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US 9,013,641 · App. 14/113,086 · Granted Apr 21, 2015

Projection type image display device

Inventor: Makio Kurashige (Chiba, JP)
Assignee: Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.
H04N9/3141G02B27/48G03B21/006G03B21/2033G03B21/208H04N9/3102H04N9/3161G03H2001/2297
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Patent No.
US 9,013,641
App. No.
14/113,086
Granted
Apr 21, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

To effectively suppress speckle noise generated when coherent light is used as a light source in a projection type image display device using an LCOS Liquid Crystal On Silicon). A projection type image display device according to the present invention includes: a light source that emits coherent light; an optical scanning section that scans the coherent light emitted from the light source; an LCOS that has an image formation area in which an image is formed; a projection optical system that projects an image formed on the image formation area on a screen; and a hologram that has polarization selectivity and diffuses scanning light scanned by the optical scanning section so as to allow diffusion light emitted from respective points thereof to illuminate the image formation area in an overlapping manner.

Claims (24)

1. A projection type image display device comprising:

a light source that emits coherent light;

an optical scanning section that scans the coherent light emitted from the light source;

an LCOS that has an image formation area in which an image is formed;

a projection optical system that projects an image formed on the image formation area on a screen; and

a hologram that has polarization selectivity and diffuses scanning light scanned by the optical scanning section so as to allow diffusion light emitted from respective points thereof to illuminate the image formation area in an overlapping manner.

2. The projection type image display device according to claim 1 , wherein

optical scanning section is a mirror device.

3. The projection type image display device according to claim 1 , wherein

hologram having polarization selectivity has a liquid crystal hologram that can switch between a diffraction state and a transmission state with respect to polarized light oscillated in a specific direction in response to voltage application.

4. The projection type image display device according to claim 3 , wherein

light source has unit color light sources that emit coherent lights of different wavelengths from each other,

hologram is formed by stacking a plurality of the liquid crystals, and

projection type image display device includes a controller that turns on, in series, the unit color light sources to put the liquid crystal hologram corresponding to the turned-on unit color light source into the diffraction state.

5. The projection type image display device according to claim 1 , wherein

hologram having polarization selectivity includes a photorefractive material having refractive index anisotropy or a liquid crystal having refractive index anisotropy.

6. A projection type image display device comprising:

a light source that emits coherent light;

an optical scanning section that scans the coherent light emitted from the light source;

an LCOS that has an image formation area in which an image is formed;

a projection optical system that projects an image formed on the image formation area on a screen;

a first hologram that diffuses scanning light scanned by the light scanning section; and

a second hologram that has polarization selectivity and diffracts diffusion light from the first hologram, wherein

the diffusion lights emitted from respective points of the first hologram are diffracted by the second hologram so as to illuminate the image formation area in an overlapping manner.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 26, 2013
From: KURASHIGE, MAKIO
To: DAI NIPPON PRINTING CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 031679/0592 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-096310 · Apr 22, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20140092321A1 · Apr 3, 2014