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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2000
Filed:
Sep. 02, 1998
Duncan James Anderson, Abingdon, GB;
Robert George Brown, Thame, GB;
Nicholas Mayhew, Oxford, GB;
Michael Geraint Robinson, Boulder, CO (US);
Jason Slack, Cowley, GB;
Haruhisa Takiguchi, Kashiwa, JP;
Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A dark field projection display includes a light source, a spatial light modulator, and an optical system for directing light from the light source onto the spatial light modulator. The optical system includes a plurality of optical subsystems and a plurality of reflectors. Each of the optical subsystems has an input aperture and is arranged to image light from the light source, the subsystems forming a spatial distribution of source images whose relative positions are different from the relative positions of the input apertures. Each of the optical subsystems further includes a plurality of reflectors disposed at the relative positions of the source images. Each of the reflectors is arranged to reflect light from a respective one of the subsystems onto the spatial light modulator.