SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ELIMINATING LASER LIGHT SOURCE SCINTILLATION IN A PROJECTION TELEVISION
Systems and methods that facilitate the elimination of screen scintillation in a projection television having a laser light source. In a preferred embodiment, a display screen assembly of the television includes a liquid dispersed between the fresnel lens and lenticular screen, and sealed there between by a seal extending about the perimeter of the screen assembly. One or more vibration units are operably coupled to the liquid causes the liquid to vibrate between the Fresnel lens and lenticular screen as the light emanating from the laser light source diffuses through the liquid.
1 . A television comprising
an enclosure,
a video display screen mounted on the enclosure, the display screen includes a Fresnel lens coupled in spaced relation to a lenticular screen with the space between the Fresnel lens and lenticular screen filled with a liquid,
a laser light source optically coupled to the display screen, and
a vibration source operably coupled to the liquid to cause the liquid to vibrate.
2 . The television of claim 1 further comprising a seal extending about the perimeter of the screen.
3 . The television of claim 1 wherein the vibration source comprising one or more vibration generating devices coupled to one or more sides of the screen.
4 . The television of claim 3 wherein the one or more vibration generating devices comprises an ultrasound generating device.
5 . The television of claim 3 wherein the one or more vibration generating devices comprises an oscillator.
6 . The television of claim 3 wherein the one or more vibration generating devices comprises an oscillating membrane.
7 . A television comprising
an enclosure,
a display screen assembly comprising a Fresnel lens coupled in spaced relation to a lenticular screen and mounted on the enclosure,
a liquid disposed in the space between the Fresnel lens and lenticular screen,
a laser light source optically coupled to the display screen, and
a motion generation source operably coupled to the liquid to cause the molecules of the liquid to move.
8 . The television of claim 7 further comprising a seal extending about the perimeter of the screen.
9 . The television of claim 7 wherein the liquid is glycol.
10 . A method of reducing screen scintillation in a laser light source television comprising the steps of
diffusing the light which forms a projected image through liquid as it passes from a Fresnel lens to a lenticular screen, and
continuously changing the phase of the light striking the lenticular.
11 . The method of claim 10 wherein in the step of continuously changing the phase of the light striking the lenticular screen includes continuously altering the length of the path that the coherent light from the laser light source takes as it diffuses through the liquid.
12 . The method of claim 10 wherein the length of the path that the coherent light from the laser light source takes is altered by vibrating the liquid between the Fresnel lens and the lenticular screen.
13 . A method of reducing screen scintillation in a laser light source television comprising the steps of
projecting an image onto a display screen assembly of the television, wherein the display screen assembly comprising a Fresnel lens coupled in spaced relation to a lenticular screen with a liquid filling the space formed there between; and
causing the molecules of the liquid to move as the light of the projected image diffuses from the Fresnel lens through the liquid to the lenticular screen.