Patent ID: 7755820

Claim:
A hologram apparatus comprising a spatial light modulator having a plurality of pixels two-dimensionally arranged therein and irradiating coherent light containing therein page data to be recorded on a hologram recording carrier through said spatial light modulator to record information with an optical interference pattern generated by the coherent light as a diffraction grating, wherein said spatial light modulator comprises a plurality of blocks consisting of m pixels (where m=an integral number) adjacent to each other, and a boundary portion which is provided between the adjacent blocks and has a width having at least the width of one pixel of said spatial light modulator or of one pixel of an image detecting sensor used to reproduce the recorded page data and the distance between the adjacent pixels in each of said blocks, and which shield light; and an encoder for driving said spatial light modulator so as to display a plurality of continuous pixels in a light shielding state as said boundary portion, wherein said encoder groups data to be recorded into blocks per n bits (where n<m, and n=an integral number); wherein said encoder generates page data by carrying out two-dimensional modulation for allocating m bit data to each block per n bits by referring to a modulation table; wherein said encoder drives said spatial light modulator according to the resulting page data; and wherein said encoder adds boundary portion data for said boundary portion to each of said blocks when generating the page data.