Patent ID: 9135839
Filing Date: 2015-09-15
Classification: G09F

Abstract:
1. A scroll type display device comprising: a frame; a pair of spools supported on the frame and spaced apart from one another; a flexible web having graphics thereon and being entrained about the pair of spools to span therebetween for scrolling of said flexible web between said first pair of spools under rotation of at least one of said pair of spools; a drive mechanism operable to drive rotation of said at least one of said pair of spools; an illumination panel supported on the frame to underlie the span of the flexible web between the pair of spools, the illumination panel comprising a plurality of multi-color light sources each operable to emit different colors of light to change an illuminated state of the illumination panel; a control system operable to control the multi-color light sources and the drive mechanism, the control mechanism being configured such that scrolling of flexible web from one position to another to change a display shown at the span of the flexible web between the spools corresponds to a respective automatic change in the illuminated state of the illumination panel.