Methods for managing remnant voltage during fast updates in electrophoretic displays

Abstract

Methods for actively managing remnant voltage on backplane electrodes when driving an electrophoretic display, especially with short waveforms, such as used for scrolling, pinch-zoom, pulldown menus, and even video. The methods track the remnant voltage changes for each backplane electrode during a series of image updates and use same color transitions to either improve the optical quality state of the display pixel or to decrease the remnant voltage at the display pixel. Thus, it is not necessary to employ full reset pulses, which typically drive a backplane electrode to both extreme voltage states and appear very “flashy” to a user.

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