US Patent Issued to Sony Group on Sept. 9 for "Illumination apparatus, illumination method, and projector apparatus" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,683, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Illumination apparatus, illumination method, and projector apparatus" was invented by Hiroyuki Tahara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided by the present technology is an illumination apparatus including a light source section, a phase modulation section, and a control section. The light source section has a light emitting element. The phase modulation section performs spatial light phase modulation on incident light from the light source section. The control section controls the phase modulation section in such a manner that a plurality of domain...