Patent ID: 7417631

Claim:
In a multi-color reflective display system having a controllable display cell with plural non-sequential color filters that transmit different color components with spectral overlaps between them, the display cell forming a display image from image data provided by an image data source, a color filter cross-talk compensator, comprising: a device for receiving the image data and applying cross-talk compensated color component drive signals, the drive signals compensating for the spectral overlaps, the device obtaining for nominal first, second and third color component color filters relative amounts of each of the first, second and third color components of light that is passed and determining the cross-talk compensated color component drive signals based on color filter cross-talk compensation factors from the relative amounts of the first, second and third color components of light that are passed for the nominal first, second and third color component color filters; and an illumination source selector switch adapted to provide selection of an illumination type used in the display system, the device also for selectively applying the determined cross-talk compensation factors by a user-selected proportion and applying the proportion to non-diagonal terms of a matrix.