Patents Assigned to MTT Innovation Incorporated
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Patent number: 11877102Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Patent number: 11611728Abstract: A hybrid projector architecture combines steered light with unsteered light. In some embodiments the steered light is narrowband light and the unsteered light is broadband light. Splitting between the steered and unsteered light may be determined based on luminance level. For example, the unsteered light may contribute a large proportion of the light for luminance levels up to a threshold. The steered light may contribute an increasing proportion of the light as luminance values rise above the threshold.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: MTT INNOVATION INCORPORATEDInventor: Gerwin Damberg
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Patent number: 11558590Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Patent number: 11558588Abstract: Image display apparatus and methods may use a single imaging element such as a digital mirror device (DMD) to spatially modulate plural color channels. A color channel may include a light steering element such as a phase modulator. Steered light from a light steering element may be combined with or replaced by additional light to better display bright images. These technologies may be provided together or applied individually.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Eric Jan Kozak, Raveen Kumaran, Anders Ballestad
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Patent number: 11363242Abstract: Light projection systems and methods may comprise combining light from two or more projectors, Each projector may be controlled so that the combined light output of the projectors matches a target for the projected light. In some embodiments optimization is performed to generate image data and control signals for each of the projectors. Embodiments may be applied in image projecting applications, lighting applications, and 3D stereoscopic imaging.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Eric Kozak, Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad, Raveen Kumaran, James Gregson, Johannes Minor, Gil Rosenfeld
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Patent number: 11032525Abstract: Image display apparatus and methods may use a single imaging element such as a digital mirror device (DMD) to spatially modulate plural color channels. A color channel may include a light steering element such as a phase modulator. Steered light from a light steering element may be combined with or replaced by additional light to better display bright images. These technologies may be provided together or applied individually.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Eric Jan Kozak, Raveen Kumaran, Anders Ballestad
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Patent number: 11019311Abstract: Image display apparatus and methods may use a single imaging element such as a digital mirror device (DMD) to spatially modulate plural color channels. A color channel may include a light steering element such as a phase modulator. Steered light from a light steering element may be combined with or replaced by additional light to better display bright images. These technologies may be provided together or applied individually.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Eric Jan Kozak, Raveen Kumaran, Anders Ballestad
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Patent number: 10942428Abstract: A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are mapped to target regions areas on an image. Areas of the source regions are adjusted to vary the amount of light delivered to each of the target regions. Adjustment of the source areas may be achieved using a L-BFGS optimization which preferably incorporates smoothness and curl regularizers. Embodiments apply parallel processing to obtain control values for a free form lens in real time or near real time. Apparatus may process image data and display an image by controlling a dynamically variable free form lens using the processed image data.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad, Raveen Kumaran, James Gregson
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Patent number: 10834369Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Patent number: 10602100Abstract: Image display apparatus and methods may use a single imaging element such as a digital mirror device (DMD) to spatially modulate plural color channels. A color channel may include a light steering element such as a phase modulator. Steered light from a light steering element may be combined with or replaced by additional light to better display bright images. These technologies may be provided together or applied individually.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Eric Jan Kozak, Raveen Kumaran, Anders Ballestad
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Patent number: 10477170Abstract: Undesirably high energy-consumption in illuminating devices can be caused at least in part by wasted (attenuated) light. Optically efficient illumination systems that may be used to project light, including images, use light redirection. Phase modulating devices may be applied to create desired light fields. Some embodiments provide dual or multiple modulation display or projection systems in which some or all of the modulators not only attenuate amplitude, but also amplify amplitude, or change the phase, frequency and polarization of the light provided by the light source.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad
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Patent number: 10469808Abstract: Image display apparatus and methods may use a single imaging element such as a digital mirror device (DMD) to spatially modulate plural color channels. A color channel may include a light steering element such as a phase modulator. Steered light from a light steering element may be combined with or replaced by additional light to better display bright images. These technologies may be provided together or applied individually.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Eric Jan Kozak, Raveen Kumaran, Anders Ballestad
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Patent number: 10408390Abstract: A light source includes a plurality of laser diodes or other light emitters. Beams of light from the light emitters are steered to provide n array of parallel beams that illuminate a target area with an array of patches of light. In some embodiments the parallel beams are de-magnified to form the array of patches of light. Such a light source has application in illuminating dynamically-addressable focusing elements such as phase modulators, deformable mirrors and dynamically addressable lenses. Light projectors for a wide variety of applications may combine a light source as described herein with a dynamically-addressable focusing element to project defined patterns of light.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Johannes Minor, Gerwin Damberg, Raveen Kumaran, Anders Ballestad, Eric Jan Kozak, Gil Rosenfeld, Eran Elizur
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Patent number: 10404957Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Patent number: 10324361Abstract: A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are mapped to target regions areas on an image. Areas of the source regions are adjusted to vary the amount of light delivered to each of the target regions. Adjustment of the source areas may be achieved using a L-BFGS optimization which preferably incorporates smoothness and curl regularizers. Embodiments apply parallel processing to obtain control values for a free form lens in real time or near real time. Apparatus may process image data and display an image by controlling a dynamically variable free form lens using the processed image data.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad, Raveen Kumaran, James Gregson
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Patent number: 10171779Abstract: Light projection systems and methods may comprise combining light from two or more projectors. Each projector may be controlled so that the combined light output of the projectors matches a target for the projected light. In some embodiments optimization is performed to generate image data and control signals for each of the projectors. Embodiments may be applied in image projecting applications, lighting applications, and 3D stereoscopic imaging.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Eric Kozak, Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad, Raveen Kumaran, James Gregson, Johannes Minor, Gil Rosenfeld
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Patent number: 10003776Abstract: A new projector design combines one spatial light modulator that affects only the phase of the illumination, and one spatial light modulator that only affects its amplitude (intensity). The phase-only modulator curves the wavefront of light and acts as a pre-modulator for a conventional amplitude modulator. This approach works with both white light and laser illumination, generating a coarse image representation efficiently, thus enabling, within a single image frame, significantly elevated highlights as well as darker black levels while reducing the overall light source power requirements.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, James Gregson, Wolfgang Heidrich
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Patent number: 9936175Abstract: A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are mapped to target regions areas on an image. Areas of the source regions are adjusted to vary the amount of light delivered to each of the target regions. Adjustment of the source areas may be achieved using a L-BFGS optimization which preferably incorporates smoothness and curl regularizers. Embodiments apply parallel processing to obtain control values for a free form lens in real time or near real time. Apparatus may process image data and display an image by controlling a dynamically variable free form lens using the processed image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad, Raveen Kumaran, James Gregson
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Patent number: 9906760Abstract: A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are mapped to target regions areas on an image. Areas of the source regions are adjusted to vary the amount of light delivered to each of the target regions. Adjustment of the source areas may be achieved using a L-BFGS optimization which preferably incorporates smoothness and curl regularizers. Embodiments apply parallel processing to obtain control values for a free form lens in real time or near real time. Apparatus may process image data and display an image by controlling a dynamically variable free form lens using the processed image data.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2017Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Gerwin Damberg, Anders Ballestad, Raveen Kumaran, James Gregson
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Patent number: 9874319Abstract: A light source includes a plurality of laser diodes or other light emitters. Beams of light from the light emitters are steered to provide n array of parallel beams that illuminate a target area with an array of patches of light. In some embodiments the parallel beams are de-magnified to form the array of patches of light. Such a light source has application in illuminating dynamically-addressable focusing elements such as phase modulators, deformable mirrors and dynamically addressable lenses. Light projectors for a wide variety of applications may combine a light source as described herein with a dynamically-addressable focusing element to project defined patterns of light.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2017Date of Patent: January 23, 2018Assignee: MTT Innovation IncorporatedInventors: Johannes Minor, Gerwin Damberg, Raveen Kumaran, Anders Ballestad, Eric Jan Kozak, Gil Rosenfeld, Eran Elizur