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Abstract

A sequential color display system using a white light source (202) to create a full color image projected onto an image plane (214). A dynamic filter (206), typically a series of moving dichroic filters, generates a series of primary colored light beams that are swept across the surface of a spatial light modulator (210). Light rejected by the dynamic filter (206) enters a light recycler (204) and is reapplied to the dynamic filter (206). The light recycler is typically one or more reflective surfaces, including mirrors, baffles, enclosures, lamp reflectors, TIR surfaces, or specially coated material arranged in such a way as to encourage light toward an aperture separating the light recycler (204) and the dynamic filter (206). Typically all three primary colors are produced simultaneously by the dynamic filter (206). The illuminated portion of the dynamic filter (206) is imaged onto the modulator (210) and a controller (216) provides appropriate image data for each portion of the modulator (210) in synchronization with the sweep of the primary color bands across the modulator surface. The primary color bands are modulated by the spatial light modulator (210) and the modulated light is focused by lens (212) onto the image plane (214). The viewer integrates the light arriving at each portion of the image plane (214) over a frame period to provide the perception of a full-color image.

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