An e-paper imaging system includes a writing unit and a support surface to support a passive e-paper media in a position spaced apart from the writing unit. The writing unit includes a charge generator and an electrode array. The electrode array includes addressable holes to control charges flowing to the support surface.

A method for driving an electro-optic display having a front electrode, a backplane and a display medium positioned between the front electrode and the backplane, the method comprising of applying a first driving phase to the display medium, the first driving phase having a first signal and a second signal, the first signal having a first polarity, a first amplitude as a function of time, and a first duration, the second signal succeeding the first signal and having a second polarity opposite to the first polarity, a second amplitude as a function of time, and a second duration, such that the sum of the first amplitude as a function of time integrated over the first duration and the second amplitude as a function of time integrated over the second duration produces a first impulse offset. The method further comprising applying a second driving phase to the display medium, the second driving phase produces a second impulse offset, wherein the sum of the first and second impulse offset is substantially zero.

A microfluidic system is disclosed, including: a first substrate, a second substrate and a droplet flow channel arranged therebetween; a droplet driving unit configured to drive a droplet to move; a first control circuit electrically connected to the droplet driving unit and configured to input a first driving signal to the droplet driving unit to enable the droplet to move along the predetermined movement trajectory; a droplet detection unit configured to detect the droplet and output a detection signal; a second control circuit electrically connected to the droplet detection unit and configured to receive the detection signal and acquire an actual movement trajectory of the droplet;

and a signal adjustment unit configured to compare the actual movement trajectory with the predetermined movement trajectory, and if the actual movement trajectory is different from the predetermined movement trajectory, adjust in real time the first driving signal into a second driving signal.

An e-paper imaging system includes a writing unit and a support surface to support a passive e-paper media in a position spaced apart from the writing unit. The writing unit includes a charge generator and an electrode array. The electrode array includes addressable holes to control charges flowing to the support surface.

In each of unit circuits that constitute a shift register, a first conduction terminal of a second thin-film transistor that controls the output of an output signal serving as a scanning signal is given a second input clock signal having a amplitude larger than the amplitude of a first input clock signal that is given to a first conduction terminal of a first thin-film transistor that controls the output of an output signal serving as a control signal for controlling another unit circuit. The channel length of the second thin-film transistor is set to be greater than the channel length of the first thin-film transistor, so that the breakdown voltage of the second thin-film transistor is higher than the breakdown voltage of the first thin-film transistor.

In a device for displaying images by application of an electric field to a charged substance, a structure for reducing afterimages and a method for manufacturing the structure are provided. The device is a display device which includes a plurality of pixel electrodes and a charged layer (a layer including a charged substance) provided over the pixel electrodes. An end of one of two pixel electrodes that are adjacent to each other among the plurality of pixel electrodes has a depression in an end-face direction, and an end of the other of the pixel electrodes has a projection in the end-face direction. In a state in which the depression and the projection are in a set, a gap is formed between the two pixel electrodes.

A system comprises a first display driver interface circuit configured to receive a plurality of software control instructions regarding a display device, and a second display driver interface circuit configured to deliver a first control signal to a display device in response to a first of the plurality of software control instructions, and to deliver a second control signal to the display device in response to a second of the plurality of software control instructions. The first control signal directs at least a portion of the display device into a light emitting mode when pixel data to be displayed by that portion of the display device is variable over a determined number of consecutive frames, and the second control signal directs at least a portion of the display device into an electronic paper mode when pixel data to be displayed by that portion of the display device is fixed over the determined number of consecutive frames.

In one embodiment, a device includes a first display which includes one or more first-display pixels that are configured to operate in multiple modes. The multiple modes include a first mode in which the one or more first-display pixels modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light and a second mode in which the one or more first-display pixels are substantially transparent to visible light. The device also includes a second display disposed behind or in front of the first display, the second display configured to emit, modulate, absorb, or reflect visible light.

An e-paper imaging system includes a writing unit and a support surface to support a passive e-paper media in a position spaced apart from the writing unit. The writing unit includes a charge generator and an electrode array. The electrode array includes addressable holes to control charges flowing to the support surface.

An electrophoretic element includes a first substrate and a second substrate, an electrophoretic layer that is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a plurality of pixels that are arrayed in a matrix. The electrophoretic element further includes a partition wall that partitions the electrophoretic layer into individual pixels. The first substrate includes, in each of the pixels, at least three electrodes to which mutually different potentials are capable of being applied. The partition wall includes a first part positioned between two pixels that are adjacent along one direction of a row direction and a column direction and a second part positioned between two pixels that are adjacent along the other direction. In a case where one of two pixels that are adjacent via the first part of the partition wall is set as a first pixel and the other is set as a second pixel, the first part of the partition wall at least partially covers each of one electrode of the first pixel and one electrode of the second pixel.