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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7325929 | Method and apparatus for controllably modulating a laser in a laser projection display A laser projection device suitable for displaying full color images is disclosed. The LPD includes a variety of techniques for modulating laser beams produced by one or more lasers with image data to controllably produce the image using a modified raster scan. ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7193729 | Instrument cluster with laser beam illumination An automotive instrument cluster containing a grouping of display fields representing measured automotive operating quantities such as speed, temperature and pressure. Illumination markers which are analogs of pointers are created within the display fields from a si... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7102700 | Laser projection system A laser projection system preferably for use in commercial motion picture theaters and other large screen venues, including home theater, uses optical fibers to project modulated laser beams for raster scanning on the screen. The emitting ends of the optical fibers ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7090353 | System and method for improved digital projection Improved digital projection systems and methods are disclosed. Exemplary systems and methods embody a digital data source and a white light source. Light output of the white light source is coupled to a two-position digital micro-mirror device that separates black a... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7046266 | Scanner system A method of scanning for writing a pattern on a surface, including providing a scanning beam comprised of a plurality of independently addressable sub-beams, scanning the surface with the scanning beam a plurality of times, the sub-beams scanning the surface side-by... | 05/16/2006 |
| 6958858 | Method for scanning microscopy; and scanning microscope A method for scanning microscopy is disclosed. It contains the step of generating an illuminating light beam that exhibits at least a first substantially continuous wavelength spectrum whose spectral width is greater than 5 nm; the choosing of a second wavelength sp... | 10/25/2005 |
| 6882374 | Image projection system A DMD (4) as a image display device time divisionally displays channel images formed by separating an image into RGB channels. A white light emitted from a xenon lamp (1) is separated, by an acousto-optical element (3), into spectal components. ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6490075 | Acousto-optic tunable filter hyperspectral imaging system The present invention has applications that include detecting color variation in a region, for example, color variations due to temperature changes in an area of ocean water, and, in a more specific application, detecting bioluminescence of certain organi... | 12/03/2002 |
| 6426781 | Laser video projector A laser video projector for modulating light from a laser light source by an acousto-optic modulator (AOM) according to a video signal and projecting video information to a screen using a scanner is provided. The laser video projector includes a light sou... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6052216 | Laser and beam intensity modulation system for imagesetting device A laser beam intensity modulation system has a variable delay circuit that is used to control the relative delay in the delivery of a video signal between two cascaded AOM's. This delay circuit is controlled by a delay controller that monitors the intensi... | 04/18/2000 |
| 5465174 | Single light valve full-color projector display A single light valve full-color projector 10 operative to display an image on a screen 12 in response to first and second video signals. The inventive projector 10 includes a laser 22 for providing a beam of coherent light. A scanning control circuit 20 c... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5410371 | Display system employing acoustro-optic tunable filter An acousto-optic tunable filter (AOTF) is employed to generate a display by driving the AOTF with an RF electrical signal comprising modulated red, green, and blue video scan line signals and scanning the AOTF with a linearly polarized, pulsed light beam,... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5339118 | Tone correcting apparatus for laser display system A tone correcting apparatus for an image display apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes a test signal generating circuit for generating a test signal, a memory for outputting tone correction data depending upon the test signal, a modulating circui... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5311321 | Laser video imaging system with pulse backtrack and method An improved, multicolored video imaging system to provide a video image on a projection surface, which system includes a red, blue and green pulsed laser as a light source to provide inlet beams, an acoustic-optical cell to receive the inlet beams, an ele... | 05/10/1994 |
| 5303043 | Projection television display utilizing Bragg diffraction cell for producing horizontal scan Apparatus for horizontally scanning an image corresponding to electronic video input information utilizing a Bragg Diffraction cell in which collimated light from a laser directed through the cell is modulated by a real-time fourier transform of a line of... | 04/12/1994 |
| 5253073 | Electronic data multiplexing in a full color pulsed laser projector and method A multiplexed, multicolored video imaging system which comprises a plurality of pulsed lasers to provide input beams, a single acoustic-optical cell to receive the input beams, a transducer to modulate the input beams in the cell, a signal generator to pr... | 10/12/1993 |
| 5138482 | Light modular and recording device employing same A light modulator includes an interdigital transducer having a plurality of interdigital electrode fingers for generating surface elastic waves having respective different frequencies in an optical waveguide. The electrode fingers are oriented in differen... | 08/11/1992 |
| 5107363 | Projection-type display apparatus A projection-type display apparatus has a light modulator for emitting a zero-order diffracted beam and a first-order diffracted beam which are added by a prism into a projecting light beam which is introduced into a light beam scanning system, which two-... | 04/21/1992 |
| 5105304 | Acousto-optic modulation device An acousto-optical modulation device comprises a plurality of acousto-optic modulators arranged in series with each other, to receive a zero-order light from a previous stage of the modulators. A zero-order light emerging from the last stage is used as a ... | 04/14/1992 |
| 5097480 | Acoustic modulation apparatus for laser The invention comprises a laser light source for a raster laser display. The laser light source comprises a laser cavity, a lasing medium within the cavity, a lasing light source and a series of mirrors within the cavity arranged to reflect the beam of la... | 03/17/1992 |
| 5086341 | Laser scanning apparatus having two, parallel, acousto optic deflectors for the horizontal scan This invention relates to a laser scanning apparatus which raster-scans a laser beam by using an acousto-optic deflector. In this laser scanning apparatus, the laser beam is horizontally scanned by a pair of acousto-optic deflectors. Thus, a laser scannin... | 02/04/1992 |
| 5051834 | Projection-type display apparatus utilizing both zero-order and first-order diffracted beams An apparatus has a light modulator for emitting a first-order diffracted beam to scan a screen two-dimensionally and a zero-order diffracted beam which is two-dimensionally deflected and projected onto the screen. The zero-order diffracted beam is effecti... | 09/24/1991 |
| 4992880 | High definition video-rate laser-addressed liquid-crystal light-valve projection display A high definition, video-rate laser-addressed liquid-crystal light-valve projection display provides for real-time applications to large-area projection displays. A laser raster scanner uses acousto-optic components to modulate and deflect the laser beam.... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4992858 | Laser beam scanning apparatus A laser beam scanning apparatus deflects laser beams of different wavelengths to scan an object or medium in at least one direction using an acousto-optic deflector. The angle of scanning deflection is dependent on the frequency of the drive signal applie... | 02/12/1991 |
| 4974095 | Method and apparatus for displaying an image Both a method of producing an image in accordance with an input signal having a location and brightness information and an apparatus for displaying such image are disclosed in the present application. The method comprises activating an energy source which... | 11/27/1990 |
| 4851918 | Sequential plane projection by laser video projector A video imaging system is disclosed. The system is responsive to electrical signals introduced into it, which electrical signals represent an image. The system includes an acoustic-optical cell, the cell including an anisotropic medium for sound transmitt... | 07/25/1989 |
| 4835601 | Color video generating apparatus using acousto-optical deflector Disclosed is a laser beam scanning system having a laser source for producing a plurality of laser beams each having a different wavelength which are deflected by an acousto-optical deflector to scan an object in at least one direction to produce a video ... | 05/30/1989 |
| 4833528 | Color video projecting apparatus using acousto-optical deflector Disclosed is a laser beam scanning system which includes a plurality of laser sources each of which produces a laser beam having a different wavelength. The laser beam component is intensity-modulated with a corresponding color video signal and deflected ... | 05/23/1989 |
| 4720747 | Sequential plane projection by laser video projector A video imaging system is disclosed. The system is responsive to electrical signals introduced into it, which electrical signals represent an image. The system includes an acoustic-optical cell, the cell including an anisotropic medium for sound transmitt... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4701809 | Imaging large documents A large document scanner has a transparent top plate glass plate large enough to support an E size drawing. The base of the cabinet supports a trapezoidal mirror tilted up from the bottom with the larger parallel side above the bottom. The image of a docu... | 10/20/1987 |
| 4645309 | Method and apparatus for acousto-optic character generation Traveling acoustic energy packets having predetermined frequencies and representing associated portions of a character are introduced as sequences in one or more acoustic energy columns within a body of acousto-optic material in order to form an acoustic ... | 02/24/1987 |
| 4623219 | Real-time high-resolution 3-D large-screen display using laser-activated liquid crystal light valves A number of viewers wearing polarized glasses are presented real-time, hiresolution, three-dimensional projected images on a distant screen at video image signal rates. Two laser raster scanners each activate a separate one of two liquid crystal light va... | 11/18/1986 |
| 4620230 | Display system A laser scanned, flat panel display system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the display system comprises a display panel (54), a plurality of first mirrors (30), a plurality of second mirrors (50), a source of light (10), means for modulating the intensit... | 10/28/1986 |
| 4611245 | Real-time ultra-high resolution image projection display using laser-addressed liquid crystal light valve A wide screen display enables a number of viewers the simultaneous viewing f rapidly updated data in real time at video rates. A beam of coherent radiation from a laser is modulated at video rates in an acousto-optic modulator. The modulated beam is fed to... | 09/09/1986 |
| 4587565 | Pressure sensitive film display having multiple gray levels A pressure sensitive film display is disclosed having a piezoelectric substrate and a thin film of pressure sensitive phase change material disposed thereon. A film of pressure sensitive material such as samarium sulfide is deposited on a piezoelectric su... | 05/06/1986 |
| 4577932 | Multi-spot modulator using a laser diode A multi-spot light modulator using a laser diode is disclosed in which a single light pulse from the laser diode generates a multi-spot image of a data pattern, each spot corresponding to an active bit of the data pattern. The ability of a pulsed laser di... | 03/25/1986 |
| 4540245 | Apparatus and method for acousto-optic character generation Acoustic energy column segments having predetermined frequencies and representing associated portions of a character are produced in one or more of a set of acoustic energy columns within a body of acousto-optic material in order to form an acoustic energ... | 09/10/1985 |
| 4331972 | Light valve, light valve display, and method A light valve comprises a pair of elements of transparent material each comprising a diffraction grating of like periodicity facing each other with parallel grating lines. Such a light valve is termed herein a bigrate. The transmission of light through th... | 05/25/1982 |
| 4295145 | Acousto-optically modulated laser scanning arrangement for correcting for interference appearing therein In those high speed laser scanning systems, particularly those used in printing, employing an acousto-optical modulator driven at two or more carrier frequencies for scanning with a plurality of focussed beams simultaneously in order to reduce the require... | 10/13/1981 |
| 4268871 | Scanning optical system for formation of a half tone image A scanning optical system having an optical system capable of controlling formation of a half tone image which is constructed with a light source, a first aperture which restricts a light beam of the light source, an image focusing optical system provided... | 05/19/1981 |
