Patent 7675665 was granted and assigned to Pixtronix on March, 2010 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
This invention relates to display apparatuses having an array of light modulators and a plurality of apertures formed in a layer of material. Each light modulator corresponds to one or more apertures and has a portion which may overlap a corresponding aperture, where the size of the overlap is proportional to a distance between the array and the layer of material.