IP Library Granted Patent US 10,750,138
Granted Patent B2
US 10,750,138 · App. 15/283,444 · Granted Aug 18, 2020

Projection device

Inventors: Mitsuyoshi Matsumoto (Kobe, JP); Shinya Shimizu (Higashiosaka, JP); Takao Mizuno (Amagasaki, JP)
Assignee: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
H04N9/3155G02B27/0101H01S5/06216H01S5/4093H04N9/3129H04N9/3161H04N9/3164H04N9/3194G02B2027/0118H01S5/005H01S5/0014H01S5/0617
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Patent No.
US 10,750,138
App. No.
15/283,444
Granted
Aug 18, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A projection device is provided, which is capable of suppressing or preventing problems that result from a light emission delay of a light source. The projection device includes a plurality of light sources respectively emitting a laser light; a scanning part enabling the laser light to scan; and a controller controlling an output of the laser light. In a scanning range including a first scanning range and a second scanning range, the controller controls such that the output has a first light amount in the first scanning range and has a second light amount which is greater than the first light amount in the second scanning range.

Claims (19)

1. A projection device, comprising:

plurality of light sources respectively emitting a laser light;

a scanning part enabling the laser light to scan; and

a controller controlling an output of the laser light,

wherein in a scanning range including a first scanning range and a second scanning range, the controller controls such that the output has a first light amount in the first scanning range and has a second light amount during the second scanning range, the second light amount during the second scanning range is greater than the first light amount in the first scanning range, and wherein, in each of the light sources, an amplitude of a driving current in the second scanning range is greater than an amplitude of a driving current in the first scanning range, and

in the scanning range, the controller controls such that the output has the first light amount in the first scanning range and has the second light amount which is greater than the first light amount in the second scanning range, based on that a time from when emission of the laser light starts to when the output reaches the first light amount is longer than a time from when the output starts to decrease from the first light amount to when the emission of the laser light ends.

2. The projection device of claim 1 , including a memory that stores an image information of an image projected to a projection surface, and

the controller controlling the output of the laser light based on the image information.

3. The projection device of claim 1 , the scanning part enables the laser light to scan reciprocally, and an emission start position and an emission end position of the laser light in the first scanning range of a forward scan is set to respectively correspond to an emission end position and an emission start position of the laser light in the first scanning range of a backward scan.

4. The projection device of claim 3 , the second scanning range of the forward scan overlaps a third scanning range where the laser light of the backward scan is scanned from when an emission of the backward scan starts to when the output reaches the first light amount.

5. The projection device of claim 4 , a scanning distance in the second scanning range of the forward scan is equal to or less than a scanning distance in the third scanning range of the backward scan.

6. The projection device of claim 3 , the controller controls such that cumulative light amounts respectively in the second scanning ranges of the forward scan and the backward scan are the same as a cumulative amount of a light amount that is reduced due to an emission delay of the light source.

7. The projection device of claim 1 , including a light source driving part that supplies the driving current to the light source,

the light source is a semiconductor laser element, and

in a case that a light amount of the laser light is rapidly reduced when emission ends, the light source driving part reduces the driving current from a first current value, which is equal to or more than an oscillation threshold current, to a second current value, which is less than the oscillation threshold current,

and the oscillation threshold current is a lower limit of a current value by which the semiconductor laser element emits light in a laser oscillation mode.

8. The projection device of claim 1 , the controller increases the second light amount in the second scanning range in a plurality of stages.

9. The projection device of claim 1 , the light source is a semiconductor laser element, and the semiconductor laser element is applied with a current that is less than a current value, by which the semiconductor laser element emits light only in a laser oscillation mode, in a predetermined period till the emission in the first scanning range starts.

10. The projection device of claim 9 , a supply time of the current is equal to or more than a time that is required for the semiconductor laser element to reach the light output of the first light amount after starting emission.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 20, 2025
From: FUNAI GROUP CO., LTD
To: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 073121/0824 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 20, 2025
From: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD. (F/K/A FE-TECH CO., LTD.)
To: FEC IP LLC
Reel/Frame 073121/0883 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 7, 2016
From: MATSUMOTO, MITSUYOSHI; SHIMIZU, SHINYA; MIZUNO, TAKAO
To: FUNAI ELECTRIC CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 039962/0723 →
Priority Claims (3)
JP 2015-197625 · Oct 5, 2015 · national
JP 2015-197629 · Oct 5, 2015 · national
JP 2016-187061 · Sep 26, 2016 · national
Continuity (1)
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