Best Valentine’s Gift— ever— also more expensive than most gifts—but a great investment with pretty much guaranteed return at this point. Patents are expensive for an independent she-wolf, that is not in a pack at this moment. This patent is the icing on the cake for the Troyer patent portfolio.
Patent Pending: There is also the Telecine/ Digital Intermediate (DI) patent pending. Maybe I should just publish the claims— which will be as effective as being issued in a patent — maybe in this case— because they are based on the 2001 patent claims.
Provisional: Also I have a hot provisional— I am so excited about getting to work in the lab on this one.
Troyer US Patent February 14, 2012 8113660
Laser Apparatus with Projector and Camera with sharp full spectrum color high contrast sharp dimensional images
IN THE UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE
Applicant: Diane Troyer
Invention: Laser Projection Apparatus with LIQUID-CRYSTAL LIGHT VALVES
AND SCANNING READING BEAM
February 14, 2012
Serial No: 8113660
Filed: 04/20/2006
Group Art Unit: 2878
Examiner: WILLIAM C. DOWLING
1. A laser apparatus comprising:
a camera having an image sensor for gathering an image;
a laser modulator for receiving a signal from the image sensor then projecting the
image as a picture beam, wherein the beam that is projected includes visible laser light
having a wavelength of 635 nanometers red or longer;
a reflective light valve for modulating the beam; and
means for addressing the laser beam on the face of the light valve during projection
of said desired image;
wherein the projector produces collimated spatially modulated laser beams that
produce sharp images with depth.
2. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the camera has a means for providing depth enhancement scalability and means
to separate the visible light into red, green and blue color information.
3. The laser apparatus of claim 1 further comprising:
means for incorporating blue and green laser light into the picture beam and separate
additional reflective light valves for modulating the blue and green light
respectively.
4. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
said reflective light valve also receives blue and green laser light for modulation.
5. The laser apparatus for claim 1, wherein said reflective light valve is a liquid-crystal reflective light valve.
6. The 1aser apparatus for claim 1, wherein:
the beams also include green and blue laser light and
wherein the laser light of wavelength equal to 635 nanometers or longer mixes
with the green and blue laser light to provide substantially pure neutral colors
including pure white and pure black.
7. The laser apparatus for claim 6, wherein:
the laser projector is adapted to project substantially
cyan colored light with the blue light and the green light.
8. The 1aser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the laser projector projects purple, magenta, and deep honey.
9. The laser apparatus of claim 8, wherein:
collimation is retained in the laser beams, thus the spatial modulation is
preserved in the propagating laser beam producing infinite sharp dimensional colored
images.
10. The1aser apparatus of claim 9, further comprising:
means for at least partly suppressing visible speckle in a picture formed by said
laser light on a projection medium.
11. The1aser apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:
means for providing sharp high-bandwidth depth red,
green and blue computer-monitor signals from a computer;
wherein the projector serves as a high-color-fidelity computer monitor.
12. The1aser apparatus of claim 1 wherein:
the reflective light valve is controlled by light and control signals applied to the
reflective light valve from the camera captured images
wherein the reflective light valve is controlled by light and control signals from
film, slide images. transparencies. electronically based media and video, direct live
images, LCOS, OLED, DLP, and LED.
13. The1aser apparatus of claim 1, wherein the
reflective light valve is controlled by light and control signals of a multi-phase or multi-field imaging system.
14. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein the
reflective light valve is controlled by light and control signals from camera capture of a live image of a stage performer and is amplified on a big screen.
15. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein the
reflective light valve is controlled by signals from a live image or hologram optically
coupled, without electronic intermediary.
16. A laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein the reflective light valve is controlled by signals sent from one or more of the following devices: microscope, telescope, MRI, endoscope.
17. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the light valve has a beam-modulation stage for impressing the desired image
onto the beam, and a control stage to control said impressing; and
the projector further comprises:
means for writing an image incrementally onto successive portions of the
control stage; and
means for directing the beam onto successive selected portions of the
modulation stage, and means for generally synchronizing the directing
means with the image-writing means.
18. The laser apparatus of claim 1, for wherein:
forming an image on an irregular projection medium having portions at distinctly
different distances from the projector wherein:
the light valve operates by introducing
at least partial disruption of the laser light coherence; and comprising
means for amplifying the camera picture onto such irregular projection
medium to form a dimensional image that appears substantially sharp on said portions
of distinctly different distances.
19. The laser apparatus of claim 1, wherein:
the beam delivers full spectrum colored dimension
images that amplify and correlate to the camera information,
and form moving pictures that automatically adjust to a shaped screen.
20. A laser projector system for forming amplified enhanced images with infinite sharp depth for laser
projection in curved space, said system comprising:
a camera having image enhancement capabilities;
a laser projector in communication with the camera for projecting a
spatial modulated full color picture beam that includes laser light;
the laser projector having a reflective light valve for impressing a sharp
image onto the beam;
means for scanning the beam across a face of the light valve during
projection of a spatial modulated picture beam.
21. A laser projector system of 20, wherein the laser projector is adapted to project the spatial modulated full color dimensional picture beam on convex or concave screens and CAVE;
at diverse distances from the projecting means; and the projecting means
displays a protracted show with sharp dimensional images on the one or more
projection media including interior or exterior staging scrims for opera, performance, TV stages,
CAVE, HIVE- holographic immersive virtual environments
22. The laser projector system of claim 20 wherein: the image is delivered to the camera through optically switched images or optically multi-dimensional imaging.
23. The laser projector system of claim 20 wherein: the camera is adapted to receive images from a microscope, telescope, endoscope, MIR, testing instrument.
24. The laser projector system of claim 20 wherein a direct image is transmitted to the laser projector by CID, CCD, MEMS, LED, DLP, LCOS, OLED, or other device that provides imaging information.
25. A laser projector comprising:
a laser apparatus for projecting a picture beam;
a reflective light valve having a camera control stage that is addressed by low
power amplified-modulated lasers;
means to scan modulated lasers with multiple axis;
said laser projector has a beam- modulation stage for imprinting images onto
colored lasers, the laser color including having a wavelength of 635 nanometers or longer;
means to scan the colored beams retaining the infinite depth of sharpness of the
projected image;
wherein the laser beams are substantially parallel rays, and retain the inherent
polarization and collimation of the laser beam.
26. The laser projector of claim 25 further comprising means for scanning
collimated reading beams in sync with the writing information.
27. The laser projector of claim 25 having increased resolution:
wherein the reflective light valve has a writing control stage;
means to deliver multiple imaging defining devices; and
mean for combining the imaging defining devices to deliver imaging information
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