Character display

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION FOR USE WITH DISPLAY SYSTEM FOR VISUALLY DISPLAYING INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION IN THE FORM OF INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS, INCLUDING, A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED LIGHT SOURCES, MEANS OPERATIVELY COUPLED TO THE PLURALITY OF ELONGATED LIGHT SOURCES AND RESPONSIVE TO THE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION TO ENERGIZE THE PLURALITY OF ELONGATED LIGHT SOURCES OF DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS IN REPRESENTATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL INFORMATION, AND A PLURALITY OF ELONGATED LIGHT CONDUCTIVE SEGMENTS WITH HAVING TWO OPPOSITELY DISPOSED END FACES WITH A FIRST END FACE OF EACH SEGMENT ABUTTING ONE ANOTHER AND DISPOSED IN A FIRST PLANE AND WITH THE SECOND END FACE OF EACH SEGMENT OFFSET ONE FROM THE OTHER, INDIVIDUAL ONES OF THE ELONGATED LIGHT SOURCES IN THE PLURALITY HAVING THE AXIS PARALLEL AND DISPOSED ADJACENT THE OFFSET SECOND FACES OF THE DIFFERENT LIGHT CONDUCTIVE SEGMENTS TO DIRECT LIGHT ENERGY THROUGH THE SEGMENTS TO THE FIRST END FACES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ENERGIZING OF THE INDIVIDUAL ONES OF THE LIGHT SOURCES, THE LIGHT CONDUCTIVE SEGMENTS BEING DISPOSED RELATIVE TO ONE ANOTHER TO PROVIDE A VISUAL DISPLAY OF THE INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS AT THE FIRST END FACES OF THE SEGMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMBINATION OF THE LIGHT SEGMENTS RECEIVING LIGHT ENERGY FROM THE LIGHT SOURCES AT EACH INSTANT.