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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 25, 1989
Filed:
Jul. 27, 1987
Arno G Ledebuhr, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Hughes Aircraft Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A simple, less costly prepolarizing prism assembly for a four color liquid crystal light valve image projector is disclosed. The invention is a unitary assembly which provides a combined beam of light having a first component of a first color and first polarization state and a second component of a second color and a second polarization state. The invention includes a first color filter for reflecting, from an input beam of unpolarized white light, light of a third color and transmitting light of the first and second colors in a combined beam along a first optical path. A first prepolarizer is mounted on the first filter for extracting, from the combined beam, light of a second color and the first polarization state. A second prepolarizer is mounted on the first prepolarizer for extracting, from the combined beam, light of a first color and the second polarization state.