Display device incorporating brightness control and a method of operating such a display
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Jun 16, 1992
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Sep 21, 1987
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Sep 20, 1986
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A display device is formed by a matrix of surface-stabilized bi-stable ferroelectric liquid crystal elements each being separately settable by a matrix driver. To provide brightness control or color in the display, all the elements of the matrix are set in accordance with a portion of a signal for display and the amount of light passing through the matrix for that setting is controlled in accordance with the binary significance of the respective portion of the signal. This control is produced by varying one of the activation duration or intensity of a light source, such as sets of fluorescent tubes in accordance with the binary significance of the brightness information in the input signal. Half of the frame time (T) is used for the numerous setting operations on the matrix of elements and half is used for the backlighting operations of the various settings.
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