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US 8,810,525 B2Granted
Electronic information displays
AssigneeE Ink California, LLC
InventorRobert A. Sprague
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Abstract
The present invention offers an electronic information display which can be updated at a very low cost. This is accomplished by an electronic display device and a separate writer device. The writer device may comprise an electronic backplane, a mechanical fixture which can be easily be pressed against the electronic information display, and a wireless network and computational infrastructure which connect the writer device to a data base.
Claims16
An information display system comprising:
- (a) an electronic information display comprising a display panel, a common electrode and a common electrode contact pad, wherein the electronic information display is separated from a backplane which is in a writer device;
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- (b) the writer device comprising the backplane, a writer contact pad and a display driver, wherein the common electrode contact pad is connected to the common electrode, the display driver is connected to the writer contact pad and to the backplane and when the common electrode contact pad is in contact with the writer contact pad, which allows the display driver to be connected to the common electrode and to the backplane for altering or updating images on the electronic information display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.