Electro-optical digital display

Communications: electrical – Systems – With specific power supply

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58 50R, 350150, 350160P, G06F 314

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ABSTRACT:
An electro-optical digital display particularly suited for use in an electronic wristwatch is provided. The display includes a transparent ceramic material formed as a plate having a pair of opposed major surfaces. Circuitry selectively applying an electric field to the ceramic material, the circuitry including a first transparent electrode engaging a first major surface of the plate and a second reflective electrode adapted to reflect light incident thereon provided from the second major surface of the plate. The first transparent electrode is segmented to define selected regions of application of an electric field to the selective regions of a ceramic plate. A polarization device for circular polarization is disposed adjacent the transparent electrode in the path of incident light upon the transparent electrode, incident light being reflected at selected regions by the reflective electrode in response to the selective energization of the segmented and reflective electrodes, the plate appearing opaque to incident light in the absence of such selective energization.

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