Patent ID: 11880028
Assignee: NANOTRONICS IMAGING, INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 8:
9. The method of claim 5, wherein modulating the intensity of light passing through the pSLM comprises:
identifying the segment with a lowest intensity of the reference illumination landscape, herein Smin, having an intensity ISmin; and
separately reducing the intensity of light reaching the image sensor through the segments of the pSLM that are greater than the intensity ISmin at the power level P1, by separately allowing each segment to transmit light while the remaining segments block at least a portion of light, and, for each such segment, incrementally increasing absorption of the pSLM at a first incremental value until the segment exhibits and the intensity ISmin or below, wherein, if the intensity falls below the intensity ISmin, the method further comprises incrementally decreasing the absorption of the pSLM at that segment at a second incremental value that is less than the first incremental value.