Patents by Inventor Rolf Roeder

Rolf Roeder has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6578969
    Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed for cutting off intensive radiation in projectors and/or illumination devices whose projection head, which projects the light, is mounted in a receptacle or holder rotatable about an azimuth axis so as to be swivelable about an additional axis arranged vertical to the azimuth axis. It comprises a cutoff mechanism which comprises a coupling member, and light-absorbing means or cutoff means, which is fixedly connected with the receptacle and which is rotatable jointly with the latter and with the projection head about the azimuth axis, wherein the light-absorbing or cutoff means are positioned in the cutoff position in front of the light outlet opening of the projection head or of an objective or in an intermediate image plane located within the projection head. The arrangement is suitable for application particularly with projection of image contents on plane, arched, or curved projection surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2003
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
    Inventors: Hagen Hinsching, Ralf Hasse, Rolf Roeder
  • Patent number: 6366383
    Abstract: In relay optics for a deflection system with two scanning devices, each of which changes the angle of a light bundle from a location predetermined separately for each scanning device in a predetermined deflection plane within a predetermined deflection area, an optical system and a mirror surface are provided, wherein the optical axis coincides with respect to position and direction with the central normal of the connecting straight line between the predetermined locations of the first scanning device and second scanning device and the shape and position of the mirror surface are realized in accordance with the conditions that the two vectors, the direction vector of the light bundle and the surface normal of the mirror surface, each projected in the deflection plane of the first scanning device, are identical with respect to direction for every point of incidence of the light bundle on the mirror surface given by the deflection of the first scanning device and that the path of the light bundle running toward
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH
    Inventor: Rolf Roeder
  • Patent number: 6169621
    Abstract: In an apparatus for generating an image on a screen by illuminating image points in a plurality of partial images by light bundles, wherein the apparatus has at least one deflection device for deflecting a plurality of light bundles in respectively associated image points of the individual partial images, and a control device for controlling the intensity of the light bundles depending on the brightness of the respective image point to be illuminated, and optics between the screen and deflection device for deflecting the light bundles in a partial image associated with the respective light bundle, it is provided that the optics include an entrance pupil which is spread out over an extended area and an exit pupil which is much smaller in comparison to the entrance pupil, and in that a plurality of deflection devices for deflecting a light bundle associated with a partial image are provided in or near the entrance pupil which is spread out over an extended area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, LDT GmbH & Co. Laser-Display-Technology KG
    Inventors: Christhard Deter, Klaus Hiller, Rolf Roeder
  • Patent number: 6057964
    Abstract: In a process for imaging image points of a video picture by means of a light bundle which is controlled in intensity with respect to the brightness of the image points and which is deflected and then projected onto a screen by a lens or a lens system, a variable focal length is provided for the lens, the lens system or a partial lens system of the lens system and an object-side focal point is maintained stationary when the focal length is varied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignees: Carl Zeiss Jena GmbH, LDT GmbH Laser-Display-Technologie KG
    Inventors: Rolf Roeder, Christhard Deter