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Compensated color management systems and methods

US6961179B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateNov 14, 2002
Grant dateNov 1, 2005
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Expiry dateMay 28, 2023

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG02B27/288
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed are color management architectures used in video projection systems including, for example, retarder stacks sensitive to the symmetries between input and output polarizer configurations that provide the polarization transformations that will comprise for skew rays, such that normal incidence performance is maintained for all incident light. Additionally, also disclosed are systems that utilize color selective polarization (CSP) filters and polarizing beam splitting elements such that an output analyzer is not required. One exemplary CSP architecture includes two CSPs, a single polarizing beam splitting element combination for splitting and combining light between two of the three panels, and an output polarizing beam splitting element used as an analyzer such that a single CSP is in the projection path. In all such architectures, an output CSP and clean up polarizer directly in line with the projection optics need not be included, thereby increasing transmission, improving imaging crispness, and reducing cost.

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