Apparatus for the display of embedded information

• US 9,990,030 B2
• Filed: 09/19/2014
• Issued: 06/05/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Edged Display Management LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Edged Display Management LLC (IPValuation Partners, LLC)
• Inventors: Weiner, Michael L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mengistu, Amare
• Assistant Examiner(s): STEPP JONES, SHAWNA T
• Application Number:
  US14/490,906
• Publication Number:
  US 20160085294A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,355 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1652 the display being flexible, e.g. mimicking a sheet of paper, or rollable
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1415 with means for detecting differences between the image stored in the host and the images displayed on the displays
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2380/02 Flexible displays

Abstract

An apparatus for the electronic display of information, where the apparatus is a substrate incorporating a digital recording medium attached to or embedded within the substrate. The substrate further includes a flexible-substrate display located on an exposed surface of the substrate, where the display is a medium capable of selectively displaying one of at least two possible colors at each pixel location thereon in order to produce a substrate medium that may be modified in accordance with a user'"'"'s selection.

Claims

1. An apparatus for electronic display of information comprising:

a flexible substrate having first information marked thereon;

a digital recording medium disposed on the flexible substrate and storing second information; and

a flexible display medium disposed on the flexible substrate such that the flexible display medium is flush with a surface of the flexible substrate, selectively displaying one of at least two colors at a plurality of pixel locations of the flexible display medium, and indicating a change in state responsive to a signal generated using the second information.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the digital recording medium comprises at least one of flash memory, bubble memory, and magnetic tape.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second information includes a page in a publication.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the page is a newspaper page.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second information includes a readable page.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

a portable power supply providing power to the digital recording medium and the flexible display medium;

wherein

the flexible substrate includes at least one user-interactive element receiving input from a user to selectively alter the display of information on the flexible display medium.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the flexible display medium displays textual and graphic information associated with a map.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the apparatus is integrated with a product package such that the flexible display medium selectively displays second information related to the product.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the second information stored by the digital recording medium is received through a wireless source.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the at least two colors include black and white.

11. A device comprising:

a flexible substrate having first information marked thereon;

a digital recording medium disposed on the flexible substrate, the digital recording medium storing second information, and capturing digital content; and

a flexible display medium disposed on the flexible substrate such that the flexible display medium is flush with a surface of the flexible substrate and selectively displaying one of at least two colors at each pixel location thereon, indicating a change in state responsive to a signal generated using the second information.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the digital recording medium includes a digital camera for capturing the digital content.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the digital recording medium includes a camcorder for capturing the digital content.

14. The device according to claim 11, wherein the at least two colors include black and white.

15. A device, comprising:

a flexible substrate having first information marked thereon;

a digital recording medium disposed on the flexible substrate and storing second information received through a wireless source;

a flexible display medium disposed on the flexible substrate such that the flexible display medium is flush with a surface of the flexible substrate, selectively displaying one of at least two colors at a plurality of pixel locations of the flexible display medium, including an updateable electrophoretic display unit, and indicating a change in state responsive to a signal generated using the second information, such that the flexible display medium displays textual and graphic information associated with an electronic book;

a portable power supply providing power to the digital recording medium and the flexible display medium; and

at least one user-interactive element receiving input from a user to selectively alter the display of information on the flexible display medium.

16. A device comprising:

a substrate having first information marked thereon;

a digital recording medium disposed on the substrate and storing second information received through a wireless source;

a flexible display medium disposed on the substrate such that the flexible display medium is flush with a surface of the flexible substrate, selectively displaying one of at least two colors at a plurality of pixel locations of the flexible display medium, including an updateable electrophoretic display unit, and indicating a change in state responsive to a signal generated using the second information, such that the flexible display medium displays textual and graphic information associated with an electronic book;

a portable power supply providing power to the digital recording medium and the flexible display medium; and

at least one user-interactive element receiving input from a user to selectively alter the display of information on the flexible display medium, and including a touch-sensitive device embedded within the substrate.