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Wiktionary
n. 1 A spotlight that illuminates a photographic subject from behind. 2 A light attached to an LCD display. 3 The rear window of a motor car. vb. To illuminate something from behind.
Wikipedia
A backlight is a form of illumination used in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). As LCDs do not produce light by themselves (unlike for example Cathode ray tube (CRT) displays), they need illumination ( ambient light or a special light source) to produce a visible image. Backlights illuminate the LCD from the side or back of the display panel, unlike frontlights, which are placed in front of the LCD. Backlights are used in small displays to increase readability in low light conditions such as in wristwatches, and are used in smart phones, computer displays and LCD televisions to produce light in a manner similar to a CRT display. A review of some early backlighting schemes for LCDs is given in a report Engineering and Technology History by Peter J. Wild under its section Backlit LCDs.
Simple types of LCDs such as in pocket calculators are built without an internal light source, requiring external light sources to convey the display image to the user. Most LCD screens, however, are built with an internal light source. Such screens consist of several layers. The backlight is usually the first layer from the back. Light valves then vary the amount of light reaching the eye, by blocking its passage in some way. Most use a fixed polarizing filter and a switching one, to block the undesired light.
Backlight is a documentary television series by Dutch public broadcasting organisation VPRO. The first episode of Backlight was broadcast on 8 September 2002.
The series "aims to grasp the quintessence of prominent trends and developments" in the practice of critical journalism, and tries to improve understanding of the intricate inner workings of our modern society.
The series won the Zilveren Nipkowschijf in 2005. The episode " Lockerbie Revisited" won the Prix Europa in the category TV Current Affairs in 2009. The episode "Money & Speed", made for iPad, won the Golden Eye at the Dutch Design Awards in 2011.
VPRO released four documentaries in 2009 and 2010 under a Creative Commons license using the content distribution feature of the Mininova BitTorrent tracker.
Backlight (Portuguese: Contraluz) is a film directed by Fernando Fragata starring Joaquim de Almeida, Evelina Pereira and Scott Bailey. It was the second highest-grossing Portuguese film in 2010.
Usage examples of "backlight".
Seated behind the bench, in tall chairs with split oval tops and silhouetted by the backlight, a dozen members of the club looked down at me.
Does this burst transmitter have a backlight function so I can see it better?
Maybe it was the glow of her hair or the backlight of the flames--or the look in her eyes because that was definitely fiery.
Above them the enormous Star-diamond is growing, changing, convoluting, while all around, the auroral backlight pulses, strobes so that rational speech and thought are becoming difficult.
It was a Baby-G this time--the new one--and when you pressed the backlight button, a little surfer came up on one of the displays.
I made a tunnel over the display with my hand, pressed one of the buttons and the backlight came on again.
His Majesty the King of Cant sat on the throne in a coronal haloa scarlet backlight from braziers that leaped to life above and behind him as he motionlessly oversaw the transformation of his subjects.
The image of the giant in the diamond backlight came clear in her mind, particularly its upraised arms, the great hands that held the boulder.
One spot of ebony, backlighted with a flickering glow, plainly symbolized the black hole Ixpuztec, and a metallic-looking sphere, fringed with infalling radiance, was standing in for Avalon, the neutron star.
There, from across the valley, backlighted by a recently risen moon, she beheld a form atop the next height: a piper.
He sat up, momentarily blinded, but then he froze, when he saw Summerfield standing to one side, not ten feet away, backlighted by the headlights.
Pilgrim paused there, gazing at the monument backlighted against the sunrise, ignoring the rest of his party for the brief time it took them to catch up with him.
His brain took a nanosecond to process the backlighted outline of a female figure pointing a discharged gun.
Two plasma cannon blasted from the center of town, backlighting rooftops like a strobe light.
They spray foam plastic to protect fragile items, spread reflective foil underneath to ward off hot backlighting from the drive flame, and take off on low power.