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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2012
Michael D. Hillman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gregory L. Tice, Los Altos, CA (US);
William Sauway Law, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Bailey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ann Torres, San Francisco, CA (US);
Efrain Alcorta, San Francsico, CA (US);
Perry Anderson, Kensington, CA (US);
Michael D. Hillman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Gregory L. Tice, Los Altos, CA (US);
William Sauway Law, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Bailey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ann Torres, San Francisco, CA (US);
Efrain Alcorta, San Francsico, CA (US);
Perry Anderson, Kensington, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A display system with a distributed LED backlight includes: providing a plurality of tile LED light sources, each tile LED light source having a tile and a plurality of similar LED light sources on each tile connected for emitting light therefrom; orienting the plurality of tile LED light sources for illuminating a display from the back of the display; and integrating the plurality of tile LED light sources into a thermally and mechanically structurally integrated distributed LED tile matrix backlight light source.