Patent ID: 8867115

Claim:
A display for displaying a sequence of frames of image data, the display comprising: a light source comprising a plurality of light source segments placed across a backplane area, each light source segment comprising a plurality of individually-controllable light emitters, wherein the set of light source segments partition said backplane area into a set of substantially non-overlapping spatial segments; a spatial light modulator comprising a plurality of SLM segments, each SLM segment comprising a plurality of individually-controllable elements and corresponding to one or more light source segments containing one or more light emitters physically arranged to contribute to illumination of at least one of the plurality of individually-controllable elements of the SLM segment; and a controller configured to update, for a first frame, the SLM segments according to a first order and, for a second frame, to update the SLM segments according to a second order; wherein the first order is different from the second order, and each SLM segment update is derived with consideration of light characteristics of its corresponding light source segment(s) that vary from one light source segment to another in a same frame.