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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2000
Ernesto M. Rodriguez, Jr., Austin, TX (US);
Steven G. Saxe, Round Rock, TX (US);
Patricia H. DeLuca, Round Rock, TX (US);
3M Innovative Properties Company, St. Paul, MN (US);
Abstract
A front projection system and associated method are disclosed that correct distortion for a front projector device. The front projector device is characterized by off-axis optics and a throw-to-screen diagonal ratio of at most 1 which generate distortion including pincushion, keystone and anamorphic distortion components. Further, the projection device has an electronic distortion correction component operable to pre-distort an image prior to projection in order to correct for the pincushion, keystone and anamorphic distortion components of the projector device. Further, an associated method is also disclosed for correcting distortion generated in a projection system by a combination of optical and electronic correction. The method comprises setting a limit on the amount of image information that is acceptable to lose through the optical components, and selecting an optical solution is comprising optics having inherent distortion within the set limit. Then, an electronic correction component is selected that is operable to pre-distort an image to correct for remaining distortion not corrected by the optics of the optical solution.