| Patent application number | Description | Published |
| 20080198338 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus is provided with a projection distance adjustment mechanism for adjusting a distance between a projection plane and an emitting position of projection light, and provided with a focus adjustment mechanism for making a focus adjustment of a projection image with respect to the projection plane. The focus adjustment mechanism is driven such that a projection image is properly focused onto the projection plane in accordance with the distance between the projection plane and the emitting position. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080225237 | PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - An imager is shifted with respect to an optical axis of a refractive optical system. Thereby, a throw distance of a projector is shortened. A wavelength-selective half wavelength plate for rotating a polarization direction of green light beams is disposed between a dichroic prism and the refractive optical system in such a manner that the polarization direction of the green light beams is in parallel to the shifting direction. Thereby, the green light beams are incident onto the refractive optical system as P-polarized beams, whereby a transmittance of the green light beams in the refractive optical system is increased, while suppressing lowering of the light amount of the green light beams, and color non-uniformity resulting from lowering of the light amount of the green light beams. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20090059177 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device includes a light source part for emitting light with an intensity distribution approximately uniform in a first direction and a fly-eye lens into which the light is entered. The light source part and the fly-eye lens are arranged such that the first direction is inclined with respect to vertical and horizontal directions of arrangement of lens cells in the fly-eye lens. Since illumination light is entered into the fly-eye lens in a state of inclining with respect to the fly-eye lens, the number of superimposition patterns on the fly-eye lens is increased and illuminance non-uniformity in illumination light is suppressed. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20100060618 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - An image display device includes a light source which emits laser light; an optical system which is operable to switch between a direct viewing mode of modulating the laser light and displaying the modulated light on a display section, and a projection mode of modulating the laser light and projecting the modulated light on a projection plane; and a control circuit which controls the optical system. The control circuit sets the optical system to the direct viewing mode at the time of activating an electric power source of the image display device. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100060809 | IMAGE DISPLAY DEVICE AND PORTABLE TERMINAL DEVICE - An image display device includes a light source which emits laser light; an optical element which is operable to switch between a first state for reducing a coherence of the laser light and a second state for substantially maintaining the coherence of the laser light; a switching control circuit which controls the optical element; an imager which modulates the laser light transmitted through the optical element; and a modulation control circuit which controls the imager based on an image signal. The modulation control circuit causes the imager to render an image pattern for generating an image by changing alight amount at each pixel position when the optical element is in the first state, and causes the imager to render a hologram pattern for generating an image by diffraction when the optical element is in the second state. | 03-11-2010 |
| 20100245774 | PROJECTION DISPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus includes a housing case housing a light source unit, a light valve, and a projection unit. The plurality of solid light sources are connected to a plurality of fibers, respectively. Light outputted from the plurality of fibers bundled by a bundle unit is guided to the light valve through a rod integrator. The rod integrator is arranged so that the a longitudinal direction of the rod integrator extends in a horizontal direction parallel to the projection surface. The light valve is arranged closer to a projection-side sidewall than the rod integrator. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20110069242 | PROJECTION DESPLAY APPARATUS - A projection display apparatus ( | 03-24-2011 |
| 20110222023 | ILLUMINATION DEVICE AND PROJECTION DISPLAY DEVICE - An illumination device includes: a modulating portion which modulates light; a plurality of light source portions which is disposed in correspondence with a plurality of divided sections formed by dividing a light modulation area of the modulating portion; a light-guiding optical system which guides light from the plurality of light source portions to the plurality of corresponding divided sections; a power output adjustment portion which adjusts power outputs of the light source portions corresponding to the divided sections in accordance with image signals applied to the divided sections; and a modulation control portion which controls the modulating portion in accordance with power outputs of the light source portions and the image signals. | 09-15-2011 |