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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120127437 | Wavelength-Switched Optical Systems Optical systems operable to emit an output beam having fast-switched wavelengths are provided. In one embodiment, an optical system includes a laser and a wavelength conversion device. The laser emits a pump beam that switches between at least two fundamental spectral p... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120105811 | LIGHT SOURCE ADJUSTING DEVICE AND PROJECTION SYSTEM COMPRISING THE SAME A light source adjusting device and a projection system comprising the light source adjusting device are provided. The projection system further comprises a light source module which is capable of providing a first beam with a first wavelength. The light source adjustin... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105812 | Scanning Laser Projector A scanning projector for projecting an image comprising multiple wavelength signals is disclosed. Embodiments of the present invention include a beam combiner comprising a planar lightwave circuit having a plurality of surface waveguides arranged to define a plurality o... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120105810 | PROJECTION DEVICE WITH BRIGHTNESS ADJUSTMENT FUNCTION AND METHOD THEREOF A projection device with a brightness adjustment function includes a display, a light source, a lens module, a power supply unit, a light detection unit and a power controller. The light source emits light to the display. The lens module projects the images to be displa... | 05/03/2012 |
| 20120081673 | Image System Provided is an electronic image display and control system comprising in various embodiments a microdisplay video projector that projects a high quality color image from a non-CRT image source onto a diffused but transmissive optical projection screen that is optically ... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120081408 | Mini-Color Image Projector The present invention includes a light color controller, multiple mono-light sources are coupled to the light color controller to control the emission of the light sources. A display is located in accordance with the multiple mono-light sources to display a gray scale i... | 04/05/2012 |
| 20120068630 | LIGHT SOURCE, WAVELENGHT CONVERSION METHOD, WAVELENGHT CONVERSION DEVICE, AND SYSTEM FOR LIGHT SOURCE A light source device includes a light emitting element and a wavelength conversion device. The wavelength conversion device includes a stationary member, a moveable carrier made of a transparent material carrying one or more wavelength conversion materials and moveable... | 03/22/2012 |
| 20120050690 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE INCLUDING THE SAME An image display device using a semiconductor laser as a light source, includes a green laser light source device that converts a wavelength of infrared laser light and outputs green laser light; a spatial light modulator that modulates the green laser light input from ... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050691 | PROJECTOR A projector includes: a light source that emits excitation light; a fluorescent body that converts the excitation light into fluorescence; a liquid crystal optical modulation device that modulates light output from the fluorescent body; an optical sensor that detects at... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050693 | PROJECTOR A projector according to an embodiment of the invention includes a first light source adapted to emit a light including a first colored light, a second light source adapted to emit a light including a second colored light and a third colored light, a color separation se... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120050692 | Energy Transfer In Scanning Laser Projectors The present disclosure introduces a number of image compression schemes designed to optimize operational efficiency in laser scanning projectors. Contemplated compression modes include, but are not limited to, intra-frame energy transfer, inter-frame energy transfer, an... | 03/01/2012 |
| 20120044279 | Image Projection Apparatus and Laser Beam Projection Apparatus An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of, in an image projection apparatus and a laser beam projection apparatus that reduce speckle noise by means of high-frequency superimposition, reducing a deterioration in the light emission intensity... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044462 | PROJECTOR An aspect of the present embodiment, there is provided a projector, including a first optical source fixed on a first mount substrate, the first optical source emitting a first light, a second optical source fixed on the first mount substrate being apart from the first ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120044461 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND PROJECTION DEVICE COMPRISING THE SAME An illumination system and a projection device comprising the same are provided. The projection device comprises an image-forming system and the illumination system. The illumination system comprises a first light source device, a second light source device and a first ... | 02/23/2012 |
| 20120038693 | High Dynamic Range Projection System Embodiments relate generally to computer-based image processing, and more particularly, to systems, computer-readable media, methods, integrated circuits, and apparatuses to facilitate operation of a projection system with relatively high dynamic range output by, among ... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120038892 | LIGHT SOURCE MODULATION FOR PROJECTION A color projection display in which at least one color channel includes: a light source assembly including a multiplicity of pulse modulated light sources providing an aggregate light beam; a light modulation control subsystem; illumination optics to direct the aggregat... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120033185 | ILLUMINATION SYSTEM AND PROJECTOR USING THE SAME An illumination system includes a first solid-state light-emitting element, a wavelength conversion device, a second solid-state light-emitting element and a third solid-state light-emitting element. The first solid-state light-emitting element is used for emitting a fi... | 02/09/2012 |
| 20120026469 | PROJECTOR A projector according to an embodiment of the invention includes: an illumination device adapted to generate an illumination light; and a light modulation device adapted to modulate the illumination light in accordance with image information, wherein the illumination de... | 02/02/2012 |
| 20120019786 | PROJECTION TYPE IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS A projection type image display apparatus using a light source where excitatory light makes fluorescent material to emit fluorescent light is provided with improved lifetime of a fluorescent material light source without increasing in the apparatus size, The apparatus c... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019787 | IMAGE PROJECTION APPARATUS UTILIZING REFLECTIVE IMAGE DISPLAY ELEMENT An image projection apparatus includes a beam splitter configured to split light from a light source into first color light and second color light, a first reflective image display element configured to optically modulate the first color light, a second reflective image... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019785 | LIGHT SOURCE MODULE, PROJECTION APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME A light source module, a projection apparatus, and a method of controlling the projection apparatus are provided. The projection apparatus has the light source module. The light source module has a first light source, a wavelength transforming unit, and a driver. The fi... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120019788 | PROJECTOR AND ILLUMINATION APPARATUS FOR SAME An illumination apparatus includes a fluorescence unit, laser light irradiation means, and a beam integration unit. The fluorescence unit has a plurality of phosphors, in which the colors of fluorescence generated due to excitation differ, arranged in different regions.... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120013852 | Alternating Beam Laser Imaging System with Reduced Speckle An imaging system (200) is configured to reduce perceived speckle in images (201) produced by the imaging system. The imaging system (200) includes one or more laser source pairs (205,206), with each laser source pair being configured to prod... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120013853 | PROJECTOR A projector includes: a plurality of light modulating devices; a light combining optical device having a plurality of light incidence planes that faced a corresponding one of the light modulating devices, the light combining optical device configured to combine the colo... | 01/19/2012 |
| 20120002174 | LIGHT SOURCE SYSTEM OF PICO PROJECTOR The a light source system of pico projector is composed of a light-emitting diode module, collimators, a lens array, magnification lenses, and an LCoS (light crystal on silicon) panel, arranged in sequence with appropriate spacing in-between. The light-emitting diode mo... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110317131 | ILLUMINATION OPTICAL SYSTEM, LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, AND PROJECTOR An illumination optical system includes: a light source device including: a red light-emitting device that emits red light; a blue light-emitting device that emits blue light; and a fluorescence plate comprising a green fluorescence region and a light transmission regio... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110317132 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE An image display device having a screen having a fluorescent region including a fluorescent material; a light irradiation system, including a first light source outputting excitation light exciting the fluorescent material; a second light source outputting visible light... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110310354 | MULTI-PROJECTION SYSTEM, PROJECTOR, AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING PROJECTION OF IMAGE A multi-projection system includes a first projector and a second projector. Each of the projectors includes: a light source; a modulation device that modulates light emitted by the light source; a projection device that projects light modulated by the modulation device... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310355 | PROJECTOR A projector includes: a plurality of reflection type light modulation devices which modulates a corresponding color light; a color synthesize optical device which has a plurality of light entrance side surfaces and a crossing surface to combine the received color lights... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310303 | PROJECTION APPARATUS PROVIDING REDUCED SPECKLE ARTIFACTS A projection apparatus for producing color images having reduced speckle artifacts comprising: at least three narrow band light sources having first, second and third visible wavelength bands; a digital image source providing color digital image data; at least one spati... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310356 | IMAGE PROJECTOR AND AN ILLUMINATING UNIT SUITABLE FOR USE IN AN IMAGE PROJECTOR An image display device having an RGB illuminating module that includes a diffractive beam combiner. The diffractive beam combiner includes a first light source arranged to provide a first light beam having red color and a second light source arranged to provide a secon... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310357 | MULTIPLE RATE PROJECTOR A multiple rate projector comprises at least three different color illuminations to illuminate a pre-determined light, respectively. A color control module is coupled to the at least three different color illuminations to switch the at least three different color illumi... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110310353 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS A light source device includes: a reference light source that emits reference color component light of a plurality of colors; an excitation light source that emits excitation light for supplemental color component light; a luminous body member including a luminous body ... | 12/22/2011 |
| 20110304829 | IMAGE DISPLAY APPARATUS The present invention provides an image display apparatus which includes a red color laser light source that outputs red color laser light; a blue color laser light source that outputs blue color laser light; and a green color laser light source that outputs green color... | 12/15/2011 |
| 20110292349 | LIGHT SOURCE DEVICE, LIGHTING DEVICE AND IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE USING SUCH LIGHT DEVICE For a lighting device for obtaining output light in the wavelengths of light of three colors of red, green, and blue, a lighting device using a semiconductor laser for the blue light has been proposed. When using this lighting device in an image display device, etc., th... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292350 | 2-DIMENSIONAL IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE, ILLUMINATION LIGHT SOURCE AND EXPOSURE ILLUMINATION DEVICE A 2-dimensional beam scan unit reflects emission beams from a red laser light source, a green laser light source and a blue laser light source and scans in a 2-dimensional direction. Diffusion plates diffuse the respective light beams scanned in the 2-dimensional direct... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110292307 | PROJECTION APPARATUS THAT PROPERLY REDUCES FLICKER A projection apparatus that provides flicker reduction according to the cause of flicker, to thereby properly reduce flicker without unnecessarily bringing about characteristic degradation is disclosed. Light for projecting a projection image onto a projection surface i... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110285968 | DISPLAY APPARATUS FOR DISPLAYING MULTIPLE VIEW ANGLE IMAGES A display apparatus for displaying multiple view angle images is provided. The display apparatus comprises a display screen and a plurality of projectors. Each of the projectors comprises at least a light source module, a spatial light modulator and a lens. The first vi... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110285967 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REDUCING SPECKLE USING DIFFUSING SURFACES A laser projection system includes a light source, an optical scanning component, a focusing component, a speckle reduction diffusing surface, and an optical collimating component. The light source may include at least one laser configured to emit an output beam. The fo... | 11/24/2011 |
| 20110279782 | LIGHT SOURCE SYSTEM AND PROJECTION APPARATUS USING THE SAME A light source system and a projection apparatus using the same are provided. The light source system comprises a light guide module, a light emitting module and a wavelength conversion element. The light guide module has a first side and a second side. The light emitti... | 11/17/2011 |
