Abstract: Introduced here are containers designed to promote compliance with regimens for administering the medications stored therein. These containers have various features that allow them to be more easily managed by the individuals to whom the medications were prescribed. Some features improve the ease with which containers communicate with individuals. These features may enable information to be more easily input by individuals and/or output for individuals in a comprehensible manner. Other features improve the mechanical or electrical durability of containers. Such features may enable the containers to be used by individuals over the course of several days, weeks, or months without worrying about structural damage or loss of power.

Abstract: The invention provides for an interface device that measures strain on a specific area of the printed circuit board. The measurements are converted into an electrical signal and sent for processing. The processing results in the apparatus performing a desired function. The interface device includes a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board comprises a plurality of layers, including a conductive layer. The interface device further includes a strain sensing device. The strain sensing device is mounted on the printed circuit board and includes a substrate, a strain sensing element, and associated circuitry. In some instances, the strain sensing device includes one strain sensing element and in other instances multiple strain sensing elements can also be used.

Abstract: The invention provides for an interface device that measures strain on a specific area of the printed circuit board. The measurements are converted into an electrical signal and sent for processing. The processing results in the apparatus performing a desired function. The interface device includes a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board comprises a plurality of layers, including a conductive layer. The interface device further includes a strain sensing device. The strain sensing device is mounted on the printed circuit board and includes a substrate, a strain sensing element, and associated circuitry. In some instances, the strain sensing device includes one strain sensing element and in other instances multiple strain sensing elements can also be used.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for an electromechanical systems (EMS) assembly. The EMS assembly includes a substrate, an anchor disposed on the substrate, and a suspended planar body supported over the substrate by the anchor. The suspended planar body includes at least one depression extending out of a plane of the suspended planar body and protruding towards the substrate. The suspended planar body also includes a substantially horizontal portion corresponding to a gap in the at least one depression. An extent of the gap is up to 20% of a length of the suspended planar body.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for reducing ambient light reflection in a display device having a backplane incorporating low-temperature polycrystalline silicon (LTPS) transistors. Ambient reflection can be reduced by incorporating both conductive and non-conductive light-absorbing materials into the display backplane. A light-absorbing conductive material that can withstand the temperatures generated by laser annealing of LTPS transistor channels can be deposited and patterned such that its footprint substantially coincides with the footprints of the LTPS channels. After the LTPS channels are fabricated, a light-absorbing dielectric material can be deposited with a footprint extending at least below the footprints of other reflective components of the backplane to be positioned above the light-absorbing dielectric material.

Abstract: A method of operating a display including loading image data to pixels in multiple rows of pixels in an array of pixels during a data loading phase, actuating the pixels in the multiple rows during an update phase, and illuminating at least one lamp during an lamp illumination phase to illuminate the actuated pixels to form an image on the display, in which each of the loading, actuating and illuminating phases partially overlap in time.

Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to display devices including a metal circuit layer embedded in a dielectric layer configured to provide optical properties. Trenches in the dielectric layer may be etched so that the thickness of the metal circuit layer may extend away from other circuit layers. In some implementations, the metal circuit layer can include thick metal routing lines to send data to pixels of the display device. The thick metal routing lines can provide high conductivity, minimal voltage drop, and signal speed that is sufficiently high to write data to many pixels over long distances. In some implementations, the dielectric layer can be configured to absorb light. Examples of such dielectric layers include carbon-doped spin-on-glass dielectric layers.

Abstract: A display apparatus incorporating electromechanical light modulators and a layer of material including apertures corresponding to the electromechanical light modulators that results in the display apparatus having lower power-consumption.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for a capacitance change tracking circuit. In one aspect, the capacitance change tracking circuit may determine a capacitance change associated with a display element including a movable element capable of positioning from a first position to a second position. The capacitance change tracking circuit may adjust an operating parameter of the display element based on the capacitance change. For example, the adjusted operating parameter may be an adjustment to an allocated time for the movable element to position from the first position to the second position or an adjustment to a voltage applied to an electrode of the display element.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus including devices that include layers of passivation material covering at least a portion of an exterior surface of a thin film component within a microelectromechanical device. The thin film component may include an electrically conductive layer that connects via an anchor to a conductive surface on a substrate. The disclosure further provides processes for providing a first layer of passivation material on an exterior surface of a thin film component and for electrically connecting that thin film component to a conductive surface on a substrate. The disclosure further provides processes for providing a second layer of passivation material on any exposed surfaces of the thin film component after release of the microelectromechanical device.

Abstract: This disclosure provides display-related systems, methods, and apparatus. A display apparatus can include an array of display elements and an address-selector architecture for addressing and loading data into the array of display elements. The address-selector architecture can include a plurality of bank drive interconnects that can provide write enable voltages. Each of a plurality of scan-line interconnects, where each scan-line interconnect is coupled to one row of display elements, is selectively electrically connected to one bank drive interconnect via a transistor. The scan-line interconnects and their corresponding transistors are grouped into a number of row-banks, where the row-banks can include unequal number of scan-line interconnects. The gate terminals of the transistors in each row-bank are connected to a bank-control interconnect. A bank control interconnect driver provides voltages to the bank-control interconnects for selectively turning the transistors in each bank ON and OFF.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a display having an array of pixels, a substrate, and a control matrix formed on the substrate are described. The array of pixels includes mechanical light modulators that can be referred to as micro-electro-mechanical or MEMS light modulators. The MEMS light modulators may be shutter-based light modulators, and an array of apertures may be formed on the substrate corresponding spatially to the shutters in the array of shutter-based light modulators. Each modulator is configured to be driven from a-light-blocking state to a-light-transmissive state through a movement direction. The array of light modulators are arranged to reduce the correlations in movement directions of neighboring pixels, thereby reducing the amplitude of acoustic emissions from the display.

Abstract: The invention relates to methods and apparatus for forming images on a display utilizing a control matrix to control the movement of MEMs-based light modulators.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for integrating a photovoltaic cell with a display device. One innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in a display device that includes a first transparent panel and an array of display elements arranged adjacent the first panel. Each display element includes a shutter-based assembly including at least one shutter and at least one actuator capable of translating the shutter to modulate light. The display device also includes a photovoltaic aperture layer arranged adjacent the first panel. The photovoltaic aperture layer includes an array of apertures, each aperture allowing light from a corresponding display element to pass through the photovoltaic aperture layer for display. The display device further includes an array of conductive leads capable of receiving electrical power generated from the photovoltaic aperture layer.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus including devices that include layers of passivation material covering at least a portion of an exterior surface of a thin film component within a microelectromechanical device. The thin film component may include an electrically conductive layer that connects via an anchor to a conductive surface on a substrate. The disclosure further provides processes for providing a first layer of passivation material on an exterior surface of a thin film component and for electrically connecting that thin film component to a conductive surface on a substrate. The disclosure further provides processes for providing a second layer of passivation material on any exposed surfaces of the thin film component after release of the microelectromechanical device.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a display having an array of pixels, a substrate, and a control matrix formed on the substrate are described. The array of pixels includes mechanical light modulators that can be referred to as micro-electro-mechanical or MEMS light modulators. The MEMS light modulators may be shutter-based light modulators, and an array of apertures may be formed on the substrate corresponding spatially to the shutters in the array of shutter-based light modulators. Each modulator is configured to be driven from a-light-blocking state to a-light-transmissive state through a movement direction. The array of light modulators are arranged to reduce the correlations in movement directions of neighboring pixels, thereby reducing the amplitude of acoustic emissions from the display.

Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for locating at least a portion of the routing interconnects on the aperture plate to reduce or completely eliminate bezel space, reduce line resistance, reduce line capacitance and increase power savings. In some implementations, one aspect, the routing interconnects may electrically connect row interconnects from an array of pixels to a row voltage driver. In some implementations, a conductive spacer may be coupled between an aperture plate and a light modulator substrate and may electrically connect at least one row interconnect on the light modulator substrate to at least one routing interconnect on the aperture plate. Some or all of the routing interconnects may run through the display area of the electromechanical device. Some or all of the conductive spacers may make contact with a row interconnect and a routing interconnected within the display area, for example via a conductive contact pad.

Abstract: This application relates to a display including a first layer of material including a first aperture having at least one side, a first substrate separated from the first layer of material by a gap, where the first substrate is arranged to pass through a portion of light emitted from a light source into the gap. The display further includes a movable shutter arranged within the gap, where the shutter is movable to at least a first position and a second position, to obstruct passage of the portion of light through the first aperture at the first position. The movable shutter has a first edge, and in the first position, the movable shutter is aligned with the first aperture such that the first edge extends a first length past the at least one side of the first aperture.

Abstract: This invention relates to MEMS display apparatus and methods for assembly thereof that include a plurality of light modulators having components substantially surrounded in a liquid that reduces the effects of stiction and improves the optical and electromechanical performance of the display apparatus. The invention also relates to methods for aligning components of a MEMS display to establish a correspondence between the plurality of light modulators and a plurality of apertures to regulate the transmission of light through the apparatus.

Abstract: A device includes a first substrate formed of a first material and a plurality of electromechanical devices formed upon a surface of the first substrate. The device also includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip bonded to the surface of the first substrate where the integrated circuit chip is formed of a material selected from a group consisting of the first material or a material having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) that is substantially similar to the CTE of the first material.