- Patent Title: Devices and methods for speckle reduction in scanning projectors
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Application No.: US15984717Application Date: 2018-05-21
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Publication No.: US10108022B2Publication Date: 2018-10-23
- Inventor: Matthieu Saracco , Roeland Collet , Alga Lloyd Northern, III
- Applicant: Microvision, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microvision, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Microvision, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agent Kevin D. Wills
- Main IPC: G03B21/14
- IPC: G03B21/14 ; H04N9/31 ; G02B27/28 ; G02B26/10 ; G02B27/48 ; G02B26/08 ; G02B27/14 ; H04N5/74

Abstract:
Devices and methods are described herein that use a first solid figure element, a polarizing beam splitter, and a second solid figure element or array of mirrors to reduce speckle in projected images. Specifically, laser light is generated and split into two portions having orthogonal polarizations. The first portion of laser light is reflected in the second solid figure element or the array of mirrors and is then spatially recombined with the second portion of laser light in the first solid figure element. The difference in path length followed by the two portions generates a temporal incoherence in the recombined laser light beam, and that temporal incoherence reduces speckle in the projected image.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180275419A1 Devices and Methods for Speckle Reduction in Scanning Projectors Public/Granted day:2018-09-27
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