An edge lit backlight panel using surface mount LEDs has been introduced by the Optoelectronic Manufacturing Corp (OMC). The panels are a very effective surface mount backlight alternative to the ...

Thanks to their improved luminous efficiency and longer life, coupled with increased demands for a wide color gamut, light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are steadily replacing the venerable cold-cathode ...

A new Apple patent at the US Patent & Trademark Office shows that Apple is looking at developing new edge-lit backlight displays for Macs and its iOS devices. Patent number 20100321609 is for an ...

Apple has been granted a patent (number 8248554) by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for an edge-lit backlight unit with a thin profile. In one embodiment, the backlight unit may include a light ...

Displays are crucial to modern life; they are literally everywhere. But modern flat-panel LCDs and cheap 7-segment LED displays are, well, a bit boring. When we hackers want to display the progress of ...