Alternating Beam Laser Imaging System with Reduced Speckle

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20120013852A1
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12835037

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An imaging system (200) is configured to reduce perceived speckle in images (201) produced by the imaging system. The imaging system (200) includes one or more laser source pairs (205,206), with each laser source pair being configured to produce two beams (209,210) of a color. A spatial light modulator (211) is configured to produce the images (201) with light (212) from the source pairs by scanning the light (212) in a raster pattern (213) along a projection surface (202). A beam translator (225) is configured to cause lines of successive sweeps of the raster pattern (213) to be scanned with the two beams (221,222) on an alternating basis such that a line scanned by a first of the two beams in one sweep is scanned by a second of the two beams in a sequentially subsequent sweep. Other optical elements can introduce angular diversity to further reduce speckle, such as a beam shifter (2200) and a light translation element (990).

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MICROVISION INC6222 185TH AVE NE REDMOND WA 98052

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Champion, Mark Kenmore, US 77 2947
Duelli, Markus Seattle, US 24 550
Freeman, Mark O Snohomish, US 51 2443
Lescure, Alban N Redmond, US 11 181

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