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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 1998
Filed:
Mar. 27, 1996
Eric Marcellin-Dibon, Strasbourg, FR;
Friedheim Wielhege, Illkirch, FR;
Thomson multimedia S.A., Courbevoie, FR;
Abstract
The disclosure relates to an LCD projector illumination system that optimizes the illumination through a liquid crystal screen as well as through the aperture of the system's objective, wherein the shape Zr,.beta. of the reflector is described by a set of elementary surfaces dS each of which is associated with a function Z(.rho.), corresponding to a median plane (r,.beta.) to be illuminated, defined by the distance r between the center and the edges of said screen and the angle .beta. between the horizontal plane and this median plane, the inclination of each elementary surface dS being computed by interpolating said functions Z(.rho.) with a function Z(x,y).