Complementary color liquid display
First Claim
1. A method for producing a light output, comprising directing light to a plurality of color aligned in optical series, wherein a first one of such filters has one color characteristic and a second one of such filters has the complementary color characteristic, and controlling the amount of filtering by at least one of such filters, whereby such light output has characteristics that are a function of the filtering of both such first and second filters.
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Abstract
A liquid crystal color device (10) includes at least one pel (14) for affecting light (36) incident thereon to produce output light (38), the pel includes three complementary color subsets (30, 32, 34) each having controllable color filtering capability in the respective complementary colors thereof. The color subsets are arranged in optical additive relation, and the color subsets include complementary color parts (30a, 30b, 32a, 32b, 34a, 34b) which are arranged, respectively, in optical serial/subtractive relation. The color filtering function is carried out using liquid crystal materials with respective pleochroic dyes. A method of parametric color control of a liquid crystal device, formed of plural picture elements, each picture element including plural pairs of complementary color filters, comprising directing light to or through an array of such electrically controllable pairs of complementary color filters, and controlling the filtering characteristics of at least one of such filters.
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- 1. A method for producing a light output, comprising directing light to a plurality of color aligned in optical series, wherein a first one of such filters has one color characteristic and a second one of such filters has the complementary color characteristic, and controlling the amount of filtering by at least one of such filters, whereby such light output has characteristics that are a function of the filtering of both such first and second filters.
- 9. Apparatus for producing a light output, comprising means for directing light to a plurality of color filters aligned in optical series, said plurality of color filters including a first filter having one color characteristic and a second filter having the complementary color characteristic, and means for controlling the amount of filtering by at least one of said filters, whereby such light output has characteristics that are a function of the filtering of both said first and second filters.
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