Sony Deutschland Gmbh

Nadin Roesler

Olivier Ripoll

Juan Manuel Teijido

Takeo Arai

Markus Kamm

Zoltan Facius

Shigeki Hashimoto

Frederic Ludley

The present invention relates to an image generating apparatus () which comprises an illumination unit () having an intermediate face (, S), as well as an image modulator () for generating an image (I). In addition a deflecting means () for deflecting a received light beam (L) of primary illumination light (L) to said illumination unit () is provided in order to irradiate said intermediate face (, S). Said deflecting means () is adapted to have&#x2014;during the process of irradiating said intermediate face (, S)&#x2014;said light beam (L) subsequently in time irradiate different portions of said intermediate face (, S) in order to thereby reduce the speckle effect.

Image generating apparatus

An optical device for backlighting a liquid crystal display. The optical device has an optical element. The optical element includes a material body and at least one recess. The recess is formed in the material body and is configured to determine the light distribution of light to be directed towards the liquid crystal display.

Spatial light modulator display

An image generation unit () is proposed comprising a first, a second, and a third light source unit (S, S, S) which are adapted in order to generate an emit respective first, second, and third primary illumination light components (Lr, Lg, Lb). An image generation and light re-directing arrangement (IGR) is provided which is adapted in order to generate first, second and third partial images (Ir, Ig, Ib) for an image (I) to be displayed and in order to generate first, second, and third projection light components (Lpr, Lpg, Lpb) as light of said first, second, and third partial images (Ir, Ig, Ib), respectively and in order to emit said projection light components (Lpr, Lpg, Lpb) as light of said first, second, and third partial images (Ir, Ig, Ib), respectively into an essentially common output direction (XO), wherein said first, second and third light source units (S, S, S) are arranged in order to emit said first, second and third primary illumination light components (L, L, L) into an essentially common input direction (XI).

Image generation unit

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BP Eindhoven, Netherlands

Nadin Roesler