H04N 9/3102
Using two-dimensional electronic spatial light modulators
Official title: {using two-dimensional electronic spatial light modulators (micromechanical modulators as such G02B26/0833; liquid crystal modulators as such G02F1/13)}
H04N9/3102 (Using two-dimensional electronic spatial light modulators) appears on 4,174 US grants and 4,087 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04N- Granted patents
- 4,174
- Published applications
- 4,087
- Assignees
- 681
- Inventors
- 4,767
- Latest grant
- 1 Sep 2026
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| 2024 | 82 | 75 |
| 2025 | 68 | 62 |
| 2026 | 50 | 52 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
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By later US patents
- Multi-level deformable mirror device574US 5,083,857 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1992
- DMD display system492US 5,452,024 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1995
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- Multi-level deformable mirror device with torsion hinges placed in a layer different from the torsion beam layer442US 5,600,383 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1997
- Method and apparatus for sequential color imaging428US 5,448,314 ATexas Instruments Incorporated · 1995