Patent ID: 7864204

Claim:
A display system for presenting images to a viewer together with complementary peripheral surround-lighting, said system including: (a) a monitor for presenting the images to the viewer; (b) one or more lights for generating specific corresponding parts of a backward-illumination portion of said surround-lighting appearing in operation to the viewer as at least partially peripherally surrounding the monitor; (c) a controller for energizing said one or more lights in response to properties of one or more spatially distributed peripheral portions (S 1 to S 8 ) of the images presented on the monitor; and (d) one or more sensors for (d)(1) sensing specific spatially distributed portions of (i) backward-illumination of said surround-lighting and (ii) environmental illumination of said surround-lighting incident at the display system and (d)(2) generating one or more corresponding sensor signals, wherein the one or more sensors are associated with specific corresponding lights of said one or more lights, and wherein said controller is also arranged in operation to receive said one or more sensor signals for controlling corresponding specific lights of said one or more lights for at least partially compensating color (h h1 to h h8 ) and/or brightness (b h1 to b h8 ) of specific spatially distributed portions of the surround-lighting to influence from corresponding specific spatially distributed portions of the environmental illumination.