IP Library Granted Patent US 7,142,367
Granted Patent B2
US 7,142,367 · App. 11/227,276 · Granted Nov 28, 2006

Projection lens apparatus and projection type image display apparatus

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Patent No.
US 7,142,367
App. No.
11/227,276
Granted
Nov 28, 2006
Kind
B2
Abstract

A projection type image display apparatus having an image display element outputting an image ray, a projection lens apparatus for performing overhead projection of the image ray from the image display element, the projection lens apparatus having a plurality of lens elements, a reflection mirror reflecting the image ray from the projection lens apparatus, and a screen on which the image ray reflected by the reflection mirror is projected.

Claims (17)

1. A projection type image display apparatus comprising:

an image display element outputting an image ray;

a projection lens apparatus for performing overhead projection of the image ray from said image display element, said projection lens apparatus having a plurality of lens elements;

a reflection mirror reflecting the image ray from said projection lens apparatus; and

a screen on which the image ray reflected by said reflection mirror is projected;

wherein said screen includes at least a Fresnel screen, a center of the Fresnel screen being decentered in a vertical direction of said screen with respect to a physical center of said screen, and an optical axis of said projection lens apparatus is decentered in the vertical direction of said screen with respect to the physical center of said screen.

2. A projection type image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said image display element is a micro mirror display element provided with a plurality of micro mirrors.

3. A projection type image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein said image display element is a liquid crystal display element.

4. A projection type image display apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the center of said Fresnel screen coincides with the optical axis of said projection lens apparatus.

5. A projection type image display apparatus comprising:

an image display element outputting an image ray;

a projection lens apparatus for performing overhead projection of the image ray from said image display element, said projection lens apparatus having a plurality of lens elements;

a reflection mirror reflecting the image ray from said projection lens apparatus; and

a screen on which the image ray reflected by said reflection mirror is projected,

wherein said screen includes at least a Fresnel screen, a center of said Fresnel screen being shifted in a vertical direction of said screen with respect to a physical center of said screen, an image ray on an optical axis of said projection lens apparatus reflected by said reflection mirror being projected on an approximate center of said Fresnel screen.

6. A projection type image display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein said image display element is a micro mirror display element provided with a plurality of micro mirrors.

7. A projection type image display apparatus according to claim 5 , wherein said image display element is a liquid crystal display element.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 25, 2018
From: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
To: MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 045142/0208 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 8, 2014
From: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.; HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO, LTD.
To: HITACHI MAXELL, LTD.
Reel/Frame 033694/0745 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 12, 2013
From: HITACHI, LTD.
To: HITACHI CONSUMER ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 030802/0610 →