Configurable timing controller design for active matrix electrophoretic display

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-5

  Kao, Wen Chung ^a   Ye, Jia An ^a   Lin, Feng Shou ^b   Chen, Ping Yueh ^b   Sprague, Robert ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SiPix Technology Inc   (Taiwan)

^c SiPix Imaging Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Display timing controller; Driving waveform; Electronic paper; Electrophoretic display (EPD)

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE-MATRIX BACKPLANES; ACTIVE-MATRIX ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAYS; CONFIGURABLE; CONTRAST RATIO; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DESIGN REQUIREMENTS; DISPLAY TIMING CONTROLLER; DRIVING WAVEFORM; DRIVING WAVEFORMS; ELECTRONIC PAPER; ELECTRONIC PAPERS; ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY (EPD); OPTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; TIMING CONTROLLER; WAVE FORMS;

DESIGN; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; TIME MEASUREMENT;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 65649152977     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2009.4814406     Document Type: Article

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