Patent ID: 8264756

Claim:
An apparatus for recording holograms on an optical medium comprising an illumination device for emitting light; an optical medium; an image source having at least one modulation element; and an arrangement of microlenses, each of the microlenses comprising a field of view wherein a hologram can be generated, wherein the image source comprises a plurality of modulation elements embodied as controllable micromirrors or prisms, wherein the arrangement of microlenses is located between the image source and the optical medium and is arranged at a distance from the optical medium in such a way that image focal points of the microlenses lie on the optical medium, wherein each modulation element of the image source is assigned a single microlens of the arrangement of microlenses such that the hologram can be generated on the optical medium by angle-to-linear-conversion within regions of the optical medium which correspond to the field of view of the microlenses.