Patent ID: 8174494
Filing Date: 2012-05-08
Classification: G09G

Abstract:
1. An electrophoretic display device comprising: an electrophoretic display panel that has a plurality of drive electrodes, a common electrode, and a plurality of electrophoretic particles disposed between the drive electrodes and the common electrode, and can update the display color of each display unit correlated to a particular drive electrode as a result of the electrophoretic particles moving according to a voltage applied between the drive electrode and the common electrode; and a drive control unit that applies voltage between the drive electrodes and the common electrode to update the display of the electrophoretic display panel; the electrophoretic display device being capable of displaying a first color, a second color, or at least one intermediate color between the first color and the second color in each of the display units; the drive control unit including wherein to the display units of which the current display color is any intermediate color and the updated display color is set to any intermediate color,