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Patent US7710632 - Display device having an array of spatial light modulators with integrated ... - Google Patents
By selectively placing color filters with different transmittance spectrums on an array of modulator elements each having the same reflectance spectrum, a resultant reflectance spectrum for each modulator element and it's respective color filter is created. In one embodiment, the modulator elements in...http://www.google.com/patents/US7710632?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7710632 - Display device having an array of spatial light modulators with integrated color filters
Publication number US7710632 B2
Application number US 11/051,258
Also published as CA2516578A1, EP1640767A1, EP2256537A1, US8054528, US8437070, US20060077512, US20100245975, US20120026176
Publication number 051258, 11051258, US 7710632 B2, US 7710632B2, US-B2-7710632, US7710632 B2, US7710632B2
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U.S. Classification 359/290, 359/247
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