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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2021
Filed:
May. 09, 2019
Facebook Technologies, Llc, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Daniel Guenther Greif, Redmond, WA (US);
James Laudolff, Issaquah, WA (US);
Ziv Magoz, Seattle, WA (US);
Stephen John Holmes, Redmond, WA (US);
Taha Masood, Sammamish, WA (US);
Scott Charles McEldowney, Redmond, WA (US);
Jonathan Robert Peterson, Woodinville, WA (US);
FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A controller for a tiltable MEMS reflector is configured to oscillate the reflector about X axis or about X and Y axes, and to obtain information about current and past tilt angles. The controller is configured to evaluate tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector at a later moment of time based on the previously obtained information about the tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector at the different earlier moments of time. The controller may be further configured to energize the light source providing a light beam to the tiltable MEMS reflector at the later moment of time with brightness and color corresponding to the brightness and color of a pixel that will be painted by the tiltable MEMS reflector at the later moment of time. A statistical model may be combined with machine learning to accurately predict future tilt angles of the tiltable MEMS reflector.