ELECTRONIC READING DEVICES
First Claim
1. An electronic device including an electroactive display and a light to illuminate said display, wherein said display has a viewing surface, and wherein said light is configured to illuminate said display from in front and to one side of an edge of said viewing surface, across said viewing surface and through a front-most surface of said display.
4 Assignments
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
The invention relates to electronic devices, in particular consumer electronic devices, including an electrophoactive display, as well as to electronic document reading devices, sometimes called e-readers, such as electronic books. We describe an electronic device including an electroactive display and a light to illuminate said display, wherein said display has a viewing surface, and wherein said light is configured to illuminate said display from in front and to one side of an edge of said viewing surface, across said viewing surface and through a front-most surface of said display.
102 Citations
34 Claims
- 1. An electronic device including an electroactive display and a light to illuminate said display, wherein said display has a viewing surface, and wherein said light is configured to illuminate said display from in front and to one side of an edge of said viewing surface, across said viewing surface and through a front-most surface of said display.
- 12. An electronic document reading device comprising at least one page attached to a spine, wherein said page has a viewing surface which is curved towards a viewer of the page, and wherein said at least one page is illuminated through the front of said viewing surface from in front of an edge of said curved viewing surface.
- 20. An electronic book having a clamshell configuration, with first and second physical pages hinged at a spine to enable said clamshell to be opened and closed, each said page having a front surface bearing an electronic display which, when said clamshell is closed, is on the inside of said closed clamshell, the rear surfaces of said physical pages providing respective front and rear surfaces of said electronic book when said clamshell is closed, and wherein when said clamshell is closed said front and rear surfaces of said electronic book taper towards an edge of said book opposite said spine.
-
24. An electronic document reading device having two physical pages each with an electronic page display, said physical pages being hingedly mounted at a spine in a clamshell configuration, said electronic page display being on an inside surface of said reading device when said clamshell is closed, and wherein said reading device includes an external display viewable from the outside of said device when said clamshell is closed.
- 28. An electronic document reading device having two physical pages each with an electronic page display, said physical pages being hingedly mounted at a spine in a clamshell configuration, said reading device further comprising control electronics coupled to memory for storing one or more documents to be read, coupled to said electronic page displays for displaying selected pages of a said document to be read, and coupled to a user control for changing said selected displayed pages, and wherein said user control comprises a thumb paddle towards a base of said spine.
-
30. An electronic document reading device having two physical pages each with an electronic page display, said physical pages being hingedly mounted at a spine in a clamshell configuration, said electronic page displays being on an inside surface of said reading device when said clamshell is closed, wherein each of said electronic page displays has a display surface with a concave curvature in one direction on said display surface, and wherein said clamshell is openable such that a cross-section through said two display surfaces approximates a conic section.
-
31. A method of illuminating an electroactive display of an electronic device, the method comprising:
-
configuring the display such that a viewing surface of the display has a concave curvature in one direction, from a viewing side of the display; and illuminating said viewing surface along said direction through a front surface of said display. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33)
-
-
34. An electronic reader having two pages attached to a central spinal region, each of said pages incorporating a display, said spinal region incorporating a light source to illuminate said displays from the side of each page such that a substantially uniform distribution of light is provided across each said display.
Specification