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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 01, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 21, 2008
Philip Scott King, Plano, TX (US);
Philip Scott King, Plano, TX (US);
Texas Instuments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
According to particular embodiments, a system comprises one or mores light sources, a Digital Micromirror Device (DMD) system, and a controller. A light source is configured to generate light, and the DMD system comprises DMD regions configured to modulate the light. The controller is configured to repeat the following for a number of iterations: instruct each light source to scroll the light across the DMD system at a current amplitude level; instruct one or more DMD regions to operate as one or more active regions that modulate a first portion of the light to generate an image; and instruct the remaining DMD regions to operate as an amplitude modulation region that receives a second portion of the light, the second portion of the light transitioning from a previous amplitude level to the current amplitude level.