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Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2003

Filed:

Oct. 01, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Theodore Mayer, III, Valley Village, CA (US);

Lawrence S. Paul, Encino, CA (US);

Todd Chaney, Burbank, CA (US);

Assignee:

Panoram Technologies, Inc., Sun Valley, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 2/126 ; G03B 2/100 ; G03B 2/114 ; H04N 9/12 ; G09G 5/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G03B 2/126 ; G03B 2/100 ; G03B 2/114 ; H04N 9/12 ; G09G 5/00 ;
Abstract

A projection system includes multiple imaging heads for projecting a plurality of images, which may or may not be partially overlapped and edge blended to form a projected composite image. The projection system, however, includes only a single light source. The light from the light source is beam split into light portions, and the light portions are applied to the imaging heads via corresponding light guides. Use of the single light source to project all the images may solve colorimetry problems associated with generating projected composite image from multiple projected images, each of which uses a different light source. For projecting the images on a curved surface, the geometry of the images may be distorted using electronic image warping and/or lens-based optical distortion.


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