Patent ID: 7419280

Claim:
An illumination assembly, comprising: a base plate; and a multi-chip light emitting diode (LED) array comprising a first diode row including a first multi-chip LED unit and a second multi-chip LED unit each mounted on said base plate, said first multi-chip LED unit including a red LED, a green LED, a blue LED, and a first transparent lens, said second multi-chip LED unit including a red LED, a green LED, a blue LED, and a second transparent lens, emitted light of each of said red, green, and blue LEDs of said first and second multi-chip LED units having a respective primary emission direction along which a majority of the emitted light is projected through a corresponding one of said first and second transparent lenses, the primary emission directions of one of said red, green, and blue LEDs of said first multi-chip LED unit and of the same one of said red, green, and blue LEDs of said second multi-chip LED unit being oriented along a first direction in said first diode row, the primary emission directions of the remaining two of said red, green, and blue LEDs of said first multi-chip LED unit being in a reversed order of the primary emission directions of the same remaining two of said red, green, and blue LEDs of said second multi-chip LED unit in said first diode row.