Patent ID: 7909496

Claim:
A lighting system comprising: a light-transmissive light guide having one or more surfaces, the light guide having one or more voids defined therein; one or more light-emitting elements for emitting light having one or more wavelengths, one or more light-emitting elements optically coupled with one or more of the one or more voids thereby enabling propagation of the light through the light guide; one or more sideways reflecting optics optically coupled to said one or more light-emitting elements a plurality of light redirecting elements optically coupled to the light guide and positioned within said void containing said light-emitting element, the light redirecting elements configured to alter the propagation of light through the light guide; wherein said light-transmissive light guide has a shaped rear surface and a transmissive cover and said void containing said light-emitting element extends from said shaped rear surface to said transmissive cover; wherein said shaped rear surface extends outward from said sideways reflecting optics and towards said transmissive cover, said shaped rear surface thereby redirecting light from said light-emitting element towards said transmissive cover; said shaped rear surface extending upwardly towards said transmissive cover and having at least a portion being either linear and non-linear between said light-emitting element and said transmissive cover.