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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 1990
Filed:
Oct. 26, 1988
Ken Matsubara, Osaka, JP;
Itaru Saito, Osaka, JP;
Hirohisa Kitano, Osaka, JP;
Kouichi Shingaki, Osaka, JP;
Tomohiko Masuda, Osaka, JP;
Minolta Camera Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A driving device for a light shutter array having a plurality of serially aligned shutter elements each having an electro-optical effect to polarize an incident light by applying an electric field thereto. The device includes a plurality of individual electrodes each provided on a wall of a shutter element and a common electrode provided on an opposed wall of the shutter element. A driving pulse voltage is applied to the individual electrodes to activate the same according to recording data for turning ON/OFF the respective shutter elements in a first recording period and according to inverted recording data in a subsequent second recording period. The common electrode is grounded in the first recording period. A pulse voltage same as the driving pulse voltage is applied to the common electrode in the second recording period.