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US 11,528,971 B2Granted
Jewelry image projection and method
OwnerBob Michael Lansdorpinventor
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Abstract
An article of jewelry comprising; a frame; and a decorative element secured within the frame, wherein two-dimensional array of optical phase shifting structures is embedded in the decorative element; wherein the two-dimensional array of optical phase shifting structures project an image when illuminated with a light source.
Claims6
A method of creating a jewelry article that can project an image, comprising:
- creating a two-dimensional phase-mask, comprising converting an image to a non-binary phase mask, converting the non-binary phase mask to a physical phase mask, wherein the physical phase mask is the two-dimensional phase mask;
- etching the two-dimensional phase mask on a decorative element;
- securing the decorative element within a frame;
- causing a light source to interact with the decorative element, whereby an image is projected on to a surface.
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