Patent ID: 7046221

Claim:
A display, comprising: a display panel, the panel having a plurality of pixels configured to modulate light in a temporal sequence so as to form an image during a frame, the pixels having a plurality of light modulating states, including OFF and ON; a light source arrangement that illuminates the display panel, the light source arrangement being configured to selectively emit light of at least one of at least three different colors; and a data ordering arrangement that is receptive of incoming video data and that generates drive signals that drive the pixels to the light modulating states; wherein the frame is divided time-wise into multiple color segments and multiple transition periods, the color segments being time periods where the light source arrangement emits, and illuminates the panel with, only one of the different colors of light, wherein between each two of the color segments is a transition period, the transition period being a time period where the light source arrangement emits, and illuminates the panel with, varying amounts of two of the at least three different colors of light, wherein the incoming video data includes information from which the data ordering arrangement determines pixel brightness values for each color segment, wherein the drive signals cause certain individual pixels to be in the same state other than the OFF state during each of the transition periods of a frame.