Patent ID: 8624824

Claim:
A method for displaying an image on a liquid crystal display including a light valve and a backlight array of individually controllable lighting elements comprising: (a) receiving an image; (b) modifying said image to provide data to said light valve; (c) modifying said image to provide data to said backlight array, wherein said backlight array has a plurality of different colored lighting elements; (d) wherein said data provided to said backlight array is based at least in part upon modifying an intensity value corresponding to light emitted only by a first colored lighting element adjacent a second colored lighting element having a different color than said first colored lighting element to reduce the cross-talk between said first and second colored lighting elements, using a weighted intensity value corresponding to light emitted only by said second colored lighting element, where the weight of said intensity value of said second colored lighting element is based on the distance between said first colored lighting element and said second colored lighting element; (e) wherein said data provided to said light valve corresponding to said lighting element is suitable to provide the desired illumination for said image.