Patent ID: 7982823

Claim:
A display comprising: (a) a liquid crystal layer; (b) a backlight that provides light of a plurality of colors to said liquid crystal layer; (c) said liquid crystal layer selectively modifying the transmission of light from said backlight to the front of said display; (d) said backlight includes a plurality of spaced apart light waveguides, each said wavequide adapted to guide light characterized as having a color included in a subset of said plurality of colors, where said subset is less than all of said plurality of colors, said waveguide adapted to not guide light characterized as having a color not included in said subset; (e) said display includes a plurality of selection elements associated with said light waveguides that change the characteristics of the material of said light waveguides to selectively direct the transmission of light toward said liquid crystal layer; (f) wherein the combination of said waveguides and said selection elements provide light to said front of said display in a temporal manner during a frame.