Display device

• US 8,885,244 B2
• Filed: 01/18/2013
• Issued: 11/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 09/27/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Snaptrack Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm MEMS Technologies Incorporated (Qualcomm, Inc.)
• Inventors: Gally, Brian J., Cummings, William J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ben, Loha
• Application Number:
  US13/745,533
• Publication Number:
  US 20130135706A1
• Time in Patent Office: 662 Days
• Field of Search: 359290-295, 359/298, 455/66.1, 455/90, 455/344, 455/345, 455/566, 455/568, 370/293, 379/443, 345/156, 345/170, 345/173, 345/174, 345/204
• US Class Current: 359/290
• CPC Class Codes: B44F 1/10 Changing, amusing, or secret pictures
• CPC Class Codes: B44F 1/14 Iridescent effects
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 26/001 based on interference in an adjustable optical cavity interference filters G02B5/28; devices or arrangements using multiple reflections in spectrometry or monochromators G01J3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G02B 30/34 Stereoscopes providing a stereoscopic pair of separated images corresponding to parallactically displaced views of the same object, e.g. 3D slide viewers
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3466 based on interferometric effect
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 3/3473 based on light coupled out of a light guide, e.g. due to scattering, by contracting the light guide with external means
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49002 Electrical device making

Abstract

An ornamental display device having at least one interferometric modulator, a signal receiver configured to receive an external signal and a processor configured to control the display based on the external signal is disclosed. In one aspect, the external signal is emitted from a controller. In another aspect, the external signal is emitted from a computer.

Claims

1. An ornamental device, comprising:

a display having at least one interferometric modulator;

a signal receiver configured to receive an external signal; and

a processor configured to control the display based on the external signal.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the external signal is emitted from a controller.

3. The device of claim 1, wherein the external signal is emitted from a computer.

4. The device of claim 1, further comprising a switch, wherein the switch is configured to activate more than one mode of the display.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to display text on the display.

6. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured to display text on the display based on the external signal.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to display a video on the display.

8. The device of claim 1, further comprising a wrist watch.

9. The device of claim 1, further comprising a personal digital assistant.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to execute one or more software modules.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to execute a web browser.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to execute a telephone application.

13. The device of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured to execute an email program.