Patent ID: 8570311

Claim:
A display device comprising: at least one liquid-crystal matrix screen composed of elementary pixels, wherein said at least one liquid-crystal matrix screen comprising: at least a first electrode used as voltage reference and called the “backplane”; a second electrode arranged in a form of a matrix electronic network delivering drive voltages for controlling the elementary pixels and control electronics for said first and second electrodes, said at least one liquid-crystal matrix screen being used in a “normally black” mode, that is to say that the maximum amplitude of the drive voltages for controlling the elementary pixels corresponds to a maximum optical transmission, wherein the drive voltage applied to the “backplane” is a variable periodic voltage having an amplitude variation representing about a third of the maximum amplitude of the drive voltages for controlling the elementary pixels, wherein the amplitude variation being sufficient so that in an absence of voltage on the second electrode, the optical transmission of the elementary pixels is sufficient to be detected by an observer.