US Patent Issued to IMAX on July 1 for "Methods and systems for controlling light output based on a light level threshold at a boundary" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,015, issued on July 1, was assigned to IMAX Corp. (Mississauga, Canada).

"Methods and systems for controlling light output based on a light level threshold at a boundary" was invented by John William Bowron (Burlington, Canada), Paul Constantinou (Burlington, Canada) and Anton Leonard Baljet (Seguin, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a projector subsystem in a theatre projecting fight toward a screen, a sensor measuring light levels of the projected light, and a processing device. The projector subsystem may project light such that there is a hazardous light area and a non-hazardous light area of an audience s...