Interface apparatus and method using electronic paper

An interface apparatus, comprising:

• a display module comprising a plurality of display devices that display an image using electronic paper;
• a control module, which provides enable information needed to enable the respective display devices and image information needed to display the image;
• and
• a graphic processing module, which receives the image information from the control module and sequentially transmits the image information to the display devices,
• wherein each of the display devices comprises a decoding module that decodes the enable information and sequentially transmits the decoded enable information to the display devices, and the image information is displayed by one or more of the display devices that are enabled according to the enable information.

An interface apparatus, comprising:

• a display module comprising a plurality of display buttons that display an image using electronic paper and sense user input;
• an input sensing module, which chooses one or more of the display buttons that are determined to have been pressed by a user according to the sensed user input;
• a control module, which provides enable information needed to enable the one or more chosen display buttons and image information needed to display an image;
• a decoding module, which decodes the enable information and sequentially transmits the decoded enable information to the display buttons;
• and
• a graphic processing module, which receives the image information from the control module and sequentially transmits the image information to the display buttons, wherein the image information is displayed by one or more of the display buttons that are enabled according to the enable information.

An interface apparatus, comprising:

• a display module comprising a plurality of display buttons that display an image using electronic paper and sense user input;
• an input sensing module, which chooses one or more of the display buttons that are determined to have been pressed by a user according to the sensed user input;
• a control module, which provides enable information needed to enable the one or more chosen display buttons and image information needed to display an image;
• and
• a graphic processing module, which receives the image information from the control module and sequentially transmits the image information to the display buttons,
• wherein
• each of the display buttons comprises a decoding module that decodes the enable information and sequentially transmits the decoded enable information to the display buttons, and
• the image information is displayed by one or more of the display buttons that are enabled according to the enable information.

An interface apparatus comprising:

• a button unit, which senses user input;
• an image display unit, which displays image information corresponding to the sensed user input on electronic paper;
• and
• a connection unit, which connects the button unit and the image display unit.

An interface apparatus, comprising:

• a display array, which comprises a plurality of display buttons that display image information using electronic paper;
• an input sensing module, which determines which of the display buttons is selected by a user;
• and
• an image display circuit, which provides the display array with
• image information corresponding to the display button that is determined to be selected by the user, and
• a select signal to select the display button that is determined to be selected by the user.

An interface method, comprising:

• sensing user input from a plurality of display buttons that display an image using electronic paper, and selecting one or more of the display buttons that are pressed by a user;
• sequentially providing enable information needed to enable the selected display buttons to the display buttons;
• and
• sequentially providing image information needed to display a predetermined image to the display devices, and displaying the image information on one or more of the display buttons that are enabled according to the enable information.

An interface method, comprising:

• providing enable information needed to enable one or more of a plurality of display devices and image information needed to display an image, the display devices displaying the image using electronic paper;
• decoding the enable information and sequentially transmitting the decoded enable information to the display devices;
• and
• displaying the image information on the one or more of the display devices that are enabled according to the decoded enable information.

An interface method, comprising:

• providing enable information needed to enable one or more of a plurality of display devices and image information needed to display an image, the display devices displaying the image using electronic paper;
• decoding the enable information;
• sequentially transmitting the image information to the display devices;
• and
• displaying the image information on the one or more of the display devices that are enabled according to the decoded enable information.