Abstract:
A display medium includes: a pair of substrates; an electrode arranged between the pair of substrates and on one substrate of the pair of substrates; a multilayered structure including plural color-forming layers arranged between one substrate of the pair of substrates and the electrode, each of the plural color-forming layers containing an electroconductive sheet-like porous body and an electrochromic dye which is retained by the porous body and is reversibly colored or decolored by at least one of an electrochemical oxidation reaction or a reduction reaction, and the colors when the electrochromic dyes in the respective plural color-forming layers are colored being different from one another; and an electrolytic material included in a region between the pair of substrates.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal display element includes a first substrate having a first electrode on one surface thereof, a transparent second substrate having a transparent second electrode on one surface thereof, a first liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition, a color filter, and a second liquid crystal layer containing a liquid crystal composition, and at least one of the first and second liquid crystal layers includes an additive having dielectric properties, and the dielectric constant of the first liquid crystal layer is different from that of the second liquid crystal layer.
Abstract:
An optically writable display medium, which includes a display layer, a photoconductor layer and a pair of electrodes, is provided. The display layer is capable of selectively reflecting incident light in response to an applied voltage and it has memory capability. Electrical resistance of the photoconductor layer changes in response to writing light with which the photoconductor layer is irradiated. The pair of electrodes are disposed such that the display layer and the photoconductor layer are interposed therebetween, with at least one of the electrodes having plural segmented electrodes juxtaposed along a predetermined direction. Each power receiving terminal of the plural segmented electrodes is disposed such that part of a region of the power receiving terminal of each segmented electrode overlaps, in the predetermined direction, but does not contact part of a region of the power receiving terminal of the segmented electrode that is adjacent thereto.
Abstract:
There is provided a display device including: a pair of substrates; a display medium dispersed between the pair of substrates, and including plural kinds of particle groups that move in accordance with an electric field formed between the substrates and have different colors and different absolute values of movement voltages required to move; a voltage applying unit that applies a voltage between the substrates; a first acquisition unit which acquires area information indicating an area corresponding to plural pixels of an image displayed on the display medium; and a control unit that controls the voltage applying unit to apply voltages, which have the same polarity between pixel areas and are equal to or higher than a maximum value among the absolute values of the movement voltages of the kinds of particle groups, to the respective pixel areas when the first acquisition unit acquires the area information.
Abstract:
An optical writing apparatus includes an irradiation unit which irradiates a writing light on an optical writing image display medium comprising a photoconductor layer and a display layer, a voltage applying unit which applies an image writing pulse voltage to the display layer and the photoconductor layer, and a control unit. The control unit controls the irradiation unit such that, at a first time interval at which the writing light is irradiated, the writing light is irradiated on the photoconductor layer, and controls the voltage applying unit such that a first pulse voltage is applied at an interval which is longer than the first time interval, and such that a second pulse voltage whose polarity is opposite to a polarity of the first pulse voltage and whose absolute value is larger than an absolute value of the first pulse voltage is applied after application of the first pulse voltage.
Abstract:
There is provided a display device including: an electrophoretic display element including, plural types of particles, each of the respective plural types of particles being charged with the same polarity, differing in optical properties, and differing in either in migration speed and/or electric field threshold value for moving, a translucent display-side electrode, a first back-side electrode, and a second back-side electrode; and a voltage control section that controls the voltages applied to the display-side electrode, the first back-side electrode, and the second back-side electrode, such that the types of particles having the fastest migration speed from the plural types of particles, or the types of particles having the lowest threshold value from the plural types of particles, are moved to the first back-side electrode or to the second back-side electrode, and then the particles that moved to the first back-side electrode are moved to the display-side electrode.
Abstract:
A liquid crystal-containing composition includes a first cholesteric liquid crystal having a peak wavelength of selective reflection in the range of from 600 nm to 800 nm and encapsulated in a microcapsule and a second cholesteric liquid crystal having a peak wavelength of selective reflection in the range of from 400 nm to 500 nm as the only liquid crystals, and the content of the second cholesteric liquid crystal with respect to the entire cholesteric liquid crystal content is from about 5 weight % to about 40 weight %.
Abstract:
Provided is a method to drive an image display medium. The method may include applying a variable voltage to a common electrode provided in a first substrate, applying a second voltage to a pixel electrode provided in a second substrate through active matrix driving, wherein the image display medium includes a plurality of kinds of particles sealed between the first and second substrates, the plurality kinds of particles having different threshold characteristics of voltages required to move the particles between the first and second substrates; and controlling through a controller to apply a third voltage between the first and second substrates through a plurality of steps in which the third voltage minimizes particle movements between the first and second substrates during a deviation time such that particles do not move when a potential difference between the first and second substrates is equal to or less than the threshold characteristics of the particles, wherein the deviation time is generated due to deviation of a scanning timing and the potential difference between the first and second substrates.
Abstract:
A screen device of the present invention has a light collecting element array including a plurality of light collecting elements that collect incident light from a projector and a back surface sheet. The back surface sheet includes a first electrode plate, a second electrode plate, a photoconductive layer disposed between the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate, and an image recording layer disposed between the first electrode plate and the photoconductive layer. At the back surface sheet, a light reflecting portion is formed at a light collecting region to which the light collected by the light collecting elements is irradiated, and a light absorbing portion is formed at a non-light collecting region to which the light collected by the light collecting elements is not irradiated.
Abstract:
An image forming apparatus comprises: a holding unit that holds a medium on which an image is formed by irradiation of image-bearing light, the medium having a liquid crystal layer, a photoconductor layer that changes a resistance in response to irradiation of light, and a pair of electrode layers provided in an opposing relation so as to sandwich the liquid crystal layer and photoconductor layer, with at least one of the pair of electrode layers being divided into stripe-shaped sub-electrode layers; an irradiating unit that irradiates the medium with image-bearing light linearly along a longitudinal direction of the sub-electrode layers; a transporting unit that transports the irradiating unit along the surface of the medium in a first or second direction; a power supply unit that applies a voltage between the sub-electrode layer and the electrode layer; and an optical shielding unit that shields the photoconductor layer.