Patent ID: 8149208

Claim:
An electrophoretic display panel for displaying a first picture and a second picture subsequent to the first picture, the panel comprising: a first and a second substrate opposed to each other; an electrophoretic medium between the substrates; a plurality of pixels; a first and a second electrode associated with one of the pixels for receiving a potential difference; and a driver; wherein: the electrophoretic medium provides the pixel with an appearance, the appearance being one of a first and a second extreme appearances and intermediate appearances between the first and the second extreme appearance, and the driver controls for the pixel the potential difference to have a picture value in a first period, the picture value providing the pixel with a first picture appearance depending on the first picture, to have a subsequent picture value in a second period later than the first period, the subsequent picture value providing the pixel with a second picture appearance depending on the second picture, the second picture appearance being optically closer to the first extreme appearance than to the second extreme appearance, and to have an inter-picture value in a third period interposed between the first and second periods, the inter-picture value providing the pixel with an estimate picture appearance substantially equal to the first extreme appearance.