Patent ID: 6972519

Claim:
An image display device( 12 ) comprising a plurality of gas discharge lamps ( 15 ), respectively having a discharge vessel filled with a gas fill, at least two electrodes ( 4 , 5 , 6 ), a dielectric layer between at least one of the electrodes ( 4 ) and the gas fill, and a luminescent layer ( 2 , 3 , 9 , 10 , 11 ), wherein the gas discharge lamps ( 15 ) are arranged next to one another in a plane to form a surface ( 14 ), and the image display ( 12 ) is colored and each gas discharge lamp ( 15 ) respectively forms a full color pixel, the electrodes ( 4 , 5 , 6 ) are subdivided into separately operable electrode groups ( 4 , 5 ; 4 , 6 ), the luminescent layer ( 2 , 3 , 9 , 10 , 11 ) is subdivided into differently colored elementary luminescent surfaces, the differently colored elementary luminescent surfaces ( 2 , 3 ; 9 , 10 , 11 ) are assigned to the separately operable electrode groups ( 4 , 5 ; 4 , 6 ), characterized in that the elementary luminescent surfaces and electrode groups are interleaved in such a way that illumination of essentially the entire light emission surface of the gas discharge lamp in question can be obtained overall with each electrode group.