Inventors:
Stanley Canter - Phoenix AZ
Paul A. Warg - Mesa AZ
Forrest E. Brooks - Tempe AZ
Assignee:
ITT Corporation - New York NY
International Classification:
G02F 113
Abstract:
A flat panel liquid crystal display for use in providing single or multi-color display images. The display comprises one or more ultraviolet light sources, a light pipe assembly which includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells that may be addressed via an array of transparent row and column electrodes, and a viewing screen having a plurality of phosphor elements that are located in close proximity and in registry with respective liquid crystal cells. Those phosphor elements and only those phosphor elements that are associated with liquid crystal cells that are in their scattering states are illuminated to form the image to be displayed.