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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:
Mar. 14, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 10, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Stephen J Willett, St. Paul, MN (US);
David J Aastuen, Farmington, MN (US);
Assignee:
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359 41 ; 359 40 ; 359 42 ; 359 48 ; 359 49 ;
Abstract
A liquid crystal projection panel for use in a projection system. The projection panel is comprised of a large number of pixels of liquid crystal defining a image forming plane provided between two transparent substrates. Microlens arrays are provided on both sides of the projection panel. The microlenses in both arrays have focal lengths such that parallel light rays entering the microlenses at an angle perpendicular to the arrays are focused at points beyond the image forming plane of the display.