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Persistent display device with power harvesting

US10269309B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC · US

Inventors

Stuart Taylor · Cambridge, GB
Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen · Cambridge, GB
John Helmes · Aan de Bergen, NL
Stephen E. Hodges · Cambridge, GB
James W. Scott · Katy, US
Albrecht Schmidt · Kornwestheim, DE
Pascal Knierim · Munich, DE
Gavin Wood · Berlin, DE
Josh Fromm · Seattle, US
Tobias Grosse-Puppendahl · Cambridge, GB

Key dates

Filing date	Oct 5, 2015
Grant date	Apr 23, 2019
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 10, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG09G2370/16
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A display device which includes an electronic paper display additionally comprises power harvesting hardware and display update hardware which is configured to control the updating of the electronic paper display based on a sensed power harvesting level which may, in various embodiments, be a current incoming power level as generated by the power harvesting hardware or a stored power level in a power storage device within the display device.

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