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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:
Sep. 09, 1997
Filed:
May. 24, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
David Ezra, Oxfordshire, GB;
Graham J Woodgate, Oxfordshire, GB;
Paul May, Oxfordshire, GB;
Michael G Robinson, Oxfordshire, GB;
Jonathan Harrold, Oxfordshire, GB;
Assignee:
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
359621 ; 359272 ; 349 95 ;
Abstract
An optical apparatus of this invention comprises a first spatial light modulator, an array of imaging elements, and a plurality of light sources, and an image surface. Each of the imaging elements of the array is arranged to form an image of the plurality of light sources via the spatial light modulator at a respective position on the image surface.