Semi-permanent electronic paper
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- circuitry configured to substantially semi-permanently write to a first region of an electronic paper;
circuitry configurable to conditionally disenable an entity from writing to the first region of the electronic paper by determining whether an image to be written to the electronic paper is to be written to the first region and, if the image is to be written to the first region and the first region has previously been written to a specified number of times, disenabling the image from being written to the first region,wherein determining whether to disenable the image from being written to the first region includes receiving an identity of the first region from a source independent of the electronic paper.
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Abstract
An apparatus and method to control the writing on electronic paper.
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41 Claims
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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circuitry configured to substantially semi-permanently write to a first region of an electronic paper; circuitry configurable to conditionally disenable an entity from writing to the first region of the electronic paper by determining whether an image to be written to the electronic paper is to be written to the first region and, if the image is to be written to the first region and the first region has previously been written to a specified number of times, disenabling the image from being written to the first region, wherein determining whether to disenable the image from being written to the first region includes receiving an identity of the first region from a source independent of the electronic paper. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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7. The apparatus of clam 6 wherein the circuitry configurable to substantially permanently write to a second region of the electronic paper comprises:
circuitry configurable to substantially permanently write to the second region by disenabling an image to be written to the second region from being downloaded to the electronic paper.
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20. An apparatus comprising:
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circuitry configurable to conditionally disenable an entity from writing to a specific region of an electronic paper by determining whether an image to be written to the electronic paper is to be written to the specific region and, if the image is to be written to the specific region and the specific region has previously been written to a specified number of times, disenabling the image from being written to the specific region, wherein for determining whether to disenable the entity from writing to the specific region an identity of the specific region is obtained from a source independent of the electronic paper. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34)
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35. A method of using electronic paper comprising:
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on a first region of said paper conditionally disenabling an entity from writing to the first region by determining whether an image to be written to the electronic paper is to be written to the first region and, if the image is to be written to the first region and the first region has previously been written to a specified number of times from a first entity, disenabling the image from being written to the first region; and on a second region of the paper writing an image exclusively from a second entity, and/or on a third region of the paper writing an image exclusively from a third entity, wherein for determining whether to disenable the images from being written to the regions identities of the regions are obtained from a source independent of the electronic paper. - View Dependent Claims (36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. An apparatus comprising:
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circuitry configurable to substantially semi-permanently write to a specific region of an electronic paper, the electronic paper having a plurality of regions; circuitry configurable to download an image indicating signal for writing to the electronic paper, the image indicating signal being downloaded from a source independent from the electronic paper; and circuitry configurable to conditionally disenable writing to the specific region of the electronic paper by determining from the image indicating signal whether an image to be written to the electronic paper is to be written to the specific region and, if the image is to be written to the specific region and the specific region has previously been written to a specified number of times, disenabling the image from being written to the specific region.
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