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Methods of driving an array of optical elements

  • US 6,762,873 B1
  • Filed: 01/23/2002
  • Issued: 07/13/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/19/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of controlling an array of optical elements in a succession of cycles to alter their states according to respective ones of a series of input data sets, each cycle comprising a first step wherein selected elements only of an optically blank or uniform array are written as determined by a respective data set, and a second step wherein the selected elements are selectively erased to restore a blank array prior to another cycle.

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