US 11,874,486 B2
Compact display with extended pixel resolution
Terry Alan Bartlett, Dallas, TX (US); Stephen Aldridge Shaw, Plano, TX (US); and Vivek Kumar Thakur, Plano, TX (US)
Assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed by Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US)
Filed on Aug. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/458,917.
Application 17/458,917 is a division of application No. 16/428,680, filed on May 31, 2019, granted, now 11,131,796.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/729,202, filed on Sep. 10, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0389517 A1, Dec. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. G02B 3/00 (2006.01); F21V 8/00 (2006.01); G02B 27/14 (2006.01); G02B 27/01 (2006.01)
CPC G02B 6/0016 (2013.01) [G02B 3/0056 (2013.01); G02B 6/0035 (2013.01); G02B 27/0172 (2013.01); G02B 27/141 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a first light source configured to produce first light having a first color;
a second light source configured to produce second light having the first color;
a combining element configured to:
transmit the first light to produce first transmitted light; and
transmit the second light to produce second transmitted light; and
a spatial light modulator configured to:
receive the first transmitted light at a first angle;
receive the second transmitted light at a second angle, the second angle different than the first angle;
modulate the first transmitted light, to produce first modulated light; and
modulate the second transmitted light, to produce second modulated light.