Patent ID: 8436388

Claim:
A display assembly, comprising: pixel light valves arranged in a layer; a solid-state light-emitting device that outputs a primary light having a primary spectrum; a light guide configured to receive the primary light emitted by the solid-state light-emitting device, the primary light propagating within the light guide and the light guide comprising a light emission surface juxtaposed with the layer of pixel light valves; and first wavelength converting material regions and second wavelength converting material regions at the emission surface, the first wavelength converting material regions configured to convert the primary light incident thereon to a first converted light having a first converted wavelength spectrum and the second wavelength converting material regions configured to convert the primary light incident thereon to a second converted light having a second converted wavelength spectrum different from the first converted wavelength spectrum, each wavelength converting material region aligned with a respective pixel light valve and having a size approximately equal to a size of the respective pixel light valve so that the first converted light from the first wavelength converting material regions and the second converted light from the second wavelength converting material regions individually illuminate the respective pixel light valves.