TRANSFLECTIVE LC DISPLAY HAVING BACKLIGHT WITH TEMPORAL COLOR SEPARATION

摘要

A transflective display includes a liquid crystal (LC) panel having an array of pixels defining a viewing area, the panel being disposed between a front and back polarizer. The display also includes a backlight and a transflector, except that the transflector may optionally be or include the back polarizer. The transflector is disposed between the LC panel and the backlight. The backlight produces multiple light components that are separated temporally to give the display a full color appearance in the transmissive viewing mode. The multiple light components may be, for example, red, green, and blue light components, or another set of light components capable of producing white light in the eye of the observer when modulated rapidly.