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Projection television display utilizing Bragg diffraction cell for producing horizontal scan

US5303043A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateSep 1, 1992
Grant dateApr 12, 1994
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Expiry dateSep 1, 2012

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N9/3129
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus for horizontally scanning an image corresponding to electronic video input information utilizing a Bragg Diffraction cell in which collimated light from a laser directed through the cell is modulated by a real-time fourier transform of a line of video input information, thereby to produce a one line acoustic hologram in the cell which is reconstructed at a infinity as a stationary image corresponding to the horizontal line of video information. Using a suitable lens system, the stationary image is re-imaged at a plane positioned at a fixed distance from the Bragg Diffraction cell. The scanner is useful in image projection systems, in which the horizontal line image is vertically scanned by a galvanometer driven mirror vibrating in synchronism with the vertical blanking interval of the input video.

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