Phase modulator redirecting incident light from darker areas to lighter areas of images

G Damberg, A Ballestad - US Patent 10,477,170, 2019 - Google Patents
Undesirably high energy-consumption in illuminating devices can be caused at least in part
by wasted (attenuated) light. Optically efficient illumination systems that may be used to …

Numerical approaches for free-form lensing: area parameterization free-form lensing

G Damberg, A Ballestad, R Kumaran… - US Patent …, 2019 - Google Patents
A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to
reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are …

Numerical approaches for free-form lensing: area parameterization free-form lensing

G Damberg, A Ballestad, R Kumaran… - US Patent …, 2018 - Google Patents
A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to
reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are …

Spatial light modulator for reduction of certain order light

JP Pertierra, MJ Richards, B Lippey - US Patent 10,416,539, 2019 - Google Patents
A novel spatial light modulator (SLM) includes a cover glass, and modulation layer, and a
plurality of pixel mirrors, and separates unwanted, reflected light from desired, modulated …

Speckle reduction with image dithering

KH Chang, TA Seder - US Patent 10,880,529, 2020 - Google Patents
A system includes a laser, a spatial light modulator with a display, and a controller. The
controller includes processing circuitry configured to control the display of the spatial light …

Projection device, projection image control method, and recording medium having projection image control program recorded thereon

S Kyosuna, S Komatsu, H Tsuda - US Patent 10,859,845, 2020 - Google Patents
A projection device is provided with at least: a laser light source which emits laser light; a
conversion unit which converts the laser light into parallel light; a phase-modulation-type …

Temporal modeling of phase modulators in multi-modulation projection

T Davies, MJ Richards, B Lippey, JP Pertierra… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
A dual-modulation projection system (100) includes a light source (102), a phase modulator
(104), an amplitude modulator (106), and a controller (110) having temporal lightfield …

Spatial light modulator for reduction of certain order light

JP Pertierra, MJ Richards, B Lippey - US Patent 10,698,302, 2020 - Google Patents
A novel spatial light modulator (SLM) includes a cover glass, and modulation layer, and a
plurality of pixel mirrors, and separates unwanted, reflected light from desired, modulated …

System and method for displaying high quality images in a dual modulation projection system

JP Pertierra, MJ Richards, CJ Orlick… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A novel high efficiency image projection system includes a beam-steering
modulator, an amplitude modulator, and a controller. In a particular embodiment the …

Spatial light modulator for reduction of certain order light

JP Pertierra, MJ Richards, B Lippey - US Patent 11,269,241, 2022 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A novel spatial light modulator (SLM) includes a cover glass, and
modulation layer, and a plurality of pixel mirrors, and separates unwanted, reflected light …