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DRIVE CONTROL APPARATUS AND DRIVE CONTROL METHOD FOR ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY UNIT, ELECTROPHORETIC DISPLAY DEVICE, AND ELECTRONIC APPARATUS

  • US 20110187756A1
  • Filed: 01/20/2011
  • Published: 08/04/2011
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2010
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A drive control apparatus for an electrophoretic display unit performing drive control on the electrophoretic display unit which includes a plurality of pixels which are configured by placing electrophoretic elements storing electrophoretic particles between pixel electrodes and a common electrode opposite to the pixel electrodes, and which displays an image by determining a gradation to be displayed at each of the plurality of pixels in accordance with a voltage applied to the pixel electrodes and the common electrode, the drive control apparatus comprising:

  • a display change preprocessing portion that, if a writing request of the display image to be displayed on the electrophoretic display unit is detected, controls the pixel electrodes and the common electrode for at least a part of the plurality of pixels to have an equal potential before the voltage of the pixel electrode and the common electrode for each of the plurality of pixels, is controlled to have a voltage corresponding to the display image having a writing request.

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