Patent ID: 6753898
Filing Date: 2004-06-22
Classification: B41J

Abstract:
An imaging system comprising a surface for receiving an image, and a light modulator comprising a plurality of light valves in a two-dimensional array having orthogonal rows and columns in a first Cartesian coordinate system having a first and a second orthogonal axes, said columns arrayed along said first axis in the coordinate system; said rows arrayed along the second axis and a number of said rows forming a segment; and wherein said surface is transported relative to the modulator in a direction along a transport axis; wherein the first axis and the transport axis farm an angle other than 90Â°, said angle &agr; inversely proportional to the number of rows in the segment;wherein the number of rows in the segment is n; n is an integer greater than 1; and the modulator comprises at least 2 segments; further wherein each light valve has an X dimension along the first axis and a Y dimension along the second axis, and X=Y and the angle &agr;=tanâˆ’1(1/n).