Patent ID: 8704754
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. A driving device of a display medium that includes: a display substrate that is light-transmissive; a rear substrate that is disposed so as to face the display substrate with a gap therebetween; electrodes including a front electrode that is disposed at the display substrate and is light-transmissive and a rear electrode that is disposed at the rear substrate; a dispersion medium that is disposed between the front electrode and the rear electrode; and two or more types of particle groups that are dispersed in the dispersion medium and that include a first particle group and a second particle group having different colors and charge polarities, the first particle group and the second particle group migrating independently of each other and away from each other due to a first potential difference being imparted between the electrodes for a first time period, the first particle group and the second particle group respectively adhering to a display substrate side and a rear electrode side of the display medium, the first particle group and the second particle group forming aggregates, that have an overall positive or negative charge, due to the first potential difference being imparted between the electrodes, with opposite polarity to the polarity of the first potential difference that causes the first particle group and the second particle group to migrate away from each other, for a second time period that is shorter than the first time period, wherein the aggregates are formed by grouping the first particle group and the second particle group together, the formed aggregates migrating together due to a second potential difference being imparted that is smaller than the first potential difference, the driving device comprising a potential difference imparting section that: imparts, between the electrodes, the first potential difference that forms the aggregates; imparts, between the electrodes, a third potential difference that dissociates a portion of the first particle group and a portion of the second particle group from the formed aggregates and moves, to the display substrate side, a particle group corresponding to the portion of the first particle group or the portion of the second particle group for which a greater amount of particles is needed for a gradation display of a particular gradation, in an amount of a difference between an amount of particles of the first particle group and an amount of particles of the second particle group needed for the gradation display; when the particle group for which a greater amount of particles is needed for the gradation display has an opposite polarity to the aggregates, the potential difference imparting section imparts, between the electrodes, a fourth potential difference that moves the particle group and an amount of the aggregates needed for the gradation display toward the display substrate side; and when the particle group of which a greater amount of particles is needed for the gradation display has a same polarity as the aggregates, the potential difference imparting section imparts, between the electrodes, a fifth potential difference that moves the particle group and an amount of the aggregates not needed for the gradation display toward the rear substrate side.