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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:
Jun. 27, 2006
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2002
Applicants:
William Allen, Corvallis, OR (US);
Mark W. Van Order, Corvallis, OR (US);
Inventors:
William Allen, Corvallis, OR (US);
Mark W. Van Order, Corvallis, OR (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/32 (2006.01); G02B 26/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Determining that a plurality of spatial light modulator (SLM) pixels includes one or more first regions of SLM pixels that satisfy an acceptable defective SLM pixel policy, and one or more second regions of SLM pixels that fail the policy, is disclosed. Utilizing the first regions of SLM pixels within a projection system that has a first resolution that is less than a second resolution that would have been provided by utilizing both the first regions of SLM pixels and the second regions of SLM pixels is also disclosed.