Flat panel television/display

A flat panel electronic display screen comprising:

• an electrically insulating substrate member;
• an array of incandescent light-emitting microelements disposed over an inner surface of said substrate member in an array having a density sufficiently great for the display of a continuous image;
• a plurality of row and column electrodes for selectively energizing said microelements, each microelement being operatively associated with a pair of said row and column electrodes;
• first, second, and third primary color filter means overlying first, second, and third subarrays of said array of microelements, said subarrays being arranged in a pattern for displaying a full-color image by selectively energizing microelements of said subarrays;
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• a transparent faceplate member overlying said microelements and said substrate member to form a thin assembled display screen.

A flat panel electronic display screen comprising:

• an electrically insulating substrate member formed with a plurality of concavities in a surface thereof;
• a plurality of substantially uniform incandescent light-emitting microelements, each microelement being disposed at a concavity of said plurality;
• a plurality of row and column electrodes for selectively energizing said microelements, said electrodes being arrayed on said surface of said substrate member in row and column directions running at least partially along the borders of said concavities with said substrate member surface so as not to block radiation emitted by said microelements or reflected from said concavities, and each said microelement being electrically connected with a pair of said row and column electrodes at the border of its respective concavity;
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• a transparent faceplate member overlying said microelements and said substrate member to form a thin assembled display screen, said faceplate member being formed with a plurality of concavities in the inner surface thereof in registration with the concavities of said substrate member.

A flat panel electronic display screen comprising:

• an electrically insulating substrate member formed of a heat resistant material with a plurality of concavities in a surface thereof, said concavities having a light-reflective and heat reflective surface;
• a plurality of substantially uniform incandescent light emitting microbeads of a generally prolate shape sized to have a small physical and thermal mass, each microbead being disposed at a concavity of said substrate member and spaced apart therefrom so as to reduce heat transfer to said substrate member;
• a transparent faceplate member overlying said substrate member, said faceplate member being formed of a heat resistant material with a plurality of concavities in the inner surface thereof in registration with the concavities of said substrate member, the concavities of said faceplate member having a heat-reflective surface, and said faceplate member being spaced apart from said substrate member so as to reduce heat transfer from said microbeads to said faceplate member;
• wherein the concavities of said substrate member are shaped to reflect light emitted by said microbeads preferentially forward toward said faceplate member;
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• a plurality of row and column electrodes arranged to form an array of crossover points, said electrodes being disposed on said surface of said substrate member in row and column directions running at least partially along the borders of said concavities with said substrate member surface, each microbead being disposed proximate to, and electrically connect across, a respective crossover point for selective energizing thereof.

A flat panel electronic display screen for use in high-resolution display of moving images, comprising:

• an electrically insulating substrate member defining a plurality of pixels on a surface thereof at a pixel density too great to be resolved by the human eye at intended viewing distances;
• a plurality of incandescent light-emitting microelements disposed at said pixels, said microelements not exceeding the associated pixels in size and being formed with sufficiently low thermal inertia to be energized and de-energized at video rates for the display of moving images;
• a plurality of row and column electrodes for selectively energizing said microelements, each microelement being operatively associated with a pair of said row and column electrodes;
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• a transparent faceplate member overlying said microelements and substrate member to form a thin assembled display screen.