PIXEL ARRANGEMENT FOR FLAT-PANEL DISPLAYS

摘要

A flat-panel modulator includes a plurality of separately modulatable elemen ts or pixels in which the modulating elements on the panel are arranged, notionally or physically, into patches or blocks (shown schematically as 53a , b, c) of individual modulating elements such that space between each patch exists which has no modulating elements. Addressing lines can be located in the space between the blocks, decreasing resistivity. Also the optical resolution of the magnifying optics is much better than if the entire panel were imaged as a whole. Furthermore a seamless image can be built up using suitable optics (51) between the modulator blocks and a screen (52), at leas t some of the blocks being magnified.