Polymer Vision B.V. Patent applications |
Patent application number | Title | Published |
20140043244 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A TOUCH SENSITIVE PANEL, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - An electronic display device being arrangeable during use into one of at least an opened and a closed state. The device includes a formable display panel having an active area, a periphery area adjacent the active area, and a drive circuit for driving the active area. The active area includes an active area conductive structure substantially arranged along a front side of the active area. The periphery area includes a frame structure for visually bounding the active area. The frame structure is conformal to the display panel. The frame structure is electrically conductive and an insulator structure is provided between the active area conductive structure and the conductive frame structure. The insulator structure insulates the active area conductive structure from frame structure, the conductive frame structure being arranged to thereby shield the active area against ESD damage. | 02-13-2014 |
20140042293 | DISPLAY SYSTEM WITH A FLEXIBLE DISPLAY - A display system includes a continuous flexible display, and two main display supports, hingeable with respect to each other and each structurally configured to support a respective portion of the flexible display. The two main display supports are rotatable in opposite directions connected to each other by a respective hinge of a hinge mechanism. The main display supports are rotatable between a configuration for fixing the flexible display in a closed storage position and a planar configuration for fixing the flexible display in an open position. The two main display supports are coupled with each other by a movement synchronizing coupling enabling during movement between the closed and open position a mutual substantially synchronized rotating of the main display supports at substantially equal but opposite angles. | 02-13-2014 |
20140027717 | PIXEL CONTROL STRUCTURE, ARRAY, BACKPLANE, DISPLAY, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING - Pixel control structure for use in a backplane for an electronic display, including a transistor that has a gate, a source, a drain, and an organic semiconductor element. The pixel control structure is formed by a first patterned conductive layer portion, a second patterned conductive layer portion, a dielectric layer portion, and an organic patterned semiconductive layer portion. The dielectric layer portion comprises an overlap region defined by overlap of the second conductive layer portion over the first conductive layer portion. The overlap region defines an overlap boundary, defined by an edge portion of the first patterned conductive layer portion and an edge portion of the second patterned conductive layer portion. The patterned semiconductive layer portion extends over the overlap region and away from the overlap region so as to extend from both first and second edge portions. | 01-30-2014 |
20140014942 | THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR, ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT, DISPLAY AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME - A bottom gate bottom contact thin-film transistor including a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a dielectric layer and a semiconductor layer of a semiconducting oxide is disclosed. The dielectric layer is arranged between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer structure, and the source electrode and the drain electrode are covered with said semiconductor layer structure. The source electrode and the drain electrode include at least a first electrode portion of an oxygen reducing material, and a second electrode portion of an additional material different from said oxygen reducing material wherein the second electrode portion of the drain at a side facing the source exposes to said semiconductor layer structure at least a surface portion of a main surface of its first electrode portion facing away from the dielectric layer. | 01-16-2014 |
20130342094 | DISPLAY SYSTEM HAVING A CONTINUOUS FLEXIBLE DISPLAY WITH DISPLAY SUPPORTS - A display system comprises a continuous flexible display and two main display supports being hingeably connected with respect to each other between a closed storage position and a planar open position for fixing the flexible display in an open position. Each of the supports is structurally configured to support respectively a first and a second portion of the flexible display, a segment of the flexible display is located between the said respective portions of the flexible display in the open position. The display system comprises a spring force biased mechanism operative in either the open or closed position or both the open and closed positions of the flexible display, biasing said segment of the flexible display in the respective position. | 12-26-2013 |
20130180882 | DISPLAY DEVICE WITH FLEXIBLE DISPLAY - The invention relates to a display device ( | 07-18-2013 |
20130141405 | ELECTROFLUIDIC CHROMATOPHORE (EFC) DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus includes a plurality of electrofluidic chromatophore (EFC) pixel cells. Each pixel cell includes a fluid holder for holding a polar fluid and a non-polar fluid having differing display properties, the fluid holder including a reservoir having an orifice with a small visible area projected in the direction of a viewer onto the polar fluid, and a channel with a geometry having a large visible area projected in the direction of a viewer onto the polar fluid. The channel is connected to the reservoir via said orifice so as to enable free movement of the polar fluid and non-polar fluid between the channel and the reservoir. The reservoir is formed in a laminated resin structure of homogenous resin film layers, including an orifice film layer and a reservoir film layer. | 06-06-2013 |
20130113761 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH A TOUCH SENSITIVE PANEL, METHOD FOR OPERATING THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND DISPLAY SYSTEM - An electronic device having a touch sensitive panel has an opened and a closed state, and comprises a sensor circuit, a touch simulation facility and a comparator. The sensor circuit is for generating a touch signal indicative for a position where a touch of the touch sensitive panel is detected. The touch simulation facility is for evoking a touch signal at a position of the touch sensitive panel, and comprises a touch simulation element which in the closed state of the electronic device is arranged opposite the touch sensitive panel. The comparator is for comparing the touch signal with a reference value corresponding to the touch simulation element and for generating a correction signal for adjusting a setting of the sensor circuit for compensation of a difference detected between the position where the touch signal is evoked and the position indicated by the touch signal. | 05-09-2013 |
20130044410 | Display Device with Flexible Display - The invention relates to a display device comprising a device body with upper and lower body sides and having at least one surface support part for supporting the body on a surface, and a continuous flexible display. A support frame is configured to support at least a part of the flexible display, at least a portion of the support frame is connected with the device body and is movable with respect to the device body between a closed configuration for fixing the flexible display in a storage position and an open configuration for fixing the flexible display in an open position. There is at least one surface support part for supporting the support frame on a surface. In the open configuration the surface support parts of the support frame and of the lower body side are positioned in one plane, enabling a supporting of the surface support parts on a surface for a stable user interaction with the device in the open position of the display. | 02-21-2013 |
20130037228 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY WITH DISPLAY SUPPORT - A display system includes a continuous flexible display, two main display supports each structurally configured to support a respective portion of the flexible display, a segment of the flexible display being located between the said respective display portions. The two main display supports are hingeable between a closed configuration for fixing the flexible display in a storage position and an open configuration for fixing the flexible display in an open position. In the storage position between the main display supports there is a free space enabling a partial curvature of said display segment without conflicting with the respective main display support. At least one additional display support is configured to support said segment of the flexible display in the storage position and facilitates the curvature of the display segment with a predefined radius which is larger than the critical radius Rcrit for the flexible display. | 02-14-2013 |
20130025647 | IMPACT RESISTANT DEVICE COMPRISING AN OPTICAL LAYER - An impact resistant device includes an optical layer and electronics. The optical layer and electronics are comprised in a flexible foil structure which is supported by a backing structure in mechanical contact on a backside of the flexible foil structure. The backing structure includes a deformable material having a viscous response in a critical range, which critical range is defined for a given front impact event by a pressure threshold (σ | 01-31-2013 |
20130021762 | FLEXIBLE DISPLAY WITH DISPLAY SUPPORT - A display system includes a continuous flexible display and two main display supports being hingeable with respect to each other between a closed storage position and a planar configuration for fixing the flexible display in an open position. At least one additional display support supports a segment of the flexible display located between the said respective portions of the flexible display in the open position. This additional display support is movable with respect to the display segment between a non-operational position and a support position when the two main display supports are moved between the storage position and the planar position, such that in the open position substantially the whole surface of the display is supported by the respective display supports. | 01-24-2013 |
20130002114 | Flexible Display With Cover Positioning Means - A display system ( | 01-03-2013 |
20120212470 | Method and apparatus for driving an electronic display and a system comprising an electronic display - A device (B) is described for driving a bistable display (A). The device includes a processor ( | 08-23-2012 |
20120182282 | Super Low Voltage Driving Of Displays - A display device ( | 07-19-2012 |
20120162088 | TOUCH SCREEN DISPLAY AND METHOD OF OPERATING THE SAME - A touch screen display device is described that includes a display panel, a display driver, a sensor circuit and a combination unit. The display panel has a plurality of display elements arranged between a first and a second electrode layer. The display driver is arranged for providing display signals comprising a common display signal and an input control signal to the display panel. The sensor circuit is arranged for providing a probe signal and a shield signal mutually having the same phase and frequency and for generating a touch signal in response to the output signal received from the first electrode layer. The combination unit provides a drive signal to the first electrode layer derived from the common display signal and the probe signal, and further provides an output control signal for the display panel from the input control signal and the shield signal. | 06-28-2012 |
20120146975 | Consecutive Driving Of Displays - A lookup table provides voltage waveforms for transitions between a plurality of discrete pixel states forming a set that can be ordered in consecutive states according to a reflectivity of the pixel. An image controller repeatedly executes, in a consecutive drive phase, the steps of retrieving an initial state and update state, matching, when the initial and update states are different, in the ordered set of pixel states of the lookup table, a consecutive state and a corresponding consecutive waveform, the consecutive state forming a path, according to the consecutive drive phase, from the initial state to the update state in the set of pixel states, storing the consecutive state in the memory as new initial state; and controlling a voltage driver to drive the pixel from the initial state to the consecutive state using said consecutive waveform. | 06-14-2012 |
20120105939 | Display Comprising An Increased Inter-Pixel Gap - A display structure is described comprising a displaying medium, a backplane provided with an active matrix and a pixel pad comprising a plurality of pixels having an inter-pixel spacing, said pixel pad superposing the active matrix, wherein the inter-pixel spacing is in the range of 2.5-40 micrometers, preferably in the range of 8-20 micrometers. | 05-03-2012 |
20120092319 | Common Driving Of Displays - A display driving arrangement is described wherein, during a scan line driving phase, a column driver is controlled to provide a plurality of driving column voltages to the source terminals and the row driver is controlled to provide scanning row selection voltages to the gate terminals for sequentially updating the each pixel having an initial pixel state, voltages with said plurality of driving column voltages to attain, for each initial pixel state, an initial common pixel state. During a common driving phase the column driver is controlled to provide a uniform column voltage to the source terminals to update the plurality of pixel voltages with a uniform column voltage. In addition, the row driver is controlled to provide row select voltages with a gate swing that is lower during the common driving phase than during the row driving phase so as to drive the pixels from a respective the initial common state to a respective final common state. The pixel states may differ from each other at least during a part of the common driving phase or even during the entire common driving phase, so that initial and final common states and intermediate states may differ from pixel to pixel. | 04-19-2012 |
20120086691 | ELECTROFLUIDIC CHROMATOPHORE (EFC) DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus is described that includes a plurality of electrofluidic chromatophore (EFC) pixel cells. Each pixel cell comprises a fluid holder for holding a polar fluid and a non-polar fluid having differing display properties, the fluid holder comprising a reservoir with a geometry having a small visible area projected in the direction of a viewer onto the polar fluid, and a channel with a geometry having a large visible area projected in the direction of a viewer onto the polar fluid. The channel is connected to the reservoir so as to enable free movement of the polar fluid and non-polar fluid between the channel and the reservoir. At least part of a surface of the channel comprises a wetting property responsive to a supply voltage over the pixel cell and defining (i) a stable region wherein the supply voltage stabilizes polar fluid in the channel; (ii) a fill region that controls filling of polar fluid in the channel and (iii) a retract region that controls retracting of polar fluid in the channel. At least two pixel cell terminals are configured to supply the supply voltage to at least part of the surface of the channel comprising the wetting property for supply voltage controlled channel movement of polar fluid. The display further comprises a driver operative to provide controlled column voltages and any of a predefined row select or non-select voltage. A circuit board comprises a row electrode and a column electrode each directly connecting the driver to the pixel cell terminals for supplying the supply voltage to the pixel cell terminals as a voltage difference between the row and column electrodes in a passive matrix configuration. | 04-12-2012 |
20120086323 | DISPLAY AND METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING A DISPLAY - A method is described for manufacturing a display. The method includes providing a display layer for displaying an image having at least a luminosity component, providing a color filter layer comprising a color filter for filtering the image according to a predetermined pattern, and removably attaching the color filter layer to the display layer. Dependent on the outcome of a test on the product provided with the removably attached color filter layer it may be decided to remove the color filter layer. | 04-12-2012 |
20120038861 | Electronic Display Comprising An Adjustable Color Filter - A color display, and an electronic apparatus comprising the color display, are described herein. The display comprises an illumination unit overlaid with a color filter arranged with a plurality of color filter elements, wherein respective transmissions of the color filter elements are adjustable to allow either transmission for a selected wavelength in said range of wavelengths, or transmission for a number of wavelengths from said range of wavelengths. Such adjustable transmission may be implemented using actuatable fluids which may be controlled by means of electrowetting. | 02-16-2012 |