Patent ID: 6854854

Claim:
An illumination system for illuminating a display device, the illumination system comprising: first and second light-emitting panels arranged so as to be at least substantially parallel, each panel having a front wall, a rear wall situated opposite said front wall, and edge areas between the front wall and the rear wall, at least one of the edge areas of the first and second panels being light-transmitting, at least one light source in each panel being associated with its respective light-transmitting edge area, and in operation, light originating from the light source being incident on the light-transmitting edge area and spreading in the panel, characterized in that the light source associated with the light-transmitting edge area of the first light-emitting panel comprises first and second light-emitting diodes having respective first and second light emission wavelengths, the light source associated with the light-transmitting edge area of the second light-emitting panel comprises a third light-emitting diode having a third light emission wavelength, and the first, the second and the third light emission wavelength being different.