US Patent Issued to RICOH on Sept. 22 for "Illumination device and projector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,011, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Illumination device and projector" was invented by Takashi Sasaki (Kanagawa, Japan), Yohei Takano (Kanagawa, Japan), Kazuhiro Fujita (Tokyo) and Kasumi Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination device includes: a first light source to emit a first light beam having a first intensity distribution in a first direction; a second light source to emit a second light beam having a second intensity distribution in a second direction different from the first direction; a light combiner to combine the first light beam and the second light bea...