Exposure control apparatus including a spatial light modulator
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1. An exposure control apparatus comprising:
- a lens system;
a spatial light modulator receiving light passing through said lens system and having a plurality of controllable elements;
a photoelectric conversion device for converting said received light reflected from said spatial light modulator into an electrical signal; and
control means for controlling, individually and simultaneously, the plurality of controllable elements of said spatial light modulator on the basis of the output from said photoelectric conversion device, in order to switch the states of the controllable elements between a first state, in which at least a portion of said received light is guided to said photoelectric conversion device, and a second state in which said received light is not guided to said photoelectric conversion device.
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Abstract
An exposure control apparatus has a lens, a photoelectric conversion device, and a spatial light modulator. The spatial light modulator varies the amount of light received from the lens and reflected to the photoelectric conversion device. A control unit controls the spatial light modulator, and thus the exposure of the image focused on the lens, based on output from the photoelectric conversion device.
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20 Claims
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1. An exposure control apparatus comprising:
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a lens system; a spatial light modulator receiving light passing through said lens system and having a plurality of controllable elements; a photoelectric conversion device for converting said received light reflected from said spatial light modulator into an electrical signal; and control means for controlling, individually and simultaneously, the plurality of controllable elements of said spatial light modulator on the basis of the output from said photoelectric conversion device, in order to switch the states of the controllable elements between a first state, in which at least a portion of said received light is guided to said photoelectric conversion device, and a second state in which said received light is not guided to said photoelectric conversion device. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. An exposure control apparatus comprising:
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a lens for focusing image light representing an image; a spatial light modulator receiving said image light and having a plurality of controllable elements; a photoelectric conversion device for converting said received image light reflected from said spatial light modulator into an electrical signal; exposure analysis means for calculating a luminance level of said image as a whole based on said electrical signal output by said photoelectric conversion device; and control means for controlling, individually and simultaneously, the plurality of controllable elements of said spatial light modulator based on an output of said exposure analysis means, in order to switch the states of the controllable elements between a first state, in which at least a portion of said received image light is guided to said photoelectric conversion device, and a second state in which said received image light is not guided to said photoelectric conversion device. - View Dependent Claims (4, 5, 7)
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6. A method of controlling image exposure, comprising the step of:
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(a) focusing image light, representing an image, on a spatial light modulator, said spatial light modulator having a plurality of controllable elements; (b) converting said image light reflected by said spatial light modulator and received by a photoelectric conversion device into an electrical signal; (c) calculating a luminance level of said image as a whole based on said electrical signal; and (d) individually controlling said plurality of controllable elements based on output of said step (c) to switch at least a portion of said plurality of controllable elements between a first state, in which said image light is guided to said photoelectric device, and a second state, in which said image light is not guided to said photoelectric device. - View Dependent Claims (8)
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9. A method of controlling image exposure, comprising the step of:
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(a) focusing image light, representing an image, on a spatial light modulator, said spatial light modulator having a plurality of controllable elements; (b) converting said image light reflected by said spatial light modulator and received by a photoelectric conversion device into an electrical signal; (c) calculating a luminance level of a part of said image based on said electrical signal; and (d) individually controlling said plurality of controllable elements based on output of said step (c) to switch said plurality of controllable elements between a first state, in which at least a portion of said image light is guided to said photoelectric device, and a second state, in which said image light is not guided to said photoelectric device. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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12. An exposure control apparatus comprising:
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a lens for focusing image light representing an image; a spatial light modulator receiving said image light and having a plurality of controllable elements; a photoelectric conversion device for converting said image light reflected by said spatial light modulator into an electrical signal; exposure analysis means for calculating a luminance level of a part of said image based on said electrical signal output by said photoelectric conversion device; and control means for controlling, individually and simultaneously, the plurality of controllable elements of said spatial light modulator based on output of said exposure analysis means, in order to switch the states of the controllable elements between a first state, in which at least a portion of said received image light is guided to said photoelectric conversion device, and a second state in which said received image light is not guided to said photoelectric conversion device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14)
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15. An exposure control apparatus comprising:
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a lens system; a spatial light modulator receiving light passing through said lens system and having a plurality of controllable elements; a photoelectric conversion device for converting said received light reflected from said spatial light modulator into an electrical signal; and control means for controlling, individually and simultaneously, the plurality of controllable elements of said spatial light modulator on the basis of said electrical signal. - View Dependent Claims (16)
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17. An exposure control apparatus comprising:
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a lens system for focusing image light representing an image; a light source emitting a source light; a spatial light modulator for receiving said image light and said source light, and having a plurality of controllable elements; a photoelectric conversion device for converting said image light received via said spatial light modulator into an electrical signal; and control means for controlling, individually and simultaneously, said plurality of controllable elements of said spatial light modulator based on said electrical signal to switch states of said controllable elements from a first state, in which said source light is guided through said lens system, and a second state, in which said source light is not guided through said lens system. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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