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    发明专利
    未知

    公开(公告)号:DE69905536D1

    公开(公告)日:2003-04-03

    申请号:DE69905536

    申请日:1999-10-11

    Applicant: XEROX CORP

    Abstract: Several variations in full-color additive gyricons are shown. Each gyricon shown has been designed for ease of construction by eliminating the need for precise placement of rotating elements, alignment between the gyricon layers, if any, and alignment between the gyricon sheet and the addressing device.

    AMBIENT ENERGY POWERED DISPLAY
    12.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:CA2282124A1

    公开(公告)日:2000-03-15

    申请号:CA2282124

    申请日:1999-09-13

    Applicant: XEROX CORP

    Abstract: A bistable display device that is powered only by ambient energy. Ambient energy is collected by an ambient energy receiver which converts the ambient energy into an operating signal and provides the operating signal to a controller. The controller drives the display device based on the operating signal. A user can create a custom display by fixing customizable patterned electrodes to the display. A display controller uses a self-starting oscillator. The oscillator outputs a clock input signal wave to a ripple counter and a voltage signal to a voltage doubler. The voltage doubler outputs a stored charge signal to a transformer concurrently with a clock pulse that is output by the ripple counter to change a state of the voltage output from the transformer to conductive electrodes within or on the display. The voltage output from the transformer applies an electric field across the display in the portions of the display covered by the conductors to switch the image on the display. As the display is bistable, if the ambient energy receiver and controller are detached from the display or there is as insufficient amount of ambient energy, the image on the display will stop switching, but will not fade.

    DISPLAY BY AMBIENT ENERGY SUPPLY
    14.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:JP2000098921A

    公开(公告)日:2000-04-07

    申请号:JP26100199

    申请日:1999-09-14

    Applicant: XEROX CORP

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a display supplied with a power source by ambient energy. SOLUTION: This display 400 comprises a control part C supplying a display driving signal using only ambient energy AE. The reason why the control part C is able to impress a driving signal on the display 400 by using only the ambient energy is that optically anisotropic particles 424 require only little energy for the rotation. Any external power source such as battery is not connected from supplying the electric power for impressing an electric field required for driving the display 400.

    VARIABLE DISPLAY DEVICE HAVING FIXED IMAGE PATTERN AND METHOD FOR FIXING IMAGE PATTERN

    公开(公告)号:JP2000310959A

    公开(公告)日:2000-11-07

    申请号:JP2000075270

    申请日:2000-03-17

    Applicant: XEROX CORP

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To form fixed image patterns of a device having both of fixed regions and variable regions by providing the device with the elements of a second set physically fixed to a first stage, which elements of the second set maintain the first stage with respect to any display signals, thereby displaying desired images. SOLUTION: The elements 20 of the fixed regions 100 are first rotated by the conventional method in such a manner that their black surfaces come upward. Next, the selected fixed regions 100 are processed by one of several physical fixing methods. If a variable instruction device is a rotary element type display device, the physical fixation may be executed by applying heat to the elements of the regions to be fixed. As a result, the elements 20 of the fixed regions 100 maintain the black surfaces with respect to any display signals and display the desired images. In the case of, for example, forms, these images include grid lines, headers and labels and the 'name' of the block to be eventually entered by a user of the forms.

    PLURAL MODES SCANNING PEN PROVIDED WITH FEEDBACK MECHANISM AND INPUT METHOD USING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:JP2000231627A

    公开(公告)日:2000-08-22

    申请号:JP35557599

    申请日:1999-12-15

    Applicant: XEROX CORP

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a scanning pen which has plural modes for scanning and processing different data types and is used for an information management system by containing a user feedback device responding to an execution input mode. SOLUTION: A scanning pen 2410 as an input device contains a mounted controller 2412, a data interface 2414 (infrared or RF radio link and the like), an optical scanning head 2416, a manual scanning controller (at least one push key) 2418, a visual feedback mechanism 2420 (display light or display screen), an audio or feeling feedback mechanism 2422 and a mounted storage device 2424. A display screen 2420 operates to recognize a recognized character positioned below the scanning head 2416 and the present mode of the pen 2410 to a user. Thus, the mode can be changed by a manual operation by scanning a digital code printed in a mode book.

    GYRICON SHEET
    17.
    发明专利

    公开(公告)号:JP2000122578A

    公开(公告)日:2000-04-28

    申请号:JP28629899

    申请日:1999-10-07

    Applicant: XEROX CORP

    Abstract: PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a Gyricon sheet which may be easily produced. SOLUTION: This Gyricon sheet has rotating elements 10 which show the color of one component by directing central segments 12 to an observer and are made substantially transparent by directing the edges of the central segments 12 toward the observer. These rotating elements 10 are distributed uniformly and randomly to plural layers or single layers by each of the respective components, pixels or sub-pixels forming the pixels are formed in the positions where the grides of address electrodes for addressing the rotating elements 10 happen to exist. There is, therefore, no need for exact armament of the rotating elements 10 and the exact alignment of the Gyricon layers and there is no need for the alignment of the Gyricon sheet and the address device.

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