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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:
Dec. 25, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 16, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael J Brinkman, Redwood City, CA (US);
William K Bischel, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Assignee:
Gemfire Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F / ; G02B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
385-4 ; 385-2 ; 385-8 ; 385 10 ; 385 14 ; 385 15 ; 385 17 ; 385 37 ; 385 40 ; 385130 ; 385131 ; 385 16 ; 385901 ;
Abstract
A method of scanning a plurality of display elements or pixels of a display and an apparatus capable of performing the method of scanning, allow energy propagating along a primary path to be diverted sequentially by a series of energy diverting devices to a plurality of secondary paths in a scanning direction depending upon the finite turn-on and turn-off times of the energy diverting devices.