What are these displays called

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I now searched the web for about an hour and just can't figure out how these displays are called or where to buy them.

A lot of airports use them for the departure table.
They seem to be just LED-Displays with a really strange dot layout.

Does anybody have an idea how these displays or these dot alignments are called?

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(source: thehindu.com)

Best Answer

This is a really interesting Google challenge.

I think it may be LCD - see this patent (EP 0146285 A2):

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/EP0146285A2?cl=en

This one has what looks like a very similar pixel arrangement:

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US5497171

And here is a brochure where they're described as 'mosaic modules':

http://www.drpmgmt.com/files/LCD.pdf

Somewhat ironically, given the earlier answer which has now been deleted, these appear to be made by Solari, though they're absolutely NOT what people generically refer to as a 'Solari Display'.

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