Abstract: Electro-optic addressing using an electro-optic modulator with improved electrode configuration and improved address control. During a first address stage activating and inactivating reference potentials are applied respectively to first and second of adjacent pixel portions of the modulator while an addressing signal potential (e.g. in accord with image data) is applied to both pixel portions. During a second address stage activating and inactivating reference potentials are applied respectively to the second and first pixel portions while signal potential is applied to both pixel portions.

Abstract: In electronic imaging of the kind wherein light is directed uniformly onto a linear light valve array, which includes pixel portions selectively activated to block or transmit the light during successive line address periods, improved gray scale imaging is provided by modulating, during each line address period, the intensity of the light which passes to the light valve array.