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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2006
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2004
Applicant:
Stephen F. Sagan, Lexington, MA (US);
Inventor:
Stephen F. Sagan, Lexington, MA (US);
Assignee:
AGfa Corporation, Wilmington, MA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G02F 1/153 (2006.01); G02B 27/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging system includes a first off-axis illumination source for providing a first illumination field at a surface of an illumination modulator such that when the modulator is in a first non-activated mode a zero-order reflected illumination field is directed toward a first illumination blocking device, and when the modulator is in a second activated mode one first order reflected illumination field is directed toward an imaging surface while another first order reflected illumination field is directed toward a second illumination blocking device.