Patent ID: 6997560

Claim:
An optical system, comprising: a first micromirror array, comprising micromirrors and non-mirrored regions, wherein the micromirrors and the non-mirrored regions of the first micromirror array are alternately disposed in a checkerboard-like arrangement; a second micromirror array, comprising micromirrors and non-mirrored regions, wherein the micromirrors and the non-mirrored regions of the second micromirror array are alternately disposed in a checkerboard-like arrangement and the second micromirror array is complementary to the first micromirror array; and a ray-forming device, wherein the ray-forming device separates a light image into image components, wherein a first image component is received by the first micromirror array, a second image component is received by the second micromirror array, a third image component sent from the first micromirror array and a fourth image component sent from the second micromirror array are combined at the ray-forming device to produce a composite image with a perfect or nearly perfect fill factor.