Elbit Systems Ltd.
LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY HAVING A ROLLING BACKLIGHT

Abstract:

A head wearable device (HWD) suitable to be worn by a user, the HWD may include: a head tracker configured to track a line of sight (LOS) of the user; a near eye display (NED) comprising: a plurality of transistors groups forming a pixel array of said display, a plurality of backlight units, forming a backlight surface of said display; a backlight control module configured to dim the backlight units that spatially overlap one or more of the transistor groups whenever the data at said transistor groups is being refreshed and further configured to change at least one of: a frequency and a location of the dimmed backlight units; and a computer processor coupled to the tracker and the NED and configured to instruct the backlight control module to change at least one of: the frequency and the location of the dimmed backlight units, based on the user LOS.