Abstract
A display device (1) according to this invention includes a pair of opposite substrates (3A) and (3B), a group of electrostatically chargeable colored particles (6) present between the pair of substrates, a transparent first electrode (4), and a second electrode (5), wherein the group of colored particles is capable of traveling in a manner to or not to shut off light incident on or passing through the first electrode in accordance with voltage applied across the first and second electrodes for displaying an image.
Claims34
A display device comprising a pair of opposite substrates, a group of electrostatically chargeable colored particles present between the pair of substrates, a transparent first electrode, and a second electrode, wherein
- the group of colored particles is capable of traveling in a manner to or not to shut off light incident on or passing through the first electrode in accordance with voltage applied across the first and second electrodes for displaying an image.
A method of driving a display device including a pair of opposite substrates, a group of electrostatically chargeable colored particles present between the pair of substrates, a transparent first electrode, and a second electrode,
- the method comprising applying voltage across the first and second electrodes to cause the group of colored particles to travel in a manner to or not to shut off light incident on or passing through the first electrode in accordance with the applied voltage for displaying an image.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.