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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2004

Filed:

Dec. 03, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:

Estill Thone Hall, Jr., Fishers, IN (US);

Eugene Murphy O'Donnell, Fishers, IN (US);

Assignee:

Thomson Licensing S.A., Boulogne, FR;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1335 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/1335 ;
Abstract

A light valve projection system ( ) includes a plurality of resonant microcavity anodes (RMAs) ( , and ), each for emitting a respective wavelength of light and an imager device ( , and ) for each of the plurality of resonant microcavity anodes, where each of the imager devices emits an image. The light valve projection system further includes a plurality of polarizing beam splitters ( , and ) for reflecting and redirecting the light and images from the RMAs and the imager devices. The light valve projection system may further include a combiner ( ) for combining the image from each of the imager devices and a projection lens ( ) for receiving a combined image from the combiner.


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