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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 03, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 15, 2005
Marc Mignard, San Jose, CA (US);
Marc Mignard, San Jose, CA (US);
UDC, LLC, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The invention comprises devices and methods for driving a MEMs pixel, and in particular, an interferornetric modulator pixel. In one embodiment a device for modulating light includes a light modulator including a movable optical element positionable in two or more positions, the modulator operating interferometrically to exhibit a different predetermined optical response in each of the two or more positions, and control circuitry connected to the light modulator for controlling said interferometric modulator, where the control circuitry is controllably switchable between two circuit configurations, and where the control circuitry provides a substantially constant current to said light modulator when switching between the two circuit configurations to cause the movable optical element of the light modulator to move between two positions of its two or more positions.