Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080298083 | ELECTRONIC READING DEVICES - The invention relates to electronic devices, in particular consumer electronic devices, including an electrophoactive display, as well as to electronic document reading devices, sometimes called e-readers, such as electronic books. We describe an electronic device including an electroactive display and a light to illuminate said display, wherein said display has a viewing surface, and wherein said light is configured to illuminate said display from in front and to one side of an edge of said viewing surface, across said viewing surface and through a front-most surface of said display. | 12-04-2008 |
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20120017254 | VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A content server for use in a video content storage system for storing and distributing video content to system users, the server comprising: input means for communicating, across a communications network, with a system user at a remotely located terminal; a data store for storing video content; and output means for streaming stored video content across the communications network to a system user upon receipt of a request to viewed the stored content. | 01-19-2012 |
20120188331 | CONTENT DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM - A content server for managing a video conference session between two or more users, each user being located at a remotely located user terminal, the server comprising: input means arranged to receive streaming video from a user terminal; file streaming means arranged to stream video to each user terminal wherein the content server is arranged to receive video from one user terminal at a time and to stream the received video to the other user terminals. | 07-26-2012 |
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20080297496 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT READING DEVICES - This invention generally relates to an electronic document reading device, that is to a device such as an electronic book which presents a document to a user on a display to enable the user to read the document. A portable flex-tolerant electronic document reading device, the device including a flex-tolerant display coupled to a flex-tolerant layer of pixel driver circuitry, and wherein said device has a physical configuration comprising a planar display surface and a rear surface having a frame around its outer perimeter to stiffen the device, the frame defining a central region of relatively reduced thickness compared with a thickness of said frame. | 12-04-2008 |
20090109185 | Electronic Document Reader - We describe a display device for displaying an electronic document page comprising a central rewritable portion, a non-rewritable border with external lateral physical dimensions defined by the display edges, wherein said border is coloured to substantially match a background colour of said central rewritable portion such that when a foreground part of said document page is displayed on said central rewritable portion the appearance of margins of said document page is provided by said background coloured border whereby in use said displayed electronic document page appears to extend up to said display edges, and wherein the surface of the display is substantially flat over the lateral physical dimensions from the central rewritable portion across the border to the display edges. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109468 | DOCUMENT PRINTING TECHNIQUES - We describe a portable paperless electronic printer for displaying a printed document on an electronic paper display. The paperless electronic printer includes an input to receive print data from an output of a printer driver of a computerised electronic device, a non-volatile electrophoretic display to provide an electronic paper display of stored said print data for a said document page to mimic said document page when printed on paper; and a processor coupled to said input, to non-volatile memory, and to said non-volatile electrophoretic display and configured to input said print data, to store said data derived from said print data in said non-volatile memory, and to provide to said non-volatile electrophoretic display data for displaying a said document page derived from said stored data. | 04-30-2009 |
20090109498 | ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT READING DEVICES - We describe a method of displaying one or more pages of a document on an electronic document reading device using a second, computerised electronic device, the method comprising: running a document display management program on said second electronic device; using said management program to invoke an application running on said second electronic device to open said document on said second electronic device, such that said opening of said document is hidden from said user; using an intermediary code module, in particular a printer driver for said application, coupled to said application to generate image data representing an image of a said page of said document to be displayed on said electronic document reading device; sending said image of said page to said electronic document reading device; and displaying said image of said page on said electronic document reading device. | 04-30-2009 |
20090113291 | Electronic Document Reader - We describe a method of displaying a document page with a predetermined size using a display device having edges defining lateral dimensions not substantially larger than said predetermined size and having a central re-writable display portion and a non-re-writable border, said document page comprising a central, foreground portion bearing one or both of text and graphics, a background having a background colour and at least one margin having said background colour, the method comprising: inputting page data defining a page for display; processing said page data to crop margins of said page such that, when displayed on said re-writable display portion, said non-re-writable border gives the appearance of said cropped margins, said processing generating cropped page data; and outputting said cropped page data for display on said re-writable display portion of said display. | 04-30-2009 |
20120306811 | Touch Screen Displays - We describe a projected capacitance touch screen sensing system comprising: a plurality of touch sensing circuit modules each configured to interpolate between sensed touching of a plurality of adjacent electrodes simultaneously and to output corresponding interpolated touch sense data at a resolution greater than that of a spacing between said electrodes; wherein each of said row and column electrodes has a break to divide the electrode into portions, one of said portions having an electrical connection at one side of the display screen, the other of said portions having an electrical connection at an opposite side of the screen; the sensing system comprising a controller coupled to touch sense data outputs of first to fourth touch sensing circuit modules, said controller configured to select interpolated touch sense data from one of first and second modules to provide row interpolated touch sense data, wherein selection of said first and second modules is responsive to interpolated touch sense data from said third and fourth modules, and wherein said controller is configured to select interpolated touch sense data from one of said third and fourth modules to provide column interpolated touch sense data, wherein selection of said interpolated touch sense data from one of said third and fourth modules is responsive to said interpolated touch sense data from said first and second modules. | 12-06-2012 |