Display medium drive device, computer-readable storage medium, and display device
A display medium drive device includes: a translucent display medium, a back substrate opposing the display substrate, a dispersant sealed between the display substrate and the back substrate, and plural types of particle groups with different colors and charge polarities that are dispersed in the dispersant so as to move in the inter-substrate space in response to an electric field; and a voltage application unit which, in a case of displaying a gradation of a color of a first particle group, applies a first voltage and which is a voltage equal to or greater than a threshold voltage needed to cause at least some of the first particle group to detach from the display substrate or the back substrate and thereafter applies a second voltage that has the same polarity as the first voltage and is lower than the threshold voltage.
1. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing a program to cause a computer to execute a driving method for a display medium that has a translucent display substrate, a back substrate that is placed opposing the display substrate across a gap, a dispersant that is sealed in an inter-substrate space between the display substrate and the back substrate, and plural types of particle groups with different colors and charge polarities that are dispersed in the dispersant and are sealed in the inter-substrate space so as to move in the inter-substrate space in response to an electric field formed in the inter-substrate space, the driving method comprising:
in a case of displaying a gradation of a color of a first particle group of the plural types of particle groups, applying to the inter-substrate space a first voltage according to the gradation of the color of the first particle group and which is a voltage equal to or greater than a threshold voltage needed to cause at least some of the particles of the first particle group to detach from the display substrate or the back substrate and thereafter applies a second voltage having a same electric field direction as having a same electric field direction of the first voltage and is lower than the threshold voltage,
wherein the second voltage is a voltage whose voltage value is larger than that of a threshold voltage of a second particle group whose threshold voltage is next highest after the first particle group.
2. A driving method for a display medium that has a translucent display substrate, a back substrate that is placed opposing the display substrate across a gap, a dispersant that is sealed in an inter-substrate space between the display substrate and the back substrate, and plural types of particle groups with different colors and charge polarities that are dispersed in the dispersant and are sealed in the inter-substrate space so as to move in the inter-substrate space in response to an electric field formed in the inter-substrate space, comprising:
in a case of displaying a gradation of a color of a first particle group of the plural types of particle groups, applying to the inter-substrate space a first voltage according to the gradation of the color of the first particle group and which is a voltage equal to or greater than a threshold voltage needed to cause at least some of the particles of the first particle group to detach from the display substrate or the back substrate and thereafter applies a second voltage having a same electric field direction as an electric field direction of the first voltage and is lower than the threshold voltage,
wherein the second voltage is a voltage whose voltage value is larger than that of a threshold voltage of a second particle group whose threshold voltage is next highest after the first particle group.
3. A display device comprising:
a display medium that has a translucent display substrate, a back substrate that is placed opposing the display substrate across a gap, a dispersant that is sealed in an inter-substrate space between the display substrate and the back substrate, and plural types of particle groups with different colors and charge polarities that are dispersed in the dispersant and are sealed in the inter-substrate space so as to move in the inter-substrate space in response to an electric field formed in the inter-substrate space; and
a display medium drive device comprising:
a voltage application unit which, in a case of displaying a gradation of a color of a first particle group of the plural types of particle groups, applies to the inter-substrate space a first voltage according to the gradation of the color of the first particle group and which is a voltage equal to or greater than a threshold voltage needed to cause at least some of the particles of the first particle group to detach from the display substrate or the back substrate and thereafter applies a second voltage having a same electric field direction as an electric field direction of the first voltage and is lower than the threshold voltage,
wherein the second voltage is a voltage whose voltage value is larger than that of a threshold voltage of a second particle group whose threshold voltage is next highest after the first particle group.
4. The display device according to claim 3
wherein the voltage application unit changes at least one of the application time and the voltage value of the second voltage in accordance with the gradation of the color of the first particle group.
5. The display device according to claim 3
wherein the application time of the first voltage is an amount of time in which all of the particles that have detached from the display substrate or the back substrate do not attach to the back substrate or the display substrate.
6. The display device according to claim 3
wherein the voltage application unit applies a third voltage whose voltage value is lower than the first voltage and higher than the threshold voltage.