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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2017
Applicant:
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Inventor:
Matthew Edward Lewis Jungwirth, Golden Valley, MN (US);
Assignee:
Honeywell International Inc., Morris Plains, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/32 (2006.01); G03H 1/02 (2006.01); G01S 3/786 (2006.01); G01C 21/16 (2006.01); G01C 21/02 (2006.01); G03H 1/04 (2006.01); G03H 1/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B 5/32 (2013.01); G01C 21/165 (2013.01); G01S 3/7862 (2013.01); G03H 1/0272 (2013.01); G03H 1/30 (2013.01); G01C 21/025 (2013.01); G03H 2001/0439 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method is provided. The method comprises: receiving incident light, from an object surface, on a top surface of a holographic optical field flattener (HOFF); transforming direction of light, with a hologram, if the light is incident on a portion of the HOFF at an angle equal to a non-zero field angle of the portion; and emitting transformed light from a bottom surface of the HOFF.