Spatial light modulator laser dot scanner
CA 2079499 C · Owner: Sampsell, Jeffrey · Inventors: Sampsell, Jeffrey
Overview
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A system for scanning objects is disclosed. The system consists of a light source, a, spatial light modulator, and appropriate optics for directing the light from the source to the, spatial light modulator and to the object to be scanned. Individual elements upon the modulator, are activated to reflect those pixels' width of the light to the object. A detector is mounted such, as to receive reflections from the object to be processed. The system can be hand-held, mounted, into a counter, or used in other applications such as edge detector scanners.
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- Filed September 30, 1992 and granted September 23, 2003. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended September 30, 2012.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by September 30, 2014.
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