Seiko Epson Corporation

Yusaku Takamine

Kosuke Tabayashi

Takahiro Totsuka

Yoshitsugu Akutagawa

Daisuke Yamazaki

An illumination device with projector includes a projector having a projection optical system, a projector holding section configured to hold the projector, a stand part to be coupled to the projector holding section, and a shade which is configured to cover a periphery of the projector holding section, and is provided with a projection opening through which projection light emitted from the projector is transmitted. The projector holding section is provided with an angle adjustment mechanism for changing a tilt angle of the projector centering on an end portion at an exit side of the projector.

Illumination device with projector and illumination device

An illumination device with a projector includes a base, a shade having a side-surface shade surrounding an outer circumferential side of the base, an upper-surface shade disposed above the base, and a lower-surface shade disposed below the base, a projector which is installed on the base, and projects image light toward the side-surface shade, and an illumination unit for illuminating the upper-surface shade and the lower-surface shade from inside the shade. The side-surface shade is provided with a mirror surface part for reflecting light which shines on the side-surface shade from the outside. The mirror surface part is provided with an image light transmission part which the image light enters. The image light transmission part is a semi-transmissive mirror. Therefore, the image light can be projected via the semi-transmissive mirror, but a projection opening of the projector is not seen from the outside.

A projection apparatus includes a projection system, a distance measuring sensor that is used to adjust the focal point of the projection system and outputs infrared light in the frontward direction, and an enclosure that houses the projection system and the distance measuring sensor. An exit port of the projection system is disposed at a position which is shifted from the distance measuring sensor in a second direction opposite the first direction. The enclosure has a detection opening via which the infrared light exits. The distance measuring sensor has a detection range over which distance detection is allowed and a non-detection range over which no distance detection is allowed and which is shifted from the detection range toward the distance measurement sensor, and the distance measuring sensor is disposed at a distance from the detection opening, the distance including the non-detection range of the distance measuring sensor.

Projection apparatus

A projector includes a leg portion adjusting an installation angle of an external housing. The leg portion includes a columnar member moving in a first direction, a case member in which the columnar member is accommodated, a fixing member including an engaging portion along the first direction inside the case member and fixing the columnar member, and a switching member moving in a second direction crossing the first direction and switching the fixing member between a state in which the fixing member moves in a direction toward the columnar member to engage therewith and a state in which the fixing member moves in a direction away from the columnar member to release the engagement therewith. The columnar member includes an engaged portion to be engaged with the engaging portion of the fixing member inside the case member, and a base portion moving in the first direction outside the case member.

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Azumino, Japan

Yusaku Takamine